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Intermolecular Amine Transfer to Enantioenriched trans-3Phenylglycidates by an α/β-Aminomutase to Access Both anti-Phenylserine Isomers
Shee, Prakash K.,Yan, Honggao,Walker, Kevin D.
, p. 15071 - 15082 (2020/12/21)
β-Hydroxy-α-amino acids are noncanonical amino acids with two stereocenters and with useful applications in the pharmaceutical and agrochemical sectors. Here, a 5-methylidene-3,5-dihydro-4H-imidazol-4-one-dependent aminomutase from Taxus canadensis (TcPAM) was repurposed to transfer the amino group irreversibly from (2S)-styryl-α-alanine to exogenously supplied trans-3-phenylglycidate enantiomers, producing anti-phenylserines stereoselectively. TcPAM catalysis inverted the intrinsic regioselective chemistry from amination at Cβ to Cα of enantioenriched trans-3-phenylglycidates to make phenylserine predominantly (97%)phenylisoserine (～3% relative abundance). Gas chromatography?mass spectrometry analysis of the chiral auxiliary derivatives of the biocatalyzed products confirmed that the amine transfer was stereoselective for each glycidate enantiomer. TcPAM converted (2S,3R)-3-phenylglycidate to (2S)-anti-phenylserine predominantly (89%) and (2R,3S)-3-phenylglycidate to (2R)-anti-phenylserine (88%)their antipodes, with inversion of the configuration at Cα in each case. Both glycidate enantiomers formed a small amount (～10%) of syn-phenylserine by retaining the configuration at Cα. The minor syn-isomer likely came from a β-hydroxy oxiranone intermediate formed by intramolecular ring opening of the oxirane ring by the carboxylate before amine transfer. TcPAM had a slight preference toward (2S,3R)-3-phenylglycidate, which was turned(kcat = 0.3 min?1) 1.5 times faster than the (2R,3S)-glycidate (kcat = 0.2 min?1). The catalytic efficiencies (kcatapp/KMapp ≈ 20 M?1s?1) of TcPAM for the antipodes were similar. The kinetic data supported a two-substrate ping-pong mechanism for the amination of the phenylglycidates, with competitive inhibition at higher glycidate substrate concentrations.
Total Synthesis and Antimycobacterial Activity of Ohmyungsamycin A, Deoxyecumicin, and Ecumicin
Hawkins, Paige M. E.,Tran, Wendy,Nagalingam, Gayathri,Cheung, Chen-Yi,Giltrap, Andrew M.,Cook, Gregory M.,Britton, Warwick J.,Payne, Richard J.
supporting information, p. 15200 - 15205 (2020/10/23)
The ohmyungsamycin and ecumicin natural product families are structurally related cyclic depsipeptides that display potent antimycobacterial activity. Herein the total syntheses of ohmyungsamycin A, deoxyecumicin, and ecumicin are reported, together with the direct biological comparison of members of these natural product families against Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the etiological agent of tuberculosis (TB). The synthesis of each of the natural products employed a solid-phase strategy to assemble the linear peptide precursor, involving a key on-resin esterification and an optional on-resin dimethylation step, before a final solution-phase macrolactamization between the non-proteinogenic N-methyl-4-methoxy-l-tryptophan amino acid and a bulky N-methyl-l-valine residue. The synthetic natural products possessed potent antimycobacterial activity against Mtb with MIC90’s ranging from 110–360 nm and retained activity against Mtb in Mtb-infected macrophages. Deoxyecumicin also exhibited rapid bactericidal killing against Mtb, sterilizing cultures after 21 days.
Improving and Inverting Cβ-Stereoselectivity of Threonine Aldolase via Substrate-Binding-Guided Mutagenesis and a Stepwise Visual Screening
Chen, Qijia,Chen, Xi,Feng, Jinhui,Wu, Qiaqing,Zhu, Dunming,Ma, Yanhe
, p. 4462 - 4469 (2019/05/10)
Threonine aldolase (TA)-catalyzed aldol condensation is a powerful tool for C-C bond formation under mild conditions, but the low Cβ-stereoselectivity has hampered its wide application. A stepwise visual screening method was developed to measure the activity and stereoselectivity of threonine aldolase-catalyzed aldol condensation by employing a stereoselective phenylserine dehydratase, enabling direct selection of mutants with higher Cβ-stereoselectivity. Mutants of l-PsTA from Pseudomonas sp. with improved or inverted stereoselectivity toward aromatic aldehydes were obtained by simultaneously mutating amino acid residues which interact with the amino and hydroxyl groups of the substrate and screening the resulting mutant libraries with this method. The mutation and enzyme-substrate docking studies provided some insights into the regulation of the Cβ-stereoselectivity by the enzyme-substrate interactions. This study offers a tool and useful guidance for further engineering of TAs to address the Cβ-stereoselectivity problem.
Exploring the scope of an α/β-aminomutase for the amination of cinnamate epoxides to arylserines and arylisoserines
Shee, Prakash K.,Ratnayake, Nishanka Dilini,Walter, Tyler,Goethe, Olivia,Onyeozili, Edith Ndubuaku,Walker, Kevin D.
, p. 7418 - 7430 (2019/08/20)
Biocatalytic process-development continues to advance toward discovering alternative transformation reactions to synthesize fine chemicals. Here, a 5-methylidene-3,5-dihydro-4H-imidazol-4-one (MIO)-dependent phenylalanine aminomutase from Taxus canadensis (TcPAM) was repurposed to irreversibly biocatalyze an intermolecular amine transfer reaction that converted ring-substituted trans-cinnamate epoxide racemates to their corresponding arylserines. From among 12 substrates, the aminomutase ring-opened 3′-Cl-cinnamate epoxide to 3′-Cl-phenylserine 140 times faster than it opened the 4′-Cl-isomer, which was turned over slowest among all epoxides tested. GC/MS analysis of chiral auxiliary derivatives of the biocatalyzed phenylserine analogues showed that the TcPAM-transamination reaction opened the epoxides enantio- A nd diastereoselectively. Each product mixture contained (2S)+(2R)-anti (erythro) and (2S)+(2R)-syn (threo) pairs with the anti-isomers predominating (-90:10 dr). Integrating the vicinal proton signals in the 1H NMR spectrum of the enzyme-catalyzed phenylserines and calculating the chemical shift difference (?"?) between the anti and syn proton signals confirmed the diastereomeric ratios and relative stereochemistries. Application of a (2S)-threonine aldolase from E. coli further established the absolute stereochemistry of the chiral derivatives of the diastereomeric enzymatically derived products. The 2R:2S ratio for the biocatalyzed anti-isomers was highest (88:12) for 3′-NO2-phenylserine and lowest (66:34) for 4′-F-phenylserine. This showed that the stereospecificity of TcPAM is in part directed by the substituent-type on the cinnamate epoxide analogue. The catalyst also converted each cinnamate epoxide analogue to its corresponding isoserine, highlighting a biocatalytic route to arylisoserines, which play a key role in building the pharmacophore seen in anticancer and protease inhibitor drugs.
Characteristics of l-threonine transaldolase for asymmetric synthesis of β-hydroxy-α-amino acids
Xu, Lian,Wang, Li-Chao,Xu, Xin-Qi,Lin, Juan
, p. 5943 - 5952 (2019/11/14)
l-Threonine transaldolase (LTTA) is a putative serine hydroxymethyltransferase (SHMT) that can catalyze the trans-aldehyde reaction of l-threonine and aldehyde to produce l-threo-β-hydroxy-α-amino acids with excellent stereoselectivity. In the present study, an l-threonine transaldolase from Pseudomonas sp. (PsLTTA) was mined and expressed in Escherichia coli BL21 (DE3). A substrate spectrum assay indicated that PsLTTA only consumed l-threonine as the donor substrate and could accept a wide range of aromatic aldehydes as acceptor substrates. Among these substrates, PsLTTA could catalyze p-methylsulfonyl benzaldehyde and l-threonine to produce l-threo-p-methylsulfonylphenylserine with a high conversion rate (74.4%) and a high de value (79.9%). The conversion and stereoselectivity of PsLTTA were found to be dramatically influenced by the concentration of the whole cell, the co-solvent and the reaction temperature. Through conditional optimization, l-threo-p-methylsulfonylphenylserine was obtained with 67.1% conversion and a near-perfect de value (94.5%), the highest stereoselectivity for an l-threo-β-hydroxy-α-amino acid so far reported by enzymatic synthesis. Finally, synthesis of l-threo-p-methylsulfonylphenylserine at a 100 mL scale by whole-cell biocatalysis was conducted. This is the first systematic report of l-threonine transaldolase as a robust biocatalyst for preparation of β-hydroxy-α-amino acids, which can provide new insights for β-hydroxy-α-amino acids synthesis.
Application of Threonine Aldolases for the Asymmetric Synthesis of α-Quaternary α-Amino Acids
Blesl, Julia,Trobe, Melanie,Anderl, Felix,Breinbauer, Rolf,Strohmeier, Gernot A.,Fesko, Kateryna
, p. 3453 - 3458 (2018/07/30)
We report the synthesis of diverse β-hydroxy-α,α-dialkyl-α-amino acids with perfect stereoselectivity for the α-quaternary center through the action of l- and d-specific threonine aldolases. A wide variety of aliphatic and aromatic aldehydes were accepted by the enzymes and conversions up to >80 % were obtained. In the case of d-selective threonine aldolase from Pseudomonas sp., generally higher diastereoselectivities were observed. The applicability of the protocol was demonstrated by performing enzymatic reactions on preparative scale. Using the d-threonine aldolase from Pseudomonas sp., (2R,3S)-2-amino-3-(2-fluorophenyl)-3-hydroxy-2-methylpropanoic acid was generated in preparative amounts in one step with a diastereomeric ratio >100 favoring the syn-product. A Birch-type reduction enabled the reductive removal of the β-hydroxy group from (2S)-2-amino-3-hydroxy-2-methyl-3-phenylpropanoic acid to generate enantiopure l-α-methyl-phenylalanine via a two-step chemo-enzymatic transformation.
Total Synthesis of Ecumicin
Hawkins, Paige M. E.,Giltrap, Andrew M.,Nagalingam, Gayathri,Britton, Warwick J.,Payne, Richard J.
supporting information, p. 1019 - 1022 (2018/02/23)
The first total synthesis of the potent anti-mycobacterial cyclic depsipeptide natural product ecumicin is described. Synthesis was achieved via a solid-phase strategy, incorporating the synthetic non-proteinogenic amino acids N-methyl-4-methoxy-l-tryptophan and threo-β-hydroxy-l-phenylalanine into the growing linear peptide chain. The synthesis employed key on-resin esterification and dimethylation steps as well as a final macrolactamization between the unusual N-methyl-4-methoxy-l-tryptophan unit and a bulky N-methyl-l-valine residue. The synthetic natural product possessed potent antimycobacterial activity against the virulent H37Rv strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MIC90 = 312 nM).
A new d-threonine aldolase as a promising biocatalyst for highly stereoselective preparation of chiral aromatic β-hydroxy-α-amino acids
Chen, Qijia,Chen, Xi,Cui, Yunfeng,Ren, Jie,Lu, Wei,Feng, Jinhui,Wu, Qiaqing,Zhu, Dunming
, p. 5964 - 5973 (2017/12/26)
d-Threonine aldolase is an enzyme belonging to the glycine-dependent aldolases, and it catalyzes the reversible aldol reaction of glycine and acetaldehyde to give d-threonine and/or d-allo-threonine. In this study, a putative d-threonine aldolase gene from Delftia sp. RIT313 was cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli BL21 (DE3). The purified enzyme (DrDTA, 47 KDa) exhibited 21.3 U mg-1 activity for the aldol addition of glycine and acetaldehyde in MES-NaOH buffer (pH 6.0) at 50 °C. Both pyridoxal 5′-phosphate and metal ions were needed for the reaction, and the existence of the metal ions enhanced the stability of the enzyme. It was found that the conversion and Cβ-stereoselectivity were dramatically influenced by the reaction temperature, co-solvent, amount of enzyme and reaction time, and it is possible to enable the reaction under kinetic control to retain suitable conversion and high stereoselectivity at the β-carbon, thus tackling the "Cβ-stereoselectivity problem". DrDTA showed high activity toward aromatic aldehydes with electron-withdrawing substituents. Under the optimized reaction conditions, phenylserines with a 2′-fluoro- or 3′-nitro-substituent were obtained with >90% conversion and >90% de. In addition, dl-threo-phenylserine and dl-threo-4-(methylsulfonyl)phenylserine were efficiently resolved with an excellent enantiomeric excess value (ee, >99%) using a whole cell biocatalyst in a two-phase system at 1.0 M and 0.3 M, respectively, the highest substrate concentration reported so far. These results suggested that DrDTA might be a promising biocatalyst for producing chiral aromatic β-hydroxy-α-amino acids.
Engineered L-serine hydroxymethyltransferase from streptococcus thermophilus for the synthesis of α,α-dialkyl-α-amino acids
Bujons, Jordi,Claps, Pere,Hernandez, Karel,Joglar, Jesffls,Zelen, Igor,Usn, Isabel,Petrillo, Giovanna,Wandtke, Claudia M.,Parella, Teodor
supporting information, p. 3013 - 3017 (2015/10/05)
α,α-Disubstituted a-amino acids are central to biotechnological and biomedical chemical processes for their own sake and as substructures of biologically active molecules for diverse biomedical applications. Structurally, these compounds contain a quaternary stereocenter, which is particularly challenging for stereoselective synthesis. The pyridoxal-5′-phosphate (PLP)-dependent l -serine hydroxymethyltransferase from Streptococcus thermophilus (SHMTSth; EC 2.1.2.1) was engineered to achieve the stereoselective synthesis of a broad structural variety of α,α-dialkyl-α-amino acids. This was accomplished by the formation of quaternary stereocenters through aldol addition of the amino acids D-Ala and D-Ser to a wide acceptor scope catalyzed by the minimalist SHMTSth Y55T variant overcoming the limitation of the native enzyme for Gly. The SHMTSth Y55T variant tolerates aromatic and aliphatic aldehydes as well as hydroxy- and nitrogen-containing aldehydes as acceptors.
Multi-enzymatic synthesis of optically pure β-hydroxy α-amino acids
Hibi, Makoto,Kasahara, Takuya,Kawashima, Takashi,Yajima, Hiroko,Kozono, Shoko,Smirnov, Sergey V.,Kodera, Tomohiro,Sugiyama, Masakazu,Shimizu, Sakayu,Yokozeki, Kenzo,Ogawa, Jun
, p. 767 - 774 (2015/03/18)
A novel enzymatic production system of optically pure β-hydroxy α-amino acids was developed. Two enzymes were used for the system: an N-succinyl L-amino acid β-hydroxylase (SadA) belonging to the iron(II)/α-ketoglutarate-dependent dioxygenase superfamily and an N-succinyl L-amino acid desuccinylase (LasA). The genes encoding the two enzymes are part of a gene set responsible for the biosynthesis of peptidyl compounds found in the Burkholderia ambifaria AMMD genome. SadA stereoselectively hydroxylated several N-succinyl aliphatic L-amino acids and produced N-succinyl β-hydroxy L-amino acids, such as N-succinyl-L-β-hydroxyvaline, N-succinyl-L-threonine, (2S,3R)-N-succinyl-L-β-hydroxyisoleucine, and N-succinyl-L-threo-β-hydroxyleucine. LasA catalyzed the desuccinylation of various N-succinyl-L-amino acids. Surprisingly, LasA is the first amide bond-forming enzyme belonging to the amidohydrolase superfamily, and has succinylation activity towards the amino group of L-leucine. By combining SadA and LasA in a preparative scale production using N-succinyl-L-leucine as substrate, 2.3 mmol of L-threo-β-hydroxyleucine were successfully produced with 93% conversion and over 99% of diastereomeric excess. Consequently, the new production system described in this study has advantages in optical purity and reaction efficiency for application in the mass production of several β-hydroxy α-amino acids.
