The application belongs to the field of bioengineering. The application provides a
molecular modification design method for improving the hydrophobicity of the catalytic center of
bacillus subtilis protease, which comprises the following steps: searching for a resolved
bacillus subtilis protease crystal structure in a
protein database PDB, generating an
enzyme-substrate complex by docking a hexapeptide substrate through a Glide mode of
software, calculating the polar charge of each
amino acid residue of polar atoms N and O and H combined thereof within a 10 angstrom range of the catalytic center
amino acid of the
bacillus subtilis protease by using a PPC force field, calculating the absolute value sum of the polar charge, selecting a potential
mutation site of the bacillus subtilis protease, virtually mutating the potential
mutation site into a large steric hindrance nonpolar
amino acid, calculating the absolute value sum of the polar charge of polar atoms N, O and H within a 10 angstrom range of the catalytic center amino acid of the single-
point mutant by using the PPC force field, selecting a virtual bacillus subtilis protease single-
point mutant, expressing the
mutant and iteratively mutating, re-expressing, obtaining a modified bacillus subtilis protease
mutant, and verifying the hydrophobicity. The
molecular modification design method can quickly and effectively reduce water molecules in the catalytic center of the bacillus subtilis protease and improve the hydrophobicity thereof. It has been verified that the
enzyme modification method is effective and reliable.