磷酸缓冲盐和硫酸钠对洋葱假单胞菌脂肪酶的非水相激活

研究了kosmotropic型磷酸缓冲盐和硫酸钠对洋葱假单胞菌脂肪酶(Pseudomonas cepacia lipase, PCL)非水相催化性能的影响.以往磷酸缓冲盐被用来调控体系的pH值,其掺杂量对酶的催化活性无明显影响,而适量硫酸钠的掺杂则可有效提高酶在非水相的催化活性.本文研究发现,通过精确调控冻干过程,磷酸缓冲盐掺杂能够将PCL在有机相中的转酯化活性提高近10倍,达到其水相本征活性的50%,这一激活效果甚至高于硫酸钠掺杂.利用热重方法分析了盐掺杂PCL的含水量和蛋白结构,并将失重结果同其在有机相中的催化活性相关联,发现PCL在磷酸缓冲盐和硫酸钠掺杂下的催化构型与蛋白含水量及其周围盐环境具有不同的依赖关系.利用2-(4’-氨基-2’-羟基苯基)苯并恶唑作为荧光探针,研究了磷酸缓冲盐和硫酸钠掺杂的PCL悬浮于有机相时对荧光探针发射光谱的影响,发现盐掺杂酶制剂的存在能够大大增加荧光探针稳定于极性溶剂的构型含量,这可能与蛋白周围掺杂盐键和的水分子有关.如果用探针分子稳定于极性溶剂和非极性溶剂的构型比值间接表示悬浮酶制剂的极性结构,在正己烷体系中硫酸钠掺杂的PCL具有比磷酸缓冲盐掺杂的PCL大得多的极性,且酶制剂的极性大小与其非水相转酯化活性之间具有相似的变化趋势.上述研究结果表明,掺杂盐对粗PCL酶制剂的激活可能部分归因于掺杂盐键和的水分子在蛋白周围构筑的极性环境.     

Hofmeister effects in enzymatic activity: weak and strong electrolyte influences on the activity of Candida rugosa lipase

The effects of weak and strong electrolytes on the enzymatic activity of Candida rugosa lipase are explored. Weak electrolytes, used as buffers, set the pH, while strong electrolytes regulate the ionic strength. The interplay between pH and ionic strength has been assumed to be the determinant of enzymatic activity. In experiments that probe activities by varying these parameters, there has been little attention focused on the role of specific electrolyte effects. Here we show that both buffers and the choice of background electrolyte ion strongly affect the enzymatic activity of Candida rugosa lipase. The effects here shown are dramatic at high salt concentration; indeed, a 2 M concentration of NaSCN is able to fully inactivate the lipase. By contrast, Na2SO4 acts generally as an activator, whereas NaCl shows a quasi-neutral behavior. Such specific ion effects are well-known and are classified among the "Hofmeister effects". However, there has been little awareness of them, or of their potential for optimization of activities in the enzyme community. Rather than the effects per se, the focus here is on their origin. New insights into mechanism are proposed.     

Enzymatic Reactions using Ionic Liquids for Green Sustainable Chemical Process; Stabilization and Activation of Lipases

The enzymatic reaction is highly respected from an environmentally-friendly point-of-view. Optimization of the reaction media and supporting materials of enzymes must be investigated in parallel with the effort to develop new enzymes. Lipases are frequently used for organic syntheses as synthetic tools even industry because of their acceptance of having a broad range of substrates, stability, and availability. We have investigated the possibility of ILs as both a solvent and activating or stabilization agent of enzymes, in particular, lipase as a model enzyme. ILs allowed recyclable use of a lipase and significant acceleration of transesterification, and also enhanced the stability and reaction activity of a lipase by immobilization through a lyophilization process. We discuss how we enhanced the enzyme capability using the IL engineering focusing on lipase-catalyzed reactions, i. e., realization of the recyclable use of an enzyme, how ILs mediated the enhanced reaction rate, and improved the stability of the enzyme.     

Hofmeister series: the hydrolytic activity of Aspergillus niger lipase depends on specific anion effects

The specific activity of lipase A (Aspergillus niger) toward the hydrolysis of p-nitrophenyl acetate (p-NPA) is shown to increase as a result of sodium salt addition according to specific ion effects of the Hofmeister series. This shows explicitly that the Hofmeister effect is due to the different specific interactions between anions and the enzymatic surface.     

Nano‐Encapsulation of Lipase by Self‐Assembled Nanogels: Induction of High Enzyme Activity and Thermal Stabilization

The effects of self‐assembled polysaccharide nanogels on colloidal and thermal stability of lipase from Pseudomonas cepacia were investigated. The enzyme activity, especially k_cat, drastically increased in the presence of nanogels of cholesterol‐bearing pullulan (CHP). The thermostability of lipase complex increased because the denaturation temperature of lipase increased by more than 20 °C by complexation with CHP nanogels. Lipase denaturation and aggregation upon heating was effectively prevented by complexation with CHP nanogels. Moreover, complexation with CHP nanogels protected lipase from lyophilization‐induced aggregation. Nano‐encapsulation with CHP nanogel is a useful method for colloidal and thermal stabilization of unstable enzyme.

     

Tuning lipase enantioselectivity in organic media using solid-state buffers.

The enantioselectivity exhibited by Candida antarctica lipase B (CALB) in predominantly organic media has been studied for different enzyme protonation states. Alcoholysis of (+/-)-2-phenyl-4-benzyloxazol-5(4H)-one (1) using butan-1-ol as the nucleophile in low-water organic solvents was used as a model reaction. Using either organo-soluble bases or the newly introduced solid-state buffers of known pK(a), the protonation state of the lipase was altered. By choice of the appropriate solid-state buffer or organic base, the enantioselectivity could be selectively tuned. Both Et(3)N and the solid-state buffer pair CAPSO/CAPSO.Na were found to increase the enantioselectivity of the reaction catalyzed by CALB and that of another lipase (Mucor miehei). Significant differences to both the enantioselectivity and catalytic rate were observed, especially under hydrated conditions where byproduct acid was formed.     

Molecular imprinting of enzymes with water-insoluble ligands for nonaqueous biocatalysis

Attaining higher levels of catalytic activity of enzymes in organic solvents is one of the major challenges in nonaqueous enzymology. One of the most successful strategies for enhancing enzyme activity in organic solvents involves tuning the enzyme active site by molecular imprinting with substrates or their analogues. Unfortunately, numerous imprinters of potential importance are poorly soluble in water, which significantly limits the utility of this method. In the present study, we have developed strategies that overcome this limitation of the molecular-imprinting technique and that thus expand its applicability beyond water-soluble ligands. The solubility problem can be addressed either by converting the ligands into a water-soluble form or by adding relatively high concentrations of organic cosolvents, such as tert-butyl alcohol and 1,4-dioxane, to increase their solubility in the lyophilization medium. We have succeeded in applying both of these strategies to produce imprinted thermolysin, subtilisin, and lipase TL possessing up to 26-fold higher catalytic activity in the acylation of paclitaxel and 17beta-estradiol compared to nonimprinted enzymes. Furthermore, we have demonstrated for the first time that molecular imprinting and salt activation, applied in combination, produce a strong additive activation effect (up to 110-fold), suggesting different mechanisms of action involved in these enzyme activation techniques.     

Hydrotrope-induced inversion of salt effects on the cloud point of an extended surfactant

We report on the effects of electrolytes spanning a range of anions (NaOc, NaSCN, NaNO(3), NaBr, NaCl, NaBu, NaOAc, Na(2)SO(4), Na(2)HPO(4), and Na(2)CO(3)) and cations (LiCl, NaCl, KCl, CsCl, and choline chloride) on the aqueous solubility of an extended surfactant. The surfactant is anionic with a long hydrophobic tail as well as a significant fraction of propylene oxide groups and ethylene oxide groups (C(12-14)-PO(16)-EO(2)-SO(4)Na, X-AES). In the absence of electrolytes, X-AES exhibits a cloud-point temperature that decreases with increasing surfactant concentration. After the addition of salts to the surfactant solutions, various shifts in the solubility curves are observed. These shifts follow precisely the same Hofmeister series that is found for salting-in and salting-out effects in protein solutions. In the presence of different concentrations of sodium xylene sulfonate (SXS), the solubility of the surfactant increases. In this context, SXS can be considered to be a salting-in salt. However, when the electrolytes are added to an aqueous solution of X-AES and SXS the Hofmeister series reverses for divalent anions such as Na(2)SO(4), Na(2)HPO(4), and Na(2)CO(3). Studies on the phase behavior and micelle structures using polarization microscopy, freeze-etch TEM, and NMR measurements indicate a dramatic change in the coexisting phases on the addition of SXS.     

Covalent inhibitors of human monoacylglycerol lipase: ligand-assisted characterization of the catalytic site by mass spectrometry and mutational analysis

The active site of recombinant hexa-histidine-tagged human monoacylglycerol lipase (hMGL) is characterized by mass spectrometry using the inhibitors 5-((biphenyl-4-yl)methyl)-N,N-dimethyl-2H-tetrazole-2-carboxamide (AM6701), and N-arachidonylmaleimide (NAM) as probes. Carbamylation of Ser(129) by AM6701 in the putative hMGL catalytic triad demonstrates this residue's essential role in catalysis. Partial NAM alkylation of hMGL cysteine residues 215 and/or 249 was sufficient to achieve approximately 80% enzyme inhibition. Although Cys(215) and/or Cys(249) mutations to alanine(s) did not affect hMGL hydrolytic activity as compared with nonmutated hMGL, the C215A displayed heightened NAM sensitivity, whereas the C249A evidenced reduced NAM sensitivity. These data conclusively demonstrate a sulfhydryl-based mechanism for NAM inhibition of hMGL in which Cys(249) is of paramount importance. Identification of amino acids critical to the catalytic activity and pharmacological modulation of hMGL informs the design of selective MGL inhibitors as potential drugs.     

脂肪酶的固定化及其在有机酶促反应中稳定性研究

利用吸附法,将圆柱状假丝酵母脂肪酶固定于４种疏水性不同的载体上,固定化酶的活性及稳定性随载休疏水性的增大而增大。用ＹＧＷ－Ｃ６Ｈ５作为载体,在有机溶剂－水双液相体系中催化萘普生甲酯的不对称水解,反应１２０ｈ转化率为２４．７２％,产品的对映体过量值为９４．８２％。     

Study of the interaction and activation of lipase from Pseudomonas fluorescens in surfactant monolayers and precipitates

The activation of lipase from Pseudomonas fluorescens (PFL) upon its immobilization in surfactant coprecipitates (hexadecane-1,2-diol (HDD), cetyl alcohol (CetOH), N-cetylacetamide (CetAA), and cetylamine (CetNH₂)) organized in monolayers at the interface were studied by the Langmuir—Blodgett monolayer technique. Incorporation of the enzyme into surfactant monolayers at the surface pressure = 10 mN m^–1 results in an apparent increase in the area per molecule. In the series of noncharged surfactants CetOH—HDD—CetAA, this effect increases in proportion to the amount of the enzyme incorporated in the monolayer. The catalytic activity of the lipase—surfactant coprecipitates in an organic solvent as regards esterification increases in the same sequence, indicating similarity of the interaction of lipase with surfactant monolayers and coprecipitates. For = 10 mN m^–1, the CetNH₂ monolayer with liquid-expanded state incorporates the largest amount of the enzyme (PFL : CetNH₂ = 1 : 290); the CetOH monolayer, which exists in the condensed state under the same conditions, incorporates the smallest amount (PFL : CetOH = 1 : 1700). The hydrolytic activity of PFL in mixed monolayers with surfactants increases 1.5—11-fold; the esterification activity in surfactant coprecipitates, 1.6—9-fold. The lipase activation effects are explained by facilitated transport of substrates into mixed monolayers and surfactant—enzyme precipitates in aqueous and organic media, respectively.     

混合溶剂系统中固定化脂肪酶对酮基布洛芬的催化酯化反应

以硅藻土吸附的脂肪酶为催化剂,对外消旋酮基布洛芬[2-(3-苯甲酰苯基)丙酸]进行对映选择性酯化反应;考察了不同的脂肪酶制剂,固定化时所加缓冲液的体积与pH值,酰基受体(醇)的种类以及混合溶剂系统的组成等因素对酶活性的影响.结果表明,在所考察的7种脂肪酶中,以LipaseOF的酪化活性最高;用硅藻土吸附固定化酶时,缓冲溶液的最适pH为7.0左右,每克酶粉加1.0mL缓冲溶液为最佳;固定化酶催化酯化的活性比游离的脂肪酶高.在酮基布洛芬与不同酰基受体(醇)的酶促酯化反应中,以丙醇的反应速度为最快.在由一种主溶剂与一种助溶剂组成的混合溶剂系统中,酶促酯化的速度要比在单一的主溶剂或助溶剂系统中快.当以1gP值较大的环己烷或异辛烷等为主溶剂,甲苯为助溶剂时,脂肪酶催化酮基布洛芬酯化反应的活性最高.     

Contribution to the study of the alteration of lipase activity ofCandida rugosa by ions and buffers

A semipurifiedC. rugosa lipase (LS) has been prepared from commercial lipase (LC) using an economical procedure. The presence of sugars and glycopeptides has been detected in LS and LC. Pure lipase only has covalently bonded sugars. The hydrolysis of olive oil catalyzed by LS and commercial lipase (LC) is sensitive to the presence of cations Na(I), Mg(II), Ca(II), and Ba(II) and to the nature of buffer. Highest enzyme activity is obtained with 0.1M Tris/HCl buffers and the combination of NaCl 0.11M and CaCl₂ 0.11M. Fluorescence spetroscopy analysis of LC, LS, and both pure isoenzymes lipases A and B, was used to analyze the interaction of the lipase with these effecttors. Inorganic cations Na or Ca do not interact with pure enzyme LA but do interact with LC and LS and do so slightly with LB. The organic cations (morfolinium ortris) interact with pure lipases. We postulate that the increase in the lipase activity produced by Na(I) or Ca(II) is related with interfacial phenomena, but the increase might be more specific in the hydrolysis of olive oil in the presence of Tris-HCl or morfoline-HCl buffer, owing to enzyme-buffer interaction.     

Tripodal,Squaramide-Based Ion Pair Receptor for Effective Extraction of Sulfate Salt

Combining three features—the high affinity of squaramides toward anions, cooperation in ion pair binding and preorganization of the binding domains in the tripodal platform—led to the effective receptor 2. The lack of at least one of these key elements in the structures of reference receptors 3 and 4 caused a lower affinity towards ion pairs. Receptor 2 was found to form an intramolecular network in wet chloroform, which changed into inorganic–organic associates after contact with ions and allowed salts to be extracted from an aqueous to an organic phase. The disparity in the binding mode of 2 with sulfates and with other monovalent anions led to the selective extraction of extremely hydrated sulfate anions in the presence of more lipophilic salts, thus overcoming the Hofmeister series.     

Thermodynamic origin of hofmeister ion effects

Quantitative interpretation and prediction of Hofmeister ion effects on protein processes, including folding and crystallization, have been elusive goals of a century of research. Here, a quantitative thermodynamic analysis, developed to treat noncoulombic interactions of solutes with biopolymer surface and recently extended to analyze the effects of Hofmeister salts on the surface tension of water, is applied to literature solubility data for small hydrocarbons and model peptides. This analysis allows us to obtain a minimum estimate of the hydration b1 (H2O A(-2)), of hydrocarbon surface and partition coefficients Kp, characterizing the distribution of salts and salt ions between this hydration water and bulk water. Assuming that Na+ and SO4(2-) ions of Na2SO4 (the salt giving the largest reduction in hydrocarbon solubility as well as the largest increase in surface tension) are fully excluded from the hydration water at hydrocarbon surface, we obtain the same b1 as for air-water surface (approximately 0.18 H2O A(-2)). Rank orders of cation and anion partition coefficients for nonpolar surface follow the Hofmeister series for protein processes, but are strongly offset for cations in the direction of exclusion (preferential hydration). By applying a coarse-grained decomposition of water accessible surface area (ASA) into nonpolar, polar amide, and other polar surface and the same hydration b1 to interpret peptide solubility increments, we determine salt partition coefficients for amide surface. These partition coefficients are separated into single-ion contributions based on the observation that both Cl- and Na+ (also K+) occupy neutral positions in the middle of the anion and cation Hofmeister series for protein folding. Independent of this assignment, we find that all cations investigated are strongly accumulated at amide surface while most anions are excluded. Cation and anion effects are independent and additive, allowing successful prediction of Hofmeister salt effects on micelle formation and other processes from structural information (ASA).     

Improving Catalytic Performance of Burkholderiacepacia Lipase by Chemical Modification with Functional Ionic Liquids

Various imidazolium and choline-based functional ionic liquids(ILs) comprising different cations and anions were grafted onto Burkholderiacepacia lipase(BCL) through surface amino acids coupling. The catalytic activity, thermostability, organic solvent tolerance and adaptability to temperature and pH changes of the modified BCL were then evaluated in olive oil hydrolysis reaction. The results showed that different combinations of cations and anions in ILs had important influence on the catalytic performance of the modified lipases. BCL modified with IL[Choline] [H₂PO₄] was the most improved lipase, in which increases by 1.2 folds in relative activity, 2.5 folds in typical proton solvent(10% methanol, volume fraction), and 1.4 folds in thermostability(after incubation at 70℃ for 2 h) were achieved in relative toits native form. BCL modified with[HOOCEPEG₃₅₀IM] [BF₄] had higher optimal tempe-rature and pH, and better thermosability compared with the native and other modified BCLs. The conformational changes of BCLs were also confirmed by fluorescence spectroscopy and circular dichroism spectroscopy.     

Lipase catalysis in organic solvents

The conditions for esterification and transesterification catalyzed by porcine pancreatic lipase in organic media were studied. It was found that the enzyme reaction was dependent on the following factors: the pH at which the enzyme powder was prepared from its solution, the polarity of organic media, the reaction temperature, the water content in reaction system, and the substrate structures. Effects of the above factors on enzyme activity were discussed.     

高浓度盐系统中指肪酶的固定化及其催化活力

选择了四十多个可溶性的盐，实现了脂肪酶在高浓度盐系统中的固定化，并以 固定化脂肪酶的盐为催化剂，研究了正已烷中脂肪酶催化丁醇和乙酸乙烯酯间的转 酯化制备乙酸丁酯的反应和水溶液中橄榄油的水解反应，考察了高浓度盐系统中脂 肪酶的催化活力。     

Improvement of Properties of Pseudomonas sp. Lipase in Resolution of 2-Octanol

IntroductionThe demand for the high purity of chiral com-pounds has led to the increasing use of biocatalystsand the increasing research in order to obtain en-zymes with a higher activity and selectivity.In thisfield the utilization of lipases has been proved to beone of the simplest but most promising techniquesfor the enantioselective conversion of various hy-drophobic acids and alcohols in the last decade.There has been a considerable interestin improvingthe enantioselectivity of lipases an…     

Hofmeister salt effects on surface tension arise from partitioning of anions and cations between bulk water and the air-water interface

We apply a recently developed surface-bulk partitioning model to interpret the effects of individual Hofmeister cations and anions on the surface tension of water. The most surface-excluded salt (Na2SO4) provides a minimum estimate for the number of water molecules per unit area of the surface region of 0.2 H2O A-2. This corresponds to a lower bound thickness of the surface region of approximately 6 A, which we assume is a property of this region and not of the salt investigated. At salt concentrations < or = 1 m, single-ion partition coefficients Kp,i, defined relative to Kp,Na+ = Kp,SO42- = 0, are found to be independent of bulk salt concentration and additive for different salt ions. Semiquantitative agreement with surface-sensitive spectroscopy data and molecular dynamics simulations is attained. In most cases, the rank orders of Kp,i for both anions and cations follow the conventional Hofmeister series, qualitative rankings of ions based on their effects on protein processes (folding, precipitation, assembly). Most anions that favor processes that expose protein surface to water (e.g., SCN-), and hence must interact favorably with (i.e., accumulate at) protein surface, are also accumulated at the air-water interface (Kp >1, e.g., Kp,SCN- =1.6). Most anions that favor processes that remove protein surface from water (e.g., F-), and hence are excluded from protein surface, are also excluded from the air-water interface (Kp,F- = 0.5). The guanidinium cation, a strong protein denaturant and therefore accumulated at the protein surface exposed in unfolding, is somewhat excluded from the air-water surface (Kp,GuH+ = 0.7), but is much less excluded than alkali metal cations (e.g., Kp,Na+ identical with 0, Kp,K+ = 0.1). Hence, cation Kp values for the air-water surface appear shifted (toward exclusion) as compared with values inferred for interactions of these cations with protein surface.