Issue 2, 2021

Enzymatic production of β-glucose 1,6-bisphosphate through manipulation of catalytic magnesium coordination

Abstract

Manipulation of enzyme behaviour represents a sustainable technology that can be harnessed to enhance the production of valuable metabolites and chemical precursors. β-Glucose 1,6-bisphosphate (βG16BP) is a native reaction intermediate in the catalytic cycle of β-phosphoglucomutase (βPGM) that has been proposed as a treatment for human congenital disorder of glycosylation involving phosphomannomutase 2. Strategies to date for the synthesis of βG16BP suffer from low yields or use chemicals and procedures with significant environmental impacts. Herein, we report the efficient enzymatic synthesis of anomer-specific βG16BP using the D170N variant of βPGM (βPGMD170N), where the aspartate to asparagine substitution at residue 170 perturbs the coordination of a catalytic magnesium ion. Through combined use of NMR spectroscopy and kinetic assays, it is shown that the weakened affinity and reactivity of βPGMD170N towards βG16BP contributes to the pronounced retardation of the second step in the two-step catalytic cycle, which causes a marked accumulation of βG16BP, especially at elevated MgCl2 concentrations. Purification, employing a simple environmentally considerate precipitation procedure requiring only a standard biochemical toolset, results in a βG16BP product with high purity and yield. Overall, this synthesis strategy illustrates how manipulation of the catalytic magnesium coordination of an enzyme can be utilised to generate large quantities of a valuable metabolite.

Graphical abstract: Enzymatic production of β-glucose 1,6-bisphosphate through manipulation of catalytic magnesium coordination

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Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
29 Sep 2020
Accepted
07 Jan 2021
First published
15 Jan 2021
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Green Chem., 2021,23, 752-762

Enzymatic production of β-glucose 1,6-bisphosphate through manipulation of catalytic magnesium coordination

H. P. Wood, N. J. Baxter, F. A. Cruz-Navarrete, C. R. Trevitt, A. M. Hounslow and J. P. Waltho, Green Chem., 2021, 23, 752 DOI: 10.1039/D0GC03290E

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