ArticleChembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology2024
Single Point Mutation Abolishes Water Capture in Germacradien-4-ol Synthase.
Article in Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Engineering terpene synthases and their substrates for the biocatalytic production of terpene natural products and analogues.Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) · 2025Review
- Single Point Mutation Abolishes Water Capture in Germacradien-4-ol Synthase.Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology · 2024Article
- The Recent Progress of Tricyclic Aromadendrene-Type Sesquiterpenoids: Biological Activities and Biosynthesis.Biomolecules · 2024Review
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Abstract
The high-fidelity sesquiterpene cyclase (-)-germacradien-4-ol synthase (GdolS) converts farnesyl diphosphate into the macrocyclic alcohol (-)-germacradien-4-ol. Site-directed mutagenesis was used to decipher the role of key residues in the water control mechanism. Replacement of Ala176, located in the G1/2 helix, with non-polar aliphatic residues of increasing size (valine, leucine, isoleucine and methionine) resulted in the accumulation of the non-hydroxylated products germacrene A and germacrene D. In contrast, hydroxylation was maintained when the polar residues threonine, glutamine or aspartate replaced Ala176. Additionally, although a contribution of His150 to the nucleophilic water addition could be ruled out, the imidazole ring of His150 appears to assist carbocation stabilisation. The results presented here shed light on how hydroxylating sesquiterpene synthases can be engineered to design modified sesquiterpene synthases to reduce the need for further steps in the biocatalytic production of oxygenated sesquiterpenoids.
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