Discovery of Two Novel Oxidases Using a High-Throughput Activity Screen.
Chembiochem
; 23(2): e202100510, 2022 01 19.
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ABSTRACT
Discovery of novel enzymes is a challenging task, yet a crucial one, due to their increasing relevance as chemical catalysts and biotechnological tools. In our work we present a high-throughput screening approach to discovering novel activities. A screen of 96 putative oxidases with 23 substrates led to the discovery of two new enzymes. The first enzyme, N-acetyl-D-hexosamine oxidase (EC 1.1.3.29) from Ralstonia solanacearum, is a vanillyl alcohol oxidase-like flavoprotein displaying the highest activity with N-acetylglucosamine and N-acetylgalactosamine. Before our discovery of the enzyme, its activity was an orphan one - experimentally characterized but lacking the link to amino acid sequence. The second enzyme, from an uncultured marine euryarchaeota, is a long-chain alcohol oxidase (LCAO, EC 1.1.3.20) active with a range of fatty alcohols, with 1-dodecanol being the preferred substrate. The enzyme displays no sequence similarity to previously characterised LCAOs, and thus is a completely novel representative of a protein with such activity.
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Oxidorreductasas
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Ensayos Analíticos de Alto Rendimiento
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Chembiochem
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BIOQUIMICA
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2022
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