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A catalytically versatile benzoyl-CoA reductase, key enzyme in the degradation of methyl- and halobenzoates in denitrifying bacteria
Tiedt, Oliver,Fuchs, Jonathan,Eisenreich, Wolfgang,Boll, Matthias
, p. 10264 - 10274 (2018/07/15)
Class I benzoyl-CoA (BzCoA) reductases (BCRs) are key enzymes in the anaerobic degradation of aromatic compounds. They catalyze the ATP-dependent reduction of the central BzCoA intermediate and analogues of it to conjugated cyclic 1,5-dienoyl-CoAs probably by a radical-based, Birch-like reduction mechanism. Discovered in 1995, the enzyme from the denitrifying bacterium Thauera aromatica (BCRTar) has so far remained the only isolated and biochemically accessible BCR, mainly because BCRs are extremely labile, and their heterologous production has largely failed so far. Here, we describe a platform for the heterologous expression of the four structural genes encoding a designated 3-methylbenzoyl-CoA reductase from the related denitrifying species Thauera chlorobenzoica (MBRTcl) in Escherichia coli. This reductase represents the prototype of a distinct subclass of ATP-dependent BCRs that were proposed to be involved in the degradation of methyl-substituted BzCoA analogues. The recombinant MBRTcl had an αβγδ-subunit architecture, contained three low-potential [4Fe- 4S] clusters, and was highly oxygen-labile. It catalyzed the ATPdependent reductive dearomatization of BzCoA with 2.3-2.8 ATPs hydrolyzed per two electrons transferred and preferentially dearomatized methyl- and chloro-substituted analogues in meta- and para-positions. NMR analyses revealed that 3-methylbenzoyl-CoA is regioselectively reduced to 3-methyl- 1,5-dienoyl-CoA. The unprecedented reductive dechlorination of 4-chloro-BzCoA toBzCoAprobably via HCl elimination from a reduced intermediate allowed for the previously unreported growth of T. chlorobenzoica on 4-chlorobenzoate. The heterologous expression platform established in this work enables the production, isolation, and characterization of bacterial and archaeal BCR and BCR-like radical enzymes, for many of which the function has remained unknown.
A Flexible Polyphosphate-Driven Regeneration System for Coenzyme A Dependent Catalysis
Mordhorst, Silja,Maurer, Alice,Popadi?, Désirée,Brech, Johanna,Andexer, Jennifer N.
, p. 4164 - 4168 (2017/10/23)
Coenzyme A (CoA) is a common cofactor in biochemical reactions, and CoA-dependent enzymes catalyze essential steps in anabolism and catabolism. This complex molecule also plays an important role in the synthesis of many high-value products, such as synthetic antibiotics, vitamins, pheromones, and biopolymers. Nevertheless, the synthetic potential for biocatalytic processes cannot be fully exploited owing to the lack of an efficient regeneration system. Here, we report an acyl-CoA regeneration system with integrated adenosine triphosphate (ATP) regeneration that is based on inexpensive polyphosphate as the single energy source. In the four-enzyme cascade, two cofactors, acyl-CoA and ATP, are each regenerated up to 2000 times. The applicability for different acyl donors and acceptors is shown by HPLC analysis. Owing to its flexibility toward virtually all relevant substrates, the system has the potential to make CoA-dependent reactions more accessible for chemical synthesis in vitro.
Chemoenzymatic Synthesis of Acyl Coenzyme A Substrates Enables in Situ Labeling of Small Molecules and Proteins
Agarwal, Vinayak,Diethelm, Stefan,Ray, Lauren,Garg, Neha,Awakawa, Takayoshi,Dorrestein, Pieter C.,Moore, Bradley S.
, p. 4452 - 4455 (2015/09/28)
A chemoenzymatic approach to generate fully functional acyl coenzyme A molecules that are then used as substrates to drive in situ acyl transfer reactions is described. Mass spectrometry based assays to verify the identity of acyl coenzyme A enzymatic products are also illustrated. The approach is responsive to a diverse array of carboxylic acids that can be elaborated to their corresponding coenzyme A thioesters, with potential applications in wide-ranging chemical biology studies that utilize acyl coenzyme A substrates.
Establishing a toolkit for precursor-directed polyketide biosynthesis: Exploring substrate promiscuities of acid-CoA ligases
Go, Maybelle Kho,Chow, Jeng Yeong,Cheung, Vivian Wing Ngar,Lim, Yan Ping,Yew, Wen Shan
experimental part, p. 4568 - 4579 (2012/08/28)
Polyketides are chemically diverse and medicinally important biochemicals that are biosynthesized from acyl-CoA precursors by polyketide synthases. One of the limitations to combinatorial biosynthesis of polyketides has been the lack of a toolkit that describes the means of delivering novel acyl-CoA precursors necessary for polyketide biosynthesis. Using five acid-CoA ligases obtained from various plants and microorganisms, we biosynthesized an initial library of 79 acyl-CoA thioesters by screening each of the acid-CoA ligases against a library of 123 carboxylic acids. The library of acyl-CoA thioesters includes derivatives of cinnamyl-CoA, 3-phenylpropanoyl-CoA, benzoyl-CoA, phenylacetyl-CoA, malonyl-CoA, saturated and unsaturated aliphatic CoA thioesters, and bicyclic aromatic CoA thioesters. In our search for the biosynthetic routes of novel acyl-CoA precursors, we discovered two previously unreported malonyl-CoA derivatives (3-thiophenemalonyl-CoA and phenylmalonyl-CoA) that cannot be produced by canonical malonyl-CoA synthetases. This report highlights the utility and importance of determining substrate promiscuities beyond conventional substrate pools and describes novel enzymatic routes for the establishment of precursor-directed combinatorial polyketide biosynthesis. (Chemical Presented).
SYNTHESIS OF ACYL-PANTETHEINE DERIVATIVES AND THE USE THEREOF IN THE SYNTHESIS OF ACYL-COENZYME A DERIVATIVES
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Page/Page column 20; 25-26, (2012/02/15)
The present invention relates to a novel synthesis method for acyl-pantetheine derivatives. The present invention further relates to the use of said synthesized acyl-pantetheine derivatives as a starting material in the enzymatic synthesis of acyl-coenzyme A derivatives. According to a first aspect thereof, the present invention provides a method for the synthesis of acyl-pantetheine derivatives, the method including the steps of: a) providing a source of pantetheine; b) providing a source of acyl ester; and c) contacting the source of pantetheine with the source of acyl ester to form the corresponding acyl-pantetheine derivative, having the general formula (I), wherein R is an acyl group.The present invention also provides a method for the synthesis of acyl-coenzyme A derivatives as well as the use of a source of pantetheine and a source of acyl ester in the preparation steps of these two methods.
Enantiodifferentiation of ketoprofen by Japanese firefly luciferase from Luciola lateralis
Kato, Dai-Ichiro,Tatsumi, Tomohiro,Bansho, Asami,Teruya, Keisuke,Yoshida, Hiromitsu,Takeo, Masahiro,Negoro, Seiji
experimental part, p. 140 - 146 (2012/01/19)
Recently, we found that firefly luciferase exhibited (R)-enantioselective thioesterification activity toward 2-arylpropanoic acids. In the case of Japanese firefly luciferase from Luciola lateralis (LUC-H), the E-value for ketoprofen was approximately 20. In this study, we used a spectrophotometric method to measure the catalytic activity of LUC-H. Using this method allowed us to judge the reaction efficiency easily. Our results confirmed that LUC-H exhibits enantioselective thioesterification activity toward a series of 2-arylpropanoic acids. The highest activity was observed with ketoprofen. We also observed high enzymatic activity of LUC-H toward long-chain fatty acids. These results were reasonable because LUC-H is homologous with long-chain acyl-CoA synthetase. To obtain further information about the enantiodifferentiation mechanism of the LUC-H catalyzed thioesterification of ketoprofen, we determined the kinetic parameters of the reaction relative to each of its three substrates: ketoprofen, ATP, and coenzyme A (CoASH). We found that whereas the affinities of each compound are not affected by the chirality of ketoprofen, enantiodifferentiation is achieved by a chirality-dependent difference in the kcat parameter.
Structural and biochemical characterization of the salicylyl-acyltranferase SsfX3 from a tetracycline biosynthetic pathway
Pickens, Lauren B.,Sawaya, Michael R.,Rasool, Huma,Pashkov, Inna,Yeates, Todd O.,Tang, Yi
experimental part, p. 41539 - 41551 (2012/04/11)
SsfX3 is a GDSL family acyltransferase that transfers salicylate to the C-4 hydroxyl of a tetracycline intermediate in the penultimate step during biosynthesis of the anticancer natural product SF2575. The C-4 salicylate takes the place of the more common C-4 dimethylamine functionality, making SsfX3 the first acyltransferase identified to act on a tetracycline substrate. The crystal structure of SsfX3 was determined at 2.5A , revealing two distinct domains as follows: an N-terminal β-sandwich domain that resembles a carbohydrate- binding module, and a C-terminal catalytic domain that contains the atypical α/β-hydrolase fold found in the GDSL hydrolase family of enzymes. The active site lies at one end of a large open binding pocket, which is spatially defined by structural elements from both the N- and C-terminal domains. Mutational analysis in the putative substrate binding pocket identified residues from both domains that are important for binding the acyl donor and acceptor. Furthermore, removal of the N-terminal carbohydrate-binding module- like domain rendered the stand-alone α/β-hydrolase domain inactive. The additional noncatalytic module is therefore proposed to be required to define the binding pocket and provide sufficient interactions with the spatially extended tetracyclic substrate. SsfX3 was also demonstrated to accept a variety of non-native acyl groups. This relaxed substrate specificity toward the acyl donor allowed the chemoenzymatic biosynthesis of C-4-modified analogs of the immediate precursor to the bioactive SF2575; these were used to assay the structure activity relationships at the C-4 position.
Enediyne antitumor antibiotic maduropeptin biosynthesis featuring a C-methyltransferase that acts on a COA-Tethered aromatic substrate
Ling, Jianya,Horsman, Geoffrey P.,Huang, Sheng-Xiong,Luo, Yinggang,Lin, Shuangjun,Shen, Ben
supporting information; experimental part, p. 12534 - 12536 (2010/11/04)
The enediyne antitumor antibiotic maduropeptin (MDP) is produced by Actinomadura madurae ATCC 39144. The biosynthetic pathway for the 3,6-dimethylsalicylic acid moiety of the MDP chromophore is proposed to be comprised of four enzymes: MdpB, MdpB1, MdpB2, and MdpB3. Based on the previously characterized biosynthesis of the naphthoic acid moiety of neocarzinostatin (NCS), we expected a biosynthetic pathway featuring carboxylic acid activation by the MdpB2 CoA ligase immediately before its coupling to an enediyne core intermediate. Surprisingly, the MDP aromatic acid biosynthetic pathway employs an unusual logic in which MdpB2-catalyzed CoA activation occurs before MdpB1-catalyzed C-methylation, demonstrating that MdpB1 is apparently unique in its ability to C-methylate a CoA-tethered aromatic acid. MdpB2 is a promiscuous CoA ligase capable of activating a variety of salicylic acid analogues, a property that could be potentially exploited to engineer MDP analogues.
Reversible biological birch reduction at an extremely low redox potential
Kung, Johannes W.,Baumann, Sven,Von Bergen, Martin,Mueller, Michael,Hagedoorn, Peter-Leon,Hagen, Wilfred R.,Boll, Matthias
body text, p. 9850 - 9856 (2010/09/06)
The Birch reduction of aromatic rings to cyclohexadiene compounds is widely used in chemical synthesis and requires solvated electrons, the most potent reductants known in organic chemistry. Benzoyl-coenzyme A (CoA) reductases (BCR) are key enzymes in the anaerobic bacterial degradation of aromatic compounds and catalyze an analogous reaction under physiological conditions. Class I BCRs are FeS enzymes and couple the reductive dearomatization of benzoyl-CoA to cyclohexa-1,5-diene-1-carboxyl-CoA (dienoyl-CoA) to a stoichiometric ATP hydrolysis. Here, we report on a tungsten-containing class II BCR from Geobacter metallireducens that catalyzed the fully reversible, ATP-independent dearomatization of benzoyl-CoA to dienoyl-CoA. BCR additionally catalyzed the disproportionation of dienoyl-CoA to benzoyl-CoA/monoenoyl-CoA and the four- and six-electron reduction of benzoyl-CoA in the presence of a reduced low-potential bridged 2,2′-bipyridyl redox dye. Reversible redox titration experiments in the presence of this redox dye revealed a midpoint potential of E0′= -622 mV for the benzoyl-CoA/dienoyl-CoA couple, which is far below the values of other known reversible substrate/product redox couples in enzymology. This work demonstrates the efficiency of reversible metalloenzyme catalysis, which in chemical synthesis can only be achieved under essentially irreversible conditions.
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.
