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Reprogramming a module of the 6-deoxyerythronolide B synthase for iterative chain elongation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2012; 109:4110-5. [PMID: 22371562 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1118734109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Multimodular polyketide synthases (PKSs) have an assembly line architecture in which a set of protein domains, known as a module, participates in one round of polyketide chain elongation and associated chemical modifications, after which the growing chain is translocated to the next PKS module. The ability to rationally reprogram these assembly lines to enable efficient synthesis of new polyketide antibiotics has been a long-standing goal in natural products biosynthesis. We have identified a ratchet mechanism that can explain the observed unidirectional translocation of the growing polyketide chain along the 6-deoxyerythronolide B synthase. As a test of this model, module 3 of the 6-deoxyerythronolide B synthase has been reengineered to catalyze two successive rounds of chain elongation. Our results suggest that high selectivity has been evolutionarily programmed at three types of protein-protein interfaces that are present repetitively along naturally occurring PKS assembly lines.
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Wong FT, Khosla C. Combinatorial biosynthesis of polyketides--a perspective. Curr Opin Chem Biol 2012; 16:117-23. [PMID: 22342766 DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2012.01.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2011] [Revised: 12/19/2011] [Accepted: 01/27/2012] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Since their discovery, polyketide synthases have been attractive targets of biosynthetic engineering to make 'unnatural' natural products. Although combinatorial biosynthesis has made encouraging advances over the past two decades, the field remains in its infancy. In this enzyme-centric perspective, we discuss the scientific and technological challenges that could accelerate the adoption of combinatorial biosynthesis as a method of choice for the preparation of encoded libraries of bioactive small molecules. Borrowing a page from the protein structure prediction community, we propose a periodic challenge program to vet the most promising methods in the field, and to foster the collective development of useful tools and algorithms.
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- Fong T Wong
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, United States
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Aquino C, Sarkar M, Chalmers MJ, Mendes K, Kodadek T, Micalizio GC. A biomimetic polyketide-inspired approach to small-molecule ligand discovery. Nat Chem 2011; 4:99-104. [PMID: 22270625 PMCID: PMC3266625 DOI: 10.1038/nchem.1200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2011] [Accepted: 10/14/2011] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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The discovery of new compounds for the pharmacological manipulation of protein function often embraces the screening of compound collections, and it is widely recognized that natural products offer beneficial characteristics as protein ligands. Much effort has therefore been focused on “natural product-like” libraries, yet the synthesis and screening of such libraries is often limited by one or more of the following: modest library sizes and structural diversity, conformational heterogeneity, and the costs associated with the substantial infrastructure of modern high-throughput screening centers. Here, we describe the design and execution of an approach to this broad problem by merging principles associated biologically-inspired oligomerization and the structure of polyketide-derived natural products. A novel class of chiral and conformationally-constrained oligomers is described (termed “chiral oligomers of pentenoic amides” – COPAs) that offers compatibility with split-and-pool methods and can be screened en masse in a batch mode. We demonstrate that a COPA library containing 160,000 compounds is a useful source of novel protein ligands by identifying a non-covalent synthetic ligand to the DNA-binding domain of the p53 transcription factor.
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- Claudio Aquino
- Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, Scripps Florida, Jupiter, Florida 33458, USA
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Recombinatorial biosynthesis of polyketides. J Ind Microbiol Biotechnol 2011; 39:503-11. [PMID: 22042517 DOI: 10.1007/s10295-011-1049-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2011] [Accepted: 10/15/2011] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Modular polyketide synthases (PKSs) from Streptomyces and related genera of bacteria produce many important pharmaceuticals. A program called CompGen was developed to carry out in silico homologous recombination between gene clusters encoding PKSs and determine whether recombinants have cluster architectures compatible with the production of polyketides. The chemical structure of recombinant polyketides was also predicted. In silico recombination was carried out for 47 well-characterised clusters. The predicted recombinants would produce 11,796 different polyketide structures. The molecular weights and average degree of reduction of the chemical structures are dispersed around the parental structures indicating that they are likely to include pharmaceutically interesting compounds. The details of the recombinants and the chemical structures were entered in a database called r-CSDB. The virtual compound library is a useful resource for computer-aided drug design and chemoinformatics strategies for finding pharmaceutically relevant chemical entities. A strategy to construct recombinant Streptomyces strains to produce these polyketides is described and the critical steps of mobilizing large biosynthetic clusters and producing new linear cloning vectors are illustrated by experimental data.
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Charkoudian LK, Liu CW, Capone S, Kapur S, Cane DE, Togni A, Seebach D, Khosla C. Probing the interactions of an acyl carrier protein domain from the 6-deoxyerythronolide B synthase. Protein Sci 2011; 20:1244-55. [PMID: 21563224 DOI: 10.1002/pro.652] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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The assembly-line architecture of polyketide synthases (PKSs) provides an opportunity to rationally reprogram polyketide biosynthetic pathways to produce novel antibiotics. A fundamental challenge toward this goal is to identify the factors that control the unidirectional channeling of reactive biosynthetic intermediates through these enzymatic assembly lines. Within the catalytic cycle of every PKS module, the acyl carrier protein (ACP) first collaborates with the ketosynthase (KS) domain of the paired subunit in its own homodimeric module so as to elongate the growing polyketide chain and then with the KS domain of the next module to translocate the newly elongated polyketide chain. Using NMR spectroscopy, we investigated the features of a structurally characterized ACP domain of the 6-deoxyerythronolide B synthase that contribute to its association with its KS translocation partner. Not only were we able to visualize selective protein-protein interactions between the two partners, but also we detected a significant influence of the acyl chain substrate on this interaction. A novel reagent, CF₃-S-ACP, was developed as a ¹⁹F NMR spectroscopic probe of protein-protein interactions. The implications of our findings for understanding intermodular chain translocation are discussed.
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Protein engineering towards natural product synthesis and diversification. J Ind Microbiol Biotechnol 2011; 39:227-41. [PMID: 22006344 DOI: 10.1007/s10295-011-1044-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2011] [Accepted: 09/29/2011] [Indexed: 10/16/2022]
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A dazzling array of enzymes is used by nature in making structurally complex natural products. These enzymes constitute a molecular toolbox that may be used in the construction and fine-tuning of pharmaceutically active molecules. Aided by technological advancements in protein engineering, it is now possible to tailor the activities and specificities of these enzymes as biocatalysts in the production of both natural products and their unnatural derivatives. These efforts are crucial in drug discovery and development, where there is a continuous quest for more potent agents. Both rational and random evolution techniques have been utilized in engineering these enzymes. This review will highlight some examples from several large families of natural products.
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Zheng J, Keatinge-Clay AT. Structural and Functional Analysis of C2-Type Ketoreductases from Modular Polyketide Synthases. J Mol Biol 2011; 410:105-17. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2011.04.065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2011] [Revised: 04/22/2011] [Accepted: 04/28/2011] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Planson AG, Carbonell P, Grigoras I, Faulon JL. Engineering antibiotic production and overcoming bacterial resistance. Biotechnol J 2011; 6:812-25. [PMID: 21661120 DOI: 10.1002/biot.201100085] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2011] [Revised: 05/13/2011] [Accepted: 05/16/2011] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Progress in DNA technology, analytical methods and computational tools is leading to new developments in synthetic biology and metabolic engineering, enabling new ways to produce molecules of industrial and therapeutic interest. Here, we review recent progress in both antibiotic production and strategies to counteract bacterial resistance to antibiotics. Advances in sequencing and cloning are increasingly enabling the characterization of antibiotic biosynthesis pathways, and new systematic methods for de novo biosynthetic pathway prediction are allowing the exploration of the metabolic chemical space beyond metabolic engineering. Moreover, we survey the computer-assisted design of modular assembly lines in polyketide synthases and non-ribosomal peptide synthases for the development of tailor-made antibiotics. Nowadays, production of novel antibiotic can be tranferred into any chosen chassis by optimizing a host factory through specific strain modifications. These advances in metabolic engineering and synthetic biology are leading to novel strategies for engineering antimicrobial agents with desired specificities.
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- Anne-Gaëlle Planson
- Institute of Systems and Synthetic Biology, University of Evry-Val-d'Esonne, 5 rue Henri Desbruères, Evry, France
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Cuskin F, Solovyova AS, Lewis RJ, Race PR. Crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of the bacillaene synthase trans-acting acyltransferase PksC. Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun 2011; 67:464-6. [PMID: 21505242 PMCID: PMC3080151 DOI: 10.1107/s1744309111003484] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2010] [Accepted: 01/26/2011] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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The antibiotic bacillaene is biosynthesized in Bacillus subtilis by a hybrid type 1 modular polyketide synthase/nonribosomal peptide synthetase of the trans-acyltransferase (trans-AT) class. Within this system, the essential acyl-group loading activity is provided by the action of three free-standing trans-acting acyltransferases. Here, the recombinant expression, purification and crystallization of the bacillaene synthase trans-acting acyltransferase PksC are reported. A diffraction data set has been collected from a single PksC crystal to 1.44 Å resolution and the crystal was found to belong to the orthorhombic space group P2(1)2(1)2(1).
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- Fiona Cuskin
- Institute for Cell and Molecular Biosciences, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University, Framlington Place, Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE2 4HH, England
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- Institute for Cell and Molecular Biosciences, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University, Framlington Place, Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE2 4HH, England
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- Institute for Cell and Molecular Biosciences, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University, Framlington Place, Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE2 4HH, England
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- Institute for Cell and Molecular Biosciences, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University, Framlington Place, Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE2 4HH, England
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Shankar S, Pillai MR. Translating cancer research by synthetic biology. MOLECULAR BIOSYSTEMS 2011; 7:1802-10. [PMID: 21437339 DOI: 10.1039/c1mb05016h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Synthetic biology concerns applying engineering principles to biological systems. Engineering properties such as fine tuning, novel specificity, and modularity could be components of a synthetic toolkit that can be exploited to explore various issues in cancer research such as elucidation of mechanisms and pathways, creating new diagnostic tools and novel therapeutic approaches. A repertoire of synthetic biology toolkits involving DNA, RNA and protein bio-parts, have been applied to address the issues of drug target identification, drug discovery and therapeutic treatment in cancer research, thereby projecting a new dimension in oncology research.
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- Sumitra Shankar
- Integrated Cancer Research Program, Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, Thycaud. PO, Thiruvananthapuram, 695 014, Kerala State, India
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Murphy AC. Metabolic engineering is key to a sustainable chemical industry. Nat Prod Rep 2011; 28:1406-25. [DOI: 10.1039/c1np00029b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Wu Y, Kang Q, Shen Y, Su W, Bai L. Cloning and functional analysis of the naphthomycin biosynthetic gene cluster in Streptomyces sp. CS. MOLECULAR BIOSYSTEMS 2011; 7:2459-69. [DOI: 10.1039/c1mb05036b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Starcevic A, Diminic J, Zucko J, Elbekali M, Schlosser T, Lisfi M, Vukelic A, Long PF, Hranueli D, Cullum J. A novel docking domain interface model predicting recombination between homoeologous modular biosynthetic gene clusters. J Ind Microbiol Biotechnol 2010; 38:1295-304. [PMID: 21107638 DOI: 10.1007/s10295-010-0909-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2010] [Accepted: 11/10/2010] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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An in silico model for homoeologous recombination between gene clusters encoding modular polyketide synthases (PKS) or non-ribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPS) was developed. This model was used to analyze recombination between 12 PKS clusters from Streptomyces species and related genera to predict if new clusters might give rise to new products. In many cases, there were only a limited number of recombination sites (about 13 per cluster pair), suggesting that recombination may pose constraints on the evolution of PKS clusters. Most recombination events occurred between pairs of ketosynthase (KS) domains, allowing the biosynthetic outcome of the recombinant modules to be predicted. About 30% of recombinants were predicted to produce polyketides. Four NRPS clusters from Streptomyces strains were also used for in silico recombination. They yielded a comparable number of recombinants to PKS clusters, but the adenylation (A) domains contained the largest proportion of recombination events; this might be a mechanism for producing new substrate specificities. The extreme G + C-content, the presence of linear chromosomes and plasmids, as well as the lack of a mutSL-mismatch repair system should favor production of recombinants in Streptomyces species.
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- Antonio Starcevic
- LB Genetik, University of Kaiserslautern, Postfach 3049, 67653, Kaiserslautern, Germany
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Zheng J, Taylor CA, Piasecki SK, Keatinge-Clay AT. Structural and Functional Analysis of A-Type Ketoreductases from the Amphotericin Modular Polyketide Synthase. Structure 2010; 18:913-22. [DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2010.04.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2010] [Revised: 04/19/2010] [Accepted: 04/22/2010] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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The advent of high throughput genome-scale bioinformatics has led to an exponential increase in available cellular system data. Systems metabolic engineering attempts to use data-driven approaches--based on the data collected with high throughput technologies--to identify gene targets and optimize phenotypical properties on a systems level. Current systems metabolic engineering tools are limited for predicting and defining complex phenotypes such as chemical tolerances and other global, multigenic traits. The most pragmatic systems-based tool for metabolic engineering to arise is the in silico genome-scale metabolic reconstruction. This tool has seen wide adoption for modeling cell growth and predicting beneficial gene knockouts, and we examine here how this approach can be expanded for novel organisms. This review will highlight advances of the systems metabolic engineering approach with a focus on de novo development and use of genome-scale metabolic reconstructions for metabolic engineering applications. We will then discuss the challenges and prospects for this emerging field to enable model-based metabolic engineering. Specifically, we argue that current state-of-the-art systems metabolic engineering techniques represent a viable first step for improving product yield that still must be followed by combinatorial techniques or random strain mutagenesis to achieve optimal cellular systems.
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- John Blazeck
- Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station, Austin, TX 78712, USA
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Cane DE. Programming of erythromycin biosynthesis by a modular polyketide synthase. J Biol Chem 2010; 285:27517-23. [PMID: 20522551 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.r110.144618] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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- David E Cane
- Department of Chemistry, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912-9108, USA.
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Anand S, Prasad MVR, Yadav G, Kumar N, Shehara J, Ansari MZ, Mohanty D. SBSPKS: structure based sequence analysis of polyketide synthases. Nucleic Acids Res 2010; 38:W487-96. [PMID: 20444870 PMCID: PMC2896141 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq340] [Citation(s) in RCA: 132] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Polyketide synthases (PKSs) catalyze biosynthesis of a diverse family of pharmaceutically important secondary metabolites. Bioinformatics analysis of sequence and structural features of PKS proteins plays a crucial role in discovery of new natural products by genome mining, as well as in design of novel secondary metabolites by biosynthetic engineering. The availability of the crystal structures of various PKS catalytic and docking domains, and mammalian fatty acid synthase module prompted us to develop SBSPKS software which consists of three major components. Model_3D_PKS can be used for modeling, visualization and analysis of 3D structure of individual PKS catalytic domains, dimeric structures for complete PKS modules and prediction of substrate specificity. Dock_Dom_Anal identifies the key interacting residue pairs in inter-subunit interfaces based on alignment of inter-polypeptide linker sequences to the docking domain structure. In case of modular PKS with multiple open reading frames (ORFs), it can predict the cognate order of substrate channeling based on combinatorial evaluation of all possible interface contacts. NRPS–PKS provides user friendly tools for identifying various catalytic domains in the sequence of a Type I PKS protein and comparing them with experimentally characterized PKS/NRPS clusters cataloged in the backend databases of SBSPKS. SBSPKS is available at http://www.nii.ac.in/sbspks.html.
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- Swadha Anand
- National Institute of Immunology, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi 110067, India
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Neumann H, Neumann-Staubitz P. Synthetic biology approaches in drug discovery and pharmaceutical biotechnology. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2010; 87:75-86. [PMID: 20396881 PMCID: PMC2872025 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-010-2578-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2010] [Revised: 03/21/2010] [Accepted: 03/22/2010] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Synthetic biology is the attempt to apply the concepts of engineering to biological systems with the aim to create organisms with new emergent properties. These organisms might have desirable novel biosynthetic capabilities, act as biosensors or help us to understand the intricacies of living systems. This approach has the potential to assist the discovery and production of pharmaceutical compounds at various stages. New sources of bioactive compounds can be created in the form of genetically encoded small molecule libraries. The recombination of individual parts has been employed to design proteins that act as biosensors, which could be used to identify and quantify molecules of interest. New biosynthetic pathways may be designed by stitching together enzymes with desired activities, and genetic code expansion can be used to introduce new functionalities into peptides and proteins to increase their chemical scope and biological stability. This review aims to give an insight into recently developed individual components and modules that might serve as parts in a synthetic biology approach to pharmaceutical biotechnology.
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- Heinz Neumann
- Free Floater (Junior) Research Group “Applied Synthetic Biology”, Institute for Microbiology and Genetics, Georg-August University Göttingen, Justus-von-Liebig Weg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- General Microbiology, Institute for Microbiology and Genetics, Georg-August University Göttingen, Grisebachstrasse 8, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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Na D, Kim TY, Lee SY. Construction and optimization of synthetic pathways in metabolic engineering. Curr Opin Microbiol 2010; 13:363-70. [PMID: 20219419 DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2010.02.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2010] [Accepted: 02/10/2010] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Metabolic engineering has enabled us to develop strains suitable for their use as microbial factories of chemicals and materials from renewable sources. It has recently become more powerful with the advanced in synthetic biology, which is allowing us to create novel and fine-controlled metabolic and regulatory circuits maximizing metabolic fluxes to the desired products in the strain being developed. This enables us to engineer host microorganisms to enhance their innate metabolic capabilities or to gain new capabilities in the production of target compounds. Here we review recently constructed synthetic pathways that have been successfully applied for producing non-innate chemicals and also discuss recent approaches developed to increase the efficiency of synthetic pathways for achieving higher productivities of desired bioproducts.
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- Dokyun Na
- Metabolic and Biomolecular Engineering National Research Laboratory, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (BK21 Program), Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 305-701, Republic of Korea
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Tosin M, Betancor L, Stephens E, Ariel Li WM, Spencer JB, Leadlay PF. Synthetic Chain Terminators Off-Load Intermediates from a Type I Polyketide Synthase. Chembiochem 2010; 11:539-46. [DOI: 10.1002/cbic.200900772] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Combinatorial and Synthetic Biosynthesis in Actinomycetes. FORTSCHRITTE DER CHEMIE ORGANISCHER NATURSTOFFE / PROGRESS IN THE CHEMISTRY OF ORGANIC NATURAL PRODUCTS, VOL. 93 2010; 93:211-37. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7091-0140-7_3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Valenzano CR, Lawson RJ, Chen AY, Khosla C, Cane DE. The biochemical basis for stereochemical control in polyketide biosynthesis. J Am Chem Soc 2009; 131:18501-11. [PMID: 19928853 PMCID: PMC3699857 DOI: 10.1021/ja908296m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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One of the most striking features of complex polyketides is the presence of numerous methyl- and hydroxyl-bearing stereogenic centers. To investigate the biochemical basis for the control of polyketide stereochemistry and to establish the timing and mechanism of the epimerization at methyl-bearing centers, a series of incubations was carried out using reconstituted components from a variety of modular polyketide synthases. In all cases the stereochemistry of the product was directly correlated with the intrinsic stereospecificity of the ketoreductase domain, independent of the particular chain elongation domains that were used, thereby establishing that methyl group epimerization, when it does occur, takes place after ketosynthase-catalyzed chain elongation. The finding that there were only minor differences in the rates of product formation observed for parallel incubations using an epimerizing ketoreductase domain and the nonepimerizing ketoreductase domain supports the proposal that the epimerization is catalyzed by the ketoreductase domain itself.
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- Chiara R. Valenzano
- Department of Chemistry, Box H, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912-9108
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- Department of Chemistry, Box H, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912-9108
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305
- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305
- Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305
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- Department of Chemistry, Box H, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912-9108
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Koglin A, Walsh CT. Structural insights into nonribosomal peptide enzymatic assembly lines. Nat Prod Rep 2009; 26:987-1000. [PMID: 19636447 DOI: 10.1039/b904543k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 132] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Nonribosomal peptides have a variety of medicinal activities including activity as antibiotics, antitumor drugs, immunosuppressives, and toxins. Their biosynthesis on multimodular assembly lines as a series of covalently tethered thioesters, in turn covalently attached on pantetheinyl arms on carrier protein way stations, reflects similar chemical logic and protein machinery to fatty acid and polyketide biosynthesis. While structural information on excised or isolated catalytic adenylation (A), condensation (C), peptidyl carrier protein (PCP) and thioesterase (TE) domains had been gathered over the past decade, little was known about how the NRPS catalytic and carrier domains interact with each other both within and across elongation or termination modules. This Highlight reviews recent breakthrough achievements in both X-ray and NMR spectroscopic studies that illuminate the architecture of NRPS PCP domains, PCP-containing didomain-fragments and of a full termination module (C-A-PCP-TE).
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- Alexander Koglin
- Department of Biological Chemistry & Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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