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Cogan DP, Soohoo AM, Chen M, Liu Y, Brodsky KL, Khosla C. Structural basis for intermodular communication in assembly-line polyketide biosynthesis. Nat Chem Biol 2024:10.1038/s41589-024-01709-y. [PMID: 39179672 DOI: 10.1038/s41589-024-01709-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2024] [Accepted: 07/24/2024] [Indexed: 08/26/2024]
Abstract
Assembly-line polyketide synthases (PKSs) are modular multi-enzyme systems with considerable potential for genetic reprogramming. Understanding how they selectively transport biosynthetic intermediates along a defined sequence of active sites could be harnessed to rationally alter PKS product structures. To investigate functional interactions between PKS catalytic and substrate acyl carrier protein (ACP) domains, we employed a bifunctional reagent to crosslink transient domain-domain interfaces of a prototypical assembly line, the 6-deoxyerythronolide B synthase, and resolved their structures by single-particle cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM). Together with statistical per-particle image analysis of cryo-EM data, we uncovered interactions between ketosynthase (KS) and ACP domains that discriminate between intra-modular and inter-modular communication while reinforcing the relevance of conformational asymmetry during the catalytic cycle. Our findings provide a foundation for the structure-based design of hybrid PKSs comprising biosynthetic modules from different naturally occurring assembly lines.
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- Dillon P Cogan
- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
- Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Division of CryoEM and Bioimaging, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Menlo Park, CA, USA
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- Division of CryoEM and Bioimaging, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Menlo Park, CA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
- Stanford ChEM-H, Stanford, CA, USA.
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Ren JX, Zhou M, Feng XT, Zhao HY, Fu XP, Zhang X. Site-selective S-gem-difluoroallylation of unprotected peptides with 3,3-difluoroallyl sulfonium salts. Chem Sci 2024; 15:10002-10009. [PMID: 38966370 PMCID: PMC11220611 DOI: 10.1039/d4sc02681k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2024] [Accepted: 05/20/2024] [Indexed: 07/06/2024] Open
Abstract
Bench-stable 3,3-difluoroallyl sulfonium salts (DFASs), featuring tunable activity and their editable C-β and gem-difluoroallyl group, proved to be versatile fluoroalkylating reagents for site-selective S-gem-difluoroallylation of cysteine residues in unprotected peptides. The reaction proceeds with high efficiency under mild conditions (ambient temperature and aqueous and weak basic conditions). Various protected/unprotected peptides, especially bioactive peptides, are site-selectively S-gem-difluoroallylated. The newly added gem-difluoroallyl group and other functional groups derived from C-β of DFASs are poised for ligation with bio-functional groups through click and radical chemistry. This stepwise "doubly orthogonal" modification of peptides enables the construction of bioconjugates with enhanced complexity and functionality. This proof of principle is successfully applied to construct a peptide-saccharide-biotin chimeric bioconjugate, indicating its great potential application in medicinal chemistry and chemical biology.
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- Jin-Xiu Ren
- Key Laboratory of Fluorine and Nitrogen Chemistry and Advanced Materials, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences 345 Lingling Road Shanghai 200032 China
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- Key Laboratory of Fluorine and Nitrogen Chemistry and Advanced Materials, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences 345 Lingling Road Shanghai 200032 China
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- Key Laboratory of Fluorine and Nitrogen Chemistry and Advanced Materials, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences 345 Lingling Road Shanghai 200032 China
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- Key Laboratory of Fluorine and Nitrogen Chemistry and Advanced Materials, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences 345 Lingling Road Shanghai 200032 China
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- Key Laboratory of Fluorine and Nitrogen Chemistry and Advanced Materials, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences 345 Lingling Road Shanghai 200032 China
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- Key Laboratory of Fluorine and Nitrogen Chemistry and Advanced Materials, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences 345 Lingling Road Shanghai 200032 China
- School of Chemistry and Material Sciences Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Hangzhou 310024 China
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Dell M, Tran MA, Capper MJ, Sundaram S, Fiedler J, Koehnke J, Hellmich UA, Hertweck C. Trapping of a Polyketide Synthase Module after C-C Bond Formation Reveals Transient Acyl Carrier Domain Interactions. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2024; 63:e202315850. [PMID: 38134222 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202315850] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2023] [Revised: 12/19/2023] [Accepted: 12/21/2023] [Indexed: 12/24/2023]
Abstract
Modular polyketide synthases (PKSs) are giant assembly lines that produce an impressive range of biologically active compounds. However, our understanding of the structural dynamics of these megasynthases, specifically the delivery of acyl carrier protein (ACP)-bound building blocks to the catalytic site of the ketosynthase (KS) domain, remains severely limited. Using a multipronged structural approach, we report details of the inter-domain interactions after C-C bond formation in a chain-branching module of the rhizoxin PKS. Mechanism-based crosslinking of an engineered module was achieved using a synthetic substrate surrogate that serves as a Michael acceptor. The crosslinked protein allowed us to identify an asymmetric state of the dimeric protein complex upon C-C bond formation by cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM). The possible existence of two ACP binding sites, one of them a potential "parking position" for substrate loading, was also indicated by AlphaFold2 predictions. NMR spectroscopy showed that a transient complex is formed in solution, independent of the linker domains, and photochemical crosslinking/mass spectrometry of the standalone domains allowed us to pinpoint the interdomain interaction sites. The structural insights into a branching PKS module arrested after C-C bond formation allows a better understanding of domain dynamics and provides valuable information for the rational design of modular assembly lines.
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- Maria Dell
- Department of Biomolecular Chemistry, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology (HKI), 07745, Jena, Germany
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Macromolecular Chemistry, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 07743, Jena, Germany
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- School of Chemistry, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK
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- Department of Biomolecular Chemistry, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology (HKI), 07745, Jena, Germany
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- Department of Biomolecular Chemistry, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology (HKI), 07745, Jena, Germany
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- School of Chemistry, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK
- Institute of Food Chemistry, Leibniz University Hannover, 30167, Hannover, Germany
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Macromolecular Chemistry, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 07743, Jena, Germany
- Center for Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance (BMRZ), Goethe-University Frankfurt, 60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Cluster of Excellence Balance of the Microverse, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany
- Faculty of Biological Sciences, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 07743, Jena, Germany
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- Department of Biomolecular Chemistry, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology (HKI), 07745, Jena, Germany
- Cluster of Excellence Balance of the Microverse, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany
- Faculty of Biological Sciences, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 07743, Jena, Germany
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Zhou M, Ren JX, Feng XT, Zhao HY, Fu XP, Min QQ, Zhang X. Late-stage gem-difluoroallylation of phenol in bioactive molecules and peptides with 3,3-difluoroallyl sulfonium salts. Chem Sci 2024; 15:2937-2945. [PMID: 38404383 PMCID: PMC10882445 DOI: 10.1039/d3sc06302j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2023] [Accepted: 01/13/2024] [Indexed: 02/27/2024] Open
Abstract
An efficient method for the late-stage selective O-fluoroalkylation of tyrosine residues with a stable yet highly reactive fluoroalkylating reagent, 3,3-difluoroallyl sulfonium salts (DFASs), has been developed. The reaction proceeds in a mild basic aqueous buffer (pH = 11.6) with high efficiency, high biocompatibility, and excellent regio- and chemoselectivity. Various oligopeptides and phenol-containing bioactive molecules, including carbohydrates and nucleosides, could be selectively O-fluoroalkylated. The added vinyl and other functional groups from DFASs can be valuable linkers for successive modification, significantly expanding the chemical space for further bioconjugation. The synthetic utility of this protocol has been demonstrated by the fluorescently labeled anti-cancer drug and the synthesis of O-link type 1,4,7,10-tetraazacyclododecane-N,N',N,N'-tetraacetic acid-tyrosine3-octreotate (DOTA-TATE), showing the prospect of the method in medicinal chemistry and chemical biology.
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- Minqi Zhou
- College of Chemistry and Henan Institute of Advanced Technology, Zhengzhou University Zhengzhou 450001 China
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- Key Laboratory of Fluorine and Nitrogen Chemistry and Advanced Materials (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences 345 Lingling Road Shanghai 200032 China
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- College of Chemistry and Henan Institute of Advanced Technology, Zhengzhou University Zhengzhou 450001 China
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- Key Laboratory of Fluorine and Nitrogen Chemistry and Advanced Materials (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences 345 Lingling Road Shanghai 200032 China
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- Key Laboratory of Fluorine and Nitrogen Chemistry and Advanced Materials (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences 345 Lingling Road Shanghai 200032 China
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- Key Laboratory of Fluorine and Nitrogen Chemistry and Advanced Materials (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences 345 Lingling Road Shanghai 200032 China
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- College of Chemistry and Henan Institute of Advanced Technology, Zhengzhou University Zhengzhou 450001 China
- Key Laboratory of Fluorine and Nitrogen Chemistry and Advanced Materials (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences 345 Lingling Road Shanghai 200032 China
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Buyachuihan L, Stegemann F, Grininger M. How Acyl Carrier Proteins (ACPs) Direct Fatty Acid and Polyketide Biosynthesis. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2024; 63:e202312476. [PMID: 37856285 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202312476] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2023] [Revised: 10/17/2023] [Accepted: 10/18/2023] [Indexed: 10/21/2023]
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Megasynthases, such as type I fatty acid and polyketide synthases (FASs and PKSs), are multienzyme complexes responsible for producing primary metabolites and complex natural products. Fatty acids (FAs) and polyketides (PKs) are built by assembling and modifying small acyl moieties in a stepwise manner. A central aspect of FA and PK biosynthesis involves the shuttling of substrates between the domains of the multienzyme complex. This essential process is mediated by small acyl carrier proteins (ACPs). The ACPs must navigate to the different catalytic domains within the multienzyme complex in a particular order to guarantee the fidelity of the biosynthesis pathway. However, the precise mechanisms underlying ACP-mediated substrate shuttling, particularly the factors contributing to the programming of the ACP movement, still need to be fully understood. This Review illustrates the current understanding of substrate shuttling, including concepts of conformational and specificity control, and proposes a confined ACP movement within type I megasynthases.
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- Lynn Buyachuihan
- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, Max-von-Laue-Str. 15, 60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, Max-von-Laue-Str. 15, 60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, Max-von-Laue-Str. 15, 60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Zhai G, Zhu Y, Sun G, Zhou F, Sun Y, Hong Z, Dong C, Leadlay PF, Hong K, Deng Z, Zhou F, Sun Y. Insights into azalomycin F assembly-line contribute to evolution-guided polyketide synthase engineering and identification of intermodular recognition. Nat Commun 2023; 14:612. [PMID: 36739290 PMCID: PMC9899208 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-36213-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2022] [Accepted: 01/20/2023] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
Abstract
Modular polyketide synthase (PKS) is an ingenious core machine that catalyzes abundant polyketides in nature. Exploring interactions among modules in PKS is very important for understanding the overall biosynthetic process and for engineering PKS assembly-lines. Here, we show that intermodular recognition between the enoylreductase domain ER1/2 inside module 1/2 and the ketosynthase domain KS3 inside module 3 is required for the cross-module enoylreduction in azalomycin F (AZL) biosynthesis. We also show that KS4 of module 4 acts as a gatekeeper facilitating cross-module enoylreduction. Additionally, evidence is provided that module 3 and module 6 in the AZL PKS are evolutionarily homologous, which makes evolution-oriented PKS engineering possible. These results reveal intermodular recognition, furthering understanding of the mechanism of the PKS assembly-line, thus providing different insights into PKS engineering. This also reveals that gene duplication/conversion and subsequent combinations may be a neofunctionalization process in modular PKS assembly-lines, hence providing a different case for supporting the investigation of modular PKS evolution.
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- Guifa Zhai
- Department of Hematology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wuhan University, 430071, Wuhan, People's Republic of China.,Key Laboratory of Combinatorial Biosynthesis and Drug Discovery (Ministry of Education), Wuhan University, 430071, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Hematology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wuhan University, 430071, Wuhan, People's Republic of China.,Key Laboratory of Combinatorial Biosynthesis and Drug Discovery (Ministry of Education), Wuhan University, 430071, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Hematology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wuhan University, 430071, Wuhan, People's Republic of China.,Key Laboratory of Combinatorial Biosynthesis and Drug Discovery (Ministry of Education), Wuhan University, 430071, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Hematology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wuhan University, 430071, Wuhan, People's Republic of China.,Key Laboratory of Combinatorial Biosynthesis and Drug Discovery (Ministry of Education), Wuhan University, 430071, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Hematology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wuhan University, 430071, Wuhan, People's Republic of China.,Key Laboratory of Combinatorial Biosynthesis and Drug Discovery (Ministry of Education), Wuhan University, 430071, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Hematology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wuhan University, 430071, Wuhan, People's Republic of China.,Key Laboratory of Combinatorial Biosynthesis and Drug Discovery (Ministry of Education), Wuhan University, 430071, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Hematology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wuhan University, 430071, Wuhan, People's Republic of China.,Key Laboratory of Combinatorial Biosynthesis and Drug Discovery (Ministry of Education), Wuhan University, 430071, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 1GA, United Kingdom
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- Department of Hematology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wuhan University, 430071, Wuhan, People's Republic of China.,Key Laboratory of Combinatorial Biosynthesis and Drug Discovery (Ministry of Education), Wuhan University, 430071, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Hematology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wuhan University, 430071, Wuhan, People's Republic of China.,Key Laboratory of Combinatorial Biosynthesis and Drug Discovery (Ministry of Education), Wuhan University, 430071, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Hematology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wuhan University, 430071, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Hematology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wuhan University, 430071, Wuhan, People's Republic of China. .,Key Laboratory of Combinatorial Biosynthesis and Drug Discovery (Ministry of Education), Wuhan University, 430071, Wuhan, People's Republic of China. .,Wuhan Research Center for Infectious Diseases and Cancer, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, 430071, Wuhan, People's Republic of China.
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Abegg D, Tomanik M, Qiu N, Pechalrieu D, Shuster A, Commare B, Togni A, Herzon SB, Adibekian A. Chemoproteomic Profiling by Cysteine Fluoroalkylation Reveals Myrocin G as an Inhibitor of the Nonhomologous End Joining DNA Repair Pathway. J Am Chem Soc 2021; 143:20332-20342. [PMID: 34817176 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c09724] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
Abstract
Chemoproteomic profiling of cysteines has emerged as a powerful method for screening the proteome-wide targets of cysteine-reactive fragments, drugs, and natural products. Herein, we report the development and an in-depth evaluation of a tetrafluoroalkyl benziodoxole (TFBX) as a cysteine-selective chemoproteomic probe. We show that this probe features numerous key improvements compared to the traditionally used cysteine-reactive probes, including a superior target occupancy, faster labeling kinetics, and broader proteomic coverage, thus enabling profiling of cysteines directly in live cells. In addition, the fluorine "signature" of probe 7 constitutes an additional advantage resulting in a more confident adduct-amino acid site assignment in mass-spectrometry-based identification workflows. We demonstrate the utility of our new probe for proteome-wide target profiling by identifying the cellular targets of (-)-myrocin G, an antiproliferative fungal natural product with a to-date unknown mechanism of action. We show that this natural product and a simplified analogue target the X-ray repair cross-complementing protein 5 (XRCC5), an ATP-dependent DNA helicase that primes DNA repair machinery for nonhomologous end joining (NHEJ) upon DNA double-strand breaks, making them the first reported inhibitors of this biomedically highly important protein. We further demonstrate that myrocins disrupt the interaction of XRCC5 with DNA leading to sensitization of cancer cells to the chemotherapeutic agent etoposide as well as UV-light-induced DNA damage. Altogether, our next-generation cysteine-reactive probe enables broader and deeper profiling of the cysteinome, rendering it a highly attractive tool for elucidation of targets of electrophilic small molecules.
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- Daniel Abegg
- Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, 130 Scripps Way, Jupiter, Florida 33458, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, 130 Scripps Way, Jupiter, Florida 33458, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, 130 Scripps Way, Jupiter, Florida 33458, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, 130 Scripps Way, Jupiter, Florida 33458, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States.,Department of Pharmacology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, 130 Scripps Way, Jupiter, Florida 33458, United States
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Teng S, Meng L, Xu B, Tu G, Wu P, Liao Z, Tan Y, Guo J, Zeng J, Wan Q. Togni‐II
Reagent Mediated Selective Hydrotrifluoromethylation and Hydrothiolation of Alkenes
†. CHINESE J CHEM 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/cjoc.202100464] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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- Shuang Teng
- Hubei Key Laboratory of Natural Medicinal Chemistry and Resource Evaluation School of Pharmacy, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 13 Hangkong Road Wuhan Hubei 430030 China
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- Hubei Key Laboratory of Natural Medicinal Chemistry and Resource Evaluation School of Pharmacy, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 13 Hangkong Road Wuhan Hubei 430030 China
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- Hubei Key Laboratory of Natural Medicinal Chemistry and Resource Evaluation School of Pharmacy, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 13 Hangkong Road Wuhan Hubei 430030 China
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- Hubei Key Laboratory of Natural Medicinal Chemistry and Resource Evaluation School of Pharmacy, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 13 Hangkong Road Wuhan Hubei 430030 China
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- Hubei Key Laboratory of Natural Medicinal Chemistry and Resource Evaluation School of Pharmacy, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 13 Hangkong Road Wuhan Hubei 430030 China
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- Hubei Key Laboratory of Natural Medicinal Chemistry and Resource Evaluation School of Pharmacy, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 13 Hangkong Road Wuhan Hubei 430030 China
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- Hubei Key Laboratory of Natural Medicinal Chemistry and Resource Evaluation School of Pharmacy, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 13 Hangkong Road Wuhan Hubei 430030 China
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- Hubei Key Laboratory of Natural Medicinal Chemistry and Resource Evaluation School of Pharmacy, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 13 Hangkong Road Wuhan Hubei 430030 China
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- Hubei Key Laboratory of Natural Medicinal Chemistry and Resource Evaluation School of Pharmacy, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 13 Hangkong Road Wuhan Hubei 430030 China
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- Hubei Key Laboratory of Natural Medicinal Chemistry and Resource Evaluation School of Pharmacy, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 13 Hangkong Road Wuhan Hubei 430030 China
- Institute of Brain Research Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 13 Hangkong Road Wuhan Hubei 430030 China
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Sulpizio A, Crawford CEW, Koweek RS, Charkoudian LK. Probing the structure and function of acyl carrier proteins to unlock the strategic redesign of type II polyketide biosynthetic pathways. J Biol Chem 2021; 296:100328. [PMID: 33493513 PMCID: PMC7949117 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2021.100328] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2020] [Revised: 01/20/2021] [Accepted: 01/21/2021] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
Abstract
Type II polyketide synthases (PKSs) are protein assemblies, encoded by biosynthetic gene clusters in microorganisms, that manufacture structurally complex and pharmacologically relevant molecules. Acyl carrier proteins (ACPs) play a central role in biosynthesis by shuttling malonyl-based building blocks and polyketide intermediates to catalytic partners for chemical transformations. Because ACPs serve as central hubs in type II PKSs, they can also represent roadblocks to successfully engineering synthases capable of manufacturing 'unnatural natural products.' Therefore, understanding ACP conformational dynamics and protein interactions is essential to enable the strategic redesign of type II PKSs. However, the inherent flexibility and transience of ACP interactions pose challenges to gaining insight into ACP structure and function. In this review, we summarize how the application of chemical probes and molecular dynamic simulations has increased our understanding of the structure and function of type II PKS ACPs. We also share how integrating these advances in type II PKS ACP research with newfound access to key enzyme partners, such as the ketosynthase-chain length factor, sets the stage to unlock new biosynthetic potential.
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- Ariana Sulpizio
- Department of Chemistry, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania, USA
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Klein JG, Wu Y, Kokona B, Charkoudian LK. Widening the bottleneck: Heterologous expression, purification, and characterization of the Ktedonobacter racemifer minimal type II polyketide synthase in Escherichia coli. Bioorg Med Chem 2020; 28:115686. [PMID: 33069071 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2020.115686] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2020] [Revised: 07/16/2020] [Accepted: 07/22/2020] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
Abstract
Enzyme assemblies such as type II polyketide synthases (PKSs) produce a wide array of bioactive secondary metabolites. While the molecules produced by type II PKSs have found remarkable clinical success, the biosynthetic prowess of these enzymes has been stymied by 1) the inability to reconstitute the bioactivity of the minimal PKS enzymes in vitro and 2) limited exploration of type II PKSs from diverse phyla. To begin filling this unmet need, we expressed, purified, and characterized the ketosynthase chain length factor (KS-CLF) and acyl carrier protein (ACP) from Ktedonobacter racemifer (Kr). Using E. coli as a heterologous host, we obtained soluble proteins in titers signifying improvements over previous KS-CLF heterologous expression efforts. Characterization of these enzymes reveals that KrACP has self-malonylating activity. Sedimentation velocity analytical ultracentrifugation (SV-AUC) analysis of holo-KrACP and KrKS-CLF indicates that these enzymes do not interact in vitro, suggesting that the acylated state of these proteins might play an important role in facilitating biosynthetically relevant interactions. These results lay important groundwork for optimizing the interaction between KrKS-CLF and KrACP and exploring the biosynthetic potential of other non-actinomycete type II PKSs.
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- Joshua G Klein
- Haverford College, Department of Chemistry, Haverford, PA 19041, United States
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- Haverford College, Department of Chemistry, Haverford, PA 19041, United States
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- Haverford College, Department of Chemistry, Haverford, PA 19041, United States.
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Rahimidashaghoul K, Klimánková I, Hubálek M, Matoušek V, Filgas J, Slavíček P, Slanina T, Beier P. Visible‐Light‐Driven Fluoroalkylation of Tryptophan Residues in Peptides. CHEMPHOTOCHEM 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/cptc.202000214] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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- Kheironnesae Rahimidashaghoul
- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences Flemingovo náměstí 2 166 10 Prague 6 Czech Republic
- Department of Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Science Charles University Hlavova 2030/8 128 43 Prague Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences Flemingovo náměstí 2 166 10 Prague 6 Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences Flemingovo náměstí 2 166 10 Prague 6 Czech Republic
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- CF Plus Chemicals s.r.o., Karásek 1767/1 621 00 Brno Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences Flemingovo náměstí 2 166 10 Prague 6 Czech Republic
- University of Chemistry and Technology Technická 5 160 00 Prague 6 Czech Republic
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- University of Chemistry and Technology Technická 5 160 00 Prague 6 Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences Flemingovo náměstí 2 166 10 Prague 6 Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences Flemingovo náměstí 2 166 10 Prague 6 Czech Republic
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Tessier R, Nandi RK, Dwyer BG, Abegg D, Sornay C, Ceballos J, Erb S, Cianférani S, Wagner A, Chaubet G, Adibekian A, Waser J. Ethynylation of Cysteine Residues: From Peptides to Proteins in Vitro and in Living Cells. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2020; 59:10961-10970. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.202002626] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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- Romain Tessier
- Laboratory of Catalysis and Organic SynthesisEcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL SB ISIC LCSO, BCH 4306 1015 Lausanne Switzerland
- Present address: Department of Chemical BiologyMax Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology Otto-Hahn-Strasse 11 44227 Dortmund Germany
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- Laboratory of Catalysis and Organic SynthesisEcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL SB ISIC LCSO, BCH 4306 1015 Lausanne Switzerland
- Present address: Department of ChemistryDiamond Harbour Women's University Sarisha South 24 Parganas West Bengal 743368 India
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- Department of ChemistryThe Scripps Research Institute 130 Scripps Way Jupiter FL 33458 USA
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- Department of ChemistryThe Scripps Research Institute 130 Scripps Way Jupiter FL 33458 USA
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- Bio-Functional Chemistry (UMR 7199)LabEx Medalis, University of Strasbourg 74 Route du Rhin 67400 Illkirch-Graffenstaden France
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- Laboratory of Catalysis and Organic SynthesisEcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL SB ISIC LCSO, BCH 4306 1015 Lausanne Switzerland
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- Laboratoire de Spectrométrie de Masse BioOrganique (LSMBO)Université de StrasbourgCNRS, IPHC UMR 7178 67000 Strasbourg France
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- Laboratoire de Spectrométrie de Masse BioOrganique (LSMBO)Université de StrasbourgCNRS, IPHC UMR 7178 67000 Strasbourg France
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- Bio-Functional Chemistry (UMR 7199)LabEx Medalis, University of Strasbourg 74 Route du Rhin 67400 Illkirch-Graffenstaden France
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- Bio-Functional Chemistry (UMR 7199)LabEx Medalis, University of Strasbourg 74 Route du Rhin 67400 Illkirch-Graffenstaden France
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- Department of ChemistryThe Scripps Research Institute 130 Scripps Way Jupiter FL 33458 USA
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- Laboratory of Catalysis and Organic SynthesisEcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL SB ISIC LCSO, BCH 4306 1015 Lausanne Switzerland
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Tessier R, Nandi RK, Dwyer BG, Abegg D, Sornay C, Ceballos J, Erb S, Cianférani S, Wagner A, Chaubet G, Adibekian A, Waser J. Ethynylation of Cysteine Residues: From Peptides to Proteins in Vitro and in Living Cells. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202002626] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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- Romain Tessier
- Laboratory of Catalysis and Organic SynthesisEcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL SB ISIC LCSO, BCH 4306 1015 Lausanne Switzerland
- Present address: Department of Chemical BiologyMax Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology Otto-Hahn-Strasse 11 44227 Dortmund Germany
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- Laboratory of Catalysis and Organic SynthesisEcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL SB ISIC LCSO, BCH 4306 1015 Lausanne Switzerland
- Present address: Department of ChemistryDiamond Harbour Women's University Sarisha South 24 Parganas West Bengal 743368 India
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- Department of ChemistryThe Scripps Research Institute 130 Scripps Way Jupiter FL 33458 USA
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- Department of ChemistryThe Scripps Research Institute 130 Scripps Way Jupiter FL 33458 USA
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- Bio-Functional Chemistry (UMR 7199)LabEx Medalis, University of Strasbourg 74 Route du Rhin 67400 Illkirch-Graffenstaden France
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- Laboratory of Catalysis and Organic SynthesisEcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL SB ISIC LCSO, BCH 4306 1015 Lausanne Switzerland
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- Laboratoire de Spectrométrie de Masse BioOrganique (LSMBO)Université de StrasbourgCNRS, IPHC UMR 7178 67000 Strasbourg France
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- Laboratoire de Spectrométrie de Masse BioOrganique (LSMBO)Université de StrasbourgCNRS, IPHC UMR 7178 67000 Strasbourg France
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- Bio-Functional Chemistry (UMR 7199)LabEx Medalis, University of Strasbourg 74 Route du Rhin 67400 Illkirch-Graffenstaden France
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- Bio-Functional Chemistry (UMR 7199)LabEx Medalis, University of Strasbourg 74 Route du Rhin 67400 Illkirch-Graffenstaden France
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- Department of ChemistryThe Scripps Research Institute 130 Scripps Way Jupiter FL 33458 USA
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- Laboratory of Catalysis and Organic SynthesisEcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL SB ISIC LCSO, BCH 4306 1015 Lausanne Switzerland
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Klimánková I, Hubálek M, Matoušek V, Beier P. Synthesis of water-soluble hypervalent iodine reagents for fluoroalkylation of biological thiols. Org Biomol Chem 2019; 17:10097-10102. [PMID: 31754683 DOI: 10.1039/c9ob02115a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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New open-chain and water-soluble hypervalent iodine reagents were synthesized and used for the transfer of fluoroalkyl groups to sulfur atoms of cysteine and cysteine-containing peptides under biocompatible conditions. Some of the reagents displayed excellent reactivity despite their limited stability in aqueous media. In reactions with a short cysteine-containing peptide, in addition to the expected S-fluoroalkylated product, a range of side-products were obtained. The amount of side-products depended on the conditions used (type of reagent, concentration, and pH). With highly activated hypervalent iodine reagents, a new reactive mode was observed - reaction with disulfides to form fluoroalkyl thiols.
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- Iveta Klimánková
- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Flemingovo náměstí 2, 166 10 Prague 6, Czech Republic.
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Farmer R, Thomas CM, Winn PJ. Structure, function and dynamics in acyl carrier proteins. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0219435. [PMID: 31291335 PMCID: PMC6619796 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0219435] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2019] [Accepted: 06/24/2019] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Carrier proteins are four-helix bundles that covalently hold metabolites and secondary metabolites, such as fatty acids, polyketides and non-ribosomal peptides. These proteins mediate the production of many pharmaceutically important compounds including antibiotics and anticancer agents. Acyl carrier proteins (ACPs) can be found as part of a multi-domain polypeptide (Type I ACPs), or as part of a multiprotein complex (Type II). Here, the main focus is on ACP2 and ACP3, domains from the type I trans-AT polyketide synthase MmpA, which is a core component of the biosynthetic pathway of the antibiotic mupirocin. During molecular dynamics simulations of their apo, holo and acyl forms ACP2 and ACP3 both form a substrate-binding surface-groove. The substrates bound to this surface-groove have polar groups on their acyl chain exposed and forming hydrogen bonds with the solvent. Bulky hydrophobic residues in the GXDS motif common to all ACPs, and similar residues on helix III, appear to prohibit the formation of a deep tunnel in type I ACPs and type II ACPs from polyketide synthases. In contrast, the equivalent positions in ACPs from type II fatty acid synthases, which do form a deep solvent-excluded substrate-binding tunnel, have the small residue alanine. During simulation, ACP3 with mutations I61A L36A W44L forms a deep tunnel that can fully bury a saturated substrate in the core of the ACP, in contrast to the surface groove of the wild type ACP3. Similarly, in the ACP from E. coli fatty acid synthase, a type II ACP, mutations can change ligand binding from being inside a deep tunnel to being in a surface groove, thus demonstrating how changing a few residues can modify the possibilities for ligand binding.
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- Rohit Farmer
- School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom
- Department of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Jacob Institute of Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences, Allahabad, India
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- School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom
- The Institute of Microbiology and Infection, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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- School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom
- The Institute of Microbiology and Infection, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom
- Centre for Computational Biology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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Biswas R, Singh BK, Dutta D, Das PK, Maiti MK, Basak A, Das AK. Decrypting the oscillating nature of the 4'-phosphopantetheine arm in acyl carrier protein AcpM of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. FEBS Lett 2019; 593:622-633. [PMID: 30847903 DOI: 10.1002/1873-3468.13339] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2018] [Revised: 02/04/2019] [Accepted: 02/11/2019] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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In Mycobacterium tuberculosis, acyl carrier protein (AcpM)-mediated fatty acid synthase type II is integral for the synthesis of mycolic acids. AcpM, designated as an atypical ACP, comprises of a putative 33 amino acid long C-terminal extension which is distinctive in nature. Here, we aimed at devising an 'easy-to-go' method for the generation of crypto-AcpM loaded with a solvatochromic probe 7-Nitrobenz-2-oxa-1,3-diazol-4-yl, which is linked to the 4'-phosphopantetheine (Ppant) prosthetic group of AcpM. The crypto-AcpM, coupled with fluorescence spectroscopy and molecular dynamics simulation studies, was employed to explore the elusive dynamics of Ppant arm in AcpM. This investigation establishes the role of the flexible C-terminal extension of AcpM in regulating the prosthetic group sequestration ability by modulating the 'Asp-Ser-Leu' motif.
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- Rupam Biswas
- Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
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- School of Biosciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
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- School of Biosciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.,Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.,School of Biosciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
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Musiol-Kroll EM, Wohlleben W. Acyltransferases as Tools for Polyketide Synthase Engineering. Antibiotics (Basel) 2018; 7:antibiotics7030062. [PMID: 30022008 PMCID: PMC6164871 DOI: 10.3390/antibiotics7030062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2018] [Revised: 07/14/2018] [Accepted: 07/16/2018] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Polyketides belong to the most valuable natural products, including diverse bioactive compounds, such as antibiotics, anticancer drugs, antifungal agents, immunosuppressants and others. Their structures are assembled by polyketide synthases (PKSs). Modular PKSs are composed of modules, which involve sets of domains catalysing the stepwise polyketide biosynthesis. The acyltransferase (AT) domains and their “partners”, the acyl carrier proteins (ACPs), thereby play an essential role. The AT loads the building blocks onto the “substrate acceptor”, the ACP. Thus, the AT dictates which building blocks are incorporated into the polyketide structure. The precursor- and occasionally the ACP-specificity of the ATs differ across the polyketide pathways and therefore, the ATs contribute to the structural diversity within this group of complex natural products. Those features make the AT enzymes one of the most promising tools for manipulation of polyketide assembly lines and generation of new polyketide compounds. However, the AT-based PKS engineering is still not straightforward and thus, rational design of functional PKSs requires detailed understanding of the complex machineries. This review summarizes the attempts of PKS engineering by exploiting the AT attributes for the modification of polyketide structures. The article includes 253 references and covers the most relevant literature published until May 2018.
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- Ewa Maria Musiol-Kroll
- Interfakultäres Institut für Mikrobiologie und Infektionsmedizin, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 28, 72076 Tübingen, Germany.
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- Interfakultäres Institut für Mikrobiologie und Infektionsmedizin, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 28, 72076 Tübingen, Germany.
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Rosenau CP, Jelier BJ, Gossert AD, Togni A. Fluor-NMR-Spektroskopie rekalibriert. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2018. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201802620] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Carl Philipp Rosenau
- Department Chemie und Angewandte Biowissenschaften; Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich; Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2 8093 Zürich Schweiz
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- Department Chemie und Angewandte Biowissenschaften; Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich; Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2 8093 Zürich Schweiz
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- Biomolecular NMR Spectroscopy Platform, Department Biologie; Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich; Hönggerbergring 64 8093 Zürich Schweiz
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- Department Chemie und Angewandte Biowissenschaften; Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich; Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2 8093 Zürich Schweiz
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Rosenau CP, Jelier BJ, Gossert AD, Togni A. Exposing the Origins of Irreproducibility in Fluorine NMR Spectroscopy. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2018; 57:9528-9533. [PMID: 29663671 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201802620] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2018] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Fluorine chemistry has taken a pivotal role in chemical reaction discovery, drug development, and chemical biology. NMR spectroscopy, arguably the most important technique for the characterization of fluorinated compounds, is rife with highly inconsistent referencing of fluorine NMR chemical shifts, producing deviations larger than 1 ppm. Herein, we provide unprecedented evidence that both spectrometer design and the current unified scale system underpinning the calibration of heteronuclear NMR spectra have unintentionally led to widespread variation in the standardization of 19 F NMR spectral data. We demonstrate that internal referencing provides the most robust, practical, and reproducible method whereby chemical shifts can be consistently measured and confirmed between institutions to less than 30 ppb deviation. Finally, we provide a comprehensive table of appropriately calibrated chemical shifts of reference compounds that will serve to calibrate 19 F spectra correctly.
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- Carl Philipp Rosenau
- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, 8093, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, 8093, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Biomolecular NMR Spectroscopy Platform, Department of Biology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Hönggerbergring 64, 8093, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, 8093, Zürich, Switzerland
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Commare B, Togni A. Hypervalent Iodine Reagents: Thiol Derivatization with a Tetrafluoroethoxy Coumarin Residue for UV Absorbance Recognition. Helv Chim Acta 2017. [DOI: 10.1002/hlca.201700059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Bruno Commare
- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences; Swiss Federal Institute of Technology; ETH Zürich; Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2 CH-8093 Zürich
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences; Swiss Federal Institute of Technology; ETH Zürich; Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2 CH-8093 Zürich
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Václavík J, Zschoche R, Klimánková I, Matoušek V, Beier P, Hilvert D, Togni A. Irreversible Cysteine-Selective Protein Labeling Employing Modular Electrophilic Tetrafluoroethylation Reagents. Chemistry 2017; 23:6490-6494. [PMID: 28195376 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201700607] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2017] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Fluoroalkylation reagents based on hypervalent iodine are widely used to transfer fluoroalkyl moieties to various nucleophiles. However, the transferred groups have so far been limited to simple structural motifs. We herein report a reagent featuring a secondary amine that can be converted to amide, sulfonamide, and tertiary amine derivatives in one step. The resulting reagents bear manifold functional groups, many of which would not be compatible with the original synthetic pathway. Exploiting this structural versatility and the known high reactivity toward thiols, the new-generation reagents were used in bioconjugation with an artificial retro-aldolase, containing an exposed cysteine and a reactive catalytic lysine. Whereas commercial reagents based on maleimide and iodoacetamide labeled both sites, the iodanes exclusively modified the cysteine residue. The study thus demonstrates that modular fluoroalkylation reagents can be used as tools for cysteine-selective bioconjugation.
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- Jiří Václavík
- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, 8093, Zürich, Switzerland.,Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, v.v.i., Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Flemingovo nám. 2, 166 10, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, 8093, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, v.v.i., Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Flemingovo nám. 2, 166 10, Prague, Czech Republic
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- CF Plus Chemicals s.r.o., Kamenice 771/34, 625 00, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, v.v.i., Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Flemingovo nám. 2, 166 10, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, 8093, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, 8093, Zürich, Switzerland
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Weissman KJ. Polyketide stereocontrol: a study in chemical biology. Beilstein J Org Chem 2017; 13:348-371. [PMID: 28326145 PMCID: PMC5331325 DOI: 10.3762/bjoc.13.39] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2016] [Accepted: 02/01/2017] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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The biosynthesis of reduced polyketides in bacteria by modular polyketide synthases (PKSs) proceeds with exquisite stereocontrol. As the stereochemistry is intimately linked to the strong bioactivity of these molecules, the origins of stereochemical control are of significant interest in attempts to create derivatives of these compounds by genetic engineering. In this review, we discuss the current state of knowledge regarding this key aspect of the biosynthetic pathways. Given that much of this information has been obtained using chemical biology tools, work in this area serves as a showcase for the power of this approach to provide answers to fundamental biological questions.
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- Kira J Weissman
- UMR 7365, Ingénierie Moléculaire et Physiopathologie Articulaire (IMoPA), CNRS-Université de Lorraine, Biopôle de l’Université de Lorraine, Campus Biologie Santé, Avenue de la Forêt de Haye, BP 50184, 54505 Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy Cedex, France
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Bayly CL, Yadav VG. Towards Precision Engineering of Canonical Polyketide Synthase Domains: Recent Advances and Future Prospects. Molecules 2017; 22:molecules22020235. [PMID: 28165430 PMCID: PMC6155766 DOI: 10.3390/molecules22020235] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2016] [Revised: 01/10/2017] [Accepted: 01/11/2017] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Modular polyketide synthases (mPKSs) build functionalized polymeric chains, some of which have become blockbuster therapeutics. Organized into repeating clusters (modules) of independently-folding domains, these assembly-line-like megasynthases can be engineered by introducing non-native components. However, poor introduction points and incompatible domain combinations can cause both unintended products and dramatically reduced activity. This limits the engineering and combinatorial potential of mPKSs, precluding access to further potential therapeutics. Different regions on a given mPKS domain determine how it interacts both with its substrate and with other domains. Within the assembly line, these interactions are crucial to the proper ordering of reactions and efficient polyketide construction. Achieving control over these domain functions, through precision engineering at key regions, would greatly expand our catalogue of accessible polyketide products. Canonical mPKS domains, given that they are among the most well-characterized, are excellent candidates for such fine-tuning. The current minireview summarizes recent advances in the mechanistic understanding and subsequent precision engineering of canonical mPKS domains, focusing largely on developments in the past year.
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- Carmen L Bayly
- Department of Genome Sciences & Technology, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V5Z 4S6, Canada.
- Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3, Canada.
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- Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3, Canada.
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Brantley J, Samant AV, Toste FD. Isolation and Reactivity of Trifluoromethyl Iodonium Salts. ACS CENTRAL SCIENCE 2016; 2:341-350. [PMID: 27280169 PMCID: PMC4882740 DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.6b00119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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The strategic incorporation of the trifluoromethyl (CF3) functionality within therapeutic or agrochemical agents is a proven strategy for altering their associated physicochemical properties (e.g., metabolic stability, lipophilicity, and bioavailability). Electrophilic trifluoromethylation has emerged as an important methodology for installing the CF3 moiety onto an array of molecular architectures, and, in particular, CF3 λ(3)-iodanes have garnered significant interest because of their unique reactivity and ease of handling. Trifluoromethylations mediated by these hypervalent iodine reagents often require activation through an exogenous Lewis or Brønsted acid; thus, putative intermediates invoked in these transformations are cationic CF3 iodoniums. These iodoniums have, thus far, eluded isolation and investigation of their innate reactivity (which has encouraged speculation that such species cannot be accessed). A more complete understanding of the mechanistic relevance of CF3 iodoniums is paramount for the development of new trifluoromethylative strategies involving λ(3)-iodanes. Here, we demonstrate that CF3 iodonium salts are readily prepared from common λ(3)-iodane precursors and exhibit remarkable persistence under ambient conditions. These reagents are competent electrophiles for a variety of trifluoromethylation reactions, and their reactivity is reminiscent of that observed when CF3 iodanes are activated using Lewis acids. As such, our results suggest the mechanistic relevance of CF3 iodonium intermediates in trifluoromethylative processes mediated by λ(3)-iodanes. The isolation of CF3 iodonium salts also presents the unique opportunity to employ them more generally as mechanistic probes.
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Sticky swinging arm dynamics: studies of an acyl carrier protein domain from the mycolactone polyketide synthase. Biochem J 2016; 473:1097-110. [PMID: 26920023 PMCID: PMC4847154 DOI: 10.1042/bcj20160041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2015] [Accepted: 02/18/2016] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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When covalently linked to an acyl carrier protein (ACP) and loaded with acyl substrate-mimics, some 4′-phosphopantetheine prosthetic group arms swing freely, whereas others stick to the protein surface, suggesting a possible mode of interaction with enzyme domains during polyketide biosynthesis. Type I modular polyketide synthases (PKSs) produce polyketide natural products by passing a growing acyl substrate chain between a series of enzyme domains housed within a gigantic multifunctional polypeptide assembly. Throughout each round of chain extension and modification reactions, the substrate stays covalently linked to an acyl carrier protein (ACP) domain. In the present study we report on the solution structure and dynamics of an ACP domain excised from MLSA2, module 9 of the PKS system that constructs the macrolactone ring of the toxin mycolactone, cause of the tropical disease Buruli ulcer. After modification of apo ACP with 4′-phosphopantetheine (Ppant) to create the holo form, 15N nuclear spin relaxation and paramagnetic relaxation enhancement (PRE) experiments suggest that the prosthetic group swings freely. The minimal chemical shift perturbations displayed by Ppant-attached C3 and C4 acyl chains imply that these substrate-mimics remain exposed to solvent at the end of a flexible Ppant arm. By contrast, hexanoyl and octanoyl chains yield much larger chemical shift perturbations, indicating that they interact with the surface of the domain. The solution structure of octanoyl-ACP shows the Ppant arm bending to allow the acyl chain to nestle into a nonpolar pocket, whereas the prosthetic group itself remains largely solvent exposed. Although the highly reduced octanoyl group is not a natural substrate for the ACP from MLSA2, similar presentation modes would permit partner enzyme domains to recognize an acyl group while it is bound to the surface of its carrier protein, allowing simultaneous interactions with both the substrate and the ACP.
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Sala O, Santschi N, Jungen S, Lüthi HP, Iannuzzi M, Hauser N, Togni A. S-Trifluoromethylation of Thiols by Hypervalent Iodine Reagents: A Joint Experimental and Computational Study. Chemistry 2016; 22:1704-13. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.201503774] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2015] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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- Oliver Sala
- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology; ETH Zürich; Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2 CH-8093 Zürich Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology; ETH Zürich; Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2 CH-8093 Zürich Switzerland
- Organisch Chemisches Institut; Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität; Münster Corrensstrasse 40 Münster Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology; ETH Zürich; Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2 CH-8093 Zürich Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology; ETH Zürich; Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2 CH-8093 Zürich Switzerland
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- University of Zurich; Department of Chemistry; Winterthurerstr. 190 8057 Zürich Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology; ETH Zürich; Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2 CH-8093 Zürich Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology; ETH Zürich; Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2 CH-8093 Zürich Switzerland
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Matoušek V, Václavík J, Hájek P, Charpentier J, Blastik ZE, Pietrasiak E, Budinská A, Togni A, Beier P. Expanding the Scope of Hypervalent Iodine Reagents for Perfluoroalkylation: From Trifluoromethyl to Functionalized Perfluoroethyl. Chemistry 2015; 22:417-24. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.201503531] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2015] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Harnessing natural product assembly lines: structure, promiscuity, and engineering. J Ind Microbiol Biotechnol 2015; 43:371-87. [PMID: 26527577 DOI: 10.1007/s10295-015-1704-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2015] [Accepted: 10/18/2015] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Many therapeutically relevant natural products are biosynthesized by the action of giant mega-enzyme assembly lines. By leveraging the specificity, promiscuity, and modularity of assembly lines, a variety of strategies has been developed that enables the biosynthesis of modified natural products. This review briefly summarizes recent structural advances related to natural product assembly lines, discusses chemical approaches to probing assembly line structures in the absence of traditional biophysical data, and surveys efforts that harness the inherent or engineered promiscuity of assembly lines for the synthesis of non-natural polyketides and non-ribosomal peptide analogues.
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This review covers a breakthrough in the structural biology of the gigantic modular polyketide synthases (PKS): the structural characterization of intact modules by single-particle cryo-electron microscopy and small-angle X-ray scattering.
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- Kira J. Weissman
- Molecular and Structural Enzymology Group
- Université de Lorraine
- IMoPA
- UMR 7365
- Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy
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Charpentier J, Früh N, Togni A. Electrophilic trifluoromethylation by use of hypervalent iodine reagents. Chem Rev 2014; 115:650-82. [PMID: 25152082 DOI: 10.1021/cr500223h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1195] [Impact Index Per Article: 119.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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- Julie Charpentier
- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology , Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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Xu XH, Matsuzaki K, Shibata N. Synthetic methods for compounds having CF3-S units on carbon by trifluoromethylation, trifluoromethylthiolation, triflylation, and related reactions. Chem Rev 2014; 115:731-64. [PMID: 25121343 DOI: 10.1021/cr500193b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 839] [Impact Index Per Article: 83.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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- Xiu-Hua Xu
- Department of Nanopharmaceutical Science and Department of Frontier Materials, Nagoya Institute of Technology , Gokiso, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8555, Japan
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Johnson MR, Londergan CH, Charkoudian LK. Probing the phosphopantetheine arm conformations of acyl carrier proteins using vibrational spectroscopy. J Am Chem Soc 2014; 136:11240-3. [PMID: 25080832 PMCID: PMC4140477 DOI: 10.1021/ja505442h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2014] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Acyl carrier proteins (ACPs) are universal and highly conserved domains central to both fatty acid and polyketide biosynthesis. These proteins tether reactive acyl intermediates with a swinging 4'-phosphopantetheine (Ppant) arm and interact with a suite of catalytic partners during chain transport and elongation while stabilizing the growing chain throughout the biosynthetic pathway. The flexible nature of the Ppant arm and the transient nature of ACP-enzyme interactions impose a major obstacle to obtaining structural information relevant to understanding polyketide and fatty acid biosynthesis. To overcome this challenge, we installed a thiocyanate vibrational spectroscopic probe on the terminal thiol of the ACP Ppant arm. This site-specific probe successfully reported on the local environment of the Ppant arm of two ACPs previously characterized by solution NMR, and was used to determine the solution exposure of the Ppant arm of an ACP from 6-deoxyerythronolide B synthase (DEBS). Given the sensitivity of the probe's CN stretching band to conformational distributions resolved on the picosecond time scale, this work lays a foundation for observing the dynamic action-related structural changes of ACPs using vibrational spectroscopy.
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- Department of Chemistry, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania 19041-1392, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania 19041-1392, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania 19041-1392, United States
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Khosla C, Herschlag D, Cane DE, Walsh CT. Assembly line polyketide synthases: mechanistic insights and unsolved problems. Biochemistry 2014; 53:2875-83. [PMID: 24779441 PMCID: PMC4020578 DOI: 10.1021/bi500290t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Two hallmarks of assembly line polyketide synthases have motivated an interest in these unusual multienzyme systems, their stereospecificity and their capacity for directional biosynthesis. In this review, we summarize the state of knowledge regarding the mechanistic origins of these two remarkable features, using the 6-deoxyerythronolide B synthase as a prototype. Of the 10 stereocenters in 6-deoxyerythronolide B, the stereochemistry of nine carbon atoms is directly set by ketoreductase domains, which catalyze epimerization and/or diastereospecific reduction reactions. The 10th stereocenter is established by the sequential action of three enzymatic domains. Thus, the problem has been reduced to a challenge in mainstream enzymology, where fundamental gaps remain in our understanding of the structural basis for this exquisite stereochemical control by relatively well-defined active sites. In contrast, testable mechanistic hypotheses for the phenomenon of vectorial biosynthesis are only just beginning to emerge. Starting from an elegant theoretical framework for understanding coupled vectorial processes in biology [Jencks, W. P. (1980) Adv. Enzymol. Relat. Areas Mol. Biol. 51, 75-106], we present a simple model that can explain assembly line polyketide biosynthesis as a coupled vectorial process. Our model, which highlights the important role of domain-domain interactions, not only is consistent with recent observations but also is amenable to further experimental verification and refinement. Ultimately, a definitive view of the coordinated motions within and between polyketide synthase modules will require a combination of structural, kinetic, spectroscopic, and computational tools and could be one of the most exciting frontiers in 21st Century enzymology.
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- Chaitan Khosla
- Departments of Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, and Biochemistry, Stanford University , Stanford, California 94305, United States
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Dunn BJ, Khosla C. Engineering the acyltransferase substrate specificity of assembly line polyketide synthases. J R Soc Interface 2013; 10:20130297. [PMID: 23720536 DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2013.0297] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Polyketide natural products act as a broad range of therapeutics, including antibiotics, immunosuppressants and anti-cancer agents. This therapeutic diversity stems from the structural diversity of these small molecules, many of which are produced in an assembly line manner by modular polyketide synthases. The acyltransferase (AT) domains of these megasynthases are responsible for selection and incorporation of simple monomeric building blocks, and are thus responsible for a large amount of the resulting polyketide structural diversity. The substrate specificity of these domains is often targeted for engineering in the generation of novel, therapeutically active natural products. This review outlines recent developments that can be used in the successful engineering of these domains, including AT sequence and structural data, mechanistic insights and the production of a diverse pool of extender units. It also provides an overview of previous AT domain engineering attempts, and concludes with proposed engineering approaches that take advantage of current knowledge. These approaches may lead to successful production of biologically active 'unnatural' natural products.
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- Briana J Dunn
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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Xu W, Qiao K, Tang Y. Structural analysis of protein-protein interactions in type I polyketide synthases. Crit Rev Biochem Mol Biol 2012; 48:98-122. [PMID: 23249187 DOI: 10.3109/10409238.2012.745476] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Polyketide synthases (PKSs) are responsible for synthesizing a myriad of natural products with agricultural, medicinal relevance. The PKSs consist of multiple functional domains of which each can catalyze a specified chemical reaction leading to the synthesis of polyketides. Biochemical studies showed that protein-substrate and protein-protein interactions play crucial roles in these complex regio-/stereo-selective biochemical processes. Recent developments on X-ray crystallography and protein NMR techniques have allowed us to understand the biosynthetic mechanism of these enzymes from their structures. These structural studies have facilitated the elucidation of the sequence-function relationship of PKSs and will ultimately contribute to the prediction of product structure. This review will focus on the current knowledge of type I PKS structures and the protein-protein interactions in this system.
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- Wei Xu
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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Yuzawa S, Kim W, Katz L, Keasling JD. Heterologous production of polyketides by modular type I polyketide synthases in Escherichia coli. Curr Opin Biotechnol 2012; 23:727-35. [DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2011.12.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2011] [Revised: 12/19/2011] [Accepted: 12/21/2011] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Crosby J, Crump MP. The structural role of the carrier protein--active controller or passive carrier. Nat Prod Rep 2012; 29:1111-37. [PMID: 22930263 DOI: 10.1039/c2np20062g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 132] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Common to all FASs, PKSs and NRPSs is a remarkable component, the acyl or peptidyl carrier protein (A/PCP). These take the form of small individual proteins in type II systems or discrete folded domains in the multi-domain type I systems and are characterized by a fold consisting of three major α-helices and between 60-100 amino acids. This protein is central to these biosynthetic systems and it must bind and transport a wide variety of functionalized ligands as well as mediate numerous protein-protein interactions, all of which contribute to efficient enzyme turnover. This review covers the structural and biochemical characterization of carrier proteins, as well as assessing their interactions with different ligands, and other synthase components. Finally, their role as an emerging tool in biotechnology is discussed.
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- John Crosby
- School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock's Close, Bristol, BS8 1TS, UK
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Niedermann K, Früh N, Senn R, Czarniecki B, Verel R, Togni A. Direkte elektrophile N-Trifluormethylierung von Azolen mit einem hypervalenten Iodreagens. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2012. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201201572] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Niedermann K, Früh N, Senn R, Czarniecki B, Verel R, Togni A. Direct Electrophilic N-Trifluoromethylation of Azoles by a Hypervalent Iodine Reagent. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2012; 51:6511-5. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201201572] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2012] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Yuzawa S, Kapur S, Cane DE, Khosla C. Role of a conserved arginine residue in linkers between the ketosynthase and acyltransferase domains of multimodular polyketide synthases. Biochemistry 2012; 51:3708-10. [PMID: 22509729 DOI: 10.1021/bi300399u] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The role of interdomain linkers in modular polyketide synthases is poorly understood. Analysis of the 6-deoxyerythronolide B synthase (DEBS) has yielded a model in which chain elongation is governed by interactions between the acyl carrier protein domain and the ketosynthase domain plus an adjacent linker. Alanine scanning mutagenesis of the conserved residues of this linker in DEBS module 3 led to the identification of the R513A mutant with a markedly reduced rate of chain elongation. Limited proteolysis supported a structural role for this Arg. Our findings highlight the importance of domain-linker interactions in assembly line polyketide biosynthesis.
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- Satoshi Yuzawa
- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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Guo X, Liu T, Deng Z, Cane DE. Essential role of the donor acyl carrier protein in stereoselective chain translocation to a fully reducing module of the nanchangmycin polyketide synthase. Biochemistry 2012; 51:879-87. [PMID: 22229794 PMCID: PMC3273620 DOI: 10.1021/bi201768v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Incubation of recombinant module 2 of the polyether nanchangmycin synthase (NANS), carrying an appended thioesterase domain, with the ACP-bound substrate (2RS)-2-methyl-3-ketobutyryl-NANS_ACP1 (2-ACP1) and methylmalonyl-CoA in the presence of NADPH gave diastereomerically pure (2S,4R)-2,4-dimethyl-5-ketohexanoic acid (4a). These results contrast with the previously reported weak discrimination by NANS module 2+TE between the enantiomers of the corresponding N-acetylcysteamine-conjugated substrate analogue (±)-2-methyl-3-ketobutyryl-SNAC (2-SNAC), which resulted in formation of a 5:3 mixture of 4a and its (2S,4S)-diastereomer 4b. Incubation of NANS module 2+TE with 2-ACP1 in the absence of NADPH gave unreduced 3,5,6-trimethyl-4-hydroxypyrone (3) with a k(cat) of 4.4 ± 0.9 min⁻¹ and a k(cat)/K(m) of 67 min⁻¹ mM⁻¹, corresponding to a ∼2300-fold increase compared to the k(cat)/K(m) for the diffusive substrate 2-SNAC. Covalent tethering of the 2-methyl-3-ketobutyryl thioester substrate to the NANS ACP1 domain derived from the natural upstream PKS module of the nanchangmycin synthase significantly enhanced both the stereospecificity and the kinetic efficiency of the sequential polyketide chain translocation and condensation reactions catalyzed by the ketosynthase domain of NANS module 2.
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- Xun Guo
- Department of Chemistry, Box H, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912-9108, USA
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- Key Laboratory of Combinatorial Biosynthesis and Drug Discovery (Wuhan University), Ministry of Education, and Wuhan University School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wuhan 430071, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Combinatorial Biosynthesis and Drug Discovery (Wuhan University), Ministry of Education, and Wuhan University School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wuhan 430071, P. R. China
- Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism and School of Life Sciences & Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 200030, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, Box H, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912-9108, USA
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Ye Z, Bair M, Desai H, Williams GJ. A photocrosslinking assay for reporting protein interactions in polyketide and fatty acid synthases. MOLECULAR BIOSYSTEMS 2011; 7:3152-6. [DOI: 10.1039/c1mb05270e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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