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Understanding Programming of Fungal Iterative Polyketide Synthases: The Biochemical Basis for Regioselectivity by the Methyltransferase Domain in the Lovastatin Megasynthase
Cacho, Ralph A.,Thuss, Justin,Xu, Wei,Sanichar, Randy,Gao, Zhizeng,Nguyen, Allison,Vederas, John C.,Tang, Yi
supporting information, p. 15688 - 15691 (2016/01/09)
Highly reducing polyketide synthases (HR-PKSs) from fungi synthesize complex natural products using a single set of domains in a highly programmed, iterative fashion. The most enigmatic feature of HR-PKSs is how tailoring domains function selectively during different iterations of chain elongation to afford structural diversity. Using the lovastatin nonaketide synthase LovB as a model system and a variety of acyl substrates, we characterized the substrate specificity of the LovB methyltransferase (MT) domain. We showed that, while the MT domain displays methylation activity toward different β-ketoacyl groups, it is exceptionally selective toward its naturally programmed β-keto-dienyltetraketide substrate with respect to both chain length and functionalization. Accompanying characterization of the ketoreductase (KR) domain displays broader substrate specificity toward different β-ketoacyl groups. Our studies indicate that selective modifications by tailoring domains, such as the MTs, are achieved by higher kinetic efficiency on a particular substrate relative to the rate of transformation by other competing domains.
On the influence of chiral auxiliaries in the stereoselective cross-coupling reactions of titanium enolates and acetals
Baiget, Jessica,Cosp, Annabel,Gálvez, Erik,Gómez-Pinal, Loreto,Romea, Pedro,Urpí, Fèlix
, p. 5637 - 5644 (2008/09/21)
Titanium enolates from chiral N-propanoyl-1,3-thiazolidine-2-thiones containing bulky substituents at C4 turned out to be excellent platforms to get highly stereocontrolled cross-coupling reactions with acetals. Related oxazolidinethiones also afforded go
