Esterification reaction lipase screening method based on covalent bond docking
By constructing acylation enzyme intermediate parameters and performing covalent docking and energy screening, the problems of long time consumption and prediction distortion in traditional screening methods are solved, realizing high-throughput screening of esterification reactions of multi-enzyme and multi-substrate combinations, and improving the accuracy and efficiency of lipase catalytic activity prediction.
Patent Information
- Authority / Receiving Office
- CN · China
- Patent Type
- Applications(China)
- Current Assignee / Owner
- Filing Date
- 2025-12-23
- Publication Date
- 2026-04-17
AI Technical Summary
Traditional experimental screening of lipase activity is time-consuming and costly. Furthermore, existing software cannot accurately simulate the covalent bond process in esterification reactions, leading to distorted predictions of esterification reaction feasibility and hindering high-throughput screening of multi-enzyme and multi-substrate combinations.
We constructed acylation enzyme intermediate parameters and achieved high-throughput prediction of lipase activity and substrate selectivity through covalent docking and energy screening. This included enzyme structure pretreatment, setting of active Ser residue parameters, acyl donor conformation and acylation enzyme intermediate parameter generation, generation of non-covalent complexes between enzyme and substrate, and simulated covalent docking.
It achieves high-throughput prediction of lipase activity and substrate selectivity, improves the screening efficiency and accuracy of esterification reactions, and can efficiently convert acetylacetonate, butyryl vinyl ester and octyl vinyl ester into the corresponding butyl esters with a conversion rate of more than 90%.
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1. A method for high-throughput screening of lipases involved in esterification reactions based on covalent bond docking, characterized in that, Including the following steps: (1) Enzyme structure pretreatment and setting of Ser residue parameters for activity Download the PDB file of the lipase to be screened from the database, extract chain A from the PDB file and remove the heteroatoms, save the clean PDB file and obtain the number of active serine residues; Download the standard serine parameter file from the Rosetta database, modify its geometric parameters and change the residue name to SRX to obtain the SRX parameter file; (2) Generation of acyl donor conformation and acylation enzyme intermediate parameter files Create substrate SIMILES files and generate SDF files. Use the Rosetta script molfile_to_params.py to process the SDF files and generate substrate params parameter files and PDB files. Open the PDB file of a single conformation using PyMOL, find the ordinal number of the carbonyl carbon atom and the atomic number of the atom bonded to the carbonyl carbon, add the virtual atom V1, the link bond between the carbonyl carbon and the virtual atom, and add the geometric parameters to the substrate parameter file to obtain the substrate parameter file. (3) Formation of non-covalent complexes between enzyme and substrate Using pymol, the clean PDB file of the lipase to be screened obtained in (1) and the single conformation PDB file obtained in (2) were extracted and saved as a complex PDB file. The active residue SER in the complex PDB file was renamed to SRX to obtain the target PDB file for covalent docking. (4) Simulated covalent docking Using the number of active serine residues obtained in step (1), the spatial coordinates of the OG atom covalently docked to the residue are found; Replace the residue name in the corresponding RESIDUE_SELECTORS section of the docking template .xml file with the substrate name; replace the corresponding spatial coordinate value in the Coordinates section of the docking template .xml file with the spatial coordinate of the OG atom, and the resulting file is the docking control file; Based on the docking control file, Rosetta is used to perform covalent docking simulation prediction between the enzyme and the substrate, outputting low-energy conformations and obtaining the total score of the covalent docking conformation. The smaller the total score, the easier the covalent binding is to occur, that is, the stronger the lipase catalytic activity.
2. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that, In step (1), the database is rcsb pdb.
3. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that, In step (1), you can use pymol or pdb-tools to extract chain A from the PDB file of the lipase to be screened, delete heteroatoms (ligands, water), and save it as a clean PDB file.
4. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that, The geometric parameters in step (1) include bond length d and angle. θ 1. Dihedral angle φ 1.
5. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that, The geometric parameters in step (2) include bond length d and angle. θ 1. Angle θ 2. Angle θ 3 and dihedral φ 1.
6. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that, In step (4), the number of low-energy conformations is ≥50.
7. The application of the method according to any one of claims 1 to 6 in screening enzymes and substrates.
8. A lipase esterification reaction prediction system, characterized in that, It includes modules for enzyme structure and active site residue geometry constraints, ligand conformation and tetrahedral geometry constraints, enzyme and substrate complexes, covalent docking, and covalent docking score ranking visualization. The enzyme structure and active site residue geometry constraint module functions as follows: Download the PDB file of the lipase to be screened from the database, extract chain A from the PDB file and remove the heteroatoms, save the clean PDB file and obtain the number of active serine residues; Download the standard serine parameter file from the Rosetta database, modify its geometric parameters and change the residue name to SRX to obtain the SRX parameter file; The ligand conformation and tetrahedral geometry constraint module functions as follows: Create substrate SIMILES files and generate SDF files. Use the Rosetta script molfile_to_params.py to process the SDF files and generate substrate params parameter files and PDB files. Open the PDB file of a single conformation using PyMOL, find the ordinal number of the carbonyl carbon atom and the atomic number of the atom bonded to the carbonyl carbon, add the virtual atom V1, the link bond between the carbonyl carbon and the virtual atom, and add the geometric parameters to the substrate parameter file to obtain the substrate parameter file. Enzyme and substrate non-covalent complex module The clean PDB file of the lipase and the PDB file of the single conformation substrate were extracted using pymol and saved as a complex PDB file. The active residue SER in the complex PDB file was renamed to SRX to obtain the target PDB file for covalent docking. The covalent docking module has the following functions: The number of active serine residues was obtained by processing the enzyme structure and active site residue geometry constraint module, and the spatial coordinates of the OG atom covalently docked to this residue were found. Replace the residue name in the corresponding RESIDUE_SELECTORS section of the docking template .xml file with the substrate name; replace the corresponding spatial coordinate value in the Coordinates section of the docking template .xml file with the spatial coordinate of the OG atom, and the resulting file is the docking control file; Rosetta was used to perform covalent docking simulations and predictions between enzymes and substrates based on docking control files. The covalent docking score ranking visualization module has the following functions: A chart is generated based on the total score of the covalent docking conformation. The smaller the total score, the easier the covalent bonding is to occur, which means the stronger the lipase catalytic activity.
9. A method for enzyme-catalyzing the conversion of vinyl acetylacetonate, vinyl butyrylate, or vinyl octanoate to the corresponding butyl ester, characterized in that, Use lipases with amino acid sequences as shown in SEQ ID NO.1~4.
10. The application of lipases with amino acid sequences as shown in SEQ ID NO. 1~4 in the preparation of ethyl acetylacetonate, vinyl butyrylate or vinyl octanoate into the corresponding butyl ester products.