23784-20-5Relevant academic research and scientific papers
Polyketide proofreading by an acyltransferase-like enzyme
Jensen, Katja,Niederkrueger, Holger,Zimmermann, Katrin,Vagstad, Anna L.,Moldenhauer, Jana,Brendel, Nicole,Frank, Sarah,Poeplau, Petra,Kohlhaas, Christoph,Townsend, Craig A.,Oldiges, Marco,Hertweck, Christian,Piel, Joern
, p. 329 - 339 (2012)
Trans-acyltransferase polyketide synthases (trans-AT PKSs) are an important group of bacterial enzymes producing bioactive polyketides. One difference from textbook PKSs is the presence of one or more free-standing AT-like enzymes. While one homolog loads the PKS with malonyl units, the function of the second copy (AT2) was unknown. We studied the two ATs PedC and PedD involved in pederin biosynthesis in an uncultivated symbiont. PedD displayed malonyl- but not acetyltransferase activity toward various acyl carrier proteins (ACPs). In contrast, the AT2 PedC efficiently hydrolyzed acyl units bound to N-acetylcysteamine or ACP. It accepted substrates with various chain lengths and functionalizations but did not cleave malonyl-ACP. These data are consistent with the role of PedC in PKS proofreading, suggesting a similar function for other AT2 homologs and providing strategies for polyketide titer improvement and biosynthetic investigations.
The Mechanism of Dehydrating Bimodules in trans-Acyltransferase Polyketide Biosynthesis: A Showcase Study on Hepatoprotective Hangtaimycin
Deng, Zixin,Dickschat, Jeroen S.,Dong, Yulu,Lu, Junlei,Luo, Minghe,Qi, Miaomiao,Shen, Kun,Sun, Guo,Sun, Yuhui,Tang, Lingjie,Xiang, Jin,Xu, Houchao,Yin, Zhiyong
supporting information, p. 19139 - 19143 (2021/08/03)
A bioassay-guided fractionation led to the isolation of hangtaimycin (HTM) from Streptomyces spectabilis CCTCC M2017417 and the discovery of its hepatoprotective properties. Structure elucidation by NMR suggested the need for a structural revision. A putative HTM degradation product was also isolated and its structure was confirmed by total synthesis. The biosynthetic gene cluster was identified and resembles a hybrid trans-AT PKS/NRPS biosynthetic machinery whose first PKS enzyme contains an internal dehydrating bimodule, which is usually found split in other trans-AT PKSs. The mechanisms of such dehydrating bimodules have often been proposed, but have never been deeply investigated. Here we present in vivo mutations and in vitro enzymatic experiments that give first and detailed mechanistic insights into catalysis by dehydrating bimodules.
PH-Rate profiles establish that polyketide synthase dehydratase domains utilize a single-base mechanism
Xie, Xinqiang,Cane, David E.
, p. 9165 - 9170 (2019/01/03)
FosDH1 from module 1 of the fostriecin polyketide synthase (PKS) catalyzes the dehydration of a 3-hydroxybutyryl-SACP to the (E)-3-butenoyl-SACP. The steady-state kinetic parameters, kcat and kcat/Km, were determined over the pH range 3.0 to 9.2 for the FosDH1-catalyzed dehydration of the N-acetycsteamine thioester, 3-hydroxybutyryl-SNAC (3), to (E)-3-butenoyl-SNAC (4). The pH rate profiles for both log(kcat) and log(kcat/Km) each corresponded to a single pH-dependent ionization to give an active site general base, with a calculated pKa 6.1 ± 0.2 for kcat and pKa 5.7 ± 0.1 for kcat/Km. These results are inconsistent with the commonly suggested "two-base" (base-acid) mechanism for the dehydratases of PKS and fatty acid biosynthesis and support a simple one-base mechanism in which the universally conserved active site His residue acts as the base to deprotonate C-2 of the substrate, then redonates the proton to the C-3 hydroxyl group to promote C-O bond-cleavage and elimination of water. The carboxylate of the paired Asp or Glu residue is thought to bind and orient the hydroxyl group of the substrate in the stereoelectonically favored conformation.
