@article{Goux2023.04.11.536264,

title = {Sucrose phosphorylase from Alteromonas mediterranea: structural insight into the regioselective α-glucosylation of (+)-catechin},

author = {Marine Goux and Marie Demonceaux and Johann Hendrickx and Claude Solleux and Emilie Lormeau and Folmer Fredslund and David Tezé and Bernard Offmann and Corinne André-Miral},

url = {https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.11.536264v2},

doi = {10.1016/j.biochi.2024.01.004},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-01-09},

urldate = {2024-01-09},

journal = {Biochimie},

publisher = {Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory},

abstract = {Sucrose phosphorylases, through transglycosylation reactions, are interesting enzymes that can transfer regioselectively glucose from sucrose, the donor substrate, onto acceptors like flavonoids to form glycoconjugates and hence modulate their solubility and bioactivity. Here, we report for the first time the structure of sucrose phosphorylase from the marine bacteria Alteromonas mediterranea (AmSP) and its enzymatic properties. Kinetics of sucrose hydrolysis and transglucosylation capacities on (+)-catechin were investigated. Wild-type enzyme (AmSP-WT) displayed high hydrolytic activity on sucrose and was devoid of transglucosylation activity on (+)-catechin. Two variants, AmSP-Q353F and AmSP-P140D catalysed the regiospecific transglucosylation of (+)-catechin: 89 % of a novel compound (+)-catechin-4′-O-α-d-glucopyranoside (CAT-4′) for AmSP-P140D and 92 % of (+)-catechin-3′-O-α-d-glucopyranoside (CAT-3′) for AmSP-Q353F. The compound CAT-4′ was fully characterized by NMR and mass spectrometry. An explanation for this difference in regiospecificity was provided at atomic level by molecular docking simulations: AmSP-P140D was found to preferentially bind (+)-catechin in a mode that favours glucosylation on its hydroxyl group in position 4′ while the binding mode in AmSP-Q353F favoured glucosylation on its hydroxyl group in position 3’.},

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}

@article{demonceaux2023enzymatic,

title = {Enzymatic synthesis, characterization and molecular docking of a new functionalized polyphenol: Resveratrol-3, 4’-⍺-diglucoside},

author = {Marie Demonceaux and Marine Goux and Lucia Emanueli Schimith and Michele Goulart Dos Santos and Johann Hendrickx and Bernard Offmann and Corinne André-Miral},

url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211715623001959},

doi = {10.1016/j.rechem.2023.100956},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-05-16},

urldate = {2023-05-16},

journal = {Results in Chemistry},

pages = {100956},

publisher = {Elsevier},

abstract = {Transglucosylation of resveratrol by the Q345F variant of sucrose phosphorylase from Bifidobacterium adolescentis (BaSP) was extensively studied during the last decade. Indeed, Q345F is able to catalyze the synthesis of resveratrol-3-O-⍺-D-glucoside (RES-3) with yield up to 97% using a cost-effective glucosyl donor, sucrose (Kraus et al., Chemical Communications, 53(90), 12182–12184 (2017)). Despite the fact that two further products were detectable in low amounts after glucoside synthesis, they were never identified. Here, we isolated and fully characterized one of those two minor products: resveratrol-3,4′-O-⍺-D-diglucoside (RES-3,4′). This original compound had never been described before. Using bioinformatics models, we successfully explained the formation of this diglucosylated product. Indeed, with RES-3 as acceptor substrate, Q345F is able to transfer a glucosyl moiety in position 4′-OH, what had been reported as impossible in the literature. The low yield observed is due to the steric hindrance into the catalytic site between RES-3 and residues Tyr132 and Tyr344. Nevertheless, the substrate orientation in the active site is favored by stabilizing interactions. Ring A of RES-3 bearing the diol moiety is stabilized by hydrogen bonds with residues Asp50, Arg135, Asn347 and Arg399. Hydroxyl group OH-4′ shares hydrogen bonds with the catalytic residues Asp192 and Glu232. Multiple hydrophobic contacts complete the stabilization of the substrate to favor the glucosylation at position 4′. Understanding of the mechanisms allowing the glucosylation at position 4′ of resveratrol will help the development of enzymatic tools to target and control the enzymatic synthesis of original ⍺-glucosylated polyphenols with high added value and better biodisponibility.},

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}

@article{demonceaux2023regioselective,

title = {Regioselective glucosylation of (+)-catechin using a new variant of sucrose phosphorylase from Bifidobacterium adolescentis},

author = {Marie Demonceaux and Marine Goux and Johann Hendrickx and Claude Solleux and Frédéric Cadet and Émilie Lormeau and Bernard Offmann and Corinne André-Miral},

doi = {10.1039/D3OB00191A},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-02-22},

urldate = {2023-02-22},

journal = {Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry},

volume = {21},

number = {11},

pages = {2307--2311},

publisher = {Royal Society of Chemistry},

abstract = {Mutation Q345F in sucrose phosphorylase from Bifidobacterium adolescentis (BaSP) has shown to allow efficient (+)-catechin glucosylation yielding a regioisomeric mixture: (+)-catechin-3′-O-α-D-glucopyranoside, (+)-catechin-5-O-α-D-glucopyranoside and (+)-catechin-3′,5-O-α-D-diglucopyranoside with a ratio of 51 : 25 : 24. Here, we efficiently increased the control of (+)-catechin glucosylation regioselectivity with a new variant Q345F/P134D. The same products were obtained with a ratio of 82 : 9 : 9. Thanks to bioinformatics models, we successfully explained the glucosylation favoured at the OH-3′ position due to the mutation P134D.},

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pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Hendrickx2020,

title = {Numerous severely twisted N-acetylglucosamine conformations found in the protein databank},

author = {Johann Hendrickx and Vinh Tran and Yves-Henri Sanejouand},

doi = {10.1002/prot.25957},

issn = {10970134},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-01-01},

journal = {Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics},

volume = {88},

number = {10},

pages = {1376--1383},

abstract = {Taking advantage of the known planarity of the N-acetyl group of N-acetylglucosamine, an analysis of the quality of carbohydrate structures found in the protein databank was performed. Few obvious defects of the local geometry of the carbonyl group were observed. However, the N-acetyl group was often found in the less favorable cis conformation (12% of the cases). It was also found severely twisted in numerous instances, especially in structures with a resolution poorer than 1.9 Å determined between 2000 and 2015. Though the automated PDB-REDO procedure has proved able to improve nearly 85% of the structural models deposited to the PDB, and does prove able to cure most severely twisted conformations of the N-acetyl group, it fails to correct its high rate of cis conformations. More generally, for structures with a resolution poorer than 1.6 Å, it produces N-acetylglucosamine models in slightly poorer agreement with experimental data, as measured using real-space correlation coefficients. Significant improvements are thus still needed, at least as far as this carbohydrate structure is concerned.},

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pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Le-Bail2015,

title = {Trapping by amylose of the aliphatic chain grafted onto chlorogenic acid: Importance of the graft position},

author = {Patricia Le-Bail and C Lorentz and G Pencreac'h and S Soultani-Vigneron and B Pontoire and J.López L Giraldo and P Villeneuve and Johann Hendrickx and Vinh Tran},

url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.carbpol.2014.10.029},

doi = {10.1016/j.carbpol.2014.10.029},

issn = {01448617},

year  = {2015},

date = {2015-01-01},

journal = {Carbohydrate Polymers},

volume = {117},

pages = {910--916},

publisher = {Elsevier Ltd.},

abstract = {5-Caffeoylquinic acid (chlorogenic acid), is classified in acid-phenols family and as polyphenolic compounds it possesses antioxidant activity. The oxydative modification of chlorogenic acid in foods may lead to alteration of their qualities; to counteract these degradation effects, molecular encapsulation was used to protect chlorogenic acid. Amylose can interact strongly with a number of small molecules, including lipids. In order to enable chlorogenic acid complexation by amylose, a C16 aliphatic chain was previously grafted onto the cycle of quinic acid. This work showed that for the two lipophilic derivatives of chlorogenic acid: hexadecyl chlorogenate obtained by alkylation and 3-O-palmitoyl chlorogenic acid obtained by acylation; only the 3-O-palmitoyl chlorogenic acid complexed amylose. The chlorogenic acid derivatives were studied by X-ray diffraction, differential scanning calorimetry and NMR to elucidate the interaction. By comparing the results with previous work on the complexation of amylose by 4-O-palmitoyl chlorogenic acid, the importance of the aliphatic chain position on the cycle of the quinic acid is clearly highlighted. A study in molecular modeling helped to understand the difference in behavior relative to amylose of these three derivatives of chlorogenic acid.},

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pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Saumonneau2015a,

title = {Design of an α-l-transfucosidase for the synthesis of fucosylated HMOs},

author = {Amélie Saumonneau and Elise Champion and Pauline Peltier-Pain and Dora Molnar-Gabor and Johann Hendrickx and Vinh Tran and Markus Hederos and Gyula Dekany and Charles Tellier},

doi = {10.1093/glycob/cwv099},

issn = {14602423},

year  = {2015},

date = {2015-01-01},

journal = {Glycobiology},

volume = {26},

number = {3},

pages = {261--269},

abstract = {Human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) are recognized as benefiting breast-fed infants in multiple ways. As a result, there is growing interest in the synthesis of HMOs mimicking their natural diversity. Most HMOs are fucosylated oligosaccharides. α-l-Fucosidases catalyze the hydrolysis of α-l-fucose from the non-reducing end of a glucan. They fall into the glycoside hydrolase GH29 and GH95 families. The GH29 family fucosidases display a classic retaining mechanism and are good candidates for transfucosidase activity. We recently demonstrated that the α-l-fucosidase from Thermotoga maritima (TmαFuc) from the GH29 family can be evolved into an efficient transfucosidase by directed evolution (Osanjo et al. 2007). In this work, we developed semi-rational approaches to design an α-l-transfucosidase starting with the α-l-fucosidase from commensal bacteria Bifidobacterium longum subsp. infantis (BiAfcB, Blon-2336). Efficient fucosylation was obtained with enzyme mutants (L321P-BiAfcB and F34I/L321P-BiAfcB) enabling in vitro synthesis of lactodifucotetraose, lacto-N-fucopentaose II, lacto-N-fucopentaose III and lacto-N-difucohexaose I. The enzymes also generated more complex HMOs like fucosylated para-lacto-N-neohexaose (F-p-LNnH) and mono- or difucosylated lacto-N-neohexaose (F-LNnH-I, F-LNnH-II and DF-LNnH). It is worth noting that mutation at these two positions did not result in a strong decrease in the overall activity of the enzyme, which makes these variants interesting candidates for large-scale transfucosylation reactions. For the first time, this work provides an efficient enzymatic method to synthesize the majority of fucosylated HMOs.},

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pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}