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Zafar S, Armaghan M, Khan K, Hassan N, Sharifi-Rad J, Habtemariam S, Kieliszek M, Butnariu M, Bagiu IC, Bagiu RV, Cho WC. New insights into the anticancer therapeutic potential of maytansine and its derivatives. Biomed Pharmacother 2023; 165:115039. [PMID: 37364476 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopha.2023.115039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2023] [Revised: 06/19/2023] [Accepted: 06/20/2023] [Indexed: 06/28/2023] Open
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Maytansine is a pharmacologically active 19-membered ansamacrolide derived from various medicinal plants and microorganisms. Among the most studied pharmacological activities of maytansine over the past few decades are anticancer and anti-bacterial effects. The anticancer mechanism of action is primarily mediated through interaction with the tubulin thereby inhibiting the assembly of microtubules. This ultimately leads to decreased stability of microtubule dynamics and cause cell cycle arrest, resulting in apoptosis. Despite its potent pharmacological effects, the therapeutic applications of maytansine in clinical medicine are quite limited due to its non-selective cytotoxicity. To overcome these limitations, several derivatives have been designed and developed mostly by modifying the parent structural skeleton of maytansine. These structural derivatives exhibit improved pharmacological activities as compared to maytansine. The present review provides a valuable insight into maytansine and its synthetic derivatives as anticancer agents.
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- Sameen Zafar
- Department of Healthcare Biotechnology, Atta-ur-Rahman School of Applied Biosciences, National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Punjab, Pakistan
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- Department of Healthcare Biotechnology, Atta-ur-Rahman School of Applied Biosciences, National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Punjab, Pakistan
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- Department of Healthcare Biotechnology, Atta-ur-Rahman School of Applied Biosciences, National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan
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- Pharmacognosy Research & Herbal Analysis Services UK, University of Greenwich, Central Avenue, Chatham-Maritime, Kent ME4 4TB, UK.
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- Department of Food Biotechnology and Microbiology, Institute of Food Sciences, Warsaw University of Life Sciences-SGGW, Nowoursynowska 159 C, 02-776 Warsaw, Poland.
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- University of Life Sciences "King Mihai I" from Timisoara, 300645, Calea Aradului 119, Timis, Romania.
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- Victor Babes University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Timisoara, Department of Microbiology, Timisoara, Romania; Multidisciplinary Research Center on Antimicrobial Resistance, Timisoara, Romania
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- Victor Babes University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Timisoara, Department of Microbiology, Timisoara, Romania; Preventive Medicine Study Center, Timisoara, Romania
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- Department of Clinical Oncology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Kowloon, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
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Skrzypczak N, Buczkowski A, Bohusz W, Nowak E, Tokarska K, Leśniewska A, Alzebari AM, Ruszkowski P, Gdaniec M, Bartl F, Przybylski P. Modifications of geldanamycin via CuAAC altering affinity to chaperone protein Hsp90 and cytotoxicity. Eur J Med Chem 2023; 256:115450. [PMID: 37210951 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2023.115450] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2023] [Revised: 04/24/2023] [Accepted: 05/03/2023] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Functionalization of alkyne (1) and azide (2) derivatives of geldanamycin (GDM) via dipolar cycloaddition CuAAC yielded 35 new congeners (3-37) with C(17)-triazole arms bearing caps of different nature (basic vs. acidic, hydrophilic vs. hydrophobic). Confrontation of biological data (anticancer activity vs. toxicity in normal cells) with lipophilicity (clogP), dissociation constants (Kd) of complexes with Hsp90 and binding modes to Hsp90 revealed SAR in specific subgroups of GDM derivatives. The most potent GDM congeners 14-16, bearing C(17)-triazole-benzyl-halogen arms exhibited the most optimal clogP values of 2.7-3.1 at favourable binding to Hsp90 (KdHsp90 at μM level). The anticancer activity of 14-16 (IC50 = 0.23-0.41 μM) is higher than those of GDM (IC50 = 0.58-0.64 μM) and actinomycin D (ActD, IC50 = 0.62-0.71 μM) in SKBR-3, SKOV-3 and PC-3 cell lines, with a comparable cytotoxicity in healthy cells. The relationship between structure and attractive anticancer potency (IC50 = 0.53-0.74 μM) is also observed for congeners with C(17)-triazole-saccharide or C(17)-triazole-unsaturated arms. In the former, the absolute configuration at C(4) (ᴅ-glucose vs. ᴅ-galactose) whereas in the latter the length of the unsaturated arm influences the cytotoxic effects due to different binding strength (Kd, ΔE) and modes with Hsp90. Among all triazole congeners of GDM that are biologically attractive and exhibit lower toxicity in normal cells than GDM and ActD, the derivative 22, bearing the C(17)-triazole-cinnamyl arm, shows the lowest Kd (Hsp90), optimal clogP = 2.82, the best pro-apoptotic properties in SKBR-3 and SKOV-3 and the best selectivity indices (SI). For the most potent GDM derivatives with C(17)-triazole arm, the docking studies have suggested the importance of the intermolecular stabilization between the arm and the D57 or Y61 of Hsp90.
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- Natalia Skrzypczak
- Faculty of Chemistry, Adam Mickiewicz University, Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 8, 61-614, Poznań, Poland
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- Unit of Biophysical Chemistry, Department of Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Lodz, Pomorska 165, Lodz, 90-236, Poland
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- Faculty of Chemistry, Adam Mickiewicz University, Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 8, 61-614, Poznań, Poland
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- Faculty of Chemistry, Adam Mickiewicz University, Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 8, 61-614, Poznań, Poland
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- Faculty of Chemistry, Adam Mickiewicz University, Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 8, 61-614, Poznań, Poland
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- Faculty of Chemistry, Adam Mickiewicz University, Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 8, 61-614, Poznań, Poland
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- Faculty of Chemistry, Adam Mickiewicz University, Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 8, 61-614, Poznań, Poland
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- Department of Pharmacology, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Rokietnicka 5a, 60-806, Poznań, Poland
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- Faculty of Chemistry, Adam Mickiewicz University, Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 8, 61-614, Poznań, Poland
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- Lebenswissenschaftliche Fakultӓt, Institut fȕr Biologie, Biophysikalische Chemie Humboldt-Universitӓt zu Berlin, Invalidenstraße 42, Berlin, Germany
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- Faculty of Chemistry, Adam Mickiewicz University, Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 8, 61-614, Poznań, Poland.
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Skrzypczak N, Przybylski P. Structural diversity and biological relevance of benzenoid and atypical ansamycins and their congeners. Nat Prod Rep 2022; 39:1678-1704. [PMID: 35262153 DOI: 10.1039/d2np00004k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Covering: 2011 to 2021The structural division of ansamycins, including those of atypical cores and different lengths of the ansa chains, is presented. Recently discovered benzenoid and atypical ansamycin scaffolds are presented in relation to their natural source and biosynthetic routes realized in bacteria as well as their muta and semisynthetic modifications influencing biological properties. To better understand the structure-activity relationships among benzenoid ansamycins structural aspects together with mechanisms of action regarding different targets in cells, are discussed. The most promising directions for structural optimizations of benzenoid ansamycins, characterized by predominant anticancer properties, were discussed in view of their potential medical and pharmaceutical applications. The bibliography of the review covers mainly years from 2011 to 2021.
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- Natalia Skrzypczak
- Faculty of Chemistry, Adam Mickiewicz University, Uniwersytetu Poznanskiego 8, 61-614 Poznan, Poland.
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- Faculty of Chemistry, Adam Mickiewicz University, Uniwersytetu Poznanskiego 8, 61-614 Poznan, Poland.
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Kudo F, Takahashi S, Miyanaga A, Nakazawa Y, Nishino K, Hayakawa Y, Kawamura K, Ishikawa F, Tanabe G, Iwai N, Nagumo Y, Usui T, Eguchi T. Mutational Biosynthesis of Hitachimycin Analogs Controlled by the β-Amino Acid-Selective Adenylation Enzyme HitB. ACS Chem Biol 2021; 16:539-547. [PMID: 33625847 DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.1c00003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Hitachimycin is a macrolactam antibiotic with an (S)-β-phenylalanine (β-Phe) at the starter position of its polyketide skeleton. (S)-β-Phe is formed from l-α-phenylalanine by the phenylananine-2,3-aminomutase HitA in the hitachimycin biosynthetic pathway. In this study, we produced new hitachimycin analogs via mutasynthesis by feeding various (S)-β-Phe analogs to a ΔhitA strain. We obtained six hitachimycin analogs with F at the ortho, meta, or para position and Cl, Br, or a CH3 group at the meta position of the phenyl moiety, as well as two hitachimycin analogs with thienyl substitutions. Furthermore, we carried out a biochemical and structural analysis of HitB, a β-amino acid-selective adenylation enzyme that introduces (S)-β-Phe into the hitachimycin biosynthetic pathway. The KM values of the incorporated (S)-β-Phe analogs and natural (S)-β-Phe were similar. However, the KM values of unincorporated (S)-β-Phe analogs with Br and a CH3 group at the ortho or para position of the phenyl moiety were high, indicating that HitB functions as a gatekeeper to select macrolactam starter units during mutasynthesis. The crystal structure of HitB in complex with (S)-β-3-Br-phenylalanine sulfamoyladenosine (β-m-Br-Phe-SA) revealed that the bulky meta-Br group is accommodated by the conformational flexibility around Phe328, whose side chain is close to the meta position. The aromatic group of β-m-Br-Phe-SA is surrounded by hydrophobic and aromatic residues, which appears to confer the conformational flexibility that enables HitB to accommodate the meta-substituted (S)-β-Phe. The new hitachimycin analogs exhibited different levels of biological activity in HeLa cells and multidrug-sensitive budding yeast, suggesting that they may target different molecules.
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- Fumitaka Kudo
- Department of Chemistry, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 Meguro-ku, O-okayama, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 Meguro-ku, O-okayama, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 Meguro-ku, O-okayama, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 Meguro-ku, O-okayama, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 Meguro-ku, O-okayama, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 Meguro-ku, O-okayama, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 Meguro-ku, O-okayama, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan
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- Faculty of Pharmacy, Kindai University, 3-4-1 Kowakae, Higashi-Osaka, Osaka 577-8502, Japan
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- Faculty of Pharmacy, Kindai University, 3-4-1 Kowakae, Higashi-Osaka, Osaka 577-8502, Japan
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- Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba 305-8572, Ibaraki, Japan
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- Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba 305-8572, Ibaraki, Japan
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- Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba 305-8572, Ibaraki, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 Meguro-ku, O-okayama, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan
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Wesemann F, Heutling A, Wienecke P, Kirschning A. First Ring-Expanded Maytansin Lactone Accessed by a New Mutasynthetic Variant. Chembiochem 2020; 21:2927-2930. [PMID: 32484951 PMCID: PMC7689855 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.202000336] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2020] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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A multiblocked mutant strain (ΔAHBA and Δasm12, asm21) of Actinosynnema pretiosum, the producer of the highly toxic maytansinoid ansamitocin, has been used for the mutasynthetic production of new proansamitocin derivatives. The use of mutant strains that are blocked in the biosynthesis of an early building block as well as in the expression of two tailoring enzymes broadens the scope of chemo-biosynthetic access to new maytansinoids. Remarkably, a ring-expanded macrolactone derived from ansamitocin was created for the first time.
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- Friederike Wesemann
- Institute of Organic Chemistry and, Center of Biomolecular Drug Research (BMWZ), Leibniz University Hannover, Schneiderberg 1B, 30167, Hannover, Germany
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and, Center of Biomolecular Drug Research (BMWZ), Leibniz University Hannover, Schneiderberg 1B, 30167, Hannover, Germany
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and, Center of Biomolecular Drug Research (BMWZ), Leibniz University Hannover, Schneiderberg 1B, 30167, Hannover, Germany
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and, Center of Biomolecular Drug Research (BMWZ), Leibniz University Hannover, Schneiderberg 1B, 30167, Hannover, Germany
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Sester A, Stüer-Patowsky K, Hiller W, Kloss F, Lütz S, Nett M. Biosynthetic Plasticity Enables Production of Fluorinated Aurachins. Chembiochem 2020; 21:2268-2273. [PMID: 32216075 PMCID: PMC7496329 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.202000166] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2020] [Revised: 03/25/2020] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Enzyme promiscuity has important implications in the field of biocatalysis. In some cases, structural analogues of simple metabolic building blocks can be processed through entire pathways to give natural product derivatives that are not readily accessible by chemical means. In this study, we explored the plasticity of the aurachin biosynthesis pathway with regard to using fluoro‐ and chloroanthranilic acids, which are not abundant in the bacterial producers of these quinolone antibiotics. The incorporation rates of the tested precursor molecules disclosed a regiopreference for halogen substitution as well as steric limitations of enzymatic substrate tolerance. Three previously undescribed fluorinated aurachin derivatives were produced in preparative amounts by fermentation and structurally characterized. Furthermore, their antibacterial activities were evaluated in comparison to their natural congener aurachin D.
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- Angela Sester
- Department of Biochemical and Chemical Engineering Laboratory of Technical Biology, TU Dortmund, Emil-Figge-Strasse 66, 44227, Dortmund, Germany
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- Department of Biochemical and Chemical Engineering Laboratory of Technical Biology, TU Dortmund, Emil-Figge-Strasse 66, 44227, Dortmund, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology NMR Laboratory, TU Dortmund, Otto-Hahn-Strasse 4a, 44227, Dortmund, Germany
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- Transfer Group Antiinfectives, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, Beutenbergstrasse 11a, 07745, Jena, Germany
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- Department of Biochemical and Chemical Engineering Chair for Bioprocess Engineering, TU Dortmund, Emil-Figge-Strase 66, 44227, Dortmund, Germany
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- Department of Biochemical and Chemical Engineering Laboratory of Technical Biology, TU Dortmund, Emil-Figge-Strasse 66, 44227, Dortmund, Germany
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Hermane J, Eichner S, Mancuso L, Schröder B, Sasse F, Zeilinger C, Kirschning A. New geldanamycin derivatives with anti Hsp properties by mutasynthesis. Org Biomol Chem 2019; 17:5269-5278. [PMID: 31089638 DOI: 10.1039/c9ob00892f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Mutasynthetic supplementation of the AHBA blocked mutant strain of S. hygroscopicus, the geldanamycin producer, with 21 aromatic and heteroaromatic amino acids provided new nonquinoid geldanamycin derivatives. Large scale (5 L) fermentation provided four new derivatives in sufficient quantity for full structural characterisation. Among these, the first thiophene derivative of reblastatin showed strong antiproliferative activity towards several human cancer cell lines. Additionally, inhibitory effects on human heat shock protein Hsp90α and bacterial heat shock protein from H. pylori HpHtpG were observed, revealing strong displacement properties for labelled ATP and demonstrating that the ATP-binding site of Hsps is the target site for the new geldanamycin derivatives.
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- Jekaterina Hermane
- Institute of Organic Chemistry, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Schneiderberg 1B, 30167 Hannover, Germany.
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Klein AS, Domröse A, Bongen P, Brass HUC, Classen T, Loeschcke A, Drepper T, Laraia L, Sievers S, Jaeger KE, Pietruszka J. New Prodigiosin Derivatives Obtained by Mutasynthesis in Pseudomonas putida. ACS Synth Biol 2017; 6:1757-1765. [PMID: 28505410 DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.7b00099] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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The deeply red-colored natural compound prodigiosin is a representative of the prodiginine alkaloid family, which possesses bioactivities as antimicrobial, antitumor, and antimalarial agents. Various bacteria including the opportunistic human pathogen Serratia marcescens and different members of the Streptomycetaceae and Pseudoalteromonadaceae produce prodiginines. In addition, these microbes generally accumulate many structurally related alkaloids making efficient prodiginine synthesis and purification difficult and expensive. Furthermore, it is known that structurally different natural prodiginine variants display differential bioactivities. In the herein described mutasynthesis approach, 13 different derivatives of prodigiosin were obtained utilizing the GRAS (generally recognized as safe) classified strain Pseudomonas putida KT2440. Genetic engineering of the prodigiosin pathway together with incorporation of synthetic intermediates thus resulted in the formation of a so far unprecedented structural diversity of new prodiginine derivatives in P. putida. Furthermore, the formed products allow reliable conclusions regarding the substrate specificity of PigC, the final condensing enzyme in the prodigiosin biosynthesis pathway of S. marcescens. The biological activity of prodigiosin toward modulation of autophagy was preserved in prodiginine derivatives. One prodiginine derivative displayed more potent autophagy inhibitory activity than the parent compound or the synthetic clinical candidate obatoclax.
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- Insitute
of Bio- and Geosciences (IBG-1), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, 52428, Germany
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- Insitute
of Bio- and Geosciences (IBG-1), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, 52428, Germany
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- Insitute
of Bio- and Geosciences (IBG-1), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, 52428, Germany
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Seidel K, Balakrishnan A, Alexiou C, Janko C, Komoll RM, Wang LL, Kirschning A, Ott M. Synthesis of Magnetic-Nanoparticle/Ansamitocin Conjugates-Inductive Heating Leads to Decreased Cell Proliferation In Vitro and Attenuation Of Tumour Growth In Vivo. Chemistry 2017; 23:12326-12337. [PMID: 28585348 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201701491] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2017] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Conjugates based on nanostructured, superparamagnetic particles, a thermolabile linker and a cytotoxic maytansinoid were developed to serve as a model for tumour-selective drug delivery and release. It combines chemo- with thermal therapy. The linker-modified toxin was prepared by a combination of biotechnology and semisynthesis. Drug release was achieved by hyperthermia through an external oscillating electromagnetic field that induces heat inside the particles. Efficacy of this release concept was demonstrated both for cancer cell proliferation in vitro, and for tumour growth in vivo, in a xenograft mouse model. Biocompatibility studies for these magnetic-nanoparticle/ansamitocin conjugates complement this work.
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- Katja Seidel
- Institut für Organische Chemie und Biomolekulares Wirkstoffzentrum (BMWZ), Leibniz Universität Hannover, Schneiderberg 1B, 30167, Hannover, Germany
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School (MHH) and TWINCORE, Center for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research, Feodor-Lynen-Str. 7, 30625, Hannover, Germany
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Section of Experimental Oncology and Nanomedicine (SEON), Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung Professorship, University Hospital Erlangen, Glückstraße 10a, 91054, Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Section of Experimental Oncology and Nanomedicine (SEON), Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung Professorship, University Hospital Erlangen, Glückstraße 10a, 91054, Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School (MHH) and TWINCORE, Center for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research, Feodor-Lynen-Str. 7, 30625, Hannover, Germany
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- Institut für Organische Chemie und Biomolekulares Wirkstoffzentrum (BMWZ), Leibniz Universität Hannover, Schneiderberg 1B, 30167, Hannover, Germany
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- Institut für Organische Chemie und Biomolekulares Wirkstoffzentrum (BMWZ), Leibniz Universität Hannover, Schneiderberg 1B, 30167, Hannover, Germany
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School (MHH) and TWINCORE, Center for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research, Feodor-Lynen-Str. 7, 30625, Hannover, Germany
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Franke J, Hertweck C. Biomimetic Thioesters as Probes for Enzymatic Assembly Lines: Synthesis, Applications, and Challenges. Cell Chem Biol 2016; 23:1179-1192. [PMID: 27693058 DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2016.08.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2016] [Revised: 08/09/2016] [Accepted: 08/31/2016] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Thioesters play essential roles in many biosynthetic pathways to fatty acids, esters, polyketides, and non-ribosomal peptides. Coenzyme A (CoA) and related phosphopantetheine thioesters are typically employed as activated acyl units for diverse C-C, C-O, and C-N coupling reactions. To study and control these enzymatic assembly lines in vitro and in vivo structurally simplified analogs such as N-acetylcysteamine (NAC) thioesters have been developed. This review gives an overview on experimental strategies enabled by synthetic NAC thioesters, such as the elucidation of complex biosynthetic pathways and enzyme mechanisms as well as precursor-directed biosynthesis and mutasynthesis. The review also summarizes synthetic protocols and protection group strategies to access these versatile synthetic tools, which are reactive and often unstable compounds. In addition, alternative phosphopantetheine thioester mimics are presented that can be used as protein tags or suicide inhibitors for protein crosslinking and off-loading probes to elucidate polyketide intermediates.
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- Jakob Franke
- Department of Biomolecular Chemistry, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology (HKI), Beutenbergstraße 11a, 07745 Jena, Germany
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- Department of Biomolecular Chemistry, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology (HKI), Beutenbergstraße 11a, 07745 Jena, Germany; Friedrich Schiller University, 07743 Jena, Germany.
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Bułyszko I, Dräger G, Klenge A, Kirschning A. Evaluation of the Synthetic Potential of an AHBA Knockout Mutant of the Rifamycin Producer Amycolatopsis mediterranei. Chemistry 2015; 21:19231-42. [PMID: 26559164 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201503548] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2015] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Supplementing an AHBA(-) mutant strain of Amycolatopsis mediterranei, the rifamycin producer, with a series of benzoic acid derivatives yielded new tetraketides containing different phenyl groups. These mutasynthetic studies revealed unique reductive properties of A. mediterranei towards nitro- and azidoarenes, leading to the corresponding anilines. In selected cases, the yields of mutaproducts (fermentation products isolated after feeding bacteria with chemically prepared analogs of natural building blocks) obtained are in a range (up to 118 mg L(-1)) that renders them useful as chiral building blocks for further synthetic endeavors. The configuration of the stereogenic centers at C6 and C7 was determined to be 6R,7S for one representative tetraketide. Importantly, processing beyond the tetraketide stage is not always blocked when the formation of the bicyclic naphthalene precursor cannot occur. This was proven by formation of a bromo undecaketide, an observation that has implications regarding the evolutionary development of rifamycin biosynthesis.
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- Ilona Bułyszko
- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Center of Biomolecular Drug Research (BMWZ), Leibniz Universität Hannover, Schneiderberg 1B, 30167 Hannover (Germany)
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Center of Biomolecular Drug Research (BMWZ), Leibniz Universität Hannover, Schneiderberg 1B, 30167 Hannover (Germany)
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Center of Biomolecular Drug Research (BMWZ), Leibniz Universität Hannover, Schneiderberg 1B, 30167 Hannover (Germany)
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Center of Biomolecular Drug Research (BMWZ), Leibniz Universität Hannover, Schneiderberg 1B, 30167 Hannover (Germany).
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Ding L, Franke J, Hertweck C. Divergolide congeners illuminate alternative reaction channels for ansamycin diversification. Org Biomol Chem 2015; 13:1618-23. [DOI: 10.1039/c4ob02244k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Isolation and structure elucidation of six new divergolides reveal unusual ansamycin diversification reactions including formation of the unusual isobutenyl side chain from a branched polyketide synthase extender unit, azepinone ring closure, macrolide ring contraction and formation of a seco variant by a neighboring group-assisted decarboxylation.
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- Ling Ding
- Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology
- HKI
- Department of Biomolecular Chemistry
- 07745 Jena
- Germany
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- Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology
- HKI
- Department of Biomolecular Chemistry
- 07745 Jena
- Germany
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- Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology
- HKI
- Department of Biomolecular Chemistry
- 07745 Jena
- Germany
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In this article strategies for the design and synthesis of natural product analogues are summarized and illustrated with some selected examples.
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- Martin E. Maier
- Institut für Organische Chemie
- Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
- 72076 Tübingen
- Germany
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Mancuso L, Knobloch T, Buchholz J, Hartwig J, Möller L, Seidel K, Collisi W, Sasse F, Kirschning A. Preparation of Thermocleavable Conjugates Based on Ansamitocin and Superparamagnetic Nanostructured Particles by a Chemobiosynthetic Approach. Chemistry 2014; 20:17541-51. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.201404502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2014] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Gerrit Jürjens
- Institute of Organic Chemistry
and Center of Biomolecuclar Drug Research (BMWZ), Leibniz Universität Hannover, Schneiderberg 1B, 30167 Hannover, Germany
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry
and Center of Biomolecuclar Drug Research (BMWZ), Leibniz Universität Hannover, Schneiderberg 1B, 30167 Hannover, Germany
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Basmadjian C, Zhao Q, Bentouhami E, Djehal A, Nebigil CG, Johnson RA, Serova M, de Gramont A, Faivre S, Raymond E, Désaubry LG. Cancer wars: natural products strike back. Front Chem 2014; 2:20. [PMID: 24822174 PMCID: PMC4013484 DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2014.00020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2014] [Accepted: 04/04/2014] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Natural products have historically been a mainstay source of anticancer drugs, but in the 90's they fell out of favor in pharmaceutical companies with the emergence of targeted therapies, which rely on antibodies or small synthetic molecules identified by high throughput screening. Although targeted therapies greatly improved the treatment of a few cancers, the benefit has remained disappointing for many solid tumors, which revitalized the interest in natural products. With the approval of rapamycin in 2007, 12 novel natural product derivatives have been brought to market. The present review describes the discovery and development of these new anticancer drugs and highlights the peculiarities of natural product and new trends in this exciting field of drug discovery.
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- Christine Basmadjian
- Therapeutic Innovation Laboratory, UMR7200, CNRS/University of StrasbourgIllkirch, France
- AAREC Filia ResearchClichy, France
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- Therapeutic Innovation Laboratory, UMR7200, CNRS/University of StrasbourgIllkirch, France
- AAREC Filia ResearchClichy, France
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- L.C.I.M.N Laboratory, Department of Process Engineering, Faculty of Technology, University Ferhat AbbasSétif, Algeria
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- Therapeutic Innovation Laboratory, UMR7200, CNRS/University of StrasbourgIllkirch, France
- L.C.I.M.N Laboratory, Department of Process Engineering, Faculty of Technology, University Ferhat AbbasSétif, Algeria
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- Biotechnology and Cell Signaling Laboratory, UMR 7242, CNRS/ University of StrasbourgIllkirch, France
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, State University of New YorkStony Brook, NY, USA
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- AAREC Filia ResearchClichy, France
- Department of Medical Oncology, Beaujon University Hospital, INSERM U728/AP-HPClichy, France
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- AAREC Filia ResearchClichy, France
- Department of Medical Oncology, Beaujon University Hospital, INSERM U728/AP-HPClichy, France
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- Therapeutic Innovation Laboratory, UMR7200, CNRS/University of StrasbourgIllkirch, France
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Harmrolfs K, Mancuso L, Drung B, Sasse F, Kirschning A. Preparation of new alkyne-modified ansamitocins by mutasynthesis. Beilstein J Org Chem 2014; 10:535-43. [PMID: 24605171 PMCID: PMC3943755 DOI: 10.3762/bjoc.10.49] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2013] [Accepted: 01/29/2014] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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The preparation of alkyne-modified ansamitocins by mutasynthetic supplementation of Actinosynnema pretiosum mutants with alkyne-substituted aminobenzoic acids is described. This modification paved the way to introduce a thiol linker by Huisgen-type cycloaddition which can principally be utilized to create tumor targeting conjugates. In bioactivity tests, only those new ansamitocin derivatives showed strong antiproliferative activity that bear an ester side chain at C-3.
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- Kirsten Harmrolfs
- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Center of Biomolecular Drug Research (BMWZ), Leibniz University Hannover, Schneiderberg 1b, 30167 Hannover, Germany
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Center of Biomolecular Drug Research (BMWZ), Leibniz University Hannover, Schneiderberg 1b, 30167 Hannover, Germany
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Center of Biomolecular Drug Research (BMWZ), Leibniz University Hannover, Schneiderberg 1b, 30167 Hannover, Germany
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- Department of Chemical Biology, Helmholtz Center for Infectious Research (HZI), Inhoffenstraße 7, D-38124 Braunschweig, Germany
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Center of Biomolecular Drug Research (BMWZ), Leibniz University Hannover, Schneiderberg 1b, 30167 Hannover, Germany
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Mancuso L, Jürjens G, Hermane J, Harmrolfs K, Eichner S, Fohrer J, Collisi W, Sasse F, Kirschning A. Bioreduction of aryl azides during mutasynthesis of new ansamitocins. Org Lett 2013; 15:4442-5. [PMID: 23981134 DOI: 10.1021/ol401989e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Supplementing a culture of a mutant strain of Actinosynnema pretiosum that is unable to biosynthesize aminohydroxy benzoic acid (AHBA), with 3-azido-5-hydroxy-benzoic acid and 3-azido-5-amino-benzoic acid, unexpectedly yielded anilino ansamitocins instead of the expected azido derivatives. This is the first example of the bioreduction of organic azides. The unique nature of these results was demonstrated when 3-azido-5-amino-benzoic acid was fed to the corresponding AHBA blocked mutant of Streptomyces hygroscopicus, the geldanamycin producer. This mutasynthetic experiment yielded the fully processed azido derivative of geldanamycin.
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- Lena Mancuso
- Institut für Organische Chemie und Biomolekulares Wikstoffzentrum (BMWZ) der Leibniz Universität Hannover, Schneiderberg 1B, 30167 Hannover, Germany
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Gerber HP, Koehn FE, Abraham RT. The antibody-drug conjugate: an enabling modality for natural product-based cancer therapeutics. Nat Prod Rep 2013; 30:625-39. [PMID: 23525375 DOI: 10.1039/c3np20113a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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The Antibody Drug Conjugate (ADC) is a therapeutic modality consisting of a monoclonal antibody attached to a cytotoxic, small-molecule payload. The antibody portion of the ADC serves as a transport vehicle that recognizes and binds to a protein antigen expressed in tumor tissues. The localized delivery and release of the payload within or near malignant cells allows for targeted delivery of a potent cytotoxic agent to diseased tissue, while reducing damage to antigen-negative, normal tissues. Recent years have witnessed an explosive increase in ADC-based therapies, due mainly to clinical reports of activity in both hematologic and epithelial cancers. Accompanying this upsurge in ADC development is a renewed interest in natural product cytotoxins, which are typically highly potent cell-killing agents, but suffer from poor drug-like properties and narrow safety margins when systemically administered as conventional chemotherapeutics. In this review, we discuss recent advances related to the construction of ADCs, the optimization of ADC safety and efficacy, and the increasingly pivotal roles of natural product payloads in the current and future landscape of ADC therapy.
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- Hans-Peter Gerber
- Pfizer Worldwide Research and Development, Oncology Research Unit, 401 Middletown Road, Pearl River, NY, USA.
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Gou L, Wu Q, Lin S, Li X, Liang J, Zhou X, An D, Deng Z, Wang Z. Mutasynthesis of pyrrole spiroketal compound using calcimycin 3-hydroxy anthranilic acid biosynthetic mutant. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2013; 97:8183-91. [PMID: 23666477 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-013-4882-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2013] [Revised: 03/05/2013] [Accepted: 03/24/2013] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The five-membered aromatic nitrogen heterocyclic pyrrole ring is a building block for a wide variety of natural products. Aiming at generating new pyrrole-containing derivatives as well as to identify new candidates that may be of value in designing new anticancer, antiviral, and/or antimicrobial agents, we employed a strategy on pyrrole-containing compound mutasynthesis using the pyrrole-containing calcimycin biosynthetic gene cluster. We blocked the biosynthesis of the calcimycin precursor, 3-hydroxy anthranilic acid, by deletion of calB1-3 and found that two intermediates containing the pyrrole and the spiroketal moiety were accumulated in the culture. We then fed the mutant using the structurally similar compound of 3-hydroxy anthranilic acid. At least four additional new pyrrole spiroketal derivatives were obtained. The structures of the intermediates and the new pyrrole spiroketal derivatives were identified using LC-MS and NMR. One of them shows enhanced antibacterial activity. Our work shows a new way of pyrrole derivative biosynthetic mutasynthesis.
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- Lixia Gou
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shannxi, 712100, China
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Steinmetz H, Zander W, Shushni MAM, Jansen R, Gerth K, Dehn R, Dräger G, Kirschning A, Müller R. Precursor-Directed Syntheses and Biological Evaluation of New Elansolid Derivatives. Chembiochem 2012; 13:1813-7. [DOI: 10.1002/cbic.201200228] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2012] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Goss RJM, Shankar S, Fayad AA. The generation of "unnatural" products: synthetic biology meets synthetic chemistry. Nat Prod Rep 2012; 29:870-89. [PMID: 22744619 DOI: 10.1039/c2np00001f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Natural product analogue generation is important, providing tools for chemical biology, enabling structure activity relationship determination and insight into the way in which natural products interact with their target biomolecules. The generation of analogues is also often necessary in order to improve bioavailability and to fine tune compounds' activity. This review provides an overview of the catalogue of approaches available for accessing series of analogues. Over the last few years there have been major advances in genome sequencing and the development of tools for biosynthetic pathway engineering; it is therefore becoming increasingly easy to combine molecular biology and synthetic organic chemistry in order to enable expeditious access to series of natural products. This review outlines the various ways of combining biology and chemistry that have been applied to analogue generation, drawing upon a series of examples to illustrate each approach.
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- Rebecca J M Goss
- School of Chemistry, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, UKNR4 7TJ
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Knobloch T, Dräger G, Collisi W, Sasse F, Kirschning A. Unprecedented deoxygenation at C-7 of the ansamitocin core during mutasynthetic biotransformations. Beilstein J Org Chem 2012; 8:861-9. [PMID: 23015834 PMCID: PMC3388874 DOI: 10.3762/bjoc.8.96] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2012] [Accepted: 05/16/2012] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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We describe the unprecedented formation of six ansamitocin derivatives that are deoxygenated at C-7 of the ansamitocin core, obtained during fermentation experiments by employing a variety of Actinosynnema pretiosum mutants and mutasynthetic approaches. We suggest that the formation of these derivatives is based on elimination at C-7/C-8 followed by reduction(s) of the intermediate enone. In bioactivity tests, only ansamitocin derivatives bearing an ester side chain at C-3 showed strong antiproliferative activity.
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- Tobias Knobloch
- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Center of Biomolecular Drug Research (BMWZ), Leibniz University Hannover, Schneiderberg 1b, 30167 Hannover, Germany
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Center of Biomolecular Drug Research (BMWZ), Leibniz University Hannover, Schneiderberg 1b, 30167 Hannover, Germany
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- Department of Chemical Biology, Helmholtz Center for Infectious Research (HZI), Inhoffenstraße 7, D-38124 Braunschweig, Germany
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- Department of Chemical Biology, Helmholtz Center for Infectious Research (HZI), Inhoffenstraße 7, D-38124 Braunschweig, Germany
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Center of Biomolecular Drug Research (BMWZ), Leibniz University Hannover, Schneiderberg 1b, 30167 Hannover, Germany
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Kirschning A, Hahn F. Vereinigung von chemischer Synthese und Biosynthese: ein neues Kapitel in der Totalsynthese von Naturstoffen und Naturstoffbibliotheken. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2012. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201107386] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Kirschning A, Hahn F. Merging chemical synthesis and biosynthesis: a new chapter in the total synthesis of natural products and natural product libraries. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2012; 51:4012-22. [PMID: 22441812 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201107386] [Citation(s) in RCA: 139] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2011] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Andreas Kirschning
- Institut für Organische Chemie und Biomolekulares Wirkstoffzentrum, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Schneiderberg 1B, 30167 Hannover, Germany.
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Eichner S, Eichner T, Floss HG, Fohrer J, Hofer E, Sasse F, Zeilinger C, Kirschning A. Broad substrate specificity of the amide synthase in S. hygroscopicus--new 20-membered macrolactones derived from geldanamycin. J Am Chem Soc 2012; 134:1673-9. [PMID: 22136518 DOI: 10.1021/ja2087147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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The amide synthase of the geldanamycin producer, Streptomyces hygroscopicus, shows a broader chemoselectivity than the corresponding amide synthase present in Actinosynnema pretiosum, the producer of the highly cytotoxic ansamycin antibiotics, the ansamitocins. This was demonstrated when blocked mutants of both strains incapable of biosynthesizing 3-amino-5-hydroxybenzoic acid (AHBA), the polyketide synthase starter unit of both natural products, were supplemented with 3-amino-5-hydroxymethylbenzoic acid instead. Unlike the ansamitocin producer A. pretiosum, S. hygroscopicus processed this modified starter unit not only to the expected 19-membered macrolactams but also to ring enlarged 20-membered macrolactones. The former mutaproducts revealed the sequence of transformations catalyzed by the post-PKS tailoring enzymes in geldanamycin biosynthesis. The unprecedented formation of the macrolactones together with molecular modeling studies shed light on the mode of action of the amide synthase responsible for macrocyclization. Obviously, the 3-hydroxymethyl substituent shows similar reactivity and accessibility toward C-1 of the seco-acid as the arylamino group, while phenolic hydroxyl groups lack this propensity to act as nucleophiles in the macrocyclization. The promiscuity of the amide synthase of S. hygroscopicus was further demonstrated by successful feeding of four other m-hydroxymethylbenzoic acids, leading to formation of the expected 20-membered macrocycles. Good to moderate antiproliferative activities were encountered for three of the five new geldanamycin derivatives, which matched well with a competition assay for Hsp90α.
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- Simone Eichner
- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Center of Biomolecular Research (BMWZ), Schneiderberg 1B, Leibniz University Hannover, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
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Taft F, Harmrolfs K, Nickeleit I, Heutling A, Kiene M, Malek N, Sasse F, Kirschning A. Combined Muta- and Semisynthesis: A Powerful Synthetic Hybrid Approach to Access Target Specific Antitumor Agents Based on Ansamitocin P3. Chemistry 2011; 18:880-6. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.201101640] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2011] [Revised: 10/22/2011] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Eichner S, Knobloch T, Floss HG, Fohrer J, Harmrolfs K, Hermane J, Schulz A, Sasse F, Spiteller P, Taft F, Kirschning A. The interplay between mutasynthesis and semisynthesis: generation and evaluation of an ansamitocin library. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2011; 51:752-7. [PMID: 22135226 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201106249] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2011] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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- Simone Eichner
- Institut für Organische Chemie und Biomolekulares Wirkstoffzentrum (BMWZ), Leibniz Universität Hannover, Schneiderberg 1B, 30167 Hannover, Germany
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Eichner S, Knobloch T, Floss HG, Fohrer J, Harmrolfs K, Hermane J, Schulz A, Sasse F, Spiteller P, Taft F, Kirschning A. The Interplay between Mutasynthesis and Semisynthesis: Generation and Evaluation of an Ansamitocin Library. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2011. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201106249] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Harmrolfs K, Brünjes M, Dräger G, Floss HG, Sasse F, Taft F, Kirschning A. Cyclization of synthetic seco-proansamitocins to ansamitocin macrolactams by Actinosynnema pretiosum as biocatalyst. Chembiochem 2011; 11:2517-20. [PMID: 21077088 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.201000422] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Kirsten Harmrolfs
- Institut für Organische Chemie und Biomolekulares, Wirkstoffzentrum (BMWZ), Leibniz Universität Hannover, Schneiderberg 1B, 30167 Hannover, Germany
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Knobloch T, Harmrolfs K, Taft F, Thomaszewski B, Sasse F, Kirschning A. Mutational Biosynthesis of Ansamitocin Antibiotics: A Diversity-Oriented Approach to Exploit Biosynthetic Flexibility. Chembiochem 2011; 12:540-7. [DOI: 10.1002/cbic.201000608] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2010] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Ding L, Maier A, Fiebig HH, Görls H, Lin WH, Peschel G, Hertweck C. Divergolides A-D from a Mangrove Endophyte Reveal an Unparalleled Plasticity in ansa-Macrolide Biosynthesis. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2011; 50:1630-4. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201006165] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2010] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Ding L, Maier A, Fiebig HH, Görls H, Lin WH, Peschel G, Hertweck C. Divergolides A-D from a Mangrove Endophyte Reveal an Unparalleled Plasticity in ansa-Macrolide Biosynthesis. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2011. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201006165] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Werneburg M, Busch B, He J, Richter ME, Xiang L, Moore BS, Roth M, Dahse HM, Hertweck C. Exploiting enzymatic promiscuity to engineer a focused library of highly selective antifungal and antiproliferative aureothin analogues. J Am Chem Soc 2010; 132:10407-13. [PMID: 20662518 PMCID: PMC2925430 DOI: 10.1021/ja102751h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Aureothin is a shikimate-polyketide hybrid metabolite from Streptomyces thioluteus with a rare nitroaryl moiety, a chiral tetrahydrofuran ring, and an O-methylated pyrone ring. The antimicrobial and antitumor activities of aureothin have caught our interest in modulating its structure as well as its bioactivity profile. In an integrated approach using mutasynthesis, biotransformation, and combinatorial biosynthesis, a defined library of aureothin analogues was generated. The promiscuity of the polyketide synthase assembly line toward different starter units and the plasticity of the pyrone and tetrahydrofuran ring formation were exploited. A selection of 15 new aureothin analogues with modifications at the aryl residue, the pyrone ring, and the oxygenated backbone was produced on a preparative scale and fully characterized. Remarkably, various new aureothin derivatives are less cytotoxic than aureothin but have improved antiproliferative activities. Furthermore, we found that the THF ring is crucial for the remarkably selective activity of aureothin analogues against certain pathogenic fungi.
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- Martina Werneburg
- Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology,
HKI, Dept. of Biomolecular Chemistry, Beutenbergstr. 11a, 07745 Jena, Germany,
and the Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany, and the Scripps
Institution of Oceanography and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical
Sciences, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California,
92093-0204 U.S.A
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- Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology,
HKI, Dept. of Biomolecular Chemistry, Beutenbergstr. 11a, 07745 Jena, Germany,
and the Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany, and the Scripps
Institution of Oceanography and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical
Sciences, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California,
92093-0204 U.S.A
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- Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology,
HKI, Dept. of Biomolecular Chemistry, Beutenbergstr. 11a, 07745 Jena, Germany,
and the Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany, and the Scripps
Institution of Oceanography and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical
Sciences, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California,
92093-0204 U.S.A
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- Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology,
HKI, Dept. of Biomolecular Chemistry, Beutenbergstr. 11a, 07745 Jena, Germany,
and the Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany, and the Scripps
Institution of Oceanography and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical
Sciences, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California,
92093-0204 U.S.A
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- Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology,
HKI, Dept. of Biomolecular Chemistry, Beutenbergstr. 11a, 07745 Jena, Germany,
and the Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany, and the Scripps
Institution of Oceanography and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical
Sciences, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California,
92093-0204 U.S.A
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- Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology,
HKI, Dept. of Biomolecular Chemistry, Beutenbergstr. 11a, 07745 Jena, Germany,
and the Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany, and the Scripps
Institution of Oceanography and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical
Sciences, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California,
92093-0204 U.S.A
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- Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology,
HKI, Dept. of Biomolecular Chemistry, Beutenbergstr. 11a, 07745 Jena, Germany,
and the Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany, and the Scripps
Institution of Oceanography and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical
Sciences, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California,
92093-0204 U.S.A
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- Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology,
HKI, Dept. of Biomolecular Chemistry, Beutenbergstr. 11a, 07745 Jena, Germany,
and the Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany, and the Scripps
Institution of Oceanography and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical
Sciences, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California,
92093-0204 U.S.A
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- Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology,
HKI, Dept. of Biomolecular Chemistry, Beutenbergstr. 11a, 07745 Jena, Germany,
and the Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany, and the Scripps
Institution of Oceanography and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical
Sciences, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California,
92093-0204 U.S.A
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Metabolism of fluoroorganic compounds in microorganisms: impacts for the environment and the production of fine chemicals. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2009; 84:617-29. [PMID: 19629474 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-009-2127-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2009] [Revised: 07/02/2009] [Accepted: 07/02/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Incorporation of fluorine into an organic compound can favourably alter its physicochemical properties with respect to biological activity, stability and lipophilicity. Accordingly, this element is found in many pharmaceutical and industrial chemicals. Organofluorine compounds are accepted as substrates by many enzymes, and the interactions of microorganisms with these compounds are of relevance to the environment and the fine chemicals industry. On the one hand, the microbial transformation of organofluorines can lead to the generation of toxic compounds that are of environmental concern, yet similar biotransformations can yield difficult-to-synthesise products and intermediates, in particular derivatives of biologically active secondary metabolites. In this paper, we review the historical and recent developments of organofluorine biotransformation in microorganisms and highlight the possibility of using microbes as models of fluorinated drug metabolism in mammals.
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Eichner S, Floss HG, Sasse F, Kirschning A. New, Highly Active Nonbenzoquinone Geldanamycin Derivatives by Using Mutasynthesis. Chembiochem 2009; 10:1801-5. [DOI: 10.1002/cbic.200900246] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Olano C, Méndez C, Salas JA. Antitumor compounds from actinomycetes: from gene clusters to new derivatives by combinatorial biosynthesis. Nat Prod Rep 2009; 26:628-60. [PMID: 19387499 DOI: 10.1039/b822528a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Covering: up to October 2008. Antitumor compounds produced by actinomycetes and novel derivatives generated by combinatorial biosynthesis are reviewed (with 318 references cited.) The different structural groups for which the relevant gene clusters have been isolated and characterized are reviewed, with a description of the strategies used for the generation of the novel derivatives and the activities of these compounds against tumor cell lines.
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- Carlos Olano
- Departamento de Biología Funcional and Instituto Universitario de Oncología del Principado de Asturias (I.U.O.P.A.), Universidad de Oviedo, 33006, Oviedo, Spain
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