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Lin Y, Chen WW, Ding B, Guo M, Liang M, Pang H, Wei YT, Huang RB, Du LQ. Highly efficient bioconversion of icariin to icaritin by whole-cell catalysis. Microb Cell Fact 2023; 22:64. [PMID: 37016390 PMCID: PMC10071772 DOI: 10.1186/s12934-023-02068-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2023] [Accepted: 03/23/2023] [Indexed: 04/06/2023] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Icaritin is an aglycone of flavonoid glycosides from Herba Epimedii. It has good performance in the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma in clinical trials. However, the natural icaritin content of Herba Epimedii is very low. At present, the icaritin is mainly prepared from flavonoid glycosides by α-L-rhamnosidases and β-glucosidases in two-step catalysis process. However, one-pot icaritin production required reported enzymes to be immobilized or bifunctional enzymes to hydrolyze substrate with long reaction time, which caused complicated operations and high costs. To improve the production efficiency and reduce costs, we explored α-L-rhamnosidase SPRHA2 and β-glucosidase PBGL to directly hydrolyze icariin to icaritin in one-pot, and developed the whole-cell catalytic method for efficient icaritin production. RESULTS The SPRHA2 and PBGL were expressed in Escherichia coli, respectively. One-pot production of icaritin was achieved by co-catalysis of SPRHA2 and PBGL. Moreover, whole-cell catalysis was developed for icariin hydrolysis. The mixture of SPRHA2 cells and PBGL cells transformed 200 g/L icariin into 103.69 g/L icaritin (yield 95.23%) in 4 h in whole-cell catalysis under the optimized reaction conditions. In order to further increase the production efficiency and simplify operations, we also constructed recombinant E. coli strains that co-expressed SPRHA2 and PBGL. Crude icariin extracts were also efficiently hydrolyzed by the whole-cell catalytic system. CONCLUSIONS Compared to previous reports on icaritin production, in this study, whole-cell catalysis showed higher production efficiency of icaritin. This study provides promising approach for industrial production of icaritin in the future.
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Affiliation(s)
- Yu Lin
- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-bioresources, Guangxi Research Center for Microbial and Enzymatic Technology, College of Life Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Daxue Road No. 100, Nanning, 530005, Guangxi, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-bioresources, Guangxi Research Center for Microbial and Enzymatic Technology, College of Life Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Daxue Road No. 100, Nanning, 530005, Guangxi, China
| | - Bo Ding
- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-bioresources, Guangxi Research Center for Microbial and Enzymatic Technology, College of Life Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Daxue Road No. 100, Nanning, 530005, Guangxi, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-bioresources, Guangxi Research Center for Microbial and Enzymatic Technology, College of Life Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Daxue Road No. 100, Nanning, 530005, Guangxi, China
| | - Meng Liang
- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-bioresources, Guangxi Research Center for Microbial and Enzymatic Technology, College of Life Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Daxue Road No. 100, Nanning, 530005, Guangxi, China
| | - Hao Pang
- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Bio-refinery, National Engineering Research Center for Non-Food Biorefinery, State Key Laboratory of Non-Food Biomass and Enzyme Technology, Guangxi Academy of Sciences, Daling Road No. 98, Nanning, 530007, Guangxi, China
| | - Yu-Tuo Wei
- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-bioresources, Guangxi Research Center for Microbial and Enzymatic Technology, College of Life Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Daxue Road No. 100, Nanning, 530005, Guangxi, China
| | - Ri-Bo Huang
- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-bioresources, Guangxi Research Center for Microbial and Enzymatic Technology, College of Life Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Daxue Road No. 100, Nanning, 530005, Guangxi, China
- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Bio-refinery, National Engineering Research Center for Non-Food Biorefinery, State Key Laboratory of Non-Food Biomass and Enzyme Technology, Guangxi Academy of Sciences, Daling Road No. 98, Nanning, 530007, Guangxi, China
| | - Li-Qin Du
- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-bioresources, Guangxi Research Center for Microbial and Enzymatic Technology, College of Life Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Daxue Road No. 100, Nanning, 530005, Guangxi, China.
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