Recyclable synthesis of isomaltulose using a whole-cell biocatalyst with
robust sucrose isomerase
Abstract
Sucrose isomerase (SI), catalysis sucrose to isomaltulose, has been
wildly used in industrial production of isomaltulose. Here, rational
design of Pantoea dispersa SI for improving its thermostability by
predicting and substituting the unstable amino acid residues was studied
using the computational-aided predictor FoldX. Through the mutation
pool, two mutants of SI (V280L, S499F) displayed favorable
characteristics on thermostability. The double mutant V280L/S499F were
further constructed and showed prolonged half-life at 45 ℃, about 9-fold
compared to the wild-type. Accordingly, the melting temperature of
mutant V280L/S499F was improved to 54.2 ℃. To determine the recyclable
ability of mutant V280L/S499F to bioconversion of isomaltulose,
recombinant Corynebacterium glutamicum/pXMJ19/pdsiV280L/S499F was
constructed and repeated batch conversion was performed in a 5 L
bioreactor. The results shown that the maximum yield of isomaltulose by
batch conversion reached to 451 g/L with a productivity of 45.1 g/L/h,
and the conversion rate remained 83.2 ± 2.1% even after 15 repeated
batches of biocatalysis. Structure-based molecule molding revealed that
the interiors of mutant V280L/S499F was more tightly packed in ɑ-9 fold
and a new hydrophobic network was formed in ɑ-17, which combined
contributed to improving its thermostability. This work provides new
reference for the sustainable production of isomaltulose.