Catalytic Improvement and Evolution of Atrazine Chlorohydrolase

Author:

Scott Colin12,Jackson Colin J.1,Coppin Chris W.12,Mourant Roslyn G.12,Hilton Margaret E.12,Sutherland Tara D.1,Russell Robyn J.12,Oakeshott John G.12

Affiliation:

1. CSIRO Entomology, G.P.O. Box 1700, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia

2. Australian CRC for Sugar Industry Innovation through Biotechnology, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia

Abstract

ABSTRACT The atrazine chlorohydrolase AtzA has evolved within the past 50 years to catalyze the hydrolytic dechlorination of the herbicide atrazine. It is of wide research interest for two reasons: first, catalytic improvement of the enzyme would facilitate its application in bioremediation, and second, because of its recent evolution, it presents a rare opportunity to examine the early stages in the acquisition of new catalytic activities. Using a structural model of the AtzA-atrazine complex, a region of the substrate-binding pocket was targeted for combinatorial randomization. Identification of improved variants through this process informed the construction of a variant AtzA enzyme with 20-fold improvement in its k cat / K m value compared with that of the wild-type enzyme. The reduction in K m observed in the AtzA variants has allowed the full kinetic profile for the AtzA-catalyzed dechlorination of atrazine to be determined for the first time, revealing the hitherto-unreported substrate cooperativity in AtzA. Since substrate cooperativity is common among deaminases, which are the closest structural homologs of AtzA, it is possible that this phenomenon is a remnant of the catalytic activity of the evolutionary progenitor of AtzA. A catalytic mechanism that suggests a plausible mechanistic route for the evolution of dechlorinase activity in AtzA from an ancestral deaminase is proposed.

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Ecology,Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology,Food Science,Biotechnology

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