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  • Master Thesis
    Directed Evolution of a Cytochrome P450 Enzyme To Increase Peroxidation Activity
    (Izmir Institute of Technology, 2019) Başlar, Muhammet Semih; Sürmeli Eraltuğ, Nur Başak; 01. Izmir Institute of Technology
    Directed evolution, mimicking the natural selection, is a powerful tool to create novel enzymes. Evolution of natural enzymes to achieve desired properties are performed in iterative rounds of random mutagenesis followed by a screening/selection method. Enzyme activity can be enhanced with substituting the active site amino acids in the enzyme. CYP119, a member of cytochrome P450 protein family, is a thermophilic enzyme extracted from Sulfolobus acidocaldarius that exhibits monooxygenase, peroxidase and oxidoreductase activity. These properties give CYP119 a potential to be used in production of fine chemicals and pharmaceuticals. Herein, two different mutant libraries of CYP119, containing substituted amino acids at Thr213-Thr214 and Val151- Phe153 positions, constructed via combinatorial active site saturation test (CAST), and screened for improved peroxidation activity. Additionally, fluorescence based Amplex Red peroxidation activity assay using hydrogen peroxide as cofactor of CYP119 was optimized. Screening of mutant libraries resulted four improved CYP119 mutant enzymes from Thr213-Thr214 mutant library. Val151-Phe153 mutant library did not yield any improved peroxidation activity mutants which indicated amino acid substitutions at 151- 153 positions do not have any effect on peroxidation activity of CYP119. Furthermore, effect of substituted amino acids at predetermined positions were analyzed. Substrate, Amplex Red, makes single or double hydrogen bond when molecular docking was performed on improved mutant enzymes also distance of nitrogen atom in Amplex Red to heme iron is closer than wild type CYP119 in improved mutant enzymes. Thus, increasing the peroxidation activity of mutant CYP119 enzymes.
  • Master Thesis
    Bioinformatics Based Approach To Design a Thermophilic P450 Fot Industrial Biocatalysis
    (Izmir Institute of Technology, 2019) Kestevur Doğru, Ekin; Sürmeli Eraltuğ, Nur Başak; 01. Izmir Institute of Technology
    Enzyme catalyzed biosynthesis of steroidal drugs is an important process for pharmaceutical manufacturing. Cytochrome P450 (P450) monooxygenases are important for hydroxylation of steroid structures because they can catalyze the oxidation of inactive carbon bonds with high selectivity and efficiency. CYP119 is an acidothermophilic P450 from Sulfolobus acidocaldarius, which has the potential to be used as biocatalyst for industrial production since it shows activity at high temperature and low pH conditions. In this work we aim to use CYP119 for selective hydroxylation of progesterone, which is not the original substrate of CYP119, for production of precursor molecules of important hormones like cortisone and aldosterone. Crystal structure of CYP119 (PDB ID: 1F4T) was used for selecting residues that were mutated according to structural alignment with other CYPs that can catalyze progesterone hydroxylation naturally. Progesterone-docking performed with CYP119 to identify residues that create clashes with substrate. Finally selected 12 residues (Leu69, Val151, Phe153, Leu155, Leu205, Ile208, Ala209, Thr213, Thr214, Val254, Thr257, Leu354) were mutated with PyRosetta program to Gly, Glu, Phe, Met, Ala, His, Arg and Ile. Progesterone-docking performed with using DockMCM Protocol of PyRosetta. We used two different starting coordinates of progesterone for docking and results were eliminated according to their energy scores. Best mutants were used for creating double/triple mutants and second round of docking and elimination process were performed with using double/triple mutant enzymes. Final number of 11 mutants with best scores were selected and their possible products were identified.
  • Master Thesis
    Optimization of Expression and Isolation of a Thermophilic P450 Enzyme
    (Izmir Institute of Technology, 2018) Aslantaş, Yaprak; Sürmeli, Nur Başak; Şanlı Mohamed, Gülşah; Sürmeli, Nur Başak; Şanlı Mohamed, Gülşah; 03.01. Department of Bioengineering; 04.01. Department of Chemistry; 03. Faculty of Engineering; 04. Faculty of Science; 01. Izmir Institute of Technology
    Cytochrome P450 enzymes (CYP or P450) are monooxygenases that catalyze the oxidation of hydrocarbons with high efficiency and selectivity, and many other reactions like hydroxylation, epoxidation, reduction, demethylation. CYP119, is a thermophilic P450 from Sulfolobus acidocaldarius. Thanks to thermophilic properties, CYP119 has potential to be widely used as a biocatalyst in production of fine chemicals and pharmaceuticals. However, production and purification of CYP119s is quite difficult and time consuming. Here, through recombinant protein production techniques, the optimum production and purification of heat-tolerant CYP119 has been successfully carried out. N-terminal and C-terminal histidine tags were cloned to CYP119. Protein expression was induced in Escherichia coli BL21 (DE3) cells with isopropyl β-D-1-thiogalactopyranoside (IPTG). δ-aminolevulinic acid (ALA) was also used to increase the heme biosynthesis. Different IPTG and ALA concentrations, expression temperature and duration were used to optimize production. CYP119 was isolated and purified with Ni-NTA affinity column. The thermostability of purified N (N-His-CYP119) and C (C-His-CYP119) terminal His-tagged were compared with wild type CYP119 (Wt-CYP119). Oxidation reaction of CYP119 and variants carried out and compared at 25 °C and 65 °C. Also, epoxidation of styrene was performed with N-His-CYP119 in different temperatures. The effects of histidine tags on stability and activity of the CYP119s were observed. Here, conditions for the production of CYP119 were optimized and the histidine tags were found to cause changes in stability and function of proteins. This project will lead to increase in the production of the important enzyme CYP119, which will increase its utilization in the industry.
  • Master Thesis
    Generation of Mutant Libraries for Directed Evolution of a Thermophilic P450 Enzyme
    (Izmir Institute of Technology, 2018) Haklı, Emre; Sürmeli, Nur Başak; Bedir, Erdal; Sürmeli, Nur Başak; Bedir, Erdal; 03.01. Department of Bioengineering; 03. Faculty of Engineering; 01. Izmir Institute of Technology
    Directed evolution, inspires from natural selection, is a frequently utilized approach in protein engineering for designing enzymes. It allows iterative evolution of existing proteins towards the ones with desired characteristics by the application of random mutagenesis in the laboratory. However, library construction constitutes the most fundamental part of directed evolution. Application of different construction methods affects both the number and diversity of variants created and the screening/selection techniques used. Early procedures including error-prone PCR, mutator strains, chemical mutagens and gene shuffling have been successful in whole gene mutagenesis yet have been required more screening/selection effort by leading larger libraries. On the other hand, recent approaches such as use of degenerate primers and site saturation mutagenesis have decreased the screening/selection effort by allowing random mutagenesis of amino acids located at specific positions in the polypeptide chain. Especially, active site residues of biocatalysts were chosen as targets and the catalytic efficiencies were enhanced. CYP119, a member of cytochrome P450 protein family, from Sulfolobus Acidocaldarius is a thermostable enzyme capable of catalyzing peroxidation, monooxygenation and oxidoreduction reactions. Here, a library of mutants consist of CYP119 variants was created via application of combinatorial active site saturation test (CAST) in amino acid positions 213 – 214 and an effective fluorescence-based method was developed to screen the library for increased peroxidase activity while utilizing hydrogen peroxide as oxidant. After screening of mutant library, a variant with Thr213Arg – Thr214Ile substitutions showed 1.32-fold increased peroxidase activity in the catalysis of Amplex Red compared to wild type CYP119.