Highly L and D enantioselective variants of horseradish peroxidase discovered by an ultrahigh-throughput selection method.

Antipov, Eugene; Cho, Art E; Wittrup, K Dane; Klibanov, Alexander M · Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A · 2008

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

A highly efficient selection method for enhanced enzyme enantioselectivity based on yeast surface display and fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) is developed and validated. Its application to horseradish peroxidase has resulted in enzyme variants up to 2 orders of magnitude selective toward either substrate enantiomer at will. These marked improvements in enantioselectivity are demonstrated for the surface-bound and soluble enzymes and rationalized by computational docking studies.

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