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Drufva EE, Spengler NR, Hix EG, Bailey CB. Site-Directed Mutagenesis of Modular Polyketide Synthase Ketoreductase Domains for Altered Stereochemical Control. Chembiochem 2020; 22:1122-1150. [PMID: 33185924 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.202000613] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2020] [Revised: 11/12/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Bacterial modular type I polyketide synthases (PKSs) are complex multidomain assembly line proteins that produce a range of pharmaceutically relevant molecules with a high degree of stereochemical control. Due to their colinear properties, they have been considerable targets for rational biosynthetic pathway engineering. Among the domains harbored within these complex assembly lines, ketoreductase (KR) domains have been extensively studied with the goal of altering their stereoselectivity by site-directed mutagenesis, as they confer much of the stereochemical complexity present in pharmaceutically active reduced polyketide scaffolds. Here we review all efforts to date to perform site-directed mutagenesis on PKS KRs, most of which have been done in the context of excised KR domains on model diffusible substrates such as β-keto N-acetyl cysteamine thioesters. We also discuss the challenges around translating the findings of these studies to alter stereocontrol in the context of a complex multidomain enzymatic assembly line.
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- Erin E Drufva
- Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
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Gulick AM, Aldrich CC. Trapping interactions between catalytic domains and carrier proteins of modular biosynthetic enzymes with chemical probes. Nat Prod Rep 2019; 35:1156-1184. [PMID: 30046790 DOI: 10.1039/c8np00044a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Covering: up to early 2018 The Nonribosomal Peptide Synthetases (NRPSs) and Polyketide Synthases (PKSs) are families of modular enzymes that produce a tremendous diversity of natural products, with antibacterial, antifungal, immunosuppressive, and anticancer activities. Both enzymes utilize a fascinating modular architecture in which the synthetic intermediates are covalently attached to a peptidyl- or acyl-carrier protein that is delivered to catalytic domains for natural product elongation, modification, and termination. An investigation of the structural mechanism therefore requires trapping the often transient interactions between the carrier and catalytic domains. Many novel chemical probes have been produced to enable the structural and functional investigation of multidomain NRPS and PKS structures. This review will describe the design and implementation of the chemical tools that have proven to be useful in biochemical and biophysical studies of these natural product biosynthetic enzymes.
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- Andrew M Gulick
- University at Buffalo, Department of Structural Biology, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, 955 Main St, Buffalo, NY 14203, USA.
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Moretto L, Vance S, Heames B, Broadhurst RW. Dissecting how modular polyketide synthase ketoreductases interact with acyl carrier protein-attached substrates. Chem Commun (Camb) 2017; 53:11457-11460. [PMID: 28980673 PMCID: PMC6038798 DOI: 10.1039/c7cc04625a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2017] [Accepted: 06/29/2017] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Interaction studies using fragments excised from the modular mycolactone polyketide synthase show that ketoreductase domains possess a generic binding site for acyl carrier protein domains and provide evidence that the pendant 5'-phosphopantetheine prosthetic group plays a key role in delivering acyl substrates to the active site in the correct orientation.
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- Luisa Moretto
- Department of Molecular Biosciences
, The University of Texas at Austin
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Austin
, TX 78712
, USA
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- Crescendo Biologics Ltd
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Meditrina Building 260
, Babraham Research Campus
, Cambridge CB22 3AT
, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry
, University of Cambridge
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80 Tennis Court Road
, Cambridge CB2 1GA
, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry
, University of Cambridge
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80 Tennis Court Road
, Cambridge CB2 1GA
, UK
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Bloudoff K, Schmeing TM. Structural and functional aspects of the nonribosomal peptide synthetase condensation domain superfamily: discovery, dissection and diversity. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-PROTEINS AND PROTEOMICS 2017; 1865:1587-1604. [PMID: 28526268 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2017.05.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 125] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2017] [Revised: 05/05/2017] [Accepted: 05/12/2017] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Nonribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPSs) are incredible macromolecular machines that produce a wide range of biologically- and therapeutically-relevant molecules. During synthesis, peptide elongation is performed by the condensation (C) domain, as it catalyzes amide bond formation between the nascent peptide and the amino acid it adds to the chain. Since their discovery more than two decades ago, C domains have been subject to extensive biochemical, bioinformatic, mutagenic, and structural analyses. They are composed of two lobes, each with homology to chloramphenicol acetyltransferase, have two binding sites for their two peptidyl carrier protein-bound ligands, and have an active site with conserved motif HHxxxDG located between the two lobes. This review discusses some of the important insights into the structure, catalytic mechanism, specificity, and gatekeeping functions of C domains revealed since their discovery. In addition, C domains are the archetypal members of the C domain superfamily, which includes several other members that also function as NRPS domains. The other family members can replace the C domain in NRP synthesis, can work in concert with a C domain, or can fulfill diverse and novel functions. These domains include the epimerization (E) domain, the heterocyclization (Cy) domain, the ester-bond forming C domain, the fungal NRPS terminal C domain (CT), the β-lactam ring forming C domain, and the X domain. We also discuss structural and function insight into C, E, Cy, CT and X domains, to present a holistic overview of historical and current knowledge of the C domain superfamily. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Biophysics in Canada, edited by Lewis Kay, John Baenziger, Albert Berghuis and Peter Tieleman.
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- Kristjan Bloudoff
- Department of Biochemistry, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3G 0B1, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3G 0B1, Canada.
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Weissman KJ. Polyketide stereocontrol: a study in chemical biology. Beilstein J Org Chem 2017; 13:348-371. [PMID: 28326145 PMCID: PMC5331325 DOI: 10.3762/bjoc.13.39] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2016] [Accepted: 02/01/2017] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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The biosynthesis of reduced polyketides in bacteria by modular polyketide synthases (PKSs) proceeds with exquisite stereocontrol. As the stereochemistry is intimately linked to the strong bioactivity of these molecules, the origins of stereochemical control are of significant interest in attempts to create derivatives of these compounds by genetic engineering. In this review, we discuss the current state of knowledge regarding this key aspect of the biosynthetic pathways. Given that much of this information has been obtained using chemical biology tools, work in this area serves as a showcase for the power of this approach to provide answers to fundamental biological questions.
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- Kira J Weissman
- UMR 7365, Ingénierie Moléculaire et Physiopathologie Articulaire (IMoPA), CNRS-Université de Lorraine, Biopôle de l’Université de Lorraine, Campus Biologie Santé, Avenue de la Forêt de Haye, BP 50184, 54505 Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy Cedex, France
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Fiers WD, Dodge GJ, Li Y, Smith JL, Fecik RA, Aldrich CC. Tylosin polyketide synthase module 3: stereospecificity, stereoselectivity and steady-state kinetic analysis of β-processing domains via diffusible, synthetic substrates. Chem Sci 2015; 6:5027-5033. [PMID: 26366283 PMCID: PMC4540058 DOI: 10.1039/c5sc01505g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2015] [Accepted: 06/11/2015] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Natural and modified substrates coupled with LC-MS/MS analysis of products revealed the stereospecificity and stereoselectivity of a polyketide didomain.
Polyketide synthase (PKS) β-processing domains are responsible for much of the stereochemical complexity of polyketide natural products. Although the importance of β-processing domains has been well noted and significantly explored, key stereochemical details pertaining to cryptic stereochemistry and the impact of remote stereogenic centers have yet to be fully discerned. To uncover the inner workings of ketoreductases (KR) and dehydratases (DH) from the tylosin pathway a didomain composed of TylDH3-KR3 was recombinantly expressed and interrogated with full-length tetraketide substrates to probe the impact of vicinal and distal stereochemistry. In vitro product isolation analysis revealed the products of the cryptic KR as d-alcohols and of the DH as trans-olefins. Steady-state kinetic analysis of the dehydration reaction demonstrated a strict stereochemical tolerance at the β-position as d-configured substrates were processed more than 100 times more efficiently than l-alcohols. Unexpectedly, the kcat/KM values were diminished 14- to 45-fold upon inversion of remote ε- and ζ-stereocenters. This stereochemical discrimination is predicted to be driven by a combination of allylic A1,3 strain that likely disfavors binding of the ε-epimer and a loss of electrostatic interactions with the ζ-epimer. Our results strongly suggest that dehydratases may play a role in refining the stereochemical outcomes of preceding modules through their substrate stereospecificity, honing the configurational purity of the final PKS product.
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- William D Fiers
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry , College of Pharmacy , University of Minnesota , Minneapolis , Minnesota 55455 , USA . ;
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- Department of Biological Chemistry and Life Sciences Institute , University of Michigan , Ann Arbor , Michigan 48109 , USA
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry , College of Pharmacy , University of Minnesota , Minneapolis , Minnesota 55455 , USA . ;
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- Department of Biological Chemistry and Life Sciences Institute , University of Michigan , Ann Arbor , Michigan 48109 , USA
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry , College of Pharmacy , University of Minnesota , Minneapolis , Minnesota 55455 , USA . ;
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry , College of Pharmacy , University of Minnesota , Minneapolis , Minnesota 55455 , USA . ;
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Li Y, Dodge GJ, Fiers WD, Fecik RA, Smith JL, Aldrich CC. Functional Characterization of a Dehydratase Domain from the Pikromycin Polyketide Synthase. J Am Chem Soc 2015; 137:7003-6. [PMID: 26027428 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b02325] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Metabolic engineering of polyketide synthase (PKS) pathways represents a promising approach to natural products discovery. The dehydratase (DH) domains of PKSs, which generate an α,β-unsaturated bond through a dehydration reaction, have been poorly studied compared with other domains, likely because of the simple nature of the chemical reaction they catalyze and the lack of a convenient assay to measure substrate turnover. Herein we report the first steady-state kinetic analysis of a PKS DH domain employing LC-MS/MS analysis for product quantitation. PikDH2 was selected as a model DH domain. Its substrate specificity and mechanism were interrogated with a systematic series of synthetic triketide substrates containing a nonhydrolyzable thioether linkage as well as by site-directed mutagenesis, evaluation of the pH dependence of the catalytic efficiency (V(max)/K(M)), and kinetic characterization of a mechanism-based inhibitor. These studies revealed that PikDH2 converts d-alcohol substrates to trans-olefin products. The reaction is reversible with equilibrium constants ranging from 1.2 to 2. Moreover, the enzyme activity is robust, and PikDH2 was used on a preparative scale for the chemoenzymatic synthesis of unsaturated triketide products. PikDH2 was shown to possess remarkably strict substrate specificity and is unable to turn over substrates that are epimeric at the β-, γ-, or δ-position. We also demonstrated that PikDH2 has a key ionizable group with a pK(a) of 7.0 and can be irreversibly inactivated through covalent modification by a mechanism-based inhibitor, which provides a foundation for future structural studies to elucidate substrate-protein interactions.
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- Yang Li
- †Department of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
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- ‡Department of Biological Chemistry and Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
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- †Department of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
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- †Department of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
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- ‡Department of Biological Chemistry and Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
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- †Department of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
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Li Y, Fiers WD, Bernard S, Smith JL, Aldrich CC, Fecik RA. Polyketide intermediate mimics as probes for revealing cryptic stereochemistry of ketoreductase domains. ACS Chem Biol 2014; 9:2914-22. [PMID: 25299319 PMCID: PMC4273979 DOI: 10.1021/cb5006883] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2014] [Accepted: 10/09/2014] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Among natural product families, polyketides have shown the most promise for combinatorial biosynthesis of natural product-like libraries. Though recent research in the area has provided many mechanistic revelations, a basic-level understanding of kinetic and substrate tolerability is still needed before the full potential of combinatorial biosynthesis can be realized. We have developed a novel set of chemical probes for the study of ketoreductase domains of polyketide synthases. This chemical tool-based approach was validated using the ketoreductase of pikromycin module 2 (PikKR2) as a model system. Triketide substrate mimics 12 and 13 were designed to increase stability (incorporating a nonhydrolyzable thioether linkage) and minimize nonessential functionality (truncating the phosphopantetheinyl arm). PikKR2 reduction product identities as well as steady-state kinetic parameters were determined by a combination of LC-MS/MS analysis of synthetic standards and a NADPH consumption assay. The d-hydroxyl product is consistent with bioinformatic analysis and results from a complementary biochemical and molecular biological approach. When compared to widely employed substrates in previous studies, diketide 63 and trans-decalone 64, substrates 12 and 13 showed 2-10 fold lower K(M) values (2.4 ± 0.8 and 7.8 ± 2.7 mM, respectively), indicating molecular recognition of intermediate-like substrates. Due to an abundance of the nonreducable enol-tautomer, the k(cat) values were attenuated by as much as 15-336 fold relative to known substrates. This study reveals the high stereoselectivity of PikKR2 in the face of gross substrate permutation, highlighting the utility of a chemical probe-based approach in the study of polyketide ketoreductases.
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- Yang Li
- Department
of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
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- Department
of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
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M. Bernard
- Chemical Biology Program, Department of Biological
Chemistry,
and Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
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- Chemical Biology Program, Department of Biological
Chemistry,
and Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
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- Department
of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
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- Department
of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
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Garkushina IS, Ezhova NM, Pisarev OA. Molecularly imprinted polymeric sorbents for selective sorption of erythromycin. RUSS J APPL CHEM+ 2014. [DOI: 10.1134/s1070427214080199] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Garg A, Khosla C, Cane DE. Coupled methyl group epimerization and reduction by polyketide synthase ketoreductase domains. Ketoreductase-catalyzed equilibrium isotope exchange. J Am Chem Soc 2013; 135:16324-7. [PMID: 24161343 DOI: 10.1021/ja408944s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Incubation of [2-(2)H]-(2S,3R)-2-methyl-3-hydroxypentanoyl-SACP ([2-(2)H]-1a) with the epimerizing ketoreductase domain EryKR1 in the presence of a catalytic amount NADP(+) (0.05 equiv) resulted in time- and cofactor-dependent washout of deuterium from 1a, as a result of equilibrium isotope exchange of transiently generated [2-(2)H]-2-methyl-3-ketopentanoyl-ACP. Incubations of [2-(2)H]-(2S,3S)-2-methyl-3-hydroxy-pentanoyl-SACP with RifKR7 and with NysKR1 also resulted in time-dependent loss of deuterium. By contrast, incubations of [2-(2)H]-(2R,3S)-2-methyl-3-hydroxypentanoyl-SACP and [2-(2)H]-(2R,3R)-2-methyl-3-hydroxypentanoyl-SACP with the non-epimerizing ketoreductase domains EryKR6 and TylKR1, respectively, did not result in any significant washout of deuterium. The isotope exchange assay directly establishes that specific polyketide synthase ketoreductase domains also have an intrinsic epimerase activity, thus enabling mechanistic analysis of a key determinant of polyketide stereocomplexity.
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- Ashish Garg
- Department of Chemistry, Brown University , Providence, Rhode Island 02912-9108, United States
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Javidpour P, Bruegger J, Srithahan S, Korman TP, Crump MP, Crosby J, Burkart MD, Tsai SC. The determinants of activity and specificity in actinorhodin type II polyketide ketoreductase. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2013; 20:1225-34. [PMID: 24035284 DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2013.07.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2011] [Revised: 06/28/2013] [Accepted: 07/07/2013] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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In the actinorhodin type II polyketide synthase, the first polyketide modification is a regiospecific C9-carbonyl reduction, catalyzed by the ketoreductase (actKR). Our previous studies identified the actKR 94-PGG-96 motif as a determinant of stereospecificity. The molecular basis for reduction regiospecificity is, however, not well understood. In this study, we examined the activities of 20 actKR mutants through a combination of kinetic studies, PKS reconstitution, and structural analyses. Residues have been identified that are necessary for substrate interaction, and these observations have suggested a structural model for this reaction. Polyketides dock at the KR surface and are steered into the enzyme pocket where C7-C12 cyclization is mediated by the KR before C9-ketoreduction can occur. These molecular features can potentially serve as engineering targets for the biosynthesis of novel, reduced polyketides.
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- Pouya Javidpour
- Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
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Zheng J, Keatinge-Clay AT. The status of type I polyketide synthase ketoreductases. MEDCHEMCOMM 2013. [DOI: 10.1039/c2md20191g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The functional dissection of type I polyketide synthases has established that ketoreductases most commonly set the orientations of the hydroxyl and alkyl substituents of complex polyketides. Here we review the biochemical, structural biology, and engineering studies that have helped elucidate how stereocontrol is enforced by these enzymes.
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- Jianting Zheng
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
- The University of Texas at Austin
- USA
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Höfle G, Gerth K, Reichenbach H, Kunze B, Sasse F, Forche E, Prusov EV. Isolation, biological activity evaluation, structure elucidation, and total synthesis of eliamid: a novel complex I inhibitor. Chemistry 2012; 18:11362-70. [PMID: 22890974 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201201879] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2012] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Eliamid is a secondary metabolite isolated from two bacterial strains. This molecule features a linear polyketide backbone terminated by a tetramic acid amide moiety. Among other biological activities, eliamid shows a high and specific cytostatic action on human lymphoma and cervix carcinoma cell lines. The 2,4-anti relative configuration of the C-2,C-4-dimethyl substituted amide fragment was assigned by means of Breit's rule. The absolute configuration of all stereocenters was determined by a combination of degradation methods, structural similarity analysis and total synthesis. The stereogenic centers were introduced by vinylogous Mukaiyama aldol reaction and two consecutive Myers alkylations. The use of pentafluorophenyl ester as acylation agent allowed the efficient formation of tetramic acid amide. The longest linear sequence in the synthesis consist of 13 steps and proceeds with 12% overall yield. Differential spectroscopy experiments with beef heart submitochondrial particles established that eliamid is a potent inhibitor of the NADH-ubiquinone oxidoreductase complex. Additionally, biosynthesis of eliamid was investigated by feeding experiments with (13)C-labeled precursors.
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- Gerhard Höfle
- Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung, Inhoffenstr. 7, Braunschweig, Germany
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Piasecki SK, Taylor CA, Detelich JF, Liu J, Zheng J, Komsoukaniants A, Siegel DR, Keatinge-Clay AT. Employing modular polyketide synthase ketoreductases as biocatalysts in the preparative chemoenzymatic syntheses of diketide chiral building blocks. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012; 18:1331-40. [PMID: 22035802 DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2011.07.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2010] [Revised: 07/18/2011] [Accepted: 07/19/2011] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Chiral building blocks are valuable intermediates in the syntheses of natural products and pharmaceuticals. A scalable chemoenzymatic route to chiral diketides has been developed that includes the general synthesis of α-substituted, β-ketoacyl N-acetylcysteamine thioesters followed by a biocatalytic cycle in which a glucose-fueled NADPH-regeneration system drives reductions catalyzed by isolated modular polyketide synthase (PKS) ketoreductases (KRs). To identify KRs that operate as active, stereospecific biocatalysts, 11 isolated KRs were incubated with 5 diketides and their products were analyzed by chiral chromatography. KRs that naturally reduce small polyketide intermediates were the most active and stereospecific toward the panel of diketides. Several biocatalytic reactions were scaled up to yield more than 100 mg of product. These syntheses demonstrate the ability of PKS enzymes to economically and greenly generate diverse chiral building blocks on a preparative scale.
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- Shawn K Piasecki
- Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA
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Javidpour P, Korman TP, Shakya G, Tsai SC. Structural and biochemical analyses of regio- and stereospecificities observed in a type II polyketide ketoreductase. Biochemistry 2011; 50:4638-49. [PMID: 21506596 DOI: 10.1021/bi200335f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Type II polyketides include antibiotics such as tetracycline and chemotherapeutics such as daunorubicin. Type II polyketides are biosynthesized by the type II polyketide synthase (PKS) that consists of 5-10 stand-alone domains. In many type II PKSs, the type II ketoreductase (KR) specifically reduces the C9-carbonyl group. How the type II KR achieves such a high regiospecificity and the nature of stereospecificity are not well understood. Sequence alignment of KRs led to a hypothesis that a well-conserved 94-XGG-96 motif may be involved in controlling the stereochemistry. The stereospecificity of single-, double-, and triple-mutant combinations of P94L, G95D, and G96D were analyzed in vitro and in vivo for the actinorhodin KR (actKR). The P94L mutation is sufficient to change the stereospecificity of actKR. Binary and ternary crystal structures of both wild-type and P94L actKR were determined. Together with assay results, docking simulations, and cocrystal structures, a model for stereochemical control is presented herein that elucidates how type II polyketides are introduced into the substrate pocket such that the C9-carbonyl can be reduced with high regio- and stereospecificities. The molecular features of actKR important for regio- and stereospecificities can potentially be applied in biosynthesizing new polyketides via protein engineering that rationally controls polyketide keto reduction.
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- Pouya Javidpour
- Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California-Irvine, CA 92697, USA
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Zheng J, Taylor CA, Piasecki SK, Keatinge-Clay AT. Structural and Functional Analysis of A-Type Ketoreductases from the Amphotericin Modular Polyketide Synthase. Structure 2010; 18:913-22. [DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2010.04.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2010] [Revised: 04/19/2010] [Accepted: 04/22/2010] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Hong H, Leadlay PF, Staunton J. The changing patterns of covalent active site occupancy during catalysis on a modular polyketide synthase multienzyme revealed by ion-trap mass spectrometry. FEBS J 2009; 276:7057-69. [PMID: 19860832 DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2009.07418.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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A catalytically competent, homodimeric diketide synthase comprising the first extension module of the erythromycin polyketide synthase was analysed using MS, after limited proteolysis to release functional domains, to determine the pattern of covalent attachment of substrates and intermediates to active sites during catalysis. Using the natural substrates, the acyltransferase and acylcarrier protein of the loading module were found to be heavily loaded with propionyl starter groups, while the ketosynthase was fully propionylated. The acylcarrier protein of the extension module was partly occupied by the product diketide, and the adjacent chain-releasing thioesterase domain was vacant, implying that the rate-limiting step is transfer of the diketide from the acylcarrier protein to the thioesterase domain. The data suggest an attractive model for preventing iterative chain extension by efficient repriming of the ketosynthase domain after condensation. Use of the alternative starter unit valeryl-CoA produced an altered pattern, in which a significant proportion of the extension acylcarrier protein was loaded with methylmalonate, not diketide, consistent with the condensation step having become an additional slow step. Strikingly, when NADPH was omitted, the extension acylcarrier protein contained methylmalonate and none of the expected keto diketide, in contrast to results obtained previously by mixing individual recombinant domains, showing the importance of also studying intact modules. The detailed patterns of loading of the extension acylcarrier protein (of which there are two in the homodimer) also provided the first evidence for simultaneous loading of both acylcarrier proteins and for the coordination of timing between the two active centres for chain extension.
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- Hui Hong
- Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, UK.
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Kellenberger L, Galloway IS, Sauter G, Böhm G, Hanefeld U, Cortés J, Staunton J, Leadlay PF. A polylinker approach to reductive loop swaps in modular polyketide synthases. Chembiochem 2009; 9:2740-9. [PMID: 18937219 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.200800332] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Multiple versions of the DEBS 1-TE gene, which encodes a truncated bimodular polyketide synthase (PKS) derived from the erythromycin-producing PKS, were created by replacing the DNA encoding the ketoreductase (KR) domain in the second extension module by either of two synthetic oligonucleotide linkers. This made available a total of nine unique restriction sites for engineering. The DNA for donor "reductive loops," which are sets of contiguous domains comprising either KR or KR and dehydratase (DH), or KR, DH and enoylreductase (ER) domains, was cloned from selected modules of five natural PKS multienzymes and spliced into module 2 of DEBS 1-TE using alternative polylinker sites. The resulting hybrid PKSs were tested for triketide production in vivo. Most of the hybrid multienzymes were active, vindicating the treatment of the reductive loop as a single structural unit, but yields were dependent on the restriction sites used. Further, different donor reductive loops worked optimally with different splice sites. For those reductive loops comprising DH, ER and KR domains, premature TE-catalysed release of partially reduced intermediates was sometimes seen, which provided further insight into the overall stereochemistry of reduction in those modules. Analysis of loops containing KR only, which should generate stereocentres at both C-2 and C-3, revealed that the 3-hydroxy configuration (but not the 2-methyl configuration) could be altered by appropriate choice of a donor loop. The successful swapping of reductive loops provides an interesting parallel to a recently suggested pathway for the natural evolution of modular PKSs by recombination.
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- Laurenz Kellenberger
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, 80 Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB21GA, United Kingdom
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Pisarev OA, Ezhova NM, Garkushina IS. The interaction of erythromycin with polymeric sorbents adjusted to the antibiotic molecule. RUSSIAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A 2009. [DOI: 10.1134/s0036024409010245] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Llewellyn NM, Spencer JB. Chemoenzymatic acylation of aminoglycoside antibiotics. Chem Commun (Camb) 2008:3786-8. [PMID: 18685777 DOI: 10.1039/b802248h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The chemoenzymatic installation of the clinically valuable (S)-4-amino-2-hydroxybutyryl side chain onto a number of 2-deoxystreptamine-containing aminoglycosides is described using the purified Bacillus circulans biosynthetic enzymes BtrH and BtrG in combination with a synthetic acyl-SNAC surrogate substrate.
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- Nicholas M Llewellyn
- Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, UK.
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Sattely ES, Fischbach MA, Walsh CT. Total biosynthesis: in vitro reconstitution of polyketide and nonribosomal peptide pathways. Nat Prod Rep 2008; 25:757-93. [DOI: 10.1039/b801747f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 151] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Keatinge-Clay AT. A tylosin ketoreductase reveals how chirality is determined in polyketides. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007; 14:898-908. [PMID: 17719489 DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2007.07.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 233] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2007] [Revised: 06/09/2007] [Accepted: 07/09/2007] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Because it controls the majority of polyketide stereocenters, the ketoreductase (KR) is a central target in engineering polyketide synthases (PKSs). To elucidate the mechanisms of stereocontrol, the structure of KR from the first module of the tylosin PKS was determined. A comparison with a recently solved erythromycin KR that operates on the same substrate explains why their products have opposite alpha-substituent chiralities. The structure reveals how polyketides are guided into the active site by key residues in different KR types. There are four types of reductase-competent KRs, each capable of fixing a unique combination of alpha-substituent and beta-hydroxyl group chiralities, as well as two types of reductase-incompetent KRs that control alpha-substituent chirality alone. A protocol to assign how a module will enforce substituent chirality based on its sequence is presented.
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- Adrian T Keatinge-Clay
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA.
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Castonguay R, He W, Chen AY, Khosla C, Cane DE. Stereospecificity of ketoreductase domains of the 6-deoxyerythronolide B synthase. J Am Chem Soc 2007; 129:13758-69. [PMID: 17918944 PMCID: PMC2547127 DOI: 10.1021/ja0753290] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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6-Deoxyerythronolide B synthase (DEBS) is a modular polyketide synthase (PKS) responsible for the biosynthesis of 6-dEB (1), the parent aglycone of the broad spectrum macrolide antibiotic erythromycin. Individual DEBS modules, which contain the catalytic domains necessary for each step of polyketide chain elongation and chemical modification, can be deconstructed into constituent domains. To better understand the intrinsic stereospecificity of the ketoreductase (KR) domains, an in vitro reconstituted system has been developed involving combinations of ketosynthase (KS)-acyl transferase (AT) didomains with acyl-carrier protein (ACP) and KR domains from different DEBS modules. Incubations with (2S,3R)-2-methyl-3-hydroxypentanoic acid N-acetylcysteamine thioester (2) and methylmalonyl-CoA plus NADPH result in formation of a reduced, ACP-bound triketide that is converted to the corresponding triketide lactone 4 by either base- or enzyme-catalyzed hydrolysis/cyclization. A sensitive and robust GC-MS technique has been developed to assign the stereochemistry of the resulting triketide lactones, on the basis of direct comparison with synthetic standards of each of the four possible diasteromers 4a-4d. Using the [KS][AT] didomains from either DEBS module 3 or module 6 in combination with KR domains from modules 2 or 6 gave in all cases exclusively (2R,3S,4R,5R)-3,5-dihydroxy-2,4-dimethyl-n-heptanoic acid-delta-lactone (4a). The same product was also generated by a chimeric module in which [KS3][AT3] was fused to [KR5][ACP5] and the DEBS thioesterase [TE] domain. Reductive quenching of the ACP-bound 2-methyl-3-ketoacyl triketide intermediate with sodium borohydride confirmed that in each case the triketide intermediate carried only an unepimerized d-2-methyl group. The results confirm the predicted stereospecificity of the individual KR domains, while revealing an unexpected configurational stability of the ACP-bound 2-methyl-3-ketoacyl thioester intermediate. The methodology should be applicable to the study of any combination of heterologous [KS][AT] and [KR] domains.
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- Roselyne Castonguay
- Contribution from the Department of Chemistry, Box H, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912-9108
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- Contribution from the Department of Chemistry, Box H, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912-9108
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305
- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305
- Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305
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- Contribution from the Department of Chemistry, Box H, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912-9108
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This review chronicles the synergistic growth of the fields of fatty acid and polyketide synthesis over the last century. In both animal fatty acid synthases and modular polyketide synthases, similar catalytic elements are covalently linked in the same order in megasynthases. Whereas in fatty acid synthases the basic elements of the design remain immutable, guaranteeing the faithful production of saturated fatty acids, in the modular polyketide synthases, the potential of the basic design has been exploited to the full for the elaboration of a wide range of secondary metabolites of extraordinary structural diversity.
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- Stuart Smith
- Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute, 5700 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Oakland, California 94609, USA.
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6-Deoxyerythronolide B, the macrocyclic aglycone of the antibiotic erythromycin, is synthesized by a polyketide synthase (PKS) that has emerged as the prototypical modular megasynthase. A variety of molecular biological, protein chemical, and biosynthetic experiments over the past two decades have yielded insights into its mechanistic features. More recently, high-resolution structural images of portions of the 6-deoxyerythronolide B synthase have provided a platform for interpreting this wealth of biochemical data, while at the same time presenting a fundamentally new basis for the design of more detailed investigations into this remarkable enzyme. For example, the critical roles of domain-domain interactions and nonconserved linkers, as well as large interdomain movements in the structure and function of modular PKSs, have been highlighted. In turn, these insights point the way forward for more sophisticated and efficient biosynthetic engineering of complex polyketide natural products.
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- Chaitan Khosla
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA.
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Starcevic A, Jaspars M, Cullum J, Hranueli D, Long PF. Predicting the nature and timing of epimerisation on a modular polyketide synthase. Chembiochem 2007; 8:28-31. [PMID: 17133646 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.200600399] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Antonio Starcevic
- Section for Bioinformatics, Department of Biochemical Engineering, Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology, University of Zagreb, Pierottijeva 6, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
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Wenzel SC, Williamson RM, Grünanger C, Xu J, Gerth K, Martinez RA, Moss SJ, Carroll BJ, Grond S, Unkefer CJ, Müller R, Floss HG. On the Biosynthetic Origin of Methoxymalonyl-Acyl Carrier Protein, the Substrate for Incorporation of “Glycolate” Units into Ansamitocin and Soraphen A. J Am Chem Soc 2006; 128:14325-36. [PMID: 17076505 DOI: 10.1021/ja064408t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Feeding experiments with isotope-labeled precursors rule out hydroxypyruvate and TCA cycle intermediates as the metabolic source of methoxymalonyl-ACP, the substrate for incorporation of "glycolate" units into ansamitocin P-3, soraphen A, and other antibiotics. They point to 1,3-bisphosphoglycerate as the source of the methoxymalonyl moiety and show that its C-1 gives rise to the thioester carbonyl group (and hence C-1 of the "glycolate" unit), and its C-3 becomes the free carboxyl group of methoxymalonyl-ACP, which is lost in the subsequent Claisen condensation on the type I modular polyketide synthases (PKS). d-[1,2-(13)C(2)]Glycerate is also incorporated specifically into the "glycolate" units of soraphen A, but not of ansamitocin P-3, suggesting differences in the ability of the producing organisms to activate glycerate. A biosynthetic pathway from 1,3-bisphosphoglycerate to methoxymalonyl-ACP is proposed. Two new syntheses of R- and S-[1,2-(13)C(2)]glycerol were developed as part of this work.
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- Silke C Wenzel
- Institute of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Saarland University, P.O. Box 151150, D-66041 Saarbrücken, Germany
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Garkushina IS, Ezhova NM, Pisarev OA. Dependence of equilibrium and kinetic parameters of erythromycin a sorption on the structural characteristics of the biosorbent. APPL BIOCHEM MICRO+ 2006. [DOI: 10.1134/s000368380604003x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Müller I, Weinig S, Steinmetz H, Kunze B, Veluthoor S, Mahmud T, Müller R. A Unique Mechanism for Methyl Ester Formation via an Amide Intermediate Found in Myxobacteria. Chembiochem 2006; 7:1197-205. [PMID: 16807964 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.200600057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Secondary metabolism involves a broad diversity of biochemical reactions that result in a wide variety of biologically active compounds. Terminal amide formation during the biosynthesis of the myxobacterial electron-transport inhibitor, myxothiazol, was analyzed by heterologous expression of the unique nonribosomal-peptide synthetase, MtaG, and incubation with a synthesized substrate mimic. These experiments provide evidence that the terminal amide is formed from a carrier protein-bound myxothiazol acid that is thioesterified to MtaF. This intermediate is transformed to an amide by extension with glycine and subsequent oxidative cleavage by MtaG. The final steps of melithiazol assembly involve a highly similar protein-bound intermediate (attached to MelF, a homologue of MtaF), which is transformed to an amide by MelG (homologue of MtaG). In this study, we also show that the amide moiety of myxothiazol A can be hydrolyzed in vivo to the formerly unknown free myxothiazol acid by heterologous expression of melJ in the myxothiazol producer Stigmatella aurantiaca DW4/3-1. The methyltransferase MelK can finally methylate the acid to give rise to the methyl ester, which is produced as the final product in the melithiazol A biosynthetic pathway. These experiments clarify the role of MelJ and MelK during melithiazol assembly.
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- Inga Müller
- Universität des Saarlandes, Institut für Pharmazeutische Biotechnologie, Im Stadtwald, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
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Baerga-Ortiz A, Popovic B, Siskos AP, O'Hare HM, Spiteller D, Williams MG, Campillo N, Spencer JB, Leadlay PF. Directed Mutagenesis Alters the Stereochemistry of Catalysis by Isolated Ketoreductase Domains from the Erythromycin Polyketide Synthase. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006; 13:277-85. [PMID: 16638533 DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2006.01.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2005] [Revised: 01/10/2006] [Accepted: 01/10/2006] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The ketoreductase (KR) domains eryKR(1) and eryKR(2) from the erythromycin-producing polyketide synthase (PKS) reduce 3-ketoacyl-thioester intermediates with opposite stereospecificity. Modeling of eryKR(1) and eryKR(2) showed that conserved amino acids previously correlated with production of alternative alcohol configurations lie in the active site. eryKR(1) domains mutated at these positions showed an altered stereochemical outcome in reduction of (2R, S)-2-methyl-3-oxopentanoic acid N-acetylcysteamine thioester. The wild-type eryKR(1) domain exclusively gave the (2S, 3R)-3-hydroxy-2-methylpentanoic acid N-acetylcysteamine thioester, while the double mutant (F141W, P144G) gave only the (2S, 3S) isomer, a switch of the alcohol stereochemistry. Mutation of the eryKR(2) domain, in contrast, greatly increased the proportion of the wild-type (2R, 3S)-alcohol product. These data confirm the role of key residues in stereocontrol and suggest an additional way to make rational alterations in polyketide antibiotic structure.
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- Abel Baerga-Ortiz
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, 80 Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA, United Kingdom
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O'Hare HM, Baerga-Ortiz A, Popovic B, Spencer JB, Leadlay PF. High-Throughput Mutagenesis to Evaluate Models of Stereochemical Control in Ketoreductase Domains from the Erythromycin Polyketide Synthase. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006; 13:287-96. [PMID: 16638534 DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2006.01.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2005] [Revised: 12/21/2005] [Accepted: 01/06/2006] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Ketoreductase (KR) activities help determine the stereochemistry of the products of modular polyketide synthases (PKSs). For example, domains eryKR(1) and eryKR(2), contained, respectively, in the first and second extension modules of the erythromycin-producing PKS, reduce 3-ketoacyl-thioester intermediates with opposite stereospecificity. Amino acid motifs that correlate with stereochemical outcome have been identified in KRs. We have used saturation mutagenesis of these motifs in eryKR(1) and eryKR(2), and a microplate-based screen of such mutants for activity against (9R, S)-trans-1-decalone, to identify candidate enzymes potentially altered in stereocontrol. Active mutants were reassayed with (2R, S)-2-methyl-3-oxopentanoic acid N-acetylcysteamine thioester, and the alcohol products were analyzed by chiral HPLC. Variant enzymes were found with either altered substrate selectivity for the (2R) or (2S) substrate or altered stereospecificity of reduction, or both, further highlighting the importance of these motifs in stereochemical control.
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- Helen M O'Hare
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, 80 Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA, United Kingdom
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In this issue of Chemistry & Biology, Leadlay and coworkers report overproduction of a number of ketoreductase domains from modular polyketide synthases. These discrete enzymes allow the stereochemistry of polyketide ketoreduction to be studied in isolation.
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- Patrick Caffrey
- School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science and Centre for Synthesis and Chemical Biology, University College Dublin, Ireland
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Siskos AP, Baerga-Ortiz A, Bali S, Stein V, Mamdani H, Spiteller D, Popovic B, Spencer JB, Staunton J, Weissman KJ, Leadlay PF. Molecular Basis of Celmer's Rules: Stereochemistry of Catalysis by Isolated Ketoreductase Domains from Modular Polyketide Synthases. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2005; 12:1145-53. [PMID: 16242657 DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2005.08.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2005] [Revised: 08/01/2005] [Accepted: 08/01/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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A system is reported for the recombinant expression of individual ketoreductase (KR) domains from modular polyketide synthases (PKSs) and scrutiny of their intrinsic specificity and stereospecificity toward surrogate diketide substrates. The eryKR(1) and the tylKR(1) domains, derived from the first extension module of the erythromycin PKS and the tylosin PKS, respectively, both catalyzed reduction of (2R, S)-2-methyl-3-oxopentanoic acid N-acetylcysteamine thioester, with complete stereoselectivity and stereospecificity, even though the substrate is not tethered to an acyl carrier protein or an intact PKS multienzyme. In contrast, and to varying degrees, the isolated enzymes eryKR(2), eryKR(5), and eryKR(6) exercised poorer control over substrate selection and the stereochemical course of ketoreduction. These data, together with modeling of diketide binding to KR(1) and KR(2), demonstrate the fine energetic balance between alternative modes of presentation of ketoacylthioester substrates to KR active sites.
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Kaneko T, McArthur H, Sutcliffe J. Recent developments in the area of macrolide antibiotics. Expert Opin Ther Pat 2005. [DOI: 10.1517/13543776.10.4.403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Weissman KJ. Polyketide synthases: mechanisms and models. ERNST SCHERING RESEARCH FOUNDATION WORKSHOP 2005:43-78. [PMID: 15645716 DOI: 10.1007/3-540-27055-8_3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/01/2023]
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- K J Weissman
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, UK.
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Combinatorial biosynthesis involves the genetic manipulation of natural product biosynthetic enzymes to produce potential new drug candidates that would otherwise be difficult to obtain. In either a theoretical or practical sense, the number of combinations possible from different types of natural product pathways ranges widely. Enzymes that have been the most amenable to this technology synthesize the polyketides, nonribosomal peptides, and hybrids of the two. The number of polyketide or peptide natural products theoretically possible is huge, but considerable work remains before these large numbers can be realized. Nevertheless, many analogs have been created by this technology, providing useful structure-activity relationship data and leading to a few compounds that may reach the clinic in the next few years. In this review the focus is on recent advances in our understanding of how different enzymes for natural product biosynthesis can be used successfully in this technology.
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Fisher MA, Plikaytis BB, Shinnick TM. Microarray analysis of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis transcriptional response to the acidic conditions found in phagosomes. J Bacteriol 2002; 184:4025-32. [PMID: 12081975 PMCID: PMC135184 DOI: 10.1128/jb.184.14.4025-4032.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 264] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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We used microarrays and real-time reverse transcription-PCR to analyze the global transcriptional response of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to low pH in vitro, which may mimic an environmental signal encountered by phagocytosed mycobacteria. Eighty-one genes were differentially expressed >1.5-fold, including many involved in fatty acid metabolism. The most highly induced genes showed homology with nonribosomal peptide synthetases/polyketide synthases.
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- Mark A Fisher
- Program in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
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Wu N, Tsuji SY, Cane DE, Khosla C. Assessing the balance between protein-protein interactions and enzyme-substrate interactions in the channeling of intermediates between polyketide synthase modules. J Am Chem Soc 2001; 123:6465-74. [PMID: 11439032 DOI: 10.1021/ja010219t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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6-Deoxyerythronolide B synthase (DEBS) is the modular polyketide synthase (PKS) that catalyzes the biosynthesis of 6-deoxyerythronolide B (6-dEB), the aglycon precursor of the antibiotic erythromycin. The biosynthesis of 6-dEB exemplifies the extraordinary substrate- and stereo-selectivity of this family of multifunctional enzymes. Paradoxically, DEBS has been shown to be an attractive scaffold for combinatorial biosynthesis, indicating that its constituent modules are also very tolerant of unnatural substrates. By interrogating individual modules of DEBS with a panel of diketides activated as N-acetylcysteamine (NAC) thioesters, it was recently shown that individual modules have a marked ability to discriminate among certain diastereomeric diketides. However, since free NAC thioesters were used as substrates in these studies, the modules were primed by a diffusive process, which precluded involvement of the covalent, substrate-channeling mechanism by which enzyme-bound intermediates are directly transferred from one module to the next in a multimodular PKS. Recent evidence pointing to a pivotal role for protein-protein interactions in the substrate-channeling mechanism has prompted us to develop novel assays to reassess the steady-state kinetic parameters of individual DEBS modules when primed in a more "natural" channeling mode by the same panel of diketide substrates used earlier. Here we describe these assays and use them to quantify the kinetic benefit of linker-mediated substrate channeling in a modular PKS. This benefit can be substantial, especially for intrinsically poor substrates. Examples are presented where the k(cat) of a module for a given diketide substrate increases >100-fold when the substrate is presented to the module in a channeling mode as opposed to a diffusive mode. However, the substrate specificity profiles for individual modules are conserved regardless of the mode of presentation. By highlighting how substrate channeling can allow PKS modules to effectively accept and process intrinsically poor substrates, these studies provide a rational basis for examining the enormous untapped potential for combinatorial biosynthesis via module rearrangement.
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- N Wu
- Departments of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, and Biochemistry, Stanford University, Stanford California 94305, USA
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Kwon HJ, Smith WC, Xiang L, Shen B. Cloning and heterologous expression of the macrotetrolide biosynthetic gene cluster revealed a novel polyketide synthase that lacks an acyl carrier protein. J Am Chem Soc 2001; 123:3385-6. [PMID: 11457082 DOI: 10.1021/ja0100827] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- H J Kwon
- Department of Chemistry, University of California One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA
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Holzbaur IE, Ranganathan A, Thomas IP, Kearney DJ, Reather JA, Rudd BA, Staunton J, Leadlay PF. Molecular basis of Celmer's rules: role of the ketosynthase domain in epimerisation and demonstration that ketoreductase domains can have altered product specificity with unnatural substrates. CHEMISTRY & BIOLOGY 2001; 8:329-40. [PMID: 11325589 DOI: 10.1016/s1074-5521(01)00014-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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BACKGROUND Polyketides are structurally diverse natural products with a range of medically useful activities. Non-aromatic bacterial polyketides are synthesised on modular polyketide synthase multienzymes (PKSs) in which each cycle of chain extension requires a different 'module' of enzymatic activities. Attempts to design and construct modular PKSs that synthesise specified novel polyketides provide a particularly stringent test of our understanding of PKS structure and function. RESULTS We show that the ketoreductase (KR) domains of modules 5 and 6 of the erythromycin PKS, housed in the multienzyme subunit DEBS3, exert an unexpectedly low level of stereochemical control in reducing the keto group of a synthetic analogue of the diketide intermediate. This led us to construct a hybrid triketide synthase based on DEBS3 with ketosynthase domain ketosynthase (KS)5 replaced by the loading module and KS1. The construct in vivo produced two major triketide stereoisomers, one expected and one surprising. The latter was of opposite configuration at three out of the four chiral centres: the branching alkyl centre was that produced by KS1 and, surprisingly, both hydroxyl centres produced by the reduction steps carried out by KR5 and KR6 respectively. CONCLUSIONS These results demonstrate that the epimerising activity associated with module 1 of the erythromycin PKS can be conferred on module 5 merely by transfer of the KS1 domain. Moreover, the normally precise stereochemical control observed in modular PKSs is lost when KR5 and KR6 are challenged by an unfamiliar substrate, which is much smaller than their natural substrates. This observation demonstrates that the stereochemistry of ketoreduction is not necessarily invariant for a given KR domain and underlines the need for mechanistic understanding in designing genetically engineered PKSs to produce novel products.
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- I E Holzbaur
- Cambridge Centre for Molecular Recognition and University Chemical Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
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Ehmann DE, Trauger JW, Stachelhaus T, Walsh CT. Aminoacyl-SNACs as small-molecule substrates for the condensation domains of nonribosomal peptide synthetases. CHEMISTRY & BIOLOGY 2000; 7:765-72. [PMID: 11033080 DOI: 10.1016/s1074-5521(00)00022-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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BACKGROUND Nonribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPSs) are large multidomain proteins that catalyze the formation of a wide range of biologically active natural products. These megasynthetases contain condensation (C) domains that catalyze peptide bond formation and chain elongation. The natural substrates for C domains are biosynthetic intermediates that are covalently tethered to thiolation (T) domains within the synthetase by thioester linkages. Characterizing C domain substrate specificity is important for the engineered biosynthesis of new compounds. RESULTS We synthesized a series of aminoacyl-N-acetylcysteamine thioesters (aminoacyl-SNACs) and show that they are small-molecule substrates for NRPS C domains. Comparison of rates of peptide bond formation catalyzed by the C domain from enterobactin synthetase with various aminoacyl-SNACs as downstream (acceptor) substrates revealed high selectivity for the natural substrate analog L-Ser-SNAC. Comparing L- and D-Phe-SNACs as upstream (donor) substrates for the first C domain from tyrocidine synthetase revealed clear D- versus L-selectivity. CONCLUSIONS Aminoacyl-SNACs are substrates for NRPS C domains and are useful for characterizing the substrate specificity of C domain-catalyzed peptide bond formation.
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- D E Ehmann
- Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Du L, Sánchez C, Chen M, Edwards DJ, Shen B. The biosynthetic gene cluster for the antitumor drug bleomycin from Streptomyces verticillus ATCC15003 supporting functional interactions between nonribosomal peptide synthetases and a polyketide synthase. CHEMISTRY & BIOLOGY 2000; 7:623-42. [PMID: 11048953 DOI: 10.1016/s1074-5521(00)00011-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 208] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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BACKGROUND The structural and catalytic similarities between modular nonribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPSs) and polyketide synthases (PKSs) inspired us to search for a hybrid NRPS-PKS system. The antitumor drug bleomycin (BLM) is a natural hybrid peptide-polyketide metabolite, the biosynthesis of which provides an excellent opportunity to investigate intermodular communication between NRPS and PKS modules. Here, we report the cloning, sequencing, and characterization of the BLM biosynthetic gene cluster from Streptomyces verticillus ATCC15003. RESULTS A set of 30 genes clustered with the previously characterized blmAB resistance genes were defined by sequencing a 85-kb contiguous region of DNA from S. verticillus ATCC15003. The sequenced gene cluster consists of 10 NRPS genes encoding nine NRPS modules, a PKS gene encoding one PKS module, five sugar biosynthesis genes, as well as genes encoding other biosynthesis, resistance, and regulatory proteins. The substrate specificities of individual NRPS and PKS modules were predicted based on sequence analysis, and the amino acid specificities of two NRPS modules were confirmed biochemically in vitro. The involvement of the cloned genes in BLM biosynthesis was demonstrated by bioconversion of the BLM aglycones into BLMs in Streptomyces lividans expressing a part of the gene cluster. CONCLUSION The blm gene cluster is characterized by a hybrid NRPS-PKS system, supporting the wisdom of combining individual NRPS and PKS modules for combinatorial biosynthesis. The availability of the blm gene cluster has set the stage for engineering novel BLM analogs by genetic manipulation of genes governing BLM biosynthesis and for investigating the molecular basis for intermodular communication between NRPS and PKS in the biosynthesis of hybrid peptide-polyketide metabolites.
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- L Du
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis 95616, USA
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Lal R, Kumari R, Kaur H, Khanna R, Dhingra N, Tuteja D. Regulation and manipulation of the gene clusters encoding type-I PKSs. Trends Biotechnol 2000; 18:264-74. [PMID: 10802562 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-7799(00)01443-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Modular polyketide synthases are large, multifunctional enzyme complexes that are involved in the biosynthesis of important polyketides. Recent studies have revolutionized our understanding of the linear organization of polyketide-synthase-gene clusters. They have provided crucial information on the initiation, elongation and termination of polyketide chains, and thus a rational basis for the generation of novel compounds. Combinatorial libraries have helped this field to move from a random approach to a more empirical phase. The large number of diverse analogs of antibiotics that are presently produced demonstrate the enormous potential of combinatorial biosynthesis.
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- R Lal
- Molecular Biology Laboratory, Department of Zoology, University of Delhi, Delhi 110007, India.
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Wu N, Kudo F, Cane DE, Khosla C. Analysis of the Molecular Recognition Features of Individual Modules Derived from the Erythromycin Polyketide Synthase. J Am Chem Soc 2000. [DOI: 10.1021/ja000023d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Nicholas Wu
- Contribution from the Departments of Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, and Biochemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-5025, and Department of Chemistry, Box H, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912-9108
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- Contribution from the Departments of Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, and Biochemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-5025, and Department of Chemistry, Box H, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912-9108
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- Contribution from the Departments of Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, and Biochemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-5025, and Department of Chemistry, Box H, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912-9108
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- Contribution from the Departments of Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, and Biochemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-5025, and Department of Chemistry, Box H, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912-9108
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Bycroft M, Weissman KJ, Staunton J, Leadlay PF. Efficient purification and kinetic characterization of a bimodular derivative of the erythromycin polyketide synthase. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 2000; 267:520-6. [PMID: 10632721 DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.2000.01025.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Modular polyketide synthases (PKSs), such as the 6-deoxyerythronolide B synthase (DEBS), are giant multienzymes that biosynthesize a number of clinically important natural products. The modular nature of PKSs suggests the possibility of a combinatorial approach to the synthesis of novel bioactive polyketides, but the efficacy of such a strategy depends critically on gaining fundamental insight into PKS structure and function, most directly through experiments with purified PKS proteins. Several recent investigations into important aspects of the activity of these enzymes have used only partially purified proteins (often 3-4% of total protein), reflecting how difficult it is to purify these multienzymes in amounts adequate for kinetic and structural analysis. We report here the steady-state kinetic analysis of a typical bimodular PKS, 6-deoxyerythronolide B synthase 1-thioesterase (DEBS 1-TE), purified from recombinant Saccharopolyspora erythraea JCB101 by a new, high-yielding procedure consisting of three steps: ammonium sulfate precipitation, hydrophobic interaction chromatography and size-exclusion chromatography. The method provides 13-fold purification with a recovery of 11% of the applied PKS activity. The essentially homogeneous synthase exhibits an intrinsic methylmalonyl-CoA hydrolase activity, which competes with polyketide chain extension. The most reliable value for the kcat for synthesis of (3S,5R)-dihydroxy-(2R,4R)-dimethyl-n-heptanoic acid-delta-lactone is 0.84 min-1, and the apparent Km for (2RS)-methylmalonyl-CoA is 17 microM. This kcat is approximately 10-fold lower than the value reported previously for a differently engineered version of the truncated PKS, DEBS 1+TE. The difference likely reflects the fact that the DEBS 1-TE contains a hybrid acyl carrier protein (ACP) domain in its second module, which lowers its catalytic efficiency.
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- M Bycroft
- Cambridge Centre for Molecular Recognition, Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Cambridge, UK
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