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A new group of aromatic prenyltransferases in fungi, catalyzing a 2,7-dihydroxynaphthalene 3-dimethylallyl-transferase reaction
Haug-Schifferdecker, Elisa,Arican, Deniz,Brueckner, Reinhard,Heide, Lutz
scheme or table, p. 16487 - 16494 (2011/04/17)
Five fungal genomes from the Ascomycota (sac fungi) were found to contain a gene with sequence similarity to a recently discovered small group of bacterial prenyltransferases that catalyze the C-prenylation of aromatic substrates in secondary metabolism. The genes from Aspergillus terreus NIH2624, Botryotinia fuckeliana B05.10 and Sclerotinia sclerotiorum 1980 were expressed in Escherichia coli, and the resulting His8-tagged proteins were purified and investigated biochemically. Their substrate specificity was found to be different from that of any other prenyltransferase investigated previously. Using 2,7-dihydroxynaphthalene (2,7-DHN) and dimethylallyl diphosphate as substrates, they catalyzed a regiospecific Friedel-Crafts alkylation of 2,7-DHN at position 3. Using the enzyme of A. terreus, the K m values for 2,7-DHN and dimethylallyl diphosphate were determined as 324 ± 25 μM and 325 ± 35 μM, respectively, and k cat as 0.026 ± 0.001 s-1. A significantly lower level of prenylation activity was found using dihydrophenazine-1-carboxylic acid as aromatic substrate, and only traces of products were detected with aspulvinone E, flaviolin, or 4-hydroxybenzoic acid.No product was formed with L-tryptophan, L-tyrosine, or 4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate. The genes for these fungal prenyltransferases are not located within recognizable secondary metabolic gene clusters. Their physiological function is yet unknown.
Novel synthesis of naturally occurring pulvinones: A heck coupling, transesterification, and Dieckmann condensation strategy
Bernier, David,Brueckner, Reinhard
, p. 2249 - 2272 (2008/03/12)
Phosphine-free Heck alkenylations of iodoarenes with trifluoroethyl 2-acetoxyacrylate (19) led stereoselectively to trifluoroethyl (Z)-2-acetoxycinnamates 31-34, 42, 44, and 51. Deacetylation followed by acylation with N,N′-dicyclohexylcarbodiimide activa
