Rate-enhancing Single Amino Acid Mutation for Hydrolases: A Statistical Profiling

10 May 2021, Version 1
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Abstract

We reported the statistical profiling for rate-enhancing mutant hydrolases with single amino acid substitution. We constructed an integrated structure-kinetics database, IntEnzyDB, which contains 3,907 experimentally characterized hydrolase kinetics and 2,715 hydrolase Protein Data Bank IDs. The hydrolase kinetics data involve 9% rate-enhancing mutations. Mutation to nonpolar residues with a hydrocarbon chain shows a stronger preference for rate acceleration than to polar or charged residues. To elucidate the structure-kinetics relationship for rate-enhancing mutations, we categorized each mutation into one of the three spatial shells of hydrolases. We defined the spatial shells by reference to either the active site or the center-of-mass of the enzyme. In either case, mutations in the first shell (i.e., closest to the reference point) appear on average more rate-deleterious than those in the other two shells (i.e., ~1.0 kcal/mol in ∆∆G‡ ). Under the active-site reference, mutations in the third shell (i.e., most distal to the active site) exhibit the highest likelihood of rate enhancement. This propensity is significant for larger-sized hydrolases. In contrast, under the center-of-mass reference, mutations in the second shell (i.e., 33.3th to 66.7th percentile rank of spatial proximity to the center-of-mass of the enzyme) show the highest likelihood of rate enhancement. This trend is significant for smaller-sized hydrolases. The studies reveal the statistical features for identifying rate-enhancing mutations in hydrolases, which will potentially guide hydrolase discovery in biocatalysis.

Keywords

Biocatalysis
Enzymology database
Mutations
Rate enhancement
Statistical analysis
Hydrolases

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