ENGINEERING THE N-TERMINAL SEQUENCE OF GLYCINE MAX SOYBEAN FORMATE DEHYDROGENASE
In: Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta Serija Chimija: Moscow University chemistry bulletin, Band 64, Heft №4, 2023, S. 377-390
NAD(P)+
-dependent formate dehydrogenase (FDH, EC 1.2.1.2.) catalyzes the oxidation of formate ion with the coupled reduction of NAD(P)+
to
NAD(P)H. Previously, in our laboratory, a genetic construct was obtained with
the soyfdh2 gene encoding isoenzyme 2 of formate dehydrogenase from soybean
Glycine max (SoyFDH). In this construct the nucleotide sequence encoding the
signal peptide responsible for the transport of the pro-enzyme into the mitochondria of plant cells (the SoyFDH_L enzyme) was deleted. In this work, a second variant of SoyFDH_S was obtained, in which, compared to SoyFDH_L, the sequence
at the N-terminus was reduced and changed to mimic the N-terminus sequence in
FDH from Pseudomonas sp.101 bacteria. Next, a sequence of six histidine residues
(His-tag) was added to the N-terminus of the long and short forms of SoyFDH.
All four SoyFDH variants were expressed in E. coli BL21(DE3)CodonPlus, these
enzymes were purified, their kinetic parameters were determined, and thermal
stability was studied. In the case of SoyFDH_L, which is similar to the natural
variant of the enzyme, both with and without His-tag, the expression level is two
times higher compared to the truncated variant. The addition of His-tag to the
N-terminus of enzymes reduces the level of expression. Changing the sequence
of the N-terminus, as well as introducing the His-tag sequence to the N-terminus,
does not significantly affect thermal stability of the enzymes at temperatures of
50–56 °C. However, due to the higher values of the activation enthalpy ΔH≠
of the
thermal inactivation process, the shortened form at normal temperatures is 3 times
more stable than the natural one. A comparison of the kinetic parameters of the two SoyFDH variants shows that the catalytic constants are the same, but the long
version of SoyFDH_L has lower values KM
HCOO–
, and the short version has lower
KM
NAD+
values. The introduction of His-tag into the N-terminus of enzymes does not
affect their kinetic parameters.