scholarly journals Directed evolution of the autoinducer selectivity of Vibrio fischeri LuxR

2016 ◽  
Vol 62 (5) ◽  
pp. 240-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yohei Tashiro ◽  
Yuki Kimura ◽  
Maiko Furubayashi ◽  
Akira Tanaka ◽  
Kei Terakubo ◽  
...  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 567-575 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuki Kimura ◽  
Shigeko Kawai-Noma ◽  
Kyoichi Saito ◽  
Daisuke Umeno

2016 ◽  
Vol 122 (5) ◽  
pp. 533-538 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuki Kimura ◽  
Yohei Tashiro ◽  
Kyoichi Saito ◽  
Shigeko Kawai-Noma ◽  
Daisuke Umeno

2007 ◽  
Vol 73 (18) ◽  
pp. 5775-5781 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew C. Hawkins ◽  
Frances H. Arnold ◽  
Rainer Stuermer ◽  
Bernhard Hauer ◽  
Jared R. Leadbetter

ABSTRACT LuxR is the 3-oxohexanoyl-homoserine lactone (3OC6HSL)-dependent transcriptional activator of the prototypical acyl-homoserine lactone (AHL) quorum-sensing system of Vibrio fischeri. Wild-type LuxR exhibits no response to butanoyl-HSL (C4HSL) in quantitative bioassays at concentrations of up to 1 μM; a previously described LuxR variant (LuxR-G2E) exhibits a broadened response to diverse AHLs, including pentanoyl-HSL (C5HSL), but not to C4HSL. Here, two rounds of directed evolution of LuxR-G2E generated variants of LuxR that responded to C4HSL at concentrations as low as 10 nM. One variant, LuxR-G4E, had only one change, I45F, relative to the parent LuxR-G2E, which itself differs from the wild type at three residues. Dissection of the four mutations within LuxR-G4E demonstrated that at least three of these changes were simultaneously required to achieve any measurable C4HSL response. The four changes improved both sensitivity and specificity towards C4HSL relative to any of the other 14 possible combinations of those residues. These data confirm that LuxR is evolutionarily pliable and suggest that LuxR is not intrinsically asymmetric in its response to quorum-sensing signals with different acyl-side-chain lengths.


2004 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hajime Karatani ◽  
Susumu Yoshizawa ◽  
Satoshi Hirayama
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2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huifang Xu ◽  
Weinan Liang ◽  
Linlin Ning ◽  
Yuanyuan Jiang ◽  
Wenxia Yang ◽  
...  

P450 fatty acid decarboxylases (FADCs) have recently been attracting considerable attention owing to their one-step direct production of industrially important 1-alkenes from biologically abundant feedstock free fatty acids under mild conditions. However, attempts to improve the catalytic activity of FADCs have met with little success. Protein engineering has been limited to selected residues and small mutant libraries due to lack of an effective high-throughput screening (HTS) method. Here, we devise a catalase-deficient <i>Escherichia coli</i> host strain and report an HTS approach based on colorimetric detection of H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub>-consumption activity of FADCs. Directed evolution enabled by this method has led to effective identification for the first time of improved FADC variants for medium-chain 1-alkene production from both DNA shuffling and random mutagenesis libraries. Advantageously, this screening method can be extended to other enzymes that stoichiometrically utilize H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub> as co-substrate.


2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 2073-2076 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nora Kovats ◽  
Maha Refaey ◽  
Bettina Varanka ◽  
Karoly Reich ◽  
Arpad Ferincz ◽  
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