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Discovery and Engineering of Bacterial (?)-Isopiperitenol Dehydrogenases to Enhance (?)-Menthol Precursor Biosynthesis
Zhan, Jing-Ru,Shou, Chao,Zheng, Yu-Cong,Chen, Qi,Pan, Jiang,Li, Chun-Xiu,Xu, Jian-He
supporting information, p. 3973 - 3982 (2021/07/02)
Microbial synthesis of (?)-menthol, a compound of plant origin, is of great importance because of the high demand for this product and related sustainability issues. However, the total biosynthesis of (?)-menthol from easily available feedstocks like (?)-limonene by engineered microbial hosts is stalled by the poor protein expression or activity of several enzymes from the native (?)-menthol biosynthesis pathway of mint (Mentha piperita). Among these unsatisfied steps, (?)-isopiperitenol dehydrogenase (IPDH) catalyzed oxidation reaction of (?)-trans-isopiperitenol was one of the bottlenecks that need to be optimized. In this work, two novel bacterial enzymes with IPDH activity were discovered to replace their inefficient counterpart from plant cells in microbial (?)-menthol synthesis. Two key residues in PaIPDH from Pseudomonas aeruginosa were mutated to PaIPDHE95F/Y199V with 4.4-fold improved specific activity than PaIPDH. The mechanism for the beneficial mutations was elucidated by molecular dynamics simulations. PaIPDHE95F/Y199V was used to synthesize (?)-isopiperitenone from (?)-limonene in vivo via a self-sufficient cofactor cascade enzyme reaction, affording a 3.7-fold enhanced titer of (?)-isopiperitenone compared with that obtained using the original mint IPDH (MpIPDH). The bacterial enzyme PaIPDHE95F/Y199V can be applied in the future for constructing a more efficient artificial pathway to biosynthesize (?)-menthol in a microbial whole-cell system. (Figure presented.).
Clean protocol for deoxygenation of epoxides to alkenes: Via catalytic hydrogenation using gold
Fiorio, Jhonatan L.,Rossi, Liane M.
, p. 312 - 318 (2021/01/29)
The epoxidation of olefin as a strategy to protect carbon-carbon double bonds is a well-known procedure in organic synthesis, however the reverse reaction, deprotection/deoxygenation of epoxides is much less developed, despite its potential utility for the synthesis of substituted olefins. Here, we disclose a clean protocol for the selective deprotection of epoxides, by combining commercially available organophosphorus ligands and gold nanoparticles (Au NP). Besides being successfully applied in the deoxygenation of epoxides, the discovered catalytic system also enables the selective reduction N-oxides and sulfoxides using molecular hydrogen as reductant. The Au NP catalyst combined with triethylphosphite P(OEt)3 is remarkably more reactive than solely Au NPs. The method is not only a complementary Au-catalyzed reductive reaction under mild conditions, but also an effective procedure for selective reductions of a wide range of valuable molecules that would be either synthetically inconvenient or even difficult to access by alternative synthetic protocols or by using classical transition metal catalysts. This journal is
Catalytic performance of bulk and colloidal Co/Al layered double hydroxide with Au nanoparticles in aerobic olefin oxidation
Leandro, Sónia R.,Fernandes, Cristina I.,Viana,Mourato,Vaz, Pedro D.,Nunes, Carla D.
, (2019/08/07)
A Co/Al layered double hydroxide material was synthesized in both bulk and exfoliated (colloidal) forms. Anion exchange with methionine allowed immobilization of Au nanoparticles previously prepared by a biomimetic method using an anti-oxidant tea aqueous extract to reduce the Au salt solution. The catalytic performance of bulk and exfoliated clays Au-hybrid materials was assessed in aerobic olefin epoxidation. Both catalysts were very active towards the epoxide products and with very interesting substrate conversion levels after 80 h reaction time. The Au-exfoliated material, where the nanosheets work as large ligands, yielded higher product stereoselectivity in the case of limonene epoxidation. This arises from a confined environment around the Au nanoparticles wrapped by the clay nanosheets modulating access to the catalytic active centres by reagents. Mechanistic assessment was also accomplished for styrene oxidation by DFT methods.
