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Evolutionary Engineering of a Cp*Rh(III) Complex-Linked Artificial Metalloenzyme with a Chimeric β-Barrel Protein Scaffold

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Evolutionary engineering of our previously reported Cp*Rh(III)-linked artificial metalloenzyme was performed based on a DNA recombination strategy to improve its catalytic activity toward C(sp2)–H bond functionalization. Improved scaffold design was… Click to show full abstract

Evolutionary engineering of our previously reported Cp*Rh(III)-linked artificial metalloenzyme was performed based on a DNA recombination strategy to improve its catalytic activity toward C(sp2)–H bond functionalization. Improved scaffold design was achieved with α-helical cap domains of fatty acid binding protein (FABP) embedded within the β-barrel structure of nitrobindin (NB) as a chimeric protein scaffold for the artificial metalloenzyme. After optimization of the amino acid sequence by directed evolution methodology, an engineered variant, designated NBHLH1(Y119A/G149P) with enhanced performance and enhanced stability was obtained. Additional rounds of metalloenzyme evolution provided a Cp*Rh(III)-linked NBHLH1(Y119A/G149P) variant with a >35-fold increase in catalytic efficiency (kcat/KM) for cycloaddition of oxime and alkyne. Kinetic studies and MD simulations revealed that aromatic amino acid residues in the confined active-site form a hydrophobic core which binds to aromatic substrates adjacent to the Cp*Rh(III) complex. The metalloenzyme engineering process based on this DNA recombination strategy will serve as a powerful method for extensive optimization of the active-sites of artificial metalloenzymes.

Keywords: evolutionary engineering; artificial metalloenzyme; metalloenzyme; iii; protein

Journal Title: Journal of the American Chemical Society
Year Published: 2023

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