Cell-free protein engineering of Old Yellow Enzyme 1 from Saccharomyces pastorianus

Abstract

In protein engineering, cell-free transcription/translation of linear mutagenic DNA templates can tremendously accelerate and simplify the screening of enzyme variants. Using the RApid Parallel Protein EvaluatoR (RAPPER) protocol, we have evaluated the impact of amino acid substitutions and loop truncations on substrate specificity and stereoselectivity of Old Yellow Enzyme 1 from Saccharomyces pastorianus. Our study demonstrates the benefit of systematically assessing amino acid variations including substrate profiling to explore sequence-function space.