Recent advances in simultaneous thermostability-activity improvement of industrial enzymes through structure modification

Engineered thermostable microbial enzymes are widely employed to catalyze chemical reactions in numerous industrial sectors. Although high thermostability is a prerequisite of industrial applications, enzyme activity is usually sacrificed during thermostability improvement. Therefore, it is vital to...

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Main Authors: Nezhad, Nima Ghahremani, Raja Abd Rahman, Raja Noor Zaliha, M. Normi, Yahaya, Oslan, Siti Nurbaya, Mohd Shariff, Fairolniza, Leow, Thean Chor
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Published: Elsevier 2023
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/109338/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0141813023003264?via%3Dihub
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Institution: Universiti Putra Malaysia
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Summary:Engineered thermostable microbial enzymes are widely employed to catalyze chemical reactions in numerous industrial sectors. Although high thermostability is a prerequisite of industrial applications, enzyme activity is usually sacrificed during thermostability improvement. Therefore, it is vital to select the common and compatible strategies between thermostability and activity improvement to reduce mutants̕ libraries and screening time. Three functional protein engineering approaches, including directed evolution, rational design, and semi-rational design, are employed to manipulate protein structure on a genetic basis. From a structural standpoint, integrative strategies such as increasing substrate affinity; introducing electrostatic interaction; removing steric hindrance; increasing flexibility of the active site; N- and C-terminal engineering; and increasing intramolecular and intermolecular hydrophobic interactions are well-known to improve simultaneous activity and thermostability. The current review aims to analyze relevant strategies to improve thermostability and activity simultaneously to circumvent the thermostability and activity trade-off of industrial enzymes.