Retuning Rieske-Type Oxygenases to Expand Substrate Range.
Mohammadi, M., Viger, J., Kumar, P., Barriault, D., Bolin, J.T., Sylvestre, M.(2011) J Biol Chem 286: 27612
- PubMed: 21653696 
- DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M111.255174
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2YFI, 2YFJ - PubMed Abstract: 
Rieske-type oxygenases are promising biocatalysts for the destruction of persistent pollutants or for the synthesis of fine chemicals. In this work, we explored pathways through which Rieske-type oxygenases evolve to expand their substrate range. BphAE(p4), a variant biphenyl dioxygenase generated from Burkholderia xenovorans LB400 BphAE(LB400) by the double substitution T335A/F336M, and BphAE(RR41), obtained by changing Asn(338), Ile(341), and Leu(409) of BphAE(p4) to Gln(338), Val(341), and Phe(409), metabolize dibenzofuran two and three times faster than BphAE(LB400), respectively ...