Biotechnology Bulletin ›› 2023, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (4): 114-123.doi: 10.13560/j.cnki.biotech.bull.1985.2022-0572

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Cloning and Expression of 11α Hydroxylase from Aspergillus ochraceus and Analysis of Key Amino Acid Sites

AI Lu(), CHEN Wen-hui, SHI Jing-hui, REN Zhi-yuan, SHEN Wen-qi, YANG Jia-ning, LUO Jian-mei(), WANG Min   

  1. Key Laboratory of Industrial Fermentation Microbiology(Tianjin University of Science and Technology),Ministry of Education,Tianjin Key Lab of Industrial Microbiology,Tianjin Engineering Research Center of Microbial Metabolism and Fermentation Process Control,College of Biotechnology,Tianjin University of Science and Technology,Tianjin 300457
  • Received:2022-05-09 Online:2023-04-26 Published:2023-05-16

Abstract:

11α, 17α-dihydroxy progesterone is an important intermediate of steroid drugs, and is mainly produced by the 11α hydroxylation reaction of 17α-hydroxyprogesterone with molds in industry. In this paper, 11α hydroxylase of Aspergillus ochraceus and its key amino acid sites were investigated, which can provide basic data for further analysis of the catalytic mechanism of 11α hydroxylase. Using the substrate transformation, the conversion of 17α-hydroxyprogesterone by 10 molds with hydroxylation reaction was studied, then the activity of 11α hydroxylase CYP68J5 from A. ochraceus in different expressing systems was evaluated. Finally, the key amino acid sites of CYP68J5 were analyzed by means of structure prediction, molecular docking and site-directed mutation. The results showed that A. ochraceus had the strongest conversion ability, and the maximum molar production rate of 11α, 17α-dihydroxy progesterone reached 78.55% at 60 h. CYP68J5 had the highest activity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. D118, F216 and M488 near the substrate binding pocket were identified as key amino acid sites of CYP68J5, and they played important roles in maintaining the structural stability of the enzyme and would be the potential targets for further engineering.

Key words: 11α, 17α-dihydroxy progesterone, 17α-hydroxyprogesterone, Aspergillus ochraceus, 11α hydroxylase, key amino acid site