Directed evolution of chitinase Chisb and biosynthesis of chitooligosaccharides.

Mengyan Pan; Xianhao XU; Yanfeng Liu; Jianghua LI; Xueqin LÜ; Guocheng DU; Long Liu

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Directed evolution of chitinase Chisb and biosynthesis of chitooligosaccharides.

Author: Mengyan PAN ¹ ; Xianhao XU ¹ ; Yanfeng LIU ¹ ; Jianghua LI ¹ ; Xueqin LÜ ¹ ; Guocheng DU ¹ ; Long LIU ¹
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1. Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, Jiangsu, China.
Publication Type:Journal Article
Keywords: catalytic efficiency; chitinase Chisb; chitooligosaccharides; directed evolution; error-prone PCR
MeSH: Biocatalysis; Chitin; analogs & derivatives; Chitinases; Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; Polymerase Chain Reaction
From: Chinese Journal of Biotechnology 2019;35(9):1787-1796
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Chitinase has a wide industrial application prospect. For example, it can degrade shrimp shells, crab shells and other crustacean waste into high value-added chitooligosaccharides. However, the low catalytic efficiency of chitinase greatly limits the production of chitooligosaccharides. In previous study, the we expressed a chitinase Chisb with high catalytic efficiency and studied its enzymatic properties. In order to further improve the catalytic efficiency of Chisb, with R13NprB-C-SP-H as the parent, here error-prone PCR was used to construct random mutant library to conduct directed evolution of chitinase Chisb. Two mutants C43D and E336R were obtained with 96-well plate primary screening and shaker-screening, and their enzymatic properties were also studied. The optimum temperature of C43D and E336R was 55 °C, and the optimum pH of C43D was 5.0, while that of E336R was 9.0. The catalytic efficiency of C43D and E336R was 1.35 times and 1.57 times higher than that of control. The chitooligosaccharide concentration of E336R and C43D was 2.53 g/L and 2.06 g/L, improved by 2.84 times and 2.31 times compared with the control (0.89 g/L), respectively. In addition, the substrate conversion rate of mutants E336R and C43D was 84.3% and 68.7%, improved by 54.6% and 39% compared with the control (29.7%), respectively. In summary, the study indicates that random mutation introduced by error-prone PCR can effectively improve the catalytic efficiency of chitinase Chisb. The positive mutants with higher catalytic efficiency obtained in the above study and their enzymatic property analysis have important research significance and application value for the biosynthesis of chitooligosaccharides.