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    With the increasingly serious drug resistance of Acinetobacter baumannii, there is an increasingly urgent need for new antibacterial drugs. Phage lysin PlyAB1 has a bactericidal effect on drug-resistant A. baumannii, which has the potential to replace antibiotics to fight infection caused by A. baumannii. However, its application is limited by its thermal stability and lytic activity. To solve these problems, molecular dynamics (MD) simulations combined with Hotspot wizard 3.0 were used to identify key residue sites affecting thermal stability, and evolutionary analysis combined with multiple sequence alignment was used to identify key residue sites affecting lytic activity. Four single-point variants with significantly increased thermal stability and four single-point variants with significantly lytic activity were obtained, respectively. Furthermore, by superimposing mutations, we obtained three double-point variants, G100Q/K69R, G100R/K69R, and G100K/K69R, with significantly improved thermal stability and improved lytic activity. At 45°C, the lytic activity and half-life of the optimal variant G100Q/K69R were 1.51- and 24-fold higher than those of the wild PlyAB1, respectively. These results deepen our understanding of the structure and function of phage lysin and contribute to the application of phage lysin in antibiotic substitution. © 2022 Wiley Periodicals LLC.

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    Yingbo Yuan, Qingbin Li, Shuhang Zhang, Jinhong Gu, Guangtao Huang, Qingsheng Qi, Xuemei Lu. Enhancing thermal stability and lytic activity of phage lysin PlyAB1 from Acinetobacter baumannii. Biotechnology and bioengineering. 2022 Oct;119(10):2731-2742

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