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Identification, function, and application of 3-ketosteroid Δ1-dehydrogenase isozymes in Mycobacterium neoaurum DSM 1381 for the production of steroidic synthons

BACKGROUND: 3-Ketosteroid-Δ1-dehydrogenase (KstD) is a key enzyme in the metabolic pathway for chemical modifications of steroid hormones. Only a few KstDs have thus far been characterized biochemically and applied for the production of steroidal pharmaceutical intermediates. Three KstDs, KstD1, Kst...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Ruijie, Liu, Xiangcen, Wang, Yushi, Han, Yuchang, Sun, Junsong, Shi, Jiping, Zhang, Baoguo
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5960168/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29776364
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12934-018-0916-9
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author Zhang, Ruijie
Liu, Xiangcen
Wang, Yushi
Han, Yuchang
Sun, Junsong
Shi, Jiping
Zhang, Baoguo
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Liu, Xiangcen
Wang, Yushi
Han, Yuchang
Sun, Junsong
Shi, Jiping
Zhang, Baoguo
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description BACKGROUND: 3-Ketosteroid-Δ1-dehydrogenase (KstD) is a key enzyme in the metabolic pathway for chemical modifications of steroid hormones. Only a few KstDs have thus far been characterized biochemically and applied for the production of steroidal pharmaceutical intermediates. Three KstDs, KstD1, KstD2, and KstD3, were identified in Mycobacterium neoaurum DSM 1381, and they shared up to 99, 85 and 97% amino acid identity with previously reported KstDs, respectively. In this paper, KstDs from M. neoaurum DSM 1381 were investigated and exemplified their potential application for industrial steroid transformation. RESULTS: The recombinant KstD2 from Bacillus subtilis exhibited higher enzymatic activity when 4-androstene-3,17-dione (AD) and 22-hydroxy-23, 24-bisnorchol-4-ene-3-one (4HP) were used as the substrates, and resulted in specific activities of 22.40 and 19.19 U mg(−1), respectively. However, the specific activities of recombinant KstD2 from Escherichia coli, recombinant KstD1 from B. subtilis and E. coli, and recombinant KstD3, also fed with AD and 4HP, had significantly lower specific activities. We achieved up to 99% bioconversion rate of 1,4-androstadiene-3,17-dione (ADD) from 8 g L(−1) AD after 15 h of fermentation using E. coli transformant BL21-kstD2. And in vivo transcriptional analysis revealed that the expression of kstD1 in M. neoaurum DSM 1381 increased by 60.5-fold with phytosterols as the substrate, while the mRNA levels of kstD2 and kstD3 were bearly affected by the phytosterols. Therefore, we attempted to create a 4HP producing strain without kstD1, which could covert 20 g L(−1) phytosterols to 14.18 g L(−1) 4HP. CONCLUSIONS: In vitro assay employing the recombinant enzymes revealed that KstD2 was the most promising candidate for biocatalysis in biotransformation of AD. However, in vivo analysis showed that the cellular regulation of kstD1 was much more active than those of the other kstDs in response to the presence of phytosterols. Based on the findings above, we successfully constructed E. coli transformant BL21-kstD2 for ADD production from AD and M. neoaurum DSM 1381 ΔkstD1 strain for 4HP production using phytosterols as the substrate. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s12934-018-0916-9) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-59601682018-05-24 Identification, function, and application of 3-ketosteroid Δ1-dehydrogenase isozymes in Mycobacterium neoaurum DSM 1381 for the production of steroidic synthons Zhang, Ruijie Liu, Xiangcen Wang, Yushi Han, Yuchang Sun, Junsong Shi, Jiping Zhang, Baoguo Microb Cell Fact Research BACKGROUND: 3-Ketosteroid-Δ1-dehydrogenase (KstD) is a key enzyme in the metabolic pathway for chemical modifications of steroid hormones. Only a few KstDs have thus far been characterized biochemically and applied for the production of steroidal pharmaceutical intermediates. Three KstDs, KstD1, KstD2, and KstD3, were identified in Mycobacterium neoaurum DSM 1381, and they shared up to 99, 85 and 97% amino acid identity with previously reported KstDs, respectively. In this paper, KstDs from M. neoaurum DSM 1381 were investigated and exemplified their potential application for industrial steroid transformation. RESULTS: The recombinant KstD2 from Bacillus subtilis exhibited higher enzymatic activity when 4-androstene-3,17-dione (AD) and 22-hydroxy-23, 24-bisnorchol-4-ene-3-one (4HP) were used as the substrates, and resulted in specific activities of 22.40 and 19.19 U mg(−1), respectively. However, the specific activities of recombinant KstD2 from Escherichia coli, recombinant KstD1 from B. subtilis and E. coli, and recombinant KstD3, also fed with AD and 4HP, had significantly lower specific activities. We achieved up to 99% bioconversion rate of 1,4-androstadiene-3,17-dione (ADD) from 8 g L(−1) AD after 15 h of fermentation using E. coli transformant BL21-kstD2. And in vivo transcriptional analysis revealed that the expression of kstD1 in M. neoaurum DSM 1381 increased by 60.5-fold with phytosterols as the substrate, while the mRNA levels of kstD2 and kstD3 were bearly affected by the phytosterols. Therefore, we attempted to create a 4HP producing strain without kstD1, which could covert 20 g L(−1) phytosterols to 14.18 g L(−1) 4HP. CONCLUSIONS: In vitro assay employing the recombinant enzymes revealed that KstD2 was the most promising candidate for biocatalysis in biotransformation of AD. However, in vivo analysis showed that the cellular regulation of kstD1 was much more active than those of the other kstDs in response to the presence of phytosterols. Based on the findings above, we successfully constructed E. coli transformant BL21-kstD2 for ADD production from AD and M. neoaurum DSM 1381 ΔkstD1 strain for 4HP production using phytosterols as the substrate. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s12934-018-0916-9) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2018-05-18 /pmc/articles/PMC5960168/ /pubmed/29776364 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12934-018-0916-9 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Zhang, Ruijie
Liu, Xiangcen
Wang, Yushi
Han, Yuchang
Sun, Junsong
Shi, Jiping
Zhang, Baoguo
Identification, function, and application of 3-ketosteroid Δ1-dehydrogenase isozymes in Mycobacterium neoaurum DSM 1381 for the production of steroidic synthons
title Identification, function, and application of 3-ketosteroid Δ1-dehydrogenase isozymes in Mycobacterium neoaurum DSM 1381 for the production of steroidic synthons
title_full Identification, function, and application of 3-ketosteroid Δ1-dehydrogenase isozymes in Mycobacterium neoaurum DSM 1381 for the production of steroidic synthons
title_fullStr Identification, function, and application of 3-ketosteroid Δ1-dehydrogenase isozymes in Mycobacterium neoaurum DSM 1381 for the production of steroidic synthons
title_full_unstemmed Identification, function, and application of 3-ketosteroid Δ1-dehydrogenase isozymes in Mycobacterium neoaurum DSM 1381 for the production of steroidic synthons
title_short Identification, function, and application of 3-ketosteroid Δ1-dehydrogenase isozymes in Mycobacterium neoaurum DSM 1381 for the production of steroidic synthons
title_sort identification, function, and application of 3-ketosteroid δ1-dehydrogenase isozymes in mycobacterium neoaurum dsm 1381 for the production of steroidic synthons
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5960168/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29776364
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12934-018-0916-9
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