Improved thermostability of AEH by combining B-FIT analysis and structure-guided consensus method.

α-Amino ester hydrolases (AEH, E.C. 3.1.1.43) catalyze the synthesis and hydrolysis of α-amino β-lactam antibiotics. The AEH enzymes have been shown to feature excellent synthetic capability but suffer from poor thermostability. AEH from Xanthomonas campestris exhibits an optimal activity temperature of 25 °C, an observed half-life of 5 min at 30 °C, and a "T-50" value, the temperature at which the half-life is 30 min, of 27 °C. To improve the thermostability of AEH, a modified structure-guided consensus model of seven homologous enzymes was generated along with analysis of the B-values from the available crystal structures of AEH from Xanthomonas citri. A family of stabilized variants was created including a consensus-driven triple variant, A275P/N186D/V622I. Independent NNK saturation of two high B-factor sites, K34 and E143, on the triple variant resulted in our best variant, the quadruple mutant E143H/A275P/N186D/V622I, with a "T-50" value of 34 °C (7 °C improvement) and 1.3-fold activity compared to wild-type.

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