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A biased mutation-assembling method—that is, a directed evolution strategy to facilitate an optimal accumulation of multiple mutations on the basis of additivity principles, was applied to the directed evolution of water-soluble PQQ glucose dehydrogenase (PQQGDH-B) to reduce its maltose oxidation activity, which can lead to errors in blood glucose determination. Mutations appropriate for the reduction without fatal deterioration of its glucose oxidation activity were developed by an error-prone PCR method coupled with a saturation mutagenesis method. Moreover, two types of incorporation frequency based on their contribution were assigned to the mutations: high (80%) and evens (50%), in constructing a multiple mutant library. The best mutant created showed a marked reduction in maltose oxidation activity, corresponding to 4% of that of the wild-type enzyme, with 35% retention of glucose oxidation activity. In addition, this mutant showed a reduction in galactose oxidation activity corresponding to 5% of that of the wild-type enzyme. In conclusion, we succeeded in developing the PQQGDH-B mutants with improved substrate specificity and validated our method coupled with optimized mutations and their contribution-based incorporation frequencies by applying it to the development.
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This work was performed as a part of the R&D Project of the Industrial Science and Technology Frontier Program supported by New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization in Japan.
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Hamamatsu, N., Suzumura, A., Nomiya, Y. et al. Modified substrate specificity of pyrroloquinoline quinone glucose dehydrogenase by biased mutation assembling with optimized amino acid substitution. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 73, 607–617 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00253-006-0521-4
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