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Kumar R, Pandey B, Sen A, Ansari M, Sharma S, Rajaraman G. Role of oxidation state, ferryl-oxygen, and ligand architecture on the reactivity of popular high-valent FeIV=O species: A theoretical perspective. Coord Chem Rev 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2020.213397] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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In recent years, lipopeptides (LPs) have attracted a lot of attention in the pharmaceutical industry due to their broad-spectrum of antimicrobial activity against a variety of pathogens and their unique mode of action. This class of compounds has enormous potential for application as an alternative to conventional antibiotics and for pest control. Understanding how LPs work from a structural and biophysical standpoint through investigating their interaction with cell membranes is crucial for the rational design of these biomolecules. Various analytical techniques have been developed for studying intramolecular interactions with high resolution. However, these tools have been barely exploited in lipopeptide-lipid interactions studies. These biophysical approaches would give precise insight on these interactions. Here, we reviewed these state-of-the-art analytical techniques. Knowledge at this level is indispensable for understanding LPs activity and particularly their potential specificity, which is relevant information for safe application. Additionally, the principle of each analytical technique is presented and the information acquired is discussed. The key challenges, such as the selection of the membrane model are also been briefly reviewed. A brief overview of topics to understand the generalities of lipopeptide (LP) science. Main analytical techniques used to reveal the interaction and the distorting effect of LP on artificial membranes. Guidelines for selecting of the most adequate membrane models for the given analytical technique.
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- Sathishkumar Munusamy
- Instituto de Ciencias Físicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Av. Universidad 2001, Col. Chamilpa, 62210, Cuernavaca, Mexico
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- Centro de Investigación Sobre Enfermedades Infecciosas, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico
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- Instituto de Ciencias Físicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Av. Universidad 2001, Col. Chamilpa, 62210, Cuernavaca, Mexico
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- Instituto de Ciencias Físicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Av. Universidad 2001, Col. Chamilpa, 62210, Cuernavaca, Mexico.
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Kenawy A, Dailin DJ, Abo-Zaid GA, Malek RA, Ambehabati KK, Zakaria KHN, Sayyed RZ, El Enshasy HA. Biosynthesis of Antibiotics by PGPR and Their Roles in Biocontrol of Plant Diseases. Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria for Sustainable Stress Management 2019:1-35. [DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-6986-5_1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/02/2023]
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Peptide and protein aberrant lipidation patterns are often involved in many diseases including cancer and neurological disorders. Peptide lipidation is also a promising strategy to improve pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic profiles of peptide-based drugs. Self-adjuvanting peptide-based vaccines commonly utilise the powerful TLR2 agonist PamnCys lipid to stimulate adjuvant activity. The chemical synthesis of lipidated peptides can be challenging hence efficient, flexible and straightforward synthetic routes to access homogeneous lipid-tagged peptides are in high demand. A new technique coined Cysteine Lipidation on a Peptide or Amino acid (CLipPA) uses a 'thiol-ene' reaction between a cysteine and a vinyl ester and offers great promise due to its simplicity, functional group compatibility and selectivity. Herein a brief review of various synthetic strategies to access lipidated peptides, focusing on synthetic methods to incorporate a PamnCys motif into peptides, is provided.
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- Renata Kowalczyk
- School of Chemical Sciences, The University of Auckland, 23 Symonds St, Auckland, New Zealand
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- School of Chemical Sciences, The University of Auckland, 23 Symonds St, Auckland, New Zealand.,School of Biological Sciences, The University of Auckland, 3A Symonds St, Auckland, New Zealand.,Maurice Wilkins Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, 1010, New Zealand
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- School of Chemical Sciences, The University of Auckland, 23 Symonds St, Auckland, New Zealand.,School of Biological Sciences, The University of Auckland, 3A Symonds St, Auckland, New Zealand.,Maurice Wilkins Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, 1010, New Zealand
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- School of Chemical Sciences, The University of Auckland, 23 Symonds St, Auckland, New Zealand.,School of Biological Sciences, The University of Auckland, 3A Symonds St, Auckland, New Zealand
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- School of Chemical Sciences, The University of Auckland, 23 Symonds St, Auckland, New Zealand. .,School of Biological Sciences, The University of Auckland, 3A Symonds St, Auckland, New Zealand. .,Maurice Wilkins Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, 1010, New Zealand.
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Scaglione A, Fullone MR, Montemiglio LC, Parisi G, Zamparelli C, Vallone B, Savino C, Grgurina I. Structure of the adenylation domain Thr1 involved in the biosynthesis of 4-chlorothreonine in Streptomyces sp. OH-5093-protein flexibility and molecular bases of substrate specificity. FEBS J 2017; 284:2981-2999. [PMID: 28704585 DOI: 10.1111/febs.14163] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2016] [Revised: 05/19/2017] [Accepted: 07/10/2017] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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We determined the crystal structure of Thr1, the self-standing adenylation domain involved in the nonribosomal-like biosynthesis of free 4-chlorothreonine in Streptomyces sp. OH-5093. Thr1 shows two monomers in the crystallographic asymmetric unit with different relative orientations of the C- and N-terminal subdomains both in the presence of substrates and in the unliganded form. Cocrystallization with substrates, adenosine 5'-triphosphate and l-threonine, yielded one monomer containing the two substrates and the other in complex with l-threonine adenylate, locked in a postadenylation state. Steady-state kinetics showed that Thr1 activates l-Thr and its stereoisomers, as well as d-Ala, l- and d-Ser, albeit with lower efficiency. Modeling of these substrates in the active site highlighted the molecular bases of substrate discrimination. This work provides the first crystal structure of a threonine-activating adenylation enzyme, a contribution to the studies on conformational rearrangement in adenylation domains and on substrate recognition in nonribosomal biosynthesis. DATABASE Structural data are available in the Protein Data Bank under the accession number 5N9W and 5N9X.
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- Antonella Scaglione
- Department of Biochemical Sciences "A. Rossi Fanelli", Istituto Pasteur-Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.,Institute of Molecular Biology and Pathology, CNR - National Research Council of Italy, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Biochemical Sciences "A. Rossi Fanelli", Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
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- Department of Biochemical Sciences "A. Rossi Fanelli", Istituto Pasteur-Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.,Department of Biochemical Sciences "A. Rossi Fanelli", Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
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- Department of Biochemical Sciences "A. Rossi Fanelli", Istituto Pasteur-Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.,Institute of Molecular Biology and Pathology, CNR - National Research Council of Italy, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Biochemical Sciences "A. Rossi Fanelli", Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
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- Department of Biochemical Sciences "A. Rossi Fanelli", Istituto Pasteur-Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.,Department of Biochemical Sciences "A. Rossi Fanelli", Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
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- Institute of Molecular Biology and Pathology, CNR - National Research Council of Italy, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Biochemical Sciences "A. Rossi Fanelli", Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
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Agarwal V, Miles ZD, Winter JM, Eustáquio AS, El Gamal AA, Moore BS. Enzymatic Halogenation and Dehalogenation Reactions: Pervasive and Mechanistically Diverse. Chem Rev 2017; 117:5619-5674. [PMID: 28106994 PMCID: PMC5575885 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.6b00571] [Citation(s) in RCA: 235] [Impact Index Per Article: 33.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Naturally produced halogenated compounds are ubiquitous across all domains of life where they perform a multitude of biological functions and adopt a diversity of chemical structures. Accordingly, a diverse collection of enzyme catalysts to install and remove halogens from organic scaffolds has evolved in nature. Accounting for the different chemical properties of the four halogen atoms (fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine) and the diversity and chemical reactivity of their organic substrates, enzymes performing biosynthetic and degradative halogenation chemistry utilize numerous mechanistic strategies involving oxidation, reduction, and substitution. Biosynthetic halogenation reactions range from simple aromatic substitutions to stereoselective C-H functionalizations on remote carbon centers and can initiate the formation of simple to complex ring structures. Dehalogenating enzymes, on the other hand, are best known for removing halogen atoms from man-made organohalogens, yet also function naturally, albeit rarely, in metabolic pathways. This review details the scope and mechanism of nature's halogenation and dehalogenation enzymatic strategies, highlights gaps in our understanding, and posits where new advances in the field might arise in the near future.
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- Vinayak Agarwal
- Center for Oceans and Human Health, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego
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- College of Pharmacy, Department of Medicinal Chemistry & Pharmacognosy and Center for Biomolecular Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago
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- Center for Oceans and Human Health, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego
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- Center for Oceans and Human Health, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego
- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego
- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego
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Zhu Q, Hillwig ML, Doi Y, Liu X. Aliphatic Halogenase Enables Late-Stage C-H Functionalization: Selective Synthesis of a Brominated Fischerindole Alkaloid with Enhanced Antibacterial Activity. Chembiochem 2016; 17:466-70. [PMID: 26749394 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.201500674] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2015] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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The anion promiscuity of a newly discovered standalone aliphatic halogenase WelO5 was probed and enabled the selective synthesis of 13R-bromo-12-epi-fischerindole U via late-stage enzymatic functionalization of an unactivated sp(3) C-H bond. Pre-saturating the WelO5 active site with a non-native bromide anion was found to be critical to the highly selective in vitro transfer of bromine, instead of chlorine, to the target carbon center and also allowed the relative binding affinity of bromide and chloride towards the WelO5 enzyme to be assessed. This study further revealed the critical importance of halogen substitution on modulating the antibiotic activity of fischerindole alkaloids and highlights the promise of WelO5-type aliphatic halogenases as enzymatic tools to fine-tune the bioactivity of complex natural products.
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- Qin Zhu
- Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, 219 Parkman Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15260, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, 219 Parkman Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15260, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 3550 Terrace St, Pittsburgh, PA, 15261, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, 219 Parkman Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15260, USA.
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We employ error-corrected density functional theory methods to map out the dependence of reactivity on substrate position for SyrB2, a member of a family of non-heme iron halogenases and hydroxylases that are only reactive toward amino acid substrates delivered via prosthetic phosphopantetheine arms. For the initial hydrogen abstraction step, the inherent flexibility of the phosphopantetheine molecule weakens the position dependence for both the native substrate (threonine for SyrB2) and alternative substrates. Over a 5 Å window of substrate positions, the tethered hydrogen abstraction step proceeds with nearly identical activation energies and donor-acceptor distances in the transition state. The propensity of a particular substrate toward halogenation or hydroxylation is found to depend strongly on the substrate placement following hydrogen abstraction, with deeper substrate delivery into the active (for native substrates) site favoring halogenation and shallower substrate delivery favoring hydroxylation.
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- Heather J Kulik
- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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Fullone MR, Paiardini A, Miele R, Marsango S, Gross DC, Omura S, Ros-Herrera E, Bonaccorsi di Patti MC, Laganà A, Pascarella S, Grgurina I. Insight into the structure-function relationship of the nonheme iron halogenases involved in the biosynthesis of 4-chlorothreonine - Thr3 fromStreptomycessp. OH-5093 and SyrB2 fromPseudomonas syringaepv.syringaeB301DR. FEBS J 2012; 279:4269-82. [DOI: 10.1111/febs.12017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2012] [Revised: 09/15/2012] [Accepted: 09/19/2012] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Maria Rosaria Fullone
- Department of Biochemical Sciences ‘A. Rossi Fanelli’; Sapienza University of Rome; Italy
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- Department of Biochemical Sciences ‘A. Rossi Fanelli’; Sapienza University of Rome; Italy
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- Department of Biochemical Sciences ‘A. Rossi Fanelli’; Sapienza University of Rome; Italy
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- Department of Biochemical Sciences ‘A. Rossi Fanelli’; Sapienza University of Rome; Italy
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- Department of Plant Pathology & Microbiology; Texas A&M University; College Station; TX; USA
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- Kitasato Institute for Life Sciences; Kitasato University; Tokyo; Japan
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- Department of Biochemical Sciences ‘A. Rossi Fanelli’; Sapienza University of Rome; Italy
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- Department of Chemistry; Sapienza University of Rome; Italy
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- Department of Biochemical Sciences ‘A. Rossi Fanelli’; Sapienza University of Rome; Italy
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- Department of Biochemical Sciences ‘A. Rossi Fanelli’; Sapienza University of Rome; Italy
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Quesne MG, de Visser SP. Regioselectivity of substrate hydroxylation versus halogenation by a nonheme iron(IV)–oxo complex: possibility of rearrangement pathways. J Biol Inorg Chem 2012; 17:841-52. [DOI: 10.1007/s00775-012-0901-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2012] [Accepted: 04/24/2012] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Tailoring enzymes catalyze reactions that modify natural product backbone structures before, during, or after their biosynthesis to create a final product with specific biological activities. Such reactions can be catalyzed by a myriad of different enzyme families and are responsible for a wide variety of transformations including regio- and/or stereospecific acylation, alkylation, glycosylation, halogenation, and oxidation. Within a broad group of oxidative tailoring enzymes, there is a rapidly growing family of nonheme iron- and oxygen-dependent enzymes that catalyze a variety of remarkable hydroxylation, desaturation, halogenation, and oxidative cyclization reaction in the biosynthesis of several important metabolites, including carbapenems, penicillins, cephalosporins, clavams, prodiginines, fosfomycin, syringomycin, and coronatine. In this chapter, we report an expedient method for analyzing tailoring enzymes that catalyze oxidative cyclization reactions in prodiginine biosynthesis via expression of the corresponding genes in a heterologous host, feeding of putative biosynthetic intermediates to the resulting strains, and liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry analyses of the metabolites produced.
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- Paulina K Sydor
- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
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Le CN, Kruijt M, Raaijmakers JM. Involvement of phenazines and lipopeptides in interactions between Pseudomonas species and Sclerotium rolfsii, causal agent of stem rot disease on groundnut. J Appl Microbiol 2011; 112:390-403. [PMID: 22121884 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2672.2011.05205.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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AIMS To determine the role of phenazines (PHZ) and lipopeptide surfactants (LPs) produced by Pseudomonas in suppression of stem rot disease of groundnut, caused by the fungal pathogen Sclerotium rolfsii. METHODS AND RESULTS In vitro assays showed that PHZ-producing Pseudomonas chlororaphis strain Phz24 significantly inhibited hyphal growth of S. rolfsii and suppressed stem rot disease of groundnut under field conditions. Biosynthesis and regulatory mutants of Phz24 deficient in PHZ production were less effective in pathogen suppression. Pseudomonas strains SS101, SBW25 and 267, producing viscosin or putisolvin-like LPs, only marginally inhibited hyphal growth of S. rolfsii and did not suppress stem rot disease. In contrast, Pseudomonas strain SH-C52, producing the chlorinated LP thanamycin, inhibited hyphal growth of S. rolfsii and significantly reduced stem rot disease of groundnut in nethouse and field experiments, whereas its thanamycin-deficient mutant was less effective. CONCLUSIONS Phenazines and specific lipopeptides play an important role in suppression of stem rot disease of groundnut by root-colonizing Pseudomonas strains. SIGNIFICANCE AND IMPACT OF THE STUDY Pseudomonas strains Phz24 and SH-C52 showed significant control of stem rot disease. Treatment of seeds or soil with these strains provides a promising supplementary strategy to control stem rot disease of groundnut.
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- C N Le
- Laboratory of Phytopathology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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Anselmi M, Eliseo T, Zanetti-Polzi L, Fullone MR, Fogliano V, Di Nola A, Paci M, Grgurina I. Structure of the lipodepsipeptide syringomycin E in phospholipids and sodium dodecylsulphate micelle studied by circular dichroism, NMR spectroscopy and molecular dynamics. Biochim Biophys Acta 2011; 1808:2102-10. [PMID: 21658366 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2011.04.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2010] [Revised: 04/22/2011] [Accepted: 04/25/2011] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Syringomycin E (SRE) is a member of a family of lipodepsipeptides that characterize the secondary metabolism of the plant-associated bacteria Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae. It displays phytotoxic, antifungal and haemolytic activities, due to the membrane interaction and ion channel formation. To gain an insight into the conformation of SRE in the membrane environment, we studied the conformation of SRE bound to SDS micelle, a suitable model for the membrane-bound SRE. In fact, highly similar circular dichroism (CD) spectra were obtained for SRE bound to sodium dodecylsulphate (SDS) and to a phospholipid bilayer, indicating the conformational equivalence of SRE in these two media, at difference with the CD spectrum of SRE in water solution. The structure of SDS-bound SRE was determined by NMR spectroscopy combined with molecular dynamics calculations in octane environment. The results of this study highlight the influence of the interaction with lipids in determining the three-dimensional structure of SRE and provide the basis for further investigations on structural determinants of syringomycin E-membrane interaction.
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Raaijmakers JM, De Bruijn I, Nybroe O, Ongena M. Natural functions of lipopeptides fromBacillusandPseudomonas: more than surfactants and antibiotics. FEMS Microbiol Rev 2010; 34:1037-62. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6976.2010.00221.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 719] [Impact Index Per Article: 51.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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We present here a computational study of reactions at a model complex of the SyrB2 enzyme active site. SyrB2, which chlorinates L-threonine in the syringomycin biosynthetic pathway, belongs to a recently discovered class of alpha-ketoglutarate (alphaKG), non-heme Fe(II)-dependent halogenases that share many structural and chemical similarities with hydroxylases. Namely, halogenases and hydroxylases alike decarboxylate the alphaKG co-substrate, facilitating formation of a high-energy ferryl-oxo intermediate that abstracts a hydrogen from the reactant complex. The reaction mechanisms differ at this point, and mutation of active site residues (Asp for the hydroxylase to Ala or Ala to Asp/Glu for halogenase) fails to reproduce hydroxylating activity in SyrB2 or halogenating activity in similar hydroxylases. Using a density functional theory approach with a recently implemented Hubbard U correction for accurate treatment of transition-metal chemistry, we explore probable reaction pathways and mechanisms via a model complex consisting of only the iron center and its direct ligands. We show that the first step, alphaKG decarboxylation, is barrierless and exothermic, but the subsequent hydrogen abstraction step has an energetic barrier consistent with that accessible under biological conditions. In the model complex we use, radical chlorination is barrierless and exothermic, whereas the analogous hydroxylation is found to have a small energetic barrier. The hydrogen abstraction and radical chlorination steps are strongly coupled: the barrier for the hydrogen abstraction step is reduced when carried out concomitantly with the exothermic chlorination step. Our work suggests that the lack of chlorination in mutant hydroxylases is most likely due to poor binding of chlorine in the active site, whereas mutant halogenases do not hydroxylate for energetic reasons. Although secondary shell residues undoubtedly modulate the overall reactivity and binding of relevant substrates, we show that a small model compound consisting exclusively of the direct ligands to the metal can help explain reactivity heretofore not yet understood in the halogenase SyrB2.
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- Heather J Kulik
- Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
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CytC3, a member of the recently discovered class of nonheme Fe(II) and α-ketoglutarate (αKG)-dependent halogenases, catalyzes the double chlorination of l-2-aminobutyric acid (Aba) to produce a known Streptomyces antibiotic, γ,γ-dichloroaminobutyrate. Unlike the majority of the Fe(II)-αKG-dependent enzymes that catalyze hydroxylation reactions, halogenases catalyze a transfer of halides. To examine the important enzymatic features that discriminate between chlorination and hydroxylation, the crystal structures of CytC3 both with and without αKG/Fe(II) have been solved to 2.2 Å resolution. These structures capture CytC3 in an open active site conformation, in which no chloride is bound to iron. Comparison of the open conformation of CytC3 with the closed conformation of another nonheme iron halogenase, SyrB2, suggests two important criteria for creating an enzyme-bound Fe—Cl catalyst: (1) the presence of a hydrogen-bonding network between the chloride and surrounding residues, and (2) the presence of a hydrophobic pocket in which the chloride resides.
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- Cintyu Wong
- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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Fiore A, Laparra JM, Farrè R, Fullone MR, Grgurina I, Gallo M, Fogliano V. Lipodepsipeptides from Pseudomonas syringae are partially proteolyzed and are not absorbed by humans: an in vitro study. J Food Prot 2008; 71:979-85. [PMID: 18522033 DOI: 10.4315/0362-028x-71.5.979] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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There are some concerns about the use of Pseudomonas-based products as biocontrol agents because of the hemolytic activity shown by their metabolites. The effects of Pseudomonas lipodepsipeptides (LDPs) on mammals via ingestion and the LDP degradation during the digestion and intestinal permeability have not been evaluated. In this research, the susceptibility of different LDPs to degradation was assayed with enzymatic gastrointestinal digestion, and intestinal permeability to LDPs was investigated in an in vitro system based on an intestinal cell layer system. Results demonstrated that trypsin and chymotrypsin hydrolyze up to 50% of the various LDPs, and that proteolysis was further increased by pronase E treatment. A decrease in LDP hemolytic activity matched LDP degradation during the various steps of the digestion process. Moreover, it was shown that syringomycin E (SRE), the main known LDP, was not able to cross the intestinal cell layer, suggesting that SRE does not reach the bloodstream in vivo. It was concluded that the Pseudomonas-based biocontrol products do not represent a serious risk for consumer health. In fact, LDPs possibly present on biocontrol-treated agricultural commodities would likely be partially digested by gastrointestinal enzymes and would not be absorbed at the intestinal level.
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- A Fiore
- Dipartimento di Scienza degli Alimenti, Università di Napoli Federico II, Parco Gussone, Edificio 84, 80055 Portici, Naples, Italy
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Skepper CK, Molinski TF. Long-Chain 2H-Azirines with Heterogeneous Terminal Halogenation from the Marine Sponge Dysidea fragilis. J Org Chem 2008; 73:2592-7. [DOI: 10.1021/jo702435s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Colin K. Skepper
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, MC0358, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, MC0358, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093
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Noack H, Siegbahn PEM. Theoretical investigation on the oxidative chlorination performed by a biomimetic non-heme iron catalyst. J Biol Inorg Chem 2007; 12:1151-62. [PMID: 17701061 DOI: 10.1007/s00775-007-0284-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2007] [Accepted: 07/31/2007] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The present study is a part of an effort to understand the mechanism of the oxidative chlorination, as performed by a biomimetic non-heme iron complex. This catalytically active complex is generated from a peroxide and [(TPA)Fe(III)Cl(2)]+ [TPA is tris(2-pyridylmethyl)amine]. The reaction catalyzed by [(TPA)FeCl(2)]+/ROOH involves either [(TPA)ClFe(V)=O](2+) or [(TPA)ClFe(IV)=O]+ as an intermediate. On the basis of density functional theory the reaction of these two possible catalysts with cyclohexane is investigated. A question addressed is how the competing hydroxylation of the substrate is avoided. It is demonstrated that the high-valent iron complex [(TPA)Cl-Fe(V)=O](2+) is capable of stereospecific alkane chlorination, based on an ionic rather than on a radical pathway. In contrast, the results found for [(TPA)ClFe(IV)=O]+ cannot explain the experimental findings. In this case the transition states for chlorination and hydroxylation are energetically too close. The exclusive chlorination of the substrate by Cl-Fe(IV)=O may be explained by an indirect or a direct effect, altering the position of the competing rebound barriers.
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- Holger Noack
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
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Singh GM, Vaillancourt FH, Yin J, Walsh CT. Characterization of SyrC, an Aminoacyltransferase Shuttling Threonyl and Chlorothreonyl Residues in the Syringomycin Biosynthetic Assembly Line. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007; 14:31-40. [PMID: 17254950 DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2006.11.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2006] [Revised: 10/27/2006] [Accepted: 11/03/2006] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Syringomycin, a lipopeptidolactone assembled from nine amino acid monomers by four enzymes, SyrB1, SyrB2, SyrC, and SyrE, is a cyclic nonribosomal peptide made by plant-associated Pseudomonas spp. This assembly is unusual because the terminal residue, 4-chlorothreonine, has been proposed to be added in trans since the ninth module of the megasynthetase SyrE lacks an adenylation domain required for Thr/Cl-Thr activation. SyrC is now identified as a Thr/Cl-Thr aminoacyltransferase, shuttling the Thr/Cl-Thr moiety between the pantetheinyl arms of the thiolation domain of SyrB1 and the thiolation domain in module nine of SyrE. SyrC uses Cys224 as a catalytic nucleophile to generate a Thr/Cl-Thr-S-enzyme intermediate during transfer. SyrC joins a growing family of such aminoacyl-shuttling enzymes that also use covalent catalysis to move aminoacyl groups from carrier proteins during coumermycin and coronamic acid biosynthesis.
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- Gitanjali M Singh
- Department of Biological Chemistry & Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Frédéric H Vaillancourt
- Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, 240 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Raaijmakers JM, de Bruijn I, de Kock MJD. Cyclic lipopeptide production by plant-associated Pseudomonas spp.: diversity, activity, biosynthesis, and regulation. Mol Plant Microbe Interact 2006; 19:699-710. [PMID: 16838783 DOI: 10.1094/mpmi-19-0699] [Citation(s) in RCA: 239] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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Cyclic lipopeptides (CLPs) are versatile molecules produced by a variety of bacterial genera, including plant-associated Pseudomonas spp. CLPs are composed of a fatty acid tail linked to a short oligopeptide, which is cyclized to form a lactone ring between two amino acids in the peptide chain. CLPs are very diverse both structurally and in terms of their biological activity. The structural diversity is due to differences in the length and composition of the fatty acid tail and to variations in the number, type, and configuration of the amino acids in the peptide moiety. CLPs have received considerable attention for their antimicrobial, cytotoxic, and surfactant properties. For plant-pathogenic Pseudomonas spp., CLPs constitute important virulence factors, and pore formation, followed by cell lysis, is their main mode of action. For the antagonistic Pseudomonas sp., CLPs play a key role in antimicrobial activity, motility, and biofilm formation. CLPs are produced via nonribosomal synthesis on large, multifunctional peptide synthetases. Both the structural organization of the CLP synthetic templates and the presence of specific domains and signature sequences within peptide synthetase genes will be described for both pathogenic and antagonistic Pseudomonas spp. Finally, the role of various genes and regulatory mechanisms in CLP production by Pseudomonas spp., including two-component regulation and quorum sensing, will be discussed in detail.
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- Jos M Raaijmakers
- Laboratory of Phytopathology, Wageningen University, The Netherlands.
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Blasiak LC, Vaillancourt FH, Walsh CT, Drennan CL. Crystal structure of the non-haem iron halogenase SyrB2 in syringomycin biosynthesis. Nature 2006; 440:368-71. [PMID: 16541079 DOI: 10.1038/nature04544] [Citation(s) in RCA: 259] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2005] [Accepted: 12/22/2005] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Non-haem Fe(II)/alpha-ketoglutarate (alphaKG)-dependent enzymes harness the reducing power of alphaKG to catalyse oxidative reactions, usually the hydroxylation of unactivated carbons, and are involved in processes such as natural product biosynthesis, the mammalian hypoxic response, and DNA repair. These enzymes couple the decarboxylation of alphaKG with the formation of a high-energy ferryl-oxo intermediate that acts as a hydrogen-abstracting species. All previously structurally characterized mononuclear iron enzymes contain a 2-His, 1-carboxylate motif that coordinates the iron. The two histidines and one carboxylate, known as the 'facial triad', form one triangular side of an octahedral iron coordination geometry. A subclass of mononuclear iron enzymes has been shown to catalyse halogenation reactions, rather than the more typical hydroxylation reaction. SyrB2, a member of this subclass, is a non-haem Fe(II)/alphaKG-dependent halogenase that catalyses the chlorination of threonine in syringomycin E biosynthesis. Here we report the structure of SyrB2 with both a chloride ion and alphaKG coordinated to the iron ion at 1.6 A resolution. This structure reveals a previously unknown coordination of iron, in which the carboxylate ligand of the facial triad is replaced by a chloride ion.
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- Leah C Blasiak
- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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Bassarello C, Lazzaroni S, Bifulco G, Lo Cantore P, Iacobellis NS, Riccio R, Gomez-Paloma L, Evidente A. Tolaasins A--E, five new lipodepsipeptides produced by Pseudomonas tolaasii. J Nat Prod 2004; 67:811-816. [PMID: 15165142 DOI: 10.1021/np0303557] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Pseudomonas tolaasii, the causal organism of brown blotch disease of Agaricus bisporus and of the yellowing of Pleurotus ostreatus, was shown to produce in culture tolaasin I (1), tolaasin II (2), and five other minor metabolites, tolaasins A, B, C, D, and E (3-7). These compounds were demonstrated to be important in the development of the disease symptoms. This paper reports on the structural elucidation, based essentially on NMR studies and MS spectra, and biological activity of the above lipodepsipeptides (3-7). All the above analogues showed differences in the peptide moiety, as observed in other lipodepsipeptides of bacterial origin, and maintained the beta-hydroxyoctanoyl phi chain at the N-terminus, except tolaasin A, in which the acyl moiety was a gamma-carboxybutanoyl phi moiety. Among the target microorganisms used (fungi, yeast, and bacteria) the Gram-positive bacteria were the most sensitive, although the antimicrobial activity appeared to be correlated to the structural modification in the different analogues. The structure-activity relationships of these toxins are discussed.
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- Carla Bassarello
- Dipartimento di Scienze Farmaceutiche, Università di Salerno, Fisciano, Italy
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Grgurina I, Mariotti F, Fogliano V, Gallo M, Scaloni A, Iacobellis NS, Lo Cantore P, Mannina L, van Axel Castelli V, Greco ML, Graniti A. A new syringopeptin produced by bean strains of Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae. Biochim Biophys Acta 2002; 1597:81-9. [PMID: 12009406 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-4838(02)00283-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Two strains (B728a and Y37) of the phytopathogenic bacterium Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae isolated from bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) plants were shown to produce in culture both syringomycin, a lipodepsinonapeptide secreted by the majority of the strains of the bacterium, and a new form of syringopeptin, SP(22)Phv. The structure of the latter metabolite was elucidated by the combined use of mass spectrometry (MS), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and chemical procedures. Comparative phytotoxic and antimicrobial assays showed that SP(22)Phv did not differ substantially from the previously characterized syringopeptin 22 (SP(22)) as far as toxicity to plants was concerned, but was less active in inhibiting the growth of the test fungi Rhodotorula pilimanae and Geotrichum candidum and of the Gram-positive bacterium Bacillus megaterium.
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- Ingeborg Grgurina
- Dipartimento di Scienze Biochimiche A. Rossi-Fanelli, Università di Roma La Sapienza, P.le A. Moro, 5, 00185 Rome, Italy.
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Agner G, Kaulin YA, Schagina LV, Takemoto JY, Blasko K. Effect of temperature on the formation and inactivation of syringomycin E pores in human red blood cells and bimolecular lipid membranes. Biochim Biophys Acta 2000; 1466:79-86. [PMID: 10825433 DOI: 10.1016/s0005-2736(00)00173-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The effects of temperature on the formation and inactivation of syringomycin E (SRE) pores were investigated with human red blood cells (RBCs) and lipid bilayer membranes (BLMs). SRE enhanced the RBC membrane permeability of 86Rb and monomeric hemoglobin in a temperature dependent manner. The kinetics of 86Rb and hemoglobin effluxes were measured at different temperatures and pore formation was found to be only slightly affected, while inactivation was strongly influenced by temperature. At 37 degrees C, SRE pore inactivation began 15 min after and at 20 degrees C, 40 min after SRE addition. At 6 degrees C, below the phase transition temperature of the major lipid components of the RBC membrane, no inactivation occurred for as long as 90 min. With BLMs, SRE induced a large current that remained stable at 14 degrees C, but at 23 degrees C it decreased over time while the single channel conductance and dwell time did not change. The results show that the temperature dependent inactivation of SRE pores is due to a decrease in the number of open pores.
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- G Agner
- Institute of Biophysics and Radiation Biology, Semmelweis University of Medicine, Bupapest VIII, Budapest, Hungary
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Grgurina I, Mariotti F. Biosynthetic origin of syringomycin and syringopeptin 22, toxic secondary metabolites of the phytopathogenic bacterium Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae. FEBS Lett 1999; 462:151-4. [PMID: 10580109 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(99)01528-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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The biosynthesis of syringomycin (SR) and syringopeptin 22 (SP22), bioactive lipodepsipeptides of the phytopathogenic bacterium Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae, was studied by feeding (14)C-labeled precursors to chloramphenicol-containing bacterial suspensions. The preferential sites of incorporation were determined by comparing the specific activities of the intact radiolabeled metabolites and their single structural elements, obtained by hydrolytic degradation followed by derivatization and isolation by high performance liquid chromatography. The results show that, upon feeding L-[(14)C(U)]-Thr, 35.0 and 31.0% of the SR radioactivity is retained in 2,3-dehydro-2-aminobutyric acid (Dhb) and 4-chlorothreonine (Thr(4-Cl)), respectively. L-[(14)C(U)]-Asp labels the same sites, though less efficiently, and is also incorporated in 2,4-diaminobutyric acid (Dab) and 3-hydroxyaspartic acid (Asp(3-OH)). Dhb is also labeled by Thr and Asp in SP22. These are the first data on the biosynthetic origin of the modified residues in P. syringae lipopeptides.
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- I Grgurina
- Dipartimento di Scienze Biochimiche 'A. Rossi Fanelli', Università 'La Sapienza' di Roma, P. le A. Moro 5, 00185, Roma, Italy.
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Bender CL, Alarcón-Chaidez F, Gross DC. Pseudomonas syringae phytotoxins: mode of action, regulation, and biosynthesis by peptide and polyketide synthetases. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev 1999; 63:266-92. [PMID: 10357851 PMCID: PMC98966 DOI: 10.1128/mmbr.63.2.266-292.1999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 516] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Coronatine, syringomycin, syringopeptin, tabtoxin, and phaseolotoxin are the most intensively studied phytotoxins of Pseudomonas syringae, and each contributes significantly to bacterial virulence in plants. Coronatine functions partly as a mimic of methyl jasmonate, a hormone synthesized by plants undergoing biological stress. Syringomycin and syringopeptin form pores in plasma membranes, a process that leads to electrolyte leakage. Tabtoxin and phaseolotoxin are strongly antimicrobial and function by inhibiting glutamine synthetase and ornithine carbamoyltransferase, respectively. Genetic analysis has revealed the mechanisms responsible for toxin biosynthesis. Coronatine biosynthesis requires the cooperation of polyketide and peptide synthetases for the assembly of the coronafacic and coronamic acid moieties, respectively. Tabtoxin is derived from the lysine biosynthetic pathway, whereas syringomycin, syringopeptin, and phaseolotoxin biosynthesis requires peptide synthetases. Activation of phytotoxin synthesis is controlled by diverse environmental factors including plant signal molecules and temperature. Genes involved in the regulation of phytotoxin synthesis have been located within the coronatine and syringomycin gene clusters; however, additional regulatory genes are required for the synthesis of these and other phytotoxins. Global regulatory genes such as gacS modulate phytotoxin production in certain pathovars, indicating the complexity of the regulatory circuits controlling phytotoxin synthesis. The coronatine and syringomycin gene clusters have been intensively characterized and show potential for constructing modified polyketides and peptides. Genetic reprogramming of peptide and polyketide synthetases has been successful, and portions of the coronatine and syringomycin gene clusters could be valuable resources in developing new antimicrobial agents.
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- C L Bender
- Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma 74078-3032, USA.
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Guenzi E, Galli G, Grgurina I, Gross DC, Grandi G. Characterization of the syringomycin synthetase gene cluster. A link between prokaryotic and eukaryotic peptide synthetases. J Biol Chem 1998; 273:32857-63. [PMID: 9830033 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.273.49.32857] [Citation(s) in RCA: 163] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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With this work we have completed the characterization of the syringomycin synthetase gene cluster. In particular, by sequencing additional 28.5 kilobase pairs we show that the nine modules involved in the binding of the nine amino acids of syringomycin are localized on SyrB and SyrE, with SyrE carrying eight modules. The recombinant SyrB and the first and second modules of SyrE (SyrE1 and SyrE2) have been expressed in Escherichia coli and purified. The biochemical data indicate that SyrB binds threonine, the putative precursor of the last amino acid of syringomycin, whereas SyrE1 and SyrE2 bind serine, the first and the second amino acids of syringomycin, respectively. On the basis of the sequence analysis and the biochemical data presented here, it appears that syringomycin synthetase is unique among peptide synthetases in that its genetic organization does not respect the "colinearity rule" according to which the order of the amino acid binding modules along the chromosome parallels the order of the amino acids on the peptide. This feature, together with the absence of a single transcription unit and the absence of epimerase-like domains make syringomycin synthetase more related to the eukaryotic peptide synthetases than to the bacterial counterparts.
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- E Guenzi
- Department of Molecular Biology, Chiron S.p.A., Via Fiorentina, 1 53100 Siena, Italy
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Blasko K, Schagina LV, Agner G, Kaulin YA, Takemoto JY. Membrane sterol composition modulates the pore forming activity of syringomycin E in human red blood cells. Biochim Biophys Acta 1998; 1373:163-9. [PMID: 9733959 DOI: 10.1016/s0005-2736(98)00101-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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The effect of lipopeptide antifungal agent, syringomycin E (SRE) on the membrane permeability of human red blood cells (RBCs) was studied. SRE added to RBCs above a concentration of 2x106 molecules/cell (50 microgram/ml RBCs) caused a rapid and concentration dependent lysis of a small subpopulation of RBCs; the extent of this lysis remained unchanged as long as 100 min. During this time period the membranes of the unlysed cells had enhanced permeability for ions which was monitored by direct measurement of 86Rb flux. Both the extent of cell lysis and ion transport rate showed linear relationships with SRE concentration demonstrating a random distribution of SRE molecules in red blood cells. The kinetics of the 86Rb efflux suggested pore formation by syringomycin E. The pores had discrete life times and were eventually inactivated. The pores were also a pathway for efflux of monomeric haemoglobin. Alteration of the membrane sterol composition, i.e. depletion of cholesterol by 50% or partial ergosterol substitution of the cholesterol increased the SRE induced membrane permeability for 86Rb by two orders compared to membranes with unaltered sterol composition. This modification of the sterol composition promotes the pore forming activity of this lipopeptide in the membrane.
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- K Blasko
- Institute of Biophysics, Semmelweis University of Medicine, POB 263, 1444 Budapest, Hungary.
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Batoko H, de Kerchove d'Exaerde A, Kinet JM, Bouharmont J, Gage RA, Maraite H, Boutry M. Modulation of plant plasma membrane H+-ATPase by phytotoxic lipodepsipeptides produced by the plant pathogen Pseudomonas fuscovaginae. Biochim Biophys Acta 1998; 1372:216-26. [PMID: 9675287 DOI: 10.1016/s0005-2736(98)00060-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Pseudomonas fuscovaginae produces the lipodepsipeptides syringotoxin, fuscopeptin A and fuscopeptin B concurrently. These phytotoxins inhibit acidification of the external medium by fusicoccin-treated rice leaf sheath discs. When tested in vitro on H+-ATPase of rice shoot plasma membranes, syringotoxin and its structural analogue syringomycin, produced by P. syringae pv. syringae, displayed a double effect. At low concentrations they stimulated the ATPase activity of native right-side-out membrane vesicles in a detergent-like manner. At higher concentrations, however, this stimulation was reversed. With membranes treated with the detergent Brij 58, inhibition of ATPase activity was observed at low concentrations of the nonapeptides. The latter effect required the presence of an intact lactone ring formed by the nonapeptide head of these molecules. In contrast, fuscopeptins A and B inhibited enzyme activity regardless of the orientation of the vesicles. These observations were confirmed using plasma membranes from a yeast strain whose own H+-ATPase had been replaced by a single plant H+-ATPase isoform, PMA2, from Nicotiana plumbaginifolia. The kinetics of inhibition induced by the most active compound fuscopeptin B, showed a non-competitive pattern, with a Ki of about 1 microM. The combination of syringotoxin (or syringomycin) with the more hydrophobic fuscopeptins, in amounts with little or no effect, resulted in strong inhibition of the enzyme activity of rice membranes, suggesting a synergistic effect for the two types of toxins.
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- H Batoko
- Laboratoire de Cytogénétique, Place Croix du Sud 5, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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Grgurina I, Gross DC, Iacobellis NS, Lavermicocca P, Takemoto JY, Benincasa M. Phytotoxin production byPseudomonas syringaepv.syringae: Syringopeptin production bysyrmutants defective in biosynthesis or secretion of syringomycin. FEMS Microbiol Lett 1996. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.1996.tb08131.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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