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CoA recycling by a benzoate coenzyme A ligase in cascade reactions with aroyltransferases to biocatalyze paclitaxel analogs
Nawarathne, Irosha N.,Sullivan, Sean A.,Walker, Kevin D.
, (2020/02/28)
A Pseudomonas CoA ligase (BadA) biocatalyzed aroyl CoA thioesters used by a downstream N-benzoyltransferase (NDTNBT) in a cascade reaction made aroyl analogs of the anticancer drug paclitaxel. BadA kept the high-cost aroyl CoA substrates at saturation for the downstream NDTNBT by recycling CoA when it was added as the limiting reactant. A deacylated taxane substrate N-debenzoyl-2′-deoxypaclitaxel was converted to its benzoylated product at a higher yield, compared to the converted yield in assays in which the BadA ligase chemistry was omitted, and benzoyl CoA was added as a cosubstrate. The resulting benzoylated product 2′-deoxypaclitaxel was made at 196% over the theoretical yield of product that could be made from the CoA added at 50 μM, and the cosubstrates benzoic acid (100 μM), and N-debenzoyl-2′-deoxypaclitaxel (500 μM) added in excess. In addition, a 2-O-benzoyltransferase (mTBT) was incubated with BadA, aroyl acids, CoA, a 2-O-debenzoylated taxane substrate, and cofactors under the CoA-recycling conditions established for the NDTNBT/BadA cascade. The mTBT/BadA combination also made various 2-O-aroylated products that could potentially function as next-generation baccatin III compounds. These ligase/benzoyltransferase cascade reactions show the feasibility of recycling aroyl CoA thioesters in vitro to make bioactive acyl analogs of paclitaxel precursors.
Point mutations (Q19P and N23K) increase the operational solubility of a 2α-o-benzoyltransferase that conveys various acyl groups from CoA to a taxane acceptor
Nawarathne, Irosha N.,Walker, Kevin D.
experimental part, p. 151 - 159 (2010/07/06)
Two site-directed mutations within the wild-type 2-o-benzoyltransferase (tbf) cDNA, from Taxus cuspidata plants, yielded an encoded protein containing replacement amino acids at Q19P and N23K that map to a solvent-exposed loop region. The likely significant changes in the biophysical, properties invoked by these mutations caused the overexpressed, modified TBT (mTBT) to partition into the soluble enzyme fraction about 5-fold greater than the wild-type enzyme. Sufficient protein could now be acquired to examine the scope of the substrate specificity of mTBT by incubation with 7,13-O,O-diacetyl-2-Odebenzoylbaccatin III that was mixed individually with various substituted benzoyls, alkanoyls, and (E)-butenoyl CoA donors. The mTBT catalyzed the conversion of each 7,13-O,O-diacetyl-2-O-debenzoylbaccatin III to several 7,13-O,O-diacetyl-2O- acyl-2-O-debenzoylbaeeatin III analogues. The relative catalytic efficiency of mTBT with the 7,13-O,O-diacetyl-2-Odebenzoyl surrogate substrate and heterole carbonyl CoA substrates was slightly greater than with the natural aroyl substrate benzoyl CoA, while substituted benzoyl CoA thioesters were less productive. Short-chain hydrocarbon carbonyl and cyclohexanoyl CoA thioesters were also productive, where C4 substrates were transferred by mTBT with ～10- to 17-fold greater catalytic efficiency compared to the transfer of benzoyl. The described broad specificity of mTBT suggests that a plethora of 2-O-acyl variants of the antimitotic paclitaxel can be assembled through biocatalytic sequences.
Taxus canadensis abundant taxane: Conversion to paclitaxel and rearrangements
Nikolakakis, Anastasia,Caron, Gaetan,Cherestes, Alice,Sauriol, Francoise,Mamer, Orval,Zamir, Lolita O.
, p. 1269 - 1280 (2007/10/03)
An efficient conversion of Taxus canadensis abundant taxane, 9-dihydro-13-acetylbaccatin III to baccatin III is described. Since the synthesis of paclitaxel from baccatin III has been reported, this work can be used for additional supply of this powerful anticancer drug. In addition, new taxanes derived from skeletal rearrangements originating from oxidation-reduction reactions of the Canadian yew major taxane, are reported. Copyright (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd.
