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Co-expression of P450 BM3 and glucose dehydrogenase by recombinant Escherichia coli and its application in an NADPH-dependent indigo production system

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P450 BM3 mutant can catalyze indole to indoxyl, and indoxyl can dimerize to form indigo. But the reaction catalyzed by P450 BM3 requires NADPH, as coenzyme regeneration is very important in this system. As we know, when glucose dehydrogenase oxidizes glucose to glucolactone, NADH or NADPH can be formed, which can contribute to NADPH regeneration in the reaction catalyzed by P450 BM3. In this paper, a recombinant Escherichia coli BL21 (pET28a (+)-P450 BM3-gdh0310) was constructed to co-express both P450 BM3 gene and glucose dehydrogenase (GDH) gene. To improve the expression level of P450 BM3 and GDH in E. coli and to avoid the complex and low-efficiency refolding operation in the purification procedure, the expression conditions were optimized. Under the optimized conditions, the maximum P450 BM3 and GDH activities amounted to 8173.13 and 0.045 U/mg protein, respectively. Then bioconversion of indole to indigo was carried out by adding indole and glucose to the culture after improved expression level was obtained under optimized conditions, and 2.9 mM (760.6 mg/L) indigo was formed with an initial indole concentration of 5 mM.

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This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 30570411). The authors wish to thank Prof. R. D. Schmid (Institute of Technical Biochemistry, University of Stuttgart, Germany) for help.

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Lu, Y., Mei, L. Co-expression of P450 BM3 and glucose dehydrogenase by recombinant Escherichia coli and its application in an NADPH-dependent indigo production system. J Ind Microbiol Biotechnol 34, 247–253 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10295-006-0193-1

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