title: Selection and evolution of enzymes from a partially randomized non-catalytic scaffold.
abstract: Enzymes are exceptional catalysts that facilitate a wide variety of reactions under mild conditions, achieving high rate-enhancements with excellent chemo-, regio- and stereoselectivities. There is considerable interest in developing new enzymes for the synthesis of chemicals and pharmaceuticals and as tools for molecular biology. Methods have been developed for modifying and improving existing enzymes through screening, selection and directed evolution. However, the design and evolution of truly novel enzymes has relied on extensive knowledge of the mechanism of the reaction. Here we show that genuinely new enzymatic activities can be created de novo without the need for prior mechanistic information by selection from a naive protein library of very high diversity, with product formation as the sole selection criterion. We used messenger RNA display, in which proteins are covalently linked to their encoding mRNA, to select for functional proteins from an in vitro translated protein library of >10(12 )independent sequences without the constraints imposed by any in vivo step. This technique has been used to evolve new peptides and proteins that can bind a specific ligand, from both random-sequence libraries and libraries based on a known protein fold. We now describe the isolation of novel RNA ligases from a library that is based on a zinc finger scaffold, followed by in vitro directed evolution to further optimize these enzymes. The resulting ligases exhibit multiple turnover with rate enhancements of more than two-million-fold.
authors: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular Biology, and Center for Computational and Integrative Biology (CCIB), 7215 Simches Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, 185 Cambridge Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA.
authors: Burckhard
authors: B
authors: Seelig
authors: Jack W
authors: JW
authors: Szostak
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D002384:Catalysis; D019020:Directed Molecular Evolution / Q000379:methods*; D004798:Enzymes / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*; D004926:Escherichia coli; D007700:Kinetics; D008024:Ligands; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D019151:Peptide Library; D011130:RNA Ligase (ATP) / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D011897:Random Allocation; D016335:Zinc Fingers
chemical_list: D004798:Enzymes; D008024:Ligands; D019151:Peptide Library; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D011130:RNA Ligase (ATP)
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