In silico screening of 393 mutants facilitates enzyme engineering of amidase activity in CalB

Martin Robert Hediger, Luca De Vico, Julie Bille Rannes, Christian Jäckel, Werner Besenmatter, Allan Svendsen, Jan Halborg Jensen

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Abstract

Our previously presented method for high throughput computational screening of mutant activity (Hediger et al., 2012) is benchmarked against experimentally measured amidase activity for 22 mutants of Candida antarctica lipase B (CalB). Using an appropriate cutoff criterion for the computed barriers, the qualitative activity of 15 out of 22 mutants is correctly predicted. The method identifies four of the six most active mutants with ≥3-fold wild type activity and seven out of the eight least active mutants with ≤0.5-fold wild type activity. The method is further used to screen all sterically possible (386) double-, triple- and quadruple-mutants constructed from the most active single mutants. Based on the benchmark test at least 20 new promising mutants are identified.
Original languageEnglish
Article numbere145
JournalPeerJ
Volume1
Number of pages15
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013

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