Specific Ligation of Two Multimeric Enzymes with Native Peptides and Immobilization with Controlled Molar Ratio

d-Amino acid oxidases (DAAOs) are flavor enzymes and have been used in resolution of racemic amino acids and manufacturing of pharmaceuticals. However, the evolved H2O2 during the catalysis has deleterious and inhibitory effects. Decomposition of the hydrogen peroxide by catalase (CAT) can eliminate the negative effects. DAAO and CAT are dimeric and tetrameric proteins, respectively. Here, the N-terminus of the DAAO subunits has been specifically ligated to the C-terminus of the CAT subunits with native peptides through intein-mediated in vivo protein splicing. The in vivo splicing has little effect on the secondary structures of the enzymes as confirmed by circular dichroism (CD) spectra, and fluorescence spectra showed that the spliced product DAAO&CAT has a higher stability than DAAO. In the spliced product DAAO&CAT, the DAAO subunits are in close proximity to the CAT subunits, facilitating immediate transfer of H2O2 from one catalytic site to the other, enabling efficient decomposition of the generate...