138 results about "Acyltransferase" patented technology

The present invention provides an α-amino acid ester acyltransferase mutant and its application. The α-amino acid ester acyltransferase mutant includes: (a) a protein having the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 1; (b) a protein having an amino acid mutation at at least one of the following sites in the amino acid sequence in (a): P158, K80, T208, A302, A175, N85, N605, K346, S225, I34, or S348, and having the function of an α-amino acid ester acyltransferase; or (c) a protein having more than 80% homology with the amino acid sequence defined in (a) or (b) and having the function of an α-amino acid ester acyltransferase. The α-amino acid ester acyltransferase mutant of the present invention has the advantages of a broad substrate spectrum and high catalytic activity, can be well used in the synthesis of oligopeptides, has low cost and high yield, and realizes true green chemistry.

The invention discloses an escherichia coli engineering strain with high benzyl acetate yield and application thereof. The escherichia coli strain efficiently expresses a brand new biosynthetic pathway related gene of benzyl acetate; comprising a phenylalanine lyase gene, a cinnamic acid coenzyme A ligase gene, a 3-hydroxyacyl coenzyme A dehydrogenase gene, a 3-oxoacyl coenzyme A ketohydrolase gene, an enoyl coenzyme A hydratase gene, a carboxylic acid reductase gene, a phosphoric acid pantetheinyl transferase gene and an acyltransferase gene. The obtained escherichia coli engineering strain can utilize a sustainable and cheap raw material glucose as a carbon source to realize efficient synthesis of benzyl acetate. The yield of benzyl acetate synthesized by the escherichia coli benzyl acetate engineering bacteria is the highest yield of benzyl acetate synthesized by a microbial fermentation method reported at home and abroad from beginning. The benzyl acetate produced by the engineering strain has the advantages of reliable quality, economic product, green production and the like, and has important economic value and social benefit.

Compounds and compositions comprising compounds that modulate histone acyltransferase (HAT). Methods of treating neurodegenerative disorders, conditions associated with amyloid-beta peptide deposit accumulation, Tau protein levels, and / or alpha-synuclein accumulation, and cancer by administering to a subject a compound that modulates HAT.

The invention discloses a recombinant bacterium capable of increasing the yield of alpha-bisabolol as well as a preparation method and application of the recombinant bacterium, and belongs to the technical field of microorganisms. The invention aims to improve the yield of alpha-bisabolol and enhance the tolerance of a host to an organic solvent. The invention provides a recombinant bacterium for improving the yield of alpha-bisabolol. Escherichia coli is used as a starting strain; the method comprises the following steps of: overexpressing an acetyl CoA acyltransferase / HMG-CoA reductase mvaE gene, an HMG-CoA synthetase mvaS gene, a 2-methyl citrate dehydratase prpD gene, a mevalonate kinase ERG12 gene, a mevalonate 5-phosphate kinase ERG8 gene, a mevalonate 5-diphosphate decarboxylase ERG19 gene and an isopentenyl diphosphate isomerase idi gene, so as to obtain a recombinant vector; the gene is obtained from an alpha-bisabolol synthase gene of artichoke, a farnesyl diphosphate synthase ispA gene and an alpha-bisabolol synthase CcBOS gene of artichoke. The industrial process of synthesizing alpha-bisabolol by a biological method is promoted.

The application provides a recombinant Yarrowia lipolytica capable of producing palmitoleic acid at a high yield, a construction method and application thereof, and belongs to the technical field of bioengineering. Yarrowia lipolytica The recombinant Yarrowia lipolytica is obtained by knocking out peroxisome biogenesis factor 10 and triacylglycerol lipase 4 in the genome of Yarrowia lipolytica and inserting an acetyl-CoA carboxylase, a Δ9 desaturase, an acetyl-CoA diacylglycerol acyltransferase, a glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase, a lysophosphatidylcholine acyltransferase and a phosphatidylcholine:diacylglycerol acyltransferase gene expression cassette. Experiment proves that the recombinant Yarrowia lipolytica can efficiently ferment and produce palmitoleic acid, and realizes efficient synthesis of the natural product palmitoleic acid from plants in Yarrowia lipolytica.

The present application relates to a kind of whole cell catalytic synthesis N-acetyl-trans-4-hydroxyproline method, belong to biological catalysis technical field.The present application is constructed by mutating acyltransferase and heterologous expression gene engineering bacteria, successfully realized using whole cell catalytic synthesis N-acetyl-trans-4-hydroxyproline, avoids the problem of enzyme instability, reduces the separation cost of enzyme and product.On this basis, the present application improves the yield of N-acetyl-trans-4-hydroxyproline by optimizing catalytic time, cell addition amount, the type and addition amount of additive, and the yield reaches 239mg / L.The present application is a kind of N-acetyl-trans-4-hydroxyproline preparation method with lower cost, lower equipment demand, more suitable for industrial production.

The invention relates to the field of genetic engineering and fermentation engineering, and discloses a genetically engineered bacterium for producing melatonin and application of the genetically engineered bacterium in fermentation production of melatonin. According to the invention, genes of mtrA, PTPS, SPR, PCD and DHPR of related enzymes synthesized by coding 2-amino-6-(1, 2-dihydroxypropyl)-5, 6, 7, 8-tetrahydro-4 (1H)-pterin diketone and genes of L-2-amino-3 (beta-indole) propionic acid monooxygenase, oxymethyltransferase, N-acetyltransferase and decarboxylase are co-expressed on the genetically engineered bacterium, so that the gene engineering bacterium is obtained. The strain can be used for fermentation production of melatonin, and experiments show that the yield of the strain can reach 6480 mg / L.

The present invention relates to the use of carnitine palmitoyltransferase 1 inhibitors in the treatment of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction. The use in particular is the use of the carnitine palmitoyltransferase (CPT1) inhibitor Etomoxir for the prevention and / or treatment of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction by oral administration.

The invention relates to an immobilization method and application of an alpha-amino acid ester acyltransferase immobilized enzyme, and belongs to the technical field of biological enzymes. In order to solve the problems of poor immobilization and difficulty in removing miscellaneous enzymes in the prior art, the invention provides an immobilization method of an alpha-amino acid ester acyltransferase immobilized enzyme, which comprises the following steps: under the catalytic action of a TG enzyme, carrying out enzyme protein cross-linking immobilization reaction on alpha-amino acid ester acyltransferase containing a plurality of glutamine residues and gelatin to obtain the alpha-amino acid ester acyltransferase immobilized enzyme. The immobilized alpha-amino acid ester acyltransferase immobilized enzyme is obtained. According to the present invention, the TG enzyme can well catalyze the glutamine residue and the lysine residue of the target protein to form the cross-linking reaction, and other miscellaneous enzymes are distinguished so as to avoid the reaction of the miscellaneous enzymes and gelatin, such that the good selectivity and the good specificity are provided, and the purification purpose can be easily achieved.

The invention discloses yarrowia lipolytica engineering bacteria for producing esterified astaxanthin as well as a construction method and application of the yarrowia lipolytica engineering bacteria. According to the invention, acyltransferase ScDGAT2-1 from fission vibrio is integrated in a genome of a yarrowia lipolytica engineering strain DN20, diacylglycerol acyltransferase DGA1 and phosphatidic acid phosphatase PAH1 are knocked out, and the corn oil lipoprotein Oleosin and the acyltransferase ScDGAT2-1 from fission vibrio are subjected to fusion expression, so that the yarrowia lipolytica engineering strain DN20 is obtained. According to the present invention, the Yarrowia lipolytica engineering bacterium capable of producing esterified astaxanthin at a high yield is constructed by using SBT06-005 as a raw material and integrating beta-carotene hydroxylase CrtZ, endogenous truncated 3-hydroxy3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase tHMG1, phytoene synthase CarRP and beta-isopropyl malate dehydrogenase LEU2, and the SBT06-005 can produce 166.6 mg / L esterified astaxanthin and 1097.0 mg / L total astaxanthin in a 5L fermentation tank.

The application discloses an engineering bacterium for producing N-acetyl-trans-4-hydroxyproline and application thereof and belongs to the technical field of biotechnology.The application realizes fermentation synthesis of N-acetyl-trans-4-hydroxyproline by taking proline as a substrate through mutation of acyltransferase and introduction of exogenous proline-4-hydroxylase.The application has the advantages of low production cost, short fermentation period and high strain stability and has high economic benefits.The recombinant strain constructed by the application can convert 0.5M of proline into 19.64mg / L of N-acetyl-trans-4-hydroxyproline.

The present application belongs to the technical field of quorum quenching enzyme preparation, and particularly relates to a multi-target quorum quenching enzyme preparation and a preparation method and application thereof, such as being mainly used for inhibiting the virulence factors of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and including acyl homoserine lactone acyltransferase AiiO protein and 3-hydroxy-4-oxoquinolone 2,4-dioxygenase AqdC protein, and the mass ratio of the two is 20:(1-25); such as being mainly used for inhibiting the virulence factors and the synthesis of biological membranes of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and further including deferiprone, and the mass ratio of AiiO, AqdC and deferiprone is 20:(1-25):(0.695-2.78), the present application can target the Las, Rhl and PQS of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, the yield and stability of the prepared AqdC protein are both high, the two types of enzymes are used in combination after the regulation amount, and the virulence factors regulated by different quorum sensing pathways in Pseudomonas aeruginosa are effectively inhibited; the regulation amount of deferiprone is used in combination with the two types of quorum quenching enzymes, and the virulence and biological membranes of Pseudomonas aeruginosa can be effectively inhibited in a comprehensive manner.

The invention relates to the technical field of plant growth regulation, in particular to application of berberine based on ACAA targets in resisting plant viruses and promoting plant growth. The invention reveals that berberine plays a role by specifically targeting acetyl coenzyme A acyltransferase and up-regulating the expression of the acetyl coenzyme A acyltransferase for the first time. The clear compound-target-pathway mechanism overcomes the defect that the existing plant source product mechanism is unknown. As the target spot is clear, the application dosage can be accurately controlled, so that the stability and predictability of field antiviral and growth promoting effects are ensured, and a foundation is laid for large-scale agricultural application. An ACAA target is activated by berberine, and an antiviral defense mechanism and an energy metabolism growth pathway of a plant can be synchronously started, so that the plant growth is effectively promoted while virus diseases are prevented and treated. The disease resistance-growth negative correlation problem existing in agricultural production for a long time is solved, and the dual requirements of modern agriculture for precise prevention and control and yield increase and quality improvement are met.

The invention belongs to the technical field of agricultural biology, and relates to application of glycerol acyltransferase with an amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 1 to improvement of salt tolerance of plants, and the glycerol acyltransferase is of great significance to creation of salt-tolerant plant germplasm resources and cultivation of salt-tolerant rice varieties.

The invention relates to the technical field of biology, and discloses a genetically engineered bacterium for high yield of 1, 4-butanediol and application of the genetically engineered bacterium. Escherichia coli is used as a chassis bacterium, a gene ldhA for coding lactic dehydrogenase, a gene adhE for coding ethanol dehydrogenase, a gene pflB for coding formate lyase, and a gene gabD and a gene yneI for coding succinate semialdehyde dehydrogenase are knocked out from a chassis bacterium genome, expression of a succinate semialdehyde dehydrogenase gene sucD and a 4-hydroxybutyrate dehydrogenase gene 4hbD is strengthened, a pdhR gene is knocked out, and a recombinant plasmid is obtained. The expression of the gene gltAR164L is enhanced, the gene mdh, the gene arcA, the gene poxB, the gene sdhAB and the gene ptsG are knocked out, and the expression of the glf gene and the ppc gene is enhanced; the method comprises the following steps of: transferring plasmids carrying a gene ald for coding aldehyde dehydrogenase, a gene cat2 for coding acyltransferase and a gene yqhD for coding alcohol dehydrogenase into a chassis bacterium, and carrying out metabolic transformation to obtain a genetically engineered bacterium which carries exogenous plasmids and has the capabilities of high yield and extracellular accumulation of 1, 4-BDO, so that the yield of 1, 4-BDO can be increased to 4.71 g / L.

The present invention discloses degenerate primers for identifying ethyl acetate-producing strains and their applications, belonging to the field of molecular biology. The present invention respectively designed 6 pairs of degenerate primer pairs based on the alcohol acyltransferases encoded by the functional genes ATF1 and EAT1 for ethyl acetate synthesis. By comparing the detection effectiveness, accuracy, and sensitivity of each primer pair, 2 pairs of degenerate primer pairs with significantly excellent effects were screened. Through multiplex PCR technology, it can quickly detect whether yeast and test samples have the potential to produce ethyl acetate, and can determine the gene categories responsible for ethyl acetate synthesis in the test samples.

The invention relates to a class of compounds useful as Hedgehog Acyltransferase inhibitors, as well as the treatment or prevention of diseases associated with the Hedgehog signalling pathway using the compounds of the present invention. In one aspect, the present invention provides a compound of formula (I) below.

The invention provides an engineering bacterium for producing spermidine and a preparation method of the engineering bacterium, and relates to the field of genetic engineering. According to the invention, arginine decarboxylase, aspartate kinase, aspartate-semialdehyde dehydrogenase, spermidine efflux protein (MdtI / MdtJ), carboxylaminopropyl agmatine dehydrogenase (CAPADH), carboxylaminopropyl agmatine decarboxylase (CAPADC) and aminopropyl agmatine urea hydrolase (APAUH) are subjected to overexpression in escherichia coli by using a gene engineering technology, and then the escherichia coli is subjected to enzyme deactivation, so that the escherichia coli is obtained. The genetically engineered bacterium capable of producing the spermidine can be obtained by simultaneously knocking out a spermidine transport system (PotBCAD), a spermidine-N-acetyltransferase (spermidine-N-acetyltransferase) and a homoserine dehydrogenase (homoserine dehydrogenase), so that the genetically engineered bacterium capable of producing the spermidine can be obtained. The engineering bacterium greatly reduces the production cost of spermidine, has a wide application prospect, and lays a foundation for green production of spermidine.

Disclosed are compounds of Formula I as well as pharmaceutically acceptable salts, esters, and prodrugs thereof, which are DGAT2 inhibitors. Also provided are methods of making compounds of Formula I, pharmaceutical compositions comprising compounds of Formula I, and methods of using these compounds to treat hepatic steatosis, nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), fibrosis, type-2 diabetes mellitus, obesity, hyperlipidemia, hypercholesterolemia, atherosclerosis, cognitive decline, dementia, cardiorenal diseases such as chronic kidney diseases and heart failure and related diseases and conditions, comprising administering a compound of Formula I to a patient in need thereof.

The invention provides a bis-substituted phenyl acrylamide / ester compound as well as a preparation method and application thereof. The structural formula of the compound is shown as a formula (I) or a formula (II). The compound provided by the invention can be used as a covalent inhibitor of DHHC family proteins, and inhibits proliferation, migration and invasion of tumor cells and plays an anti-tumor role by inhibiting the activity of DHHC palmitoyltransferase and blocking the palmitoylation modification process of substrate proteins. Experimental results show that the bis-substituted phenylacrylamide / ester compound has remarkable anti-proliferative activity on various tumor cells, the inhibition effect of the compound is superior to that of a positive control drug 2-BP, and the bis-substituted phenylacrylamide / ester compound has the potential of being further developed into a new generation of efficient and low-toxicity anti-tumor drugs.

The invention discloses application of a membrane-bound O-acyltransferase structural domain 7 (Mboat7) in preparation of a medicine for treating myocardial infarction, and belongs to the technical field of biology. A research result shows that in a mouse myocardial infarction model, compared with a control group mouse, the death rate of a myocardial cell specific Mboat7 gene overexpressed mouse is reduced, the infarction area is remarkably reduced, and the cardiac function is remarkably improved; the overexpressed Mboat7 gene can relieve mitochondrial damage of myocardial cells under the hypoxia condition and improve the mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation function. Particularly, overexpression of the Mboat7 gene can improve damage of mitochondria in myocardial tissues of mice suffering from myocardial infarction. The results show that Mboat7 gene overexpression can relieve myocardial damage after myocardial infarction so as to delay the progress of heart failure, and Mboat7 or an expression promoter thereof can be used for preparing the medicine for preventing, relieving and / or treating myocardial infarction.

The invention discloses ester-synthesized clostridium aerovorans as well as a construction method and application thereof, and belongs to the technical field of genetically engineered bacterium, genetically engineered clostridium aerovorans capable of synthesizing ester is constructed, a clostridium Yangtinctorii engineering strain synthesized by butanol is taken as a host, and alcohol acyltransferase ATF1 gene from saccharomyces cerevisiae is over-expressed, so that the ester-synthesized clostridium aerovorans is obtained. The clostridium Yangtsangensis genetic engineering strain capable of producing various esters is obtained; 1.4 g / L of butyl acetate can be obtained from the genetic engineering strain in serum bottle fermentation; the fermentation yield can be further increased in a 3L fermentation tank, 12.5 g / L of butyl acetate is obtained, and meanwhile, a small amount of ester compounds such as ethyl acetate, ethyl butyrate and butyl butyrate are obtained; the genetic engineering clostridium aerovorans disclosed by the invention is suitable for fermenting green gases such as synthesis gas serving as raw materials to synthesize green butyl acetate.

The present invention provides polynucleotide sequences derived from Helichrysum umbraculigerum and encoding a protein or a plurality thereof belonging to the alcohol acyltransferase (AAT) family. Further provided are an artificial nucleic acid molecule including the polynucleotide disclosed herein, a transgenic cell, tissue, or plant including same.

Methods and compositions for treating cancer e.g., liver cancer in a subject in need thereof are provided. Compositions including an effective amount of an 1-Acylglycerol-3-Phosphate O-Acyltransferase 4 (AGPAT4) inhibitor alone, or in combination with a kinase inhibitor and methods of use thereof for treating cancer are disclosed. The composition includes one or more small molecule inhibitors, inhibitory nucleic acids, or inhibitor proteins in a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. Administration of the AGPAT4 inhibitor, alone or in combination with a kinase inhibitor is effective to reduce cancer cell proliferation or viability in a subject with cancer. Methods of selecting and treating subjects with cancers, particularly liver cancer are also provided.

The present invention relates to a method for preparing a methionine analogue, comprising contacting a host cell with L-homoserine and one or more nucleophiles and cultivating said host cell and said one or more nucleophiles of (a) in a fermentation broth to produce said methionine analogue, wherein said host cell encodes and stably expresses a L-homoserine-O-acetyl-transferase (HSAT) and an O-acetyl-L-homoserine sulfhydrylase (OAHS). The present invention also relates to host cells encoding and expressing such HSAT and OAHS, as well as uses thereof for producing a methionine analogue.

The invention discloses acyl-coenzyme A synthetase in camellia oleifera and application of the acyl-coenzyme A synthetase. Relates to the technical field of enzyme engineering. The invention provides a coding gene, an amino acid sequence, a genetically engineered bacterium prepared by using the gene and an application of the genetically engineered bacterium. The acyl coenzyme A synthetase provided by the invention is a rare enzyme having activity on angelica acid, and can provide a direct substrate for cloning camellia oleifera angelica acyltransferase. The acyl coenzyme A synthetase provided by the invention has activity on angelica acid, and can also be used in the field of secondary metabolite biosynthesis.

The present invention relates to tomato plants having improved insect resistance, more specifically whitefly or mite resistance, comprising the ASAT3 gene encoding an acetyl-CoA-dependent acyltransferase enzyme and the AP2e gene encoding the APETALA2 ethylene-responsive transcription factor. The present invention further relates to methods for preparing tomato plants with improved insect resistance and to the use of the ASAT3 gene in combination with the AP2e gene to provide insect-resistant tomato plants.

The present application relates to the technical field of genetic engineering, and discloses a recombinant Escherichia coli for high-yield O-acetyl-L-homoserine and application thereof. The recombinant Escherichia coli for high-yield O-acetyl-L-homoserine is obtained by the following combination of modification strategies: in Escherichia coli W3110, a gene encoding homoserine O-acetyltransferase is integrated into a gene site encoding L-arginine ABC transporter ATP binding subunit, then a gene encoding phosphoacetyltransferase is knocked out, then a gene encoding transcriptional anti-terminator and mRNA stability regulator is knocked out, then a gene encoding ATP-NAD kinase is integrated into a gene site encoding NADPH-dependent aldehyde reductase, and finally a gene promoter of acetyl-CoA synthetase is replaced by a Ptrc promoter to obtain the recombinant Escherichia coli. The recombinant Escherichia coli is used for fermentation to produce O-acetyl-L-homoserine, and has the advantage of high yield. metx artp patz cspc ppnk yahk acs ​​​​​​​

The invention relates to the technical field of biological medicine, and discloses a binding peptide targeting a C-terminal structural domain of human AARS1 protein and application, the binding peptide comprises an amino acid sequence represented by a general formula (I) and a Val-Ala-Xaa-Xaa-Arg-His core motif, and can specifically bind to the C-terminal structural domain of the human AARS1 protein. The binding peptide and the derivative thereof block an AARS1 mediated protein lactic acid modification signal channel by inhibiting the activity of AARS1 lactoacyltransferase or inducing protein degradation through a ubiquitin-proteasome pathway. The binding peptide provided by the invention avoids an N-terminal catalytic activity center of AARS1, does not influence the protein synthesis function of normal cells while exerting antitumor activity, has relatively high affinity and safety, and can be used for preparing drugs for treating AARS1 mediated diseases such as pancreatic cancer or a diagnostic reagent for detecting AARS1.

The invention provides a transferase and a green enzymatic carnosine production method. The high-activity mutants of DmpA-2 and DmpA-6 are obtained by performing single-point or double-point mutation on the 86th site (E86V) and the 259th site (D259A) of wild type DmpA enzyme, so that the catalytic efficiency of the beta-amino acid ester acyltransferase is remarkably improved. According to the method, beta-alanine and L-histidine serve as substrates, recombinant bacteria are used for expressing mutant enzyme, carnosine is catalytically synthesized under the mild condition, the product concentration reaches 5.36 g / L and is 3.53 times that of a wild type, and the method has the advantages of being green in reaction condition, high in product purity and the like and is suitable for industrial production.