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Bagde SR, Kim CY. Architecture of full-length type I modular polyketide synthases revealed by X-ray crystallography, cryo-electron microscopy, and AlphaFold2. Nat Prod Rep 2024; 41:1219-1234. [PMID: 38501175 PMCID: PMC11324418 DOI: 10.1039/d3np00060e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/20/2024]
Abstract
Covering: up to the end of 2023Type I modular polyketide synthases construct polyketide natural products in an assembly line-like fashion, where the growing polyketide chain attached to an acyl carrier protein is passed from catalytic domain to catalytic domain. These enzymes have immense potential in drug development since they can be engineered to produce non-natural polyketides by strategically adding, exchanging, and deleting individual catalytic domains. In practice, however, this approach frequently results in complete failures or dramatically reduced product yields. A comprehensive understanding of modular polyketide synthase architecture is expected to resolve these issues. We summarize the three-dimensional structures and the proposed mechanisms of three full-length modular polyketide synthases, Lsd14, DEBS module 1, and PikAIII. We also describe the advantages and limitations of using X-ray crystallography, cryo-electron microscopy, and AlphaFold2 to study intact type I polyketide synthases.
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Affiliation(s)
- Saket R Bagde
- Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
- Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
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Li J, Yang Z, Shi C, Wu X, Zhou L, Liang Y, Li Q, Ju J. Semi-synthesis and structure-activity relationship study yield antibacterial vicenistatin derivatives with low cytotoxicity. J Antibiot (Tokyo) 2024; 77:221-227. [PMID: 38228780 DOI: 10.1038/s41429-023-00701-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2023] [Revised: 12/19/2023] [Accepted: 12/22/2023] [Indexed: 01/18/2024]
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Vicenistatin (1) is a 20-membered polyketide macrocyclic antibiotic with potent antimicrobial and cytotoxic activities. In this study, to further explore the potential of 1 as candidates of antibacterial drug development, 4'-N-demethyl vicenistatin (2), a secondary metabolite obtained from the ∆vicG mutant strain of Monodonata labio-associated Streptomyces parvus SCSIO Mla-L010, was utilized as a starting material for modifications of 4'-amino group of vicenistatin. Six new vicenistatin derivatives (3-8) were semi-synthesized through a concise route of amino modification with various aliphatic and aromatic aldehydes. Our study reveals that the bioactivity of vicenistatin is closely related to amino modification in sugar moiety, which results from the length of alkyl side chain as well as the presence of electron withdrawing/denoting group on the benzene ring. Importantly, compounds 4 with a butyl group and 8 with a 3,5-dihydroxyl-benzyl group at 4'-amino group, respectively, exhibited good antimicrobial activities, with MIC values spanning 0.5-4 μg ml-1 to Gram-positive pathogens, including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis, Micrococcus luteus and Bacillus subtilis, with low cytotoxicity. This research promotes the further exploration of structure-activity relationships of vicenistatin and provides new vicenistatin derivatives for development of future anti-infectious agents with reduced cytotoxicity.
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- Jun Li
- College of Light Industry and Food, Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering, Guangzhou, 510225, China
- CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Marine Materia Medica, RNAM Center for Marine Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sceinces, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Guangzhou, 510301, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Marine Materia Medica, RNAM Center for Marine Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sceinces, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Guangzhou, 510301, China
- College of Oceanology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266400, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, 510006, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, 510006, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Marine Materia Medica, RNAM Center for Marine Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sceinces, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Guangzhou, 510301, China
- Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, 511458, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, 510006, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Marine Materia Medica, RNAM Center for Marine Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sceinces, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Guangzhou, 510301, China.
- College of Oceanology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266400, China.
- Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, 511458, China.
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Marine Materia Medica, RNAM Center for Marine Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sceinces, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Guangzhou, 510301, China.
- College of Oceanology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266400, China.
- Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, 511458, China.
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Chisuga T, Murakami S, Miyanaga A, Kudo F, Eguchi T. Structure-Based Analysis of Transient Interactions between Ketosynthase-like Decarboxylase and Acyl Carrier Protein in a Loading Module of Modular Polyketide Synthase. ACS Chem Biol 2023; 18:1398-1404. [PMID: 37216195 DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.3c00151] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Ketosynthase-like decarboxylase (KSQ) domains are widely distributed in the loading modules of modular type I polyketide synthases (PKSs) and catalyze the decarboxylation of the (alkyl-)malonyl unit bound to the acyl carrier protein (ACP) in the loading module for the construction of the PKS starter unit. Previously, we performed a structural and functional analysis of the GfsA KSQ domain involved in the biosynthesis of macrolide antibiotic FD-891. We furthermore revealed the recognition mechanism for the malonic acid thioester moiety of the malonyl-GfsA loading module ACP (ACPL) as a substrate. However, the exact recognition mechanism for the GfsA ACPL moiety remains unclear. Here, we present a structural basis for the interactions between the GfsA KSQ domain and GfsA ACPL. We determined the crystal structure of the GfsA KSQ-acyltransferase (AT) didomain in complex with ACPL (ACPL=KSQAT complex) by using a pantetheine crosslinking probe. We identified the key amino acid residues involved in the KSQ domain-ACPL interactions and confirmed the importance of these residues by mutational analysis. The binding mode of ACPL to the GfsA KSQ domain is similar to that of ACP to the ketosynthase domain in modular type I PKSs. Furthermore, comparing the ACPL=KSQAT complex structure with other full-length PKS module structures provides important insights into the overall architectures and conformational dynamics of the type I PKS modules.
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- Taichi Chisuga
- Department of Chemistry, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 O-Okayama, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan
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- Department of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama 226-8503, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 O-Okayama, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 O-Okayama, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 O-Okayama, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan
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