Abstract
Methane monooxygenase (MMO), which exists in particulate (pMMO) or soluble forms (sMMO) in methanotrophic bacteria, is an industrially promising enzyme that catalyses oxidation of low-reactive methane and other carbon feedstocks into methanol and their corresponding oxidation products. However, the simple, fast and high-yield production of functionally active MMO, which has so far been unsuccessful despite diverse approaches based on either native methanotroph culture or recombinant expression systems, remains a major challenge for its industrial applications. Here we developed pMMO-mimetic catalytic protein constructs by genetically encoding the beneficial reassembly of catalytic domains of pMMO on apoferritin as a biosynthetic scaffold. This approach resulted in high-yield synthesis of stable and soluble protein constructs in Escherichia coli, which successfully retain enzymatic activity for methanol production with a turnover number comparable to that of native pMMO.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 342-353 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Nature Catalysis |
Volume | 2 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2019 Apr 1 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This study was supported by the 2015 NLRL (National Leading Research Lab.) Project (grant no. NRF (National Research Foundation Korea)-2015R1A2A1A05001861), Bio & Medical Technology Development Program (grant no. NRF‐2017M3A9F5032628), and also partly by NRF-Korea (NRF-2016R1A6A3A11933393).
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Catalysis
- Bioengineering
- Biochemistry
- Process Chemistry and Technology