Abstract
Bacillus proteases commonly exhibit remarkably reduced activity under cold conditions. Herein, we employed a tailored combination of a loop engineering strategy and iterative saturation mutagenesis method to engineer two loops for substrate binding at the entrance of the substrate tunnel of a protease (bcPRO) from Bacillus clausii to improve its activity under cold conditions. The variant MT6 (G95P/A96D/S99W/S101T/P127S/S126T) exhibited an 18.3-fold greater catalytic efficiency than the wild-type (WT) variant at 10 °C. Molecular dynamics simulations and dynamic tunnel analysis indicated that the introduced mutations extended the substrate-binding pocket volume and facilitated extra interactions with the substrate, promoting catalysis through binding in a more favorable conformation. This study provides insights and strategies relevant to improving the activities of proteases and supplies a novel protease with enhanced activity under cold conditions for the food industry to maintain the initial flavor and color of food and reduce energy consumption.
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