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Saito S, Indo K, Oku N, Komaki H, Kawasaki M, Igarashi Y. Unsaturated fatty acids and a prenylated tryptophan derivative from a rare actinomycete of the genus Couchioplanes. Beilstein J Org Chem 2021; 17:2939-2949. [PMID: 34956414 PMCID: PMC8685556 DOI: 10.3762/bjoc.17.203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2021] [Accepted: 12/03/2021] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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A genome mining survey combined with metabolome analysis of publicly available strains identified Couchioplanes sp. RD010705, a strain belonging to an underexplored genus of rare actinomycetes, as a producer of new metabolites. HPLC-DAD-guided fractionation of its fermentation extracts resulted in the isolation of five new methyl-branched unsaturated fatty acids, (2E,4E)-2,4-dimethyl-2,4-octadienoic acid (1), (2E,4E)-2,4,7-trimethyl-2,4-octadienoic acid (2), (R)-(-)-phialomustin B (3), (2E,4E)-7-hydroxy-2,4-dimethyl-2,4-octadienoic acid (4), (2E,4E)-7-hydroxy-2,4,7-trimethyl-2,4-octadienoic acid (5), and one prenylated tryptophan derivative, 6-(3,3-dimethylallyl)-N-acetyl-ʟ-tryptophan (6). The enantiomer ratio of 4 was determined to be approximately S/R = 56:44 by a recursive application of Trost's chiral anisotropy analysis and chiral HPLC analysis of its methyl ester. Compounds 1-5 were weakly inhibitory against Kocuria rhizophila at MIC 100 μg/mL and none were cytotoxic against P388 at the same concentration.
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- Shun Saito
- Biotechnology Research Center and Department of Biotechnology, Toyama Prefectural University, 5180 Kurokawa, Imizu, Toyama 939-0398, Japan
- Department of Biosciences and Informatics, Keio University, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama 223-8522, Japan
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- Biotechnology Research Center and Department of Biotechnology, Toyama Prefectural University, 5180 Kurokawa, Imizu, Toyama 939-0398, Japan
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- Biotechnology Research Center and Department of Biotechnology, Toyama Prefectural University, 5180 Kurokawa, Imizu, Toyama 939-0398, Japan
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- Biological Resource Center, National Institute of Technology and Evaluation (NBRC), Kisarazu, Chiba 292-0818, Japan
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- Center for Liberal Arts and Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, Toyama Prefectural University, 5180 Kurokawa, Imizu, Toyama 939-0398, Japan
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- Biotechnology Research Center and Department of Biotechnology, Toyama Prefectural University, 5180 Kurokawa, Imizu, Toyama 939-0398, Japan
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Sukmarini L. Recent Advances in Discovery of Lead Structures from Microbial Natural Products: Genomics- and Metabolomics-Guided Acceleration. Molecules 2021; 26:molecules26092542. [PMID: 33925414 PMCID: PMC8123854 DOI: 10.3390/molecules26092542] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2021] [Revised: 04/20/2021] [Accepted: 04/22/2021] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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Natural products (NPs) are evolutionarily optimized as drug-like molecules and remain the most consistently successful source of drugs and drug leads. They offer major opportunities for finding novel lead structures that are active against a broad spectrum of assay targets, particularly those from secondary metabolites of microbial origin. Due to traditional discovery approaches’ limitations relying on untargeted screening methods, there is a growing trend to employ unconventional secondary metabolomics techniques. Aided by the more in-depth understanding of different biosynthetic pathways and the technological advancement in analytical instrumentation, the development of new methodologies provides an alternative that can accelerate discoveries of new lead-structures of natural origin. This present mini-review briefly discusses selected examples regarding advancements in bioinformatics and genomics (focusing on genome mining and metagenomics approaches), as well as bioanalytics (mass-spectrometry) towards the microbial NPs-based drug discovery and development. The selected recent discoveries from 2015 to 2020 are featured herein.
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- Linda Sukmarini
- Research Center for Biotechnology, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Cibinong, Bogor 16911, West Java, Indonesia
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Crüsemann M. Coupling Mass Spectral and Genomic Information to Improve Bacterial Natural Product Discovery Workflows. Mar Drugs 2021; 19:142. [PMID: 33807702 PMCID: PMC7998270 DOI: 10.3390/md19030142] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2021] [Revised: 03/02/2021] [Accepted: 03/04/2021] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Bacterial natural products possess potent bioactivities and high structural diversity and are typically encoded in biosynthetic gene clusters. Traditional natural product discovery approaches rely on UV- and bioassay-guided fractionation and are limited in terms of dereplication. Recent advances in mass spectrometry, sequencing and bioinformatics have led to large-scale accumulation of genomic and mass spectral data that is increasingly used for signature-based or correlation-based mass spectrometry genome mining approaches that enable rapid linking of metabolomic and genomic information to accelerate and rationalize natural product discovery. In this mini-review, these approaches are presented, and discovery examples provided. Finally, future opportunities and challenges for paired omics-based natural products discovery workflows are discussed.
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- Max Crüsemann
- Institute for Pharmaceutical Biology, University of Bonn, Nussallee 6, 53115 Bonn, Germany
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Pass-back chain extension expands multimodular assembly line biosynthesis. Nat Chem Biol 2019; 16:42-49. [PMID: 31636431 PMCID: PMC6917876 DOI: 10.1038/s41589-019-0385-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2019] [Accepted: 09/06/2019] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Modular nonribosomal peptide synthetase (NRPS) and polyketide synthase (PKS) enzymatic assembly lines are large and dynamic protein machines that generally effect a linear sequence of catalytic cycles. Here we report the heterologous reconstitution and comprehensive characterization of two hybrid NRPS-PKS assembly lines that defy many standard rules of assembly line biosynthesis to generate a large combinatorial library of cyclic lipodepsipeptide protease inhibitors called thalassospiramides. We generate a series of precise domain-inactivating mutations in thalassospiramide assembly lines and present evidence for an unprecedented biosynthetic model that invokes inter-module substrate activation and tailoring, module skipping, and pass-back chain extension, whereby the ability to pass the growing chain back to a preceding module is flexible and substrate-driven. Expanding bidirectional inter-module domain interactions could represent a viable mechanism for generating chemical diversity without increasing the size of biosynthetic assembly lines and challenges our understanding of the potential elasticity of multi-modular megaenzymes.
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4-Hydroxy-pyran-2-one and 3-hydroxy-N-methyl-2-oxindole derivatives of Salinispora arenicola from Brazilian marine sediments. Fitoterapia 2019; 138:104357. [DOI: 10.1016/j.fitote.2019.104357] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2019] [Revised: 08/29/2019] [Accepted: 09/10/2019] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Wiker F, Konnerth M, Helmle I, Kulik A, Kaysser L, Gross H, Gust B. Identification of Novel α-Pyrones from Conexibacter woesei Serving as Sulfate Shuttles. ACS Chem Biol 2019; 14:1972-1980. [PMID: 31419109 DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.9b00455] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Pyrones comprise a structurally diverse class of compounds. Although they are widespread in nature, their specific physiological functions remain unknown in most cases. We recently described that triketide pyrones mediate the sulfotransfer in caprazamycin biosynthesis. Herein, we report the identification of conexipyrones A-C, three previously unrecognized tetra-substituted α-pyrones, from the soil actinobacterium Conexibacter woesei. Insights into their biosynthesis via a type III polyketide synthase were obtained by feeding studies using isotope-enriched precursors. In vitro assays employing the genetically associated 3'-phosphoadenosine-5'-phosphosulfate (PAPS)-dependent sulfotransferase CwoeST revealed conexipyrones as the enzymes' genuine sulfate acceptor substrates. Furthermore, conexipyrones were determined to function as sulfate shuttles in a two-enzyme assay, because their sulfated derivatives were accepted as donor molecules by the PAPS-independent arylsulfate sulfotransferase (ASST) Cpz4 to yield sulfated caprazamycin intermediates.
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- Franziska Wiker
- Pharmaceutical Institute, Department of Pharmaceutical Biology, University of Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 8, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
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- Organic Chemistry, University of Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 18, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
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- Pharmaceutical Institute, Department of Pharmaceutical Biology, University of Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 8, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
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- Institute of Microbiology and Infection Medicine, Auf der Morgenstelle 28, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
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- Pharmaceutical Institute, Department of Pharmaceutical Biology, University of Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 8, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
- German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
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- Pharmaceutical Institute, Department of Pharmaceutical Biology, University of Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 8, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
- German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
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- Pharmaceutical Institute, Department of Pharmaceutical Biology, University of Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 8, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
- German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
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Huang C, Yang C, Fang Z, Zhang L, Zhang W, Zhu Y, Zhang C. Discovery of Stealthin Derivatives and Implication of the Amidotransferase FlsN3 in the Biosynthesis of Nitrogen-Containing Fluostatins. Mar Drugs 2019; 17:md17030150. [PMID: 30836614 PMCID: PMC6470958 DOI: 10.3390/md17030150] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2019] [Revised: 02/15/2019] [Accepted: 02/27/2019] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Diazobenzofluorene-containing atypical angucyclines exhibit promising biological activities. Here we report the inactivation of an amidotransferase-encoding gene flsN3 in Micromonospora rosaria SCSIO N160, a producer of fluostatins. Bioinformatics analysis indicated that FlsN3 was involved in the diazo formation. Chemical investigation of the flsN3-inactivation mutant resulted in the isolation of a variety of angucycline aromatic polyketides, including four racemic aminobenzo[b]fluorenes stealthins D–G (9–12) harboring a stealthin C-like core skeleton with an acetone or butanone-like side chain. Their structures were elucidated on the basis of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopic data and X-ray diffraction analysis. A plausible mechanism for the formation of stealthins D–G (9–12) was proposed. These results suggested a functional role of FlsN3 in the formation/modification of N–N bond-containing fluostatins.
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- Chunshuai Huang
- CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Marine Materia Medica, RNAM Center for Marine Microbiology, Institutions of South China Sea Ecology and Environmental Engineering, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 164 West Xingang Road, Guangzhou 510301, China.
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19 Yuquan Road, Beijing 100049, China.
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Marine Materia Medica, RNAM Center for Marine Microbiology, Institutions of South China Sea Ecology and Environmental Engineering, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 164 West Xingang Road, Guangzhou 510301, China.
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Marine Materia Medica, RNAM Center for Marine Microbiology, Institutions of South China Sea Ecology and Environmental Engineering, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 164 West Xingang Road, Guangzhou 510301, China.
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19 Yuquan Road, Beijing 100049, China.
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Marine Materia Medica, RNAM Center for Marine Microbiology, Institutions of South China Sea Ecology and Environmental Engineering, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 164 West Xingang Road, Guangzhou 510301, China.
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Marine Materia Medica, RNAM Center for Marine Microbiology, Institutions of South China Sea Ecology and Environmental Engineering, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 164 West Xingang Road, Guangzhou 510301, China.
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Marine Materia Medica, RNAM Center for Marine Microbiology, Institutions of South China Sea Ecology and Environmental Engineering, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 164 West Xingang Road, Guangzhou 510301, China.
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Marine Materia Medica, RNAM Center for Marine Microbiology, Institutions of South China Sea Ecology and Environmental Engineering, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 164 West Xingang Road, Guangzhou 510301, China.
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19 Yuquan Road, Beijing 100049, China.
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Castro-Falcón G, Millán-Aguiñaga N, Roullier C, Jensen PR, Hughes CC. Nitrosopyridine Probe To Detect Polyketide Natural Products with Conjugated Alkenes: Discovery of Novodaryamide and Nocarditriene. ACS Chem Biol 2018; 13:3097-3106. [PMID: 30272441 DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.8b00598] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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An optimized nitroso-based probe that facilitates the discovery of conjugated alkene-containing natural products in unprocessed extracts was developed. It chemoselectively reacts with conjugated olefins via a nitroso-Diels-Alder cyclization to yield derivatives with a distinct chromophore and an isotopically unique bromine atom that can be rapidly identified using liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry and a bioinformatics tool called MeHaloCoA (Marine Halogenated Compound Analysis). The probe is ideally employed when genome-mining techniques identify strains containing polyketide gene clusters with two or more repeating KS-AT-DH-KR-ACP domain sequences, which are required for the biosynthesis of conjugated alkenes. Comparing the reactivity and spectral properties of five brominated arylnitroso reagents with model compounds spiramycin, bufalin, rapamycin, and rifampicin led to the identification of 5-bromo-2-nitrosopyridine as the most suitable probe structure. The utility of the dienophile probe was then demonstrated in bacterial extracts. Tylactone, novodaryamide and daryamide A, piperazimycin A, and the saccharamonopyrones A and B were cleanly labeled in extracts from their respective bacterial producers, in high regioselectivity but with varying degrees of diastereoselectivity. Further application of the method led to the discovery of a new natural product called nocarditriene, containing an unprecedented epoxy-2,3,4,5-tetrahydropyridine structure, from marine-derived Nocardiopsis strain CNY-503.
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- Gabriel Castro-Falcón
- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
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- Mer Molécules Santé - EA2160, Université de Nantes, 44035 Nantes-cedex 1, France
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
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Moore BS. Asymmetric Alkene and Arene Halofunctionalization Reactions in Meroterpenoid Biosynthesis. Synlett 2018; 29:401-409. [PMID: 31031546 PMCID: PMC6483395 DOI: 10.1055/s-0036-1590919] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Meroterpenoid natural products are important bioactive molecules with broad distribution throughout nature. In Streptomyces bacteria, naphthoquinone-based meroterpenoids comprise a simple yet structurally fascinating group of natural product antibiotics that are enzymatically constructed through a series of asymmetric alkene and arene halofunctionalization reactions. This account article highlights our discovery and characterization of a group of vanadium-dependent chloroperoxidase enzymes that catalyze halogen-assisted cyclization and rearrangement reactions and have inspired biomimetic syntheses of numerous meroterpenoid natural products.
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- Bradley S Moore
- Scripps Institution of Oceanography & Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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Zhang S, Zhu J, Zechel DL, Jessen-Trefzer C, Eastman RT, Paululat T, Bechthold A. New WS9326A Derivatives and One New Annimycin Derivative with Antimalarial Activity are Produced by Streptomyces asterosporus DSM 41452 and Its Mutant. Chembiochem 2017; 19:272-279. [PMID: 29148157 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.201700428] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2017] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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In this study, we report that Streptomyces asterosporus DSM 41452 is a producer of new molecules related to the nonribosomal cyclodepsipeptide WS9326A and the polyketide annimycin. S. asterosporus DSM 41452 is shown to produce six cyclodepsipeptides and peptides, WS9326A to G. Notably, the compounds WS9326F and WS9326G have not been described before. The genome of S. asterosporus DSM 41452 was sequenced, and a putative WS9326A gene cluster was identified. Gene-deletion experiments confirmed that this cluster was responsible for the biosynthesis of WS9326A to G. Additionally, a gene-deletion experiment demonstrated that sas16 encoding a cytochrome P450 monooxygenase was involved in the synthesis of the novel (E)-2,3-dehydrotyrosine residue found in WS9326A and its derivatives. An insertion mutation within the putative annimycin gene cluster led to the production of a new annimycin derivative, annimycin B, which exhibited modest inhibitory activity against Plasmodium falciparum.
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- Songya Zhang
- Department of Pharmaceutical Biology and Biotechnology, University of Freiburg, Stefan-Meier-Strasse 19 VF, 79104, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Biology and Biotechnology, University of Freiburg, Stefan-Meier-Strasse 19 VF, 79104, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Queen's University, 90 Bader Lane, Kingston, Ontario, K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Biology and Biotechnology, University of Freiburg, Stefan-Meier-Strasse 19 VF, 79104, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
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- Division of Pre-Clinical Innovation, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences/NIH, 9800 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, MD, 20850, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biology, Universität Siegen, Adolf-Reichwein-Strasse 2, 57068, Siegen, Germany
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Biology and Biotechnology, University of Freiburg, Stefan-Meier-Strasse 19 VF, 79104, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
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A Link between Linearmycin Biosynthesis and Extracellular Vesicle Genesis Connects Specialized Metabolism and Bacterial Membrane Physiology. Cell Chem Biol 2017; 24:1238-1249.e7. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2017.08.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2017] [Revised: 06/23/2017] [Accepted: 08/02/2017] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Hansen DA, Koch AA, Sherman DH. Identification of a Thioesterase Bottleneck in the Pikromycin Pathway through Full-Module Processing of Unnatural Pentaketides. J Am Chem Soc 2017; 139:13450-13455. [PMID: 28836772 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b06432] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Polyketide biosynthetic pathways have been engineered to generate natural product analogs for over two decades. However, manipulation of modular type I polyketide synthases (PKSs) to make unnatural metabolites commonly results in attenuated yields or entirely inactive pathways, and the mechanistic basis for compromised production is rarely elucidated since rate-limiting or inactive domain(s) remain unidentified. Accordingly, we synthesized and assayed a series of modified pikromycin (Pik) pentaketides that mimic early pathway engineering to probe the substrate tolerance of the PikAIII-TE module in vitro. Truncated pentaketides were processed with varying efficiencies to corresponding macrolactones, while pentaketides with epimerized chiral centers were poorly processed by PikAIII-TE and failed to generate 12-membered ring products. Isolation and identification of extended but prematurely offloaded shunt products suggested that the Pik thioesterase (TE) domain has limited substrate flexibility and functions as a gatekeeper in the processing of unnatural substrates. Synthesis of an analogous hexaketide with an epimerized nucleophilic hydroxyl group allowed for direct evaluation of the substrate stereoselectivity of the excised TE domain. The epimerized hexaketide failed to undergo cyclization and was exclusively hydrolyzed, confirming the TE domain as a key catalytic bottleneck. In an accompanying paper , we engineer the standalone Pik thioesterase to yield a thioesterase (TES148C) and module (PikAIII-TES148C) that display gain-of-function processing of substrates with inverted hydroxyl groups.
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- Douglas A Hansen
- Life Sciences Institute, ‡Department of Medicinal Chemistry, §Cancer Biology Graduate Program, ⊥Department of Chemistry, and ∥Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
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- Life Sciences Institute, ‡Department of Medicinal Chemistry, §Cancer Biology Graduate Program, ⊥Department of Chemistry, and ∥Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
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- Life Sciences Institute, ‡Department of Medicinal Chemistry, §Cancer Biology Graduate Program, ⊥Department of Chemistry, and ∥Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
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Letzel AC, Li J, Amos GCA, Millán-Aguiñaga N, Ginigini J, Abdelmohsen UR, Gaudêncio SP, Ziemert N, Moore BS, Jensen PR. Genomic insights into specialized metabolism in the marine actinomycete Salinispora. Environ Microbiol 2017; 19:3660-3673. [PMID: 28752948 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.13867] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2017] [Revised: 07/18/2017] [Accepted: 07/21/2017] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Comparative genomics is providing new opportunities to address the diversity and distributions of genes encoding the biosynthesis of specialized metabolites. An analysis of 119 genome sequences representing three closely related species of the marine actinomycete genus Salinispora reveals extraordinary biosynthetic diversity in the form of 176 distinct biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) of which only 24 have been linked to their products. Remarkably, more than half of the BGCs were observed in only one or two strains, suggesting they were acquired relatively recently in the evolutionary history of the genus. These acquired gene clusters are concentrated in specific genomic islands, which represent hot spots for BGC acquisition. While most BGCs are stable in terms of their chromosomal position, others migrated to different locations or were exchanged with unrelated gene clusters suggesting a plug and play type model of evolution that provides a mechanism to test the relative fitness effects of specialized metabolites. Transcriptome analyses were used to address the relationships between BGC abundance, chromosomal position and product discovery. The results indicate that recently acquired BGCs can be functional and that complex evolutionary processes shape the micro-diversity of specialized metabolism observed in closely related environmental bacteria.
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- Anne-Catrin Letzel
- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.,Facultad de Ciencias Marinas, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Ensenada, Baja California 22800, Mexico
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- Institute of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Science, Technology and Environment, University of the South Pacific, Laucala Campus, Private Mail Bag, Suva, Fiji
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- Department of Botany II, Julius-von-Sachs Institute for Biological Sciences, University of Würzburg, Germany.,Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Minia University, Minia, 61519, Egypt
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- Department of Chemistry, REQUIMTE, LAQV and UCIBIO, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Caparica 2529-516, Portugal
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.,Interfaculty Institute of Microbiology and Infection Medicine Tuübingen, University of Tuübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 28, Tuübingen 72076, Germany
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.,Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of 9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.,Center for Microbiome Innovation, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.,Center for Microbiome Innovation, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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Covering: 2015. Previous review: Nat. Prod. Rep., 2016, 33, 382-431This review covers the literature published in 2015 for marine natural products (MNPs), with 1220 citations (792 for the period January to December 2015) referring to compounds isolated from marine microorganisms and phytoplankton, green, brown and red algae, sponges, cnidarians, bryozoans, molluscs, tunicates, echinoderms, mangroves and other intertidal plants and microorganisms. The emphasis is on new compounds (1340 in 429 papers for 2015), together with the relevant biological activities, source organisms and country of origin. Reviews, biosynthetic studies, first syntheses, and syntheses that lead to the revision of structures or stereochemistries, have been included.
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- John W Blunt
- Department of Chemistry, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
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- School of Chemical Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Centre for Biodiscovery, School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
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- Chemistry, School of Science, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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Crüsemann M, O’Neill EC, Larson CB, Melnik AV, Floros DJ, da Silva RR, Jensen PR, Dorrestein PC, Moore BS. Prioritizing Natural Product Diversity in a Collection of 146 Bacterial Strains Based on Growth and Extraction Protocols. JOURNAL OF NATURAL PRODUCTS 2017; 80:588-597. [PMID: 28335604 PMCID: PMC5367486 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.6b00722] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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In order to expedite the rapid and efficient discovery and isolation of novel specialized metabolites, while minimizing the waste of resources on rediscovery of known compounds, it is crucial to develop efficient approaches for strain prioritization, rapid dereplication, and the assessment of favored cultivation and extraction conditions. Herein we interrogated bacterial strains by systematically evaluating cultivation and extraction parameters with LC-MS/MS analysis and subsequent dereplication through the Global Natural Product Social Molecular Networking (GNPS) platform. The developed method is fast, requiring minimal time and sample material, and is compatible with high-throughput extract analysis, thereby streamlining strain prioritization and evaluation of culturing parameters. With this approach, we analyzed 146 marine Salinispora and Streptomyces strains that were grown and extracted using multiple different protocols. In total, 603 samples were analyzed, generating approximately 1.8 million mass spectra. We constructed a comprehensive molecular network and identified 15 molecular families of diverse natural products and their analogues. The size and breadth of this network shows statistically supported trends in molecular diversity when comparing growth and extraction conditions. The network provides an extensive survey of the biosynthetic capacity of the strain collection and a method to compare strains based on the variety and novelty of their metabolites. This approach allows us to quickly identify patterns in metabolite production that can be linked to taxonomy, culture conditions, and extraction methods, as well as informing the most valuable growth and extraction conditions.
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- Max Crüsemann
- Center for Marine Biotechnology & Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology & Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology & Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
- Research Support Center in Natural and Synthetic Products, Department of Physics and Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, 14040-903, Brazil
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology & Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology & Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology & Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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Adamek M, Spohn M, Stegmann E, Ziemert N. Mining Bacterial Genomes for Secondary Metabolite Gene Clusters. Methods Mol Biol 2017; 1520:23-47. [PMID: 27873244 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-6634-9_2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
Abstract
With the emergence of bacterial resistance against frequently used antibiotics, novel antibacterial compounds are urgently needed. Traditional bioactivity-guided drug discovery strategies involve laborious screening efforts and display high rediscovery rates. With the progress in next generation sequencing methods and the knowledge that the majority of antibiotics in clinical use are produced as secondary metabolites by bacteria, mining bacterial genomes for secondary metabolites with antimicrobial activity is a promising approach, which can guide a more time and cost-effective identification of novel compounds. However, what sounds easy to accomplish, comes with several challenges. To date, several tools for the prediction of secondary metabolite gene clusters are available, some of which are based on the detection of signature genes, while others are searching for specific patterns in gene content or regulation.Apart from the mere identification of gene clusters, several other factors such as determining cluster boundaries and assessing the novelty of the detected cluster are important. For this purpose, comparison of the predicted secondary metabolite genes with different cluster and compound databases is necessary. Furthermore, it is advisable to classify detected clusters into gene cluster families. So far, there is no standardized procedure for genome mining; however, different approaches to overcome all of these challenges exist and are addressed in this chapter. We give practical guidance on the workflow for secondary metabolite gene cluster identification, which includes the determination of gene cluster boundaries, addresses problems occurring with the use of draft genomes, and gives an outlook on the different methods for gene cluster classification. Based on comprehensible examples a protocol is set, which should enable the readers to mine their own genome data for interesting secondary metabolites.
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- Martina Adamek
- Interfaculty Institute of Microbiology and Infection Medicine Tübingen, Microbiology/Biotechnology, University of Tübingen, 72076, Tübingen, Germany
- German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Interfaculty Institute of Microbiology and Infection Medicine Tübingen, Microbiology/Biotechnology, University of Tübingen, 72076, Tübingen, Germany
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- Interfaculty Institute of Microbiology and Infection Medicine Tübingen, Microbiology/Biotechnology, University of Tübingen, 72076, Tübingen, Germany
- German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Interfaculty Institute of Microbiology and Infection Medicine Tübingen, Microbiology/Biotechnology, University of Tübingen, 72076, Tübingen, Germany.
- German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
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