Directed evolution of a carbonyl reductase LsCR for the enantioselective synthesis of (1S)-2-chloro-1-(3,4-difluorophenyl) ethanol.

Bioorg Chem

Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Synthesis of Zhejiang Province, College of Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310014, P. R. China; Engineering Research Center of Bioconversion and Biopurification of the Ministry of Education, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310014, P. R. China; The National and Local Joint Engineering Research Center for Biomanufacturing of Chiral Chemicals, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310014, P. R. China.

Published: October 2022

Traditional screening methods of enzyme engineering often require building large mutant libraries to screen for potentially beneficial sites, which are often time-consuming and labor-intensive with low mining efficiency. In this study, a novel enzyme engineering strategy was established to modify carbonyl reductase LsCR for the synthesis of (1S)-2-chloro-1-(3,4-difluorophenyl) ethanol ((S)-CFPL), which is a key intermediate of anticoagulant drug ticagrelor. The strategy was developed by combining HotSpot, FireProt and multiple sequence alignment, resulting in the construction of a "small and smart" mutant library including 10 mutations. Among them, 5 mutations were positive, resulting in a 50% mining accuracy of beneficial sites. Finally, a highly active mutant LsCR (N101D/A117G/F147L) was obtained by further screening through saturation mutation and iterative mutation. Compared with wild type (WT) LsCR, the catalytic activity of LsCR was increased by 4.7 times, the catalytic efficiency k/K value was increased by 2.9 times, and the half-life t at 40 °C was increased by 1.3 times. Due to the low aqueous solubility of the substrate 2-chloro-1-(3,4-difluorophenyl) ethanone (CFPO), isopropanol was used as not only the co-substrate but also co-solvent. In the presence of 40% (v/v) isopropanol, LsCR completely reduced 400 g/L CFPO to enantiomerically pure CFPL (99.9%, e.e.) in 11 h with a space-time yield (STY) as high as 809 g/L∙d.

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