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Published in final edited form as: Curr Opin Biotechnol. 2020 Sep 18;66:217–226. doi: 10.1016/j.copbio.2020.08.005

Table 2.

Performance of engineered enzymes with noncanonical cofactors

Enzyme Uniprot Strategy Native
Cofactor
Noncanonical
Cofactora
Mutations CSRb RCEC RSd Source
D-lactate dehydrogenase (L. helveticus) P30901 Bibliography, Saturation, Structure NAD+ NCD+ V152R-N213E 4.3×10 2.1×10−1 9.0×102 Liu et al., 2020 [5]
V152R-I177K-N213I 4.2×10 3.1×10−1 8.8×102
Formate dehydrogenase (Pseudomonas sp. 101) P33160 Bibliography, Saturation, Structure NAD+ NCD+ V198I-C256I-P260S-E261P-S381N-S383F 1.7×102 3.7×10−2 3.5×103 Guo et al., 2020 [6]
Glucose Dehydrogenase (B. subtilis) A0A1B2ATD9 Computational, Structure NADP+ NMN+ Y34Q-A93K-I195R 6.8×10−2 1.8×10−3 4.1×104 Black et al., 2019 [9]
S17E-Y34Q-A93K-I195R 1.9×10 7.5×10−4 1.1×107
NAD+ NMN+ Y34Q-A93K-I195R 4.6 2.8×10−3 1.8×106
S17E-Y34Q-A93K-I195R 5.5×10 1.2×10−3 2.1×107
6-phospho gluconate dehydrogenase (T. maritima) A0A2N5RL69 Computational, Random, Saturation, Structure NADP+ NMN+ Mut 5-1e 1.4×10−2 1.2×10−4 4.6×103 Huang et al., 2019 [10]
Mut 6-1f 1.4×10−2 1.5×10−4 4.4×103
Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (T. maritima) A0A2N5RPI0 Computational, Random, Saturation, Structure NADP+ NMN+ A64S-R65I-T66I - - -
Phosphite dehydrogenase (Ralstonia sp. 4506) G4XDR8 Bibliography, Computational, Saturation, Structure NAD+ NCD+ I151R-P176R 2.0×10 1.3×10−1 3.4×102 Liu et al., 2019 [7]
I151R-P176R-M207A 4.5×10 9.4×10−3 7.8×102
Glucose dehydrogenase (S. solfataricus) O93715 Bibliography, Saturation, Structure NAD+ BNA+ I192T-V306G 5.5×10 6.5×10−2 5.5×102 Nowak et al., 2017 [8]
I192T-V306I 2.9×10−1 1.0×10−1 2.9×10
P2NA+ I192T-V306G 3.1 3.6×10−2 2.0×102
I192T-V306I 9.2×10−1 3.2×10−1 6.1×10
P3NA+ I192T-V306G 3.8×10 2.6×10−1 6.8×102
I192T-V306I 3.0×10−1 1.1× 10−1 5.3×10
Phosphite dehydrogenase (Ralstonia sp. 4506) G4XDR8 Bibliography NAD+ NCD+ I151R 4.3×10 1.4×10−2 5.4×102 Wang et al., 2017 [16]
P450-BM3 (B. megaterium) P14779 Bibliography, Structure NADH BNAH R966D-W1046S 1.0×10−1 9.6×10 - Lo et al., 2017 [33]
MDH R966D-W1046S 6.4×10−2 6.0×10 -
Alcohol dehydrogenase (P. furiosus) - MSAg, Structure NAD+ NMN+ K249G-H255R 1.6×10−3 4.4×10−4 1.8×102 Campbell et al., 2012 [35]
Malic enzyme (E. coli) P26616 Computational, MSA, Saturation, Structure NAD+ NFCD+ L310R 9.8×10 4.1×10−1 1.1×104 Ji et al., 2011 [53]
L310R-Q401C 2.7×102 4.5×10−1 2.9×104
NCD+ L310R 1.9×102 7.9×10−1 1.4×104
L310R-Q401C 4.3×102 7.2×10−1 3.3×104
D-lactate dehydrogenase (L. helveticus) P30901 MSA, Structure NAD+ NCFD+ V152R - - -
Malate dehydrogenase (E. coli) P61889 MSA, Structure NAD+ NCFD+ L6R - - -
Lactate dehydrogenase (B. stearothermophilus) P00344 MSA, Saturation, Structure NAD+ NMN+ C81S-N85R-F16Q - - - Flores et al., 2005 [34]
a

Full names of the noncanonical cofactors: AmNA+, 1-(2-carbamoylmethyl)-1,4-dihydronicotinamide; BNA+, 1-benzyl-1,4-dihydronicotinamide; BT+, 1-butyl-1,4-dihydronicotinamide; BE+, 1-(1-benzyl-1,4-dihydro-3-yl) ethanone; MD+, N-4-methoxybenzyl-1,4-dihydronicotinamide; MNA+, 1-methyl-1,4-dihydropyridine-3-carboxamide; NCD+, Nicotinamide cytosine dinucleotide; NCFD+, Nicotinamide flucytosine dinucleotide; NMN+, Nicotinamide mononucleotide; P2NA+, 1-phenethyl-1,4-dihydropyridine-3-carboxamide; P3NA+, 1-(3-phenylpropyl)-1,4-dihydropyridine-3-carboxamide. Reduced cofactor ends with “H”

b

CSR, Cofactor Specificity Ratio (Equation 1)

C

RCE, Relative Catalytic Efficiency (Equation 2)

d

RS, Relative Specificity (Equation 3)

e

Mut 5-1 contains A11G-K27R-R33I-T34I-F60Y-D82L-T83L-Q86L-K118N-I120F-D294V-F326S-Y383C-N387S-A447V

f

Mut 6-1 contains A11G-K27R-R33I-T34I-F60Y-D82L-T83L-Q86L-K118N-I120F-D251E-D294V-F326S-F329Y-Y383C-N387S-V390G-A447V

g

MSA, Multiple Sequence Alignment