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Preparation and characterization of cyanide hydratase from Aspergillus niger and nitrilase from Arthroderma benhamiae
Hradilová, Iveta ; Vaněk, Ondřej (advisor) ; Martínek, Václav (referee)
Nitrilases are well known for their unique property to effectively convert nitriles into corresponding carboxylic acids and ammonia. They can also form amides as by-products. In contrast to nitrile hydratases they do not require cofactors or prosthetic groups. The research in this work is focused on nitrilase from filamentous fungus Arthroderma benhamiae and cyanide hydratase from Aspergillus niger K10. Genes of these enzymes were expressed using pET-30a(+) plasmid in the bacterium Escherichia coli strain BL21-Gold (DE3). The products obtained were purified by a series of ion exchange chromatography and gel filtration and subsequently characterized with respect to oligomeric state of the protein and its usability for protein crystallography. To obtain information regarding the structural arrangement of the individual proteins, electrophoretic separation in polyacrylamide gel, gel filtration, analytical ultracentrifugation, mass spectrometry, dynamic light scattering and drop coating deposition Raman spectroscopy were used. Keywords: nitrilase, cyanide hydratase, Aspergillus niger, Arthroderma benhamiae, liquid chromatography (In Czech)
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New possibilities of nitrilases in biocatalysis and bioremediation
Veselá, Alicja Barbara ; Bezouška, Karel (advisor) ; Weignerová, Lenka (referee)
Nitrilases are enzymes which catalyze the hydrolysis of nitriles to corresponding carboxylic acids. These enzymes have a great potential in biocatalysis, for example in the synthesis of mandelic acid and mandelamide, because of their chemo- and enantioselectivity. As bioremediation agents they are also applicable to sites contaminated with organic nitriles. In this work, activities of recombinant strains of E. coli expressing hypothetical nitrilases from fungi Giberella moniliformis and Nectria haematococca mpVI 77-13-4 were studied, as well as the biodegradation potential of bacteria from Rhodococcus and Nocardia genera towards benzonitrile herbicides dichlobenil (2,6-dichlorobenzonitrile), ioxynil (3,5-diiodo-4- hydroxybenzonitrile) and bromoxynil (3,5-dibromo-4-hydroxybenzonitrile). The hypothetical fungal nitrilases were expressed as functional enzymes. Nitrilase from G. moniliformis showed highest activity towards benzonitrile (30.9 U/mg protein), total activity yield was 2,560 U/l cell culture. The preferred substrate of the nitrilase from N. haematococca was phenylacetonitrile (12.3 U/mg prot.), total activity yield was 28,050 U/l cell culture. Nitrilase from N. haematococca was also able to hydrolyze mandelonitrile (5.9 U/mg prot.). Soil bacteria Rhodococcus rhodochrous PA-34, Nocardia globerula...
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Study of function and molecular architecture of fungal nitrilases applicable in biocatalysis
Veselá, Alicja Barbara ; Martínková, Ludmila (advisor) ; Macek, Tomáš (referee) ; Teisinger, Jan (referee)
Nitrilases are enzymes which catalyze the hydrolysis of a nitrile into the corresponding carboxylic acid and ammonia. These enzymes are potentially applicable in biocatalysis and bioremediation because of their advantages over the conventional (chemical) methods of nitrile hydrolysis (lower demand for energy, safety, simplicity, high yields, selectivity). In this work, genome mining was used to search for the sequences of hypothetical nitrilases from filamentous fungi. The amino acid sequences of previously characterized fungal nitrilases were used as the templates. Then the new synthetic genes together with other genes from our nitrilase library were expressed in E. coli and the substrate specificities of the enzymes thus produced were compared. Significant attention was focused on the relationships between the sequence of the enzyme and its substrate specificity. The arylacetonitrilases from Arthroderma benhamiae (NitAb) and Nectria haematococca (NitNh) were purified and characterized. Their substrate specificities, kinetic parameters, pH and temperature profiles and subunit and holoenzyme size were assessed. NitAb and NitNh together with other recombinant fungal nitrilases were employed in the hydrolysis of high concentrations of (R,S)-mandelonitrile in a batch or fed-batch mode. Nitrilase from...
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Preparation and characterization of cyanide hydratase from Aspergillus niger and nitrilase from Arthroderma benhamiae
Hradilová, Iveta ; Vaněk, Ondřej (advisor) ; Martínek, Václav (referee)
Nitrilases are well known for their unique property to effectively convert nitriles into corresponding carboxylic acids and ammonia. They can also form amides as by-products. In contrast to nitrile hydratases they do not require cofactors or prosthetic groups. The research in this work is focused on nitrilase from filamentous fungus Arthroderma benhamiae and cyanide hydratase from Aspergillus niger K10. Genes of these enzymes were expressed using pET-30a(+) plasmid in the bacterium Escherichia coli strain BL21-Gold (DE3). The products obtained were purified by a series of ion exchange chromatography and gel filtration and subsequently characterized with respect to oligomeric state of the protein and its usability for protein crystallography. To obtain information regarding the structural arrangement of the individual proteins, electrophoretic separation in polyacrylamide gel, gel filtration, analytical ultracentrifugation, mass spectrometry, dynamic light scattering and drop coating deposition Raman spectroscopy were used. Keywords: nitrilase, cyanide hydratase, Aspergillus niger, Arthroderma benhamiae, liquid chromatography (In Czech)
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Recombinant expresion and purification of nitrilase from Neurospora crassa
Zawadová, Dorota ; Vaněk, Ondřej (advisor) ; Kavan, Daniel (referee)
Nitrilases are enzymes able to convert toxic nitriles to corresponding carboxylic acids or amides. Thus they might be used in the detoxification of dyes, herbicides and pharmaceutical intermediates and byproducts. They can be used also for enzymatic syntheses of carboxylic acids not available by standard procedures. The aim of this diploma thesis is a recombinant expression of nitrilases from Neurospora crassa and the optimization of their purification. Cells of E. coli (BL 21 Gold) were utilized as an expression system. The purification was performed by ion-exchange chromatography, chelation chromatography and gel filtration - all under reducing conditions. Purified enzymes were studied by sedimentation analysis in an analytical ultracentrifuge. They were also used for searching of optimal conditions for their crystallization. Keywords: nitrilase, Neurospora crassa, recombinant expression
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New possibilities of nitrilases in biocatalysis and bioremediation
Veselá, Alicja Barbara ; Bezouška, Karel (advisor) ; Weignerová, Lenka (referee)
Nitrilases are enzymes which catalyze the hydrolysis of nitriles to corresponding carboxylic acids. These enzymes have a great potential in biocatalysis, for example in the synthesis of mandelic acid and mandelamide, because of their chemo- and enantioselectivity. As bioremediation agents they are also applicable to sites contaminated with organic nitriles. In this work, activities of recombinant strains of E. coli expressing hypothetical nitrilases from fungi Giberella moniliformis and Nectria haematococca mpVI 77-13-4 were studied, as well as the biodegradation potential of bacteria from Rhodococcus and Nocardia genera towards benzonitrile herbicides dichlobenil (2,6-dichlorobenzonitrile), ioxynil (3,5-diiodo-4- hydroxybenzonitrile) and bromoxynil (3,5-dibromo-4-hydroxybenzonitrile). The hypothetical fungal nitrilases were expressed as functional enzymes. Nitrilase from G. moniliformis showed highest activity towards benzonitrile (30.9 U/mg protein), total activity yield was 2,560 U/l cell culture. The preferred substrate of the nitrilase from N. haematococca was phenylacetonitrile (12.3 U/mg prot.), total activity yield was 28,050 U/l cell culture. Nitrilase from N. haematococca was also able to hydrolyze mandelonitrile (5.9 U/mg prot.). Soil bacteria Rhodococcus rhodochrous PA-34, Nocardia globerula...
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Seeking Novel Nitrilase Enzyme (Nitrile Aminohydrolase, EC 3.5.5.1)
Martínková, Ludmila ; Kaplan, Ondřej ; Veselá, Alicja Barbara
Our research group has created a library of novel nitrilases. In general, the enzymes are available from heterologous producers in amounts ranging from 10 to 20 mg of protein exhbiting 25-50 % purity. The enzymes differ from each other in substrate specificity, temperature optimum, enantioselectivity (arylacetonitrilases) etc. Preferential substrates are phenylacetonitrile, (R,S)-mandelonitrile, benzonitrile or cyanopyridines (depending on the enzyme).
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