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Testosterone (TS), an important hormone pharmaceutical and precursor for the synthesis of other steroids, istraditionally produced by a polluting and costly multistep chemical synthesis. Producing TS by a biological method is eco-friendly,while its application is still limited by its low substrate-loading, low conversion, long duration, and low time-space yield. Focusing onthese problems, a new enzyme system was constructed in which the carbonyl reductase PmCR was employed to reduce 4-androstene-3,17-dione (4-AD) into TS for thefirst time coupled with the formate dehydrogenase BstFDH_m. Based on moleculardynamics (MD) simulation, the enzyme system was upgraded by rationally designing PmCR, and the variant L136S was screenedwith a 14-fold enhanced catalytic efficiencykcat/Kmand the highest performance in 4-AD reduction. The testosterone production ofthe L136S-BstFDH_m system was further enhanced by condition optimization and competence to synthesize TS with the highestreported 4-AD loading (28.8 g/L), conversion (100%), and testosterone time-space yield (2.90 g/L/h) using a microbial method,highlighting its promising application in TS synthesis. The successful attempt in this study not only provides a promising biocatalystand efficient approach for TS green synthesis but also opens the door to the application of carbonyl reductase in the green synthesisof diverse pharmaceutical sterols
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ACS SUSTAINABLE CHEMISTRY & ENGINEERING
ISSN: 2168-0485
Year: 2022
Issue: 10
Volume: 10
Page: 3373-3382
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ESI Discipline: CHEMISTRY;
ESI HC Threshold:74
JCR Journal Grade:1
CAS Journal Grade:2
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