{"title":"Construction of Chitinase Complexes Using Self-Assembly Systems for Efficient Hydrolysis of Chitin.","authors":"Zhewei Shen, Yuchen Pan, Yuansheng Liu, Houhui Song, Chenggang Xu","doi":"10.1021/acssynbio.4c00613","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Chitin biomass is the second most abundant natural polysaccharide after cellulose on the earth, yet its recalcitrance to degrade and utilize severely limits its application. However, many microorganisms, such as <i>Serratia marcescen</i>, can secrete a range of free chitinases to degrade chitin, though their activity is typically insufficient to meet industrial demands. In this study, we employed self-assembly systems, named SpyTag/SpyCatcher and SnoopTag/SnoopCatcher, to modularize the molecular design of CHB, ChiB, ChiC, and CBP21 derived from <i>S. marcescens</i> ATCC14756, and we successfully constructed a variety of chitinase complexes. The assembled complexes showed higher chitinolytic activity and stability, compared to free chitinase mixture. Moreover, the distinct arrangements and combinations of chitinases within these complexes led to varied activities, suggesting that the spatial proximity and substrate channeling effects contribute to the synergy of chitinase complexes. The findings lay a solid technical foundation for the application of chitinosome in the industrial production of <i>N</i>-acetylglucosamine and chitooligosaccharides.</p>","PeriodicalId":26,"journal":{"name":"ACS Synthetic Biology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7000,"publicationDate":"2024-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"ACS Synthetic Biology","FirstCategoryId":"99","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acssynbio.4c00613","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"BIOCHEMICAL RESEARCH METHODS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Chitin biomass is the second most abundant natural polysaccharide after cellulose on the earth, yet its recalcitrance to degrade and utilize severely limits its application. However, many microorganisms, such as Serratia marcescen, can secrete a range of free chitinases to degrade chitin, though their activity is typically insufficient to meet industrial demands. In this study, we employed self-assembly systems, named SpyTag/SpyCatcher and SnoopTag/SnoopCatcher, to modularize the molecular design of CHB, ChiB, ChiC, and CBP21 derived from S. marcescens ATCC14756, and we successfully constructed a variety of chitinase complexes. The assembled complexes showed higher chitinolytic activity and stability, compared to free chitinase mixture. Moreover, the distinct arrangements and combinations of chitinases within these complexes led to varied activities, suggesting that the spatial proximity and substrate channeling effects contribute to the synergy of chitinase complexes. The findings lay a solid technical foundation for the application of chitinosome in the industrial production of N-acetylglucosamine and chitooligosaccharides.
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The journal is particularly interested in studies on the design and synthesis of new genetic circuits and gene products; computational methods in the design of systems; and integrative applied approaches to understanding disease and metabolism.
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Design and optimization of genetic systems
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Experimental methods to quantify genetic parts, circuits, and metabolic fluxes
Genetic parts libraries: their creation, analysis, and ontological representation
Protein engineering including computational design
Metabolic engineering and cellular manufacturing, including biomass conversion
Natural product access, engineering, and production
Creative and innovative applications of cellular programming
Medical applications, tissue engineering, and the programming of therapeutic cells
Minimal cell design and construction
Genomics and genome replacement strategies
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Automated and robotic assembly platforms for synthetic biology
DNA synthesis methodologies
Metagenomics and synthetic metagenomic analysis
Bioinformatics applied to gene discovery, chemoinformatics, and pathway construction
Gene optimization
Methods for genome-scale measurements of transcription and metabolomics
Systems biology and methods to integrate multiple data sources
in vitro and cell-free synthetic biology and molecular programming
Nucleic acid engineering.