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Nidetzky B, Gutmann A, Zhong C. Leloir Glycosyltransferases as Biocatalysts for Chemical Production. ACS Catal 2018. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.8b00710] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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- Bernd Nidetzky
- Institute of Biotechnology and Biochemical Engineering, Graz University of Technology, NAWI Graz, Petersgasse 12, A-8010 Graz, Austria
- Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology (acib), Petersgasse 14, A-8010 Graz, Austria
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- Institute of Biotechnology and Biochemical Engineering, Graz University of Technology, NAWI Graz, Petersgasse 12, A-8010 Graz, Austria
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- Institute of Biotechnology and Biochemical Engineering, Graz University of Technology, NAWI Graz, Petersgasse 12, A-8010 Graz, Austria
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Zhang J, Hughes RR, Saunders MA, Elshahawi SI, Ponomareva LV, Zhang Y, Winchester SR, Scott SA, Sunkara M, Morris AJ, Prendergast MA, Shaaban KA, Thorson JS. Identification of Neuroprotective Spoxazomicin and Oxachelin Glycosides via Chemoenzymatic Glycosyl-Scanning. JOURNAL OF NATURAL PRODUCTS 2017; 80:12-18. [PMID: 28029796 PMCID: PMC5337260 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.6b00949] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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The assessment of glycosyl-scanning to expand the molecular and functional diversity of metabolites from the underground coal mine fire-associated Streptomyces sp. RM-14-6 is reported. Using the engineered glycosyltransferase OleD Loki and a 2-chloro-4-nitrophenylglycoside-based screen, six metabolites were identified as substrates of OleD Loki, from which 12 corresponding metabolite glycosides were produced and characterized. This study highlights the first application of the 2-chloro-4-nitrophenylglycoside-based screen toward an unbiased set of unique microbial natural products and the first reported application of the 2-chloro-4-nitrophenylglycoside-based transglycosylation reaction for the corresponding preparative synthesis of target glycosides. Bioactivity analysis (including antibacterial, antifungal, anticancer, and EtOH damage neuroprotection assays) revealed glycosylation to attenuate the neuroprotective potency of 4, while glycosylation of the structurally related inactive spoxazomicin C (3) remarkably invoked neuroprotective activity.
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- Jianjun Zhang
- Center for Pharmaceutical Research and Innovation, College of Pharmacy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40536, United States
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40536, United States
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- Center for Pharmaceutical Research and Innovation, College of Pharmacy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40536, United States
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40536, United States
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- Department of Psychology and Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40536, United States
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- Center for Pharmaceutical Research and Innovation, College of Pharmacy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40536, United States
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40536, United States
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- Center for Pharmaceutical Research and Innovation, College of Pharmacy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40536, United States
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40536, United States
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- Center for Pharmaceutical Research and Innovation, College of Pharmacy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40536, United States
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40536, United States
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- Department of Psychology and Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40536, United States
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- Department of Psychology and Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40536, United States
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- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40536, United States
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- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40536, United States
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- Department of Psychology and Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40536, United States
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- Center for Pharmaceutical Research and Innovation, College of Pharmacy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40536, United States
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40536, United States
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- Center for Pharmaceutical Research and Innovation, College of Pharmacy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40536, United States
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40536, United States
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Zhang J, Singh S, Hughes RR, Zhou M, Sunkara M, Morris AJ, Thorson JS. A simple strategy for glycosyltransferase-catalyzed aminosugar nucleotide synthesis. Chembiochem 2014; 15:647-52. [PMID: 24677528 PMCID: PMC4051237 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.201300779] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2013] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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A set of 2-chloro-4-nitrophenyl glucosamino-/xylosaminosides were synthesized and assessed as potential substrates in the context of glycosyltransferase-catalyzed formation of the corresponding UDP/TDP-α-D-glucosamino-/xylosaminosugars and in single-vessel model transglycosylation reactions. This study highlights a robust platform for aminosugar nucleotide synthesis and reveals OleD Loki to be a proficient catalyst for U/TDP-aminosugar synthesis and utilization
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- Jianjun Zhang
- Dr. J. Zhang, Prof. S. Singh, R. R. Hughes, Prof. J. S. Thorson Center for Pharmaceutical Research and Innovation University of Kentucky 789 South Limestone Street, Lexington, KY 40536 (USA)
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- Dr. J. Zhang, Prof. S. Singh, R. R. Hughes, Prof. J. S. Thorson Center for Pharmaceutical Research and Innovation University of Kentucky 789 South Limestone Street, Lexington, KY 40536 (USA)
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- Dr. J. Zhang, Prof. S. Singh, R. R. Hughes, Prof. J. S. Thorson Center for Pharmaceutical Research and Innovation University of Kentucky 789 South Limestone Street, Lexington, KY 40536 (USA)
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- Dr. M. Zhou School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin-Madison 777 Highland Avenue, Madison, WI 53705 (USA)
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- M. Sunkara, Prof. A. J. Morris Division of Cardiovascular Medicine University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536(USA)
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- M. Sunkara, Prof. A. J. Morris Division of Cardiovascular Medicine University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536(USA)
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- Dr. J. Zhang, Prof. S. Singh, R. R. Hughes, Prof. J. S. Thorson Center for Pharmaceutical Research and Innovation University of Kentucky 789 South Limestone Street, Lexington, KY 40536 (USA)
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Lin CI, Sasaki E, Zhong A, Liu HW. In vitro characterization of LmbK and LmbO: identification of GDP-D-erythro-α-D-gluco-octose as a key intermediate in lincomycin A biosynthesis. J Am Chem Soc 2014; 136:906-9. [PMID: 24380627 DOI: 10.1021/ja412194w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Lincomycin A is a clinically useful antibiotic isolated from Streptomyces lincolnensis. It contains an unusual methylmercapto-substituted octose, methylthiolincosamide (MTL). While it has been demonstrated that the C8 backbone of MTL moiety is derived from D-fructose 6-phosphate and D-ribose 5-phosphate via a transaldol reaction catalyzed by LmbR, the subsequent enzymatic transformations leading to the MTL moiety remain elusive. Here, we report the identification of GDP-D-erythro-α-D-gluco-octose (GDP-D-α-D-octose) as a key intermediate in the MTL biosynthetic pathway. Our data show that the octose 1,8-bisphosphate intermediate is first converted to octose 1-phosphate by a phosphatase, LmbK. The subsequent conversion of the octose 1-phosphate to GDP-D-α-D-octose is catalyzed by the octose 1-phosphate guanylyltransferase, LmbO. These results provide significant insight into the lincomycin biosynthetic pathway, because the activated octose likely serves as the acceptor for the installation of the C1 sulfur appendage of MTL.
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- Chia-I Lin
- Division of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, and Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin , Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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Sasaki E, Lin CI, Lin KY, Liu HW. Construction of the octose 8-phosphate intermediate in lincomycin A biosynthesis: characterization of the reactions catalyzed by LmbR and LmbN. J Am Chem Soc 2012; 134:17432-5. [PMID: 22989310 DOI: 10.1021/ja308221z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Lincomycin A is a potent antimicrobial agent noted for its unusual C1 methylmercapto-substituted 8-carbon sugar. Despite its long clinical history for the treatment of Gram-positive infections, the biosynthesis of the C(8)-sugar, methylthiolincosamide (MTL), is poorly understood. Here, we report our studies of the two initial enzymatic steps in the MTL biosynthetic pathway leading to the identification of D-erythro-D-gluco-octose 8-phosphate as a key intermediate. Our experiments demonstrate that this intermediate is formed via a transaldol reaction catalyzed by LmbR using D-fructose 6-phosphate or D-sedoheptulose 7-phosphate as the C(3) donor and D-ribose 5-phosphate as the C(5) acceptor. Subsequent 1,2-isomerization catalyzed by LmbN converts the resulting 2-keto C(8)-sugar (octulose 8-phosphate) to octose 8-phosphate. These results provide, for the first time, in vitro evidence for the biosynthetic origin of the C(8) backbone of MTL.
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- Eita Sasaki
- Division of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
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Sasaki E, Liu HW. Mechanistic studies of the biosynthesis of 2-thiosugar: evidence for the formation of an enzyme-bound 2-ketohexose intermediate in BexX-catalyzed reaction. J Am Chem Soc 2011; 132:15544-6. [PMID: 20961106 DOI: 10.1021/ja108061c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The first mechanistic insight into 2-thiosugar production in an angucycline-type antibiotic, BE-7585A, is reported. d-Glucose 6-phosphate was identified as the substrate for the putative thiosugar biosynthetic protein, BexX, by trapping the covalently bonded enzyme-substrate intermediate. The site-specific modification at K110 residue was determined by mutagenesis studies and LC-MS/MS analysis. A key intermediate carrying a keto functionality was confirmed to exist in the enzyme-substrate complex. These results suggest that the sulfur insertion mechanism in 2-thiosugar biosynthesis shares similarities with that for thiamin biosynthesis.
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- Eita Sasaki
- Division of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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Borisova SA, Guppi SR, Kim HJ, Wu B, Penn JH, Liu HW, O'Doherty GA. A de novo approach to the synthesis of glycosylated methymycin analogues with structural and stereochemical diversity. Org Lett 2010; 12:5150-3. [PMID: 20958086 DOI: 10.1021/ol102144g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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A divergent and highly stereoselective route to 11 glycosylated methymycin analogues has been developed. The key to the success of this method was the iterative use of the Pd-catalyzed glycosylation reaction and postglycosylation transformation. This unique application of Pd-catalyzed glycosylation demonstrates the breath of α/β- and d/l-glycosylation of macrolides that can be efficiently prepared using a de novo asymmetric approach to the carbohydrate portion.
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- Svetlana A Borisova
- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, The University ofTexas at Austin, 1 University Station A5300, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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Borisova SA, Liu HW. Characterization of glycosyltransferase DesVII and its auxiliary partner protein DesVIII in the methymycin/picromycin biosynthetic pathway. Biochemistry 2010; 49:8071-84. [PMID: 20695498 DOI: 10.1021/bi1007657] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The in vitro characterization of the catalytic activity of DesVII, the glycosyltransferase involved in the biosynthesis of the macrolide antibiotics methymycin, neomethymycin, narbomycin, and pikromycin in Streptomyces venezuelae, is described. DesVII is unique among glycosyltransferases in that it requires an additional protein component, DesVIII, for activity. Characterization of the metabolites produced by a S. venezuelae mutant lacking the desVIII gene confirmed that desVIII is important for the biosynthesis of glycosylated macrolides but can be replaced by at least one of the homologous genes from other pathways. The addition of recombinant DesVIII protein significantly improves the glycosylation efficiency of DesVII in the in vitro assay. When affinity-tagged DesVII and DesVIII proteins were coproduced in Escherichia coli, they formed a tight (αβ)(3) complex that is at least 10(3)-fold more active than DesVII alone. The formation of the DesVII/DesVIII complex requires coexpression of both genes in vivo and cannot be fully achieved by mixing the individual protein components in vitro. The ability of the DesVII/DesVIII system to catalyze the reverse reaction with the formation of TDP-desosamine was also demonstrated in a transglycosylation experiment. Taken together, our data suggest that DesVIII assists the folding of DesVII during protein production and remains tightly bound during catalysis. This requirement must be taken into consideration in the design of combinatorial biosynthetic experiments with new glycosylated macrolides.
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- Svetlana A Borisova
- Division of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
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Liang ZX. Complexity and simplicity in the biosynthesis of enediyne natural products. Nat Prod Rep 2010; 27:499-528. [DOI: 10.1039/b908165h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Park SH, Park HY, Cho BK, Yang YH, Sohng JK, Lee HC, Liou K, Kim BG. Reconstitution of antibiotics glycosylation by domain exchanged chimeric glycosyltransferase. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2009. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molcatb.2009.03.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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An innovative approach for manipulating glycosyltransferase-catalyzed glycosylation has now been developed (Truman et al.). Created using a domain-swapping strategy, these chimeric glycotransferases have predictable substrate specificity and may lead to the breakthrough developments in the preparation of carbohydrate-containing molecules of biological interest.
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- Cheng-Wei Tom Chang
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Utah State University, 0300 Old Main Hill, Logan, UT 84322-0300, USA.
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Park SH, Park HY, Sohng JK, Lee HC, Liou K, Yoon YJ, Kim BG. Expanding substrate specificity of GT-B fold glycosyltransferase via domain swapping and high-throughput screening. Biotechnol Bioeng 2009; 102:988-94. [PMID: 18985617 DOI: 10.1002/bit.22150] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Glycosyltransferases (GTs) are crucial enzymes in the biosynthesis and diversification of therapeutically important natural products, and the majority of them belong to the GT-B superfamily, which is composed of separate N- and C-domains that are responsible for the recognition of the sugar acceptor and donor, respectively. In an effort to expand the substrate specificity of GT, a chimeric library with different crossover points was constructed between the N-terminal fragments of kanamycin GT (kanF) and the C-terminal fragments of vancomycin GT (gtfE) genes by incremental truncation method. A plate-based pH color assay was newly developed for the selection of functional domain-swapped GTs, and a mutant (HMT31) with a crossover point (N-kanF-669 bp and 753 bp-gtfE-C) for domain swapping was screened. The most active mutant HMT31 (50 kDa) efficiently catalyzed 2-DOS (aglycone substrate for KanF) glucosylation using dTDP-glucose (glycone substrate for GtfE) with k(cat)/K(m) of 162.8 +/- 0.1 mM(-1) min(-1). Moreover, HMT31 showed improved substrate specificity toward seven more NDP-sugars. This study presents a domain swapping method as a potential means to glycorandomization toward various syntheses of 2-DOS-based aminoglycoside derivatives.
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- Sung-Hee Park
- Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Interdisciplinary Program for Bioengineering, Seoul National University, Sillim-dong, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 151-742, South Korea
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Many biologically active bacterial natural products contain highly modified deoxysugar residues that are often critical for the activity of the parent compounds. Most of these deoxysugars are secondary metabolites that are biosynthesized in the form of nucleotide diphosphate (NDP) sugars prior to their transfer to natural product aglycones by glycosyltransferases. Over the past decade, many biosynthetic pathways that lead to the formation of these unusual sugars have been unraveled, and the mechanisms of many key enzymatic transformations involved in these pathways have been elucidated. However, obtaining workable quantities of NDP-deoxysugars for in vitro studies is often a difficult task. This limitation has hindered an in-depth investigation of the substrate specificity of deoxysugar biosynthetic enzymes, many of which are promiscuous with respect to their NDP-sugar substrates and are, thus, potentially useful catalysts for natural product glycoengineering. Presented in this review are procedures for the enzymatic synthesis and purification of a variety of NDP-deoxysugars, including some early intermediates in NDP-deoxysugar biosynthetic pathways, and highly modified NDP-deoxysugars that are late intermediates in their respective biosynthetic pathways. The procedures described herein could be used as general guidelines for the development of specific protocols for the synthesis of other NDP-deoxysugars.
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Thibodeaux C, Melançon C, Liu HW. Biosynthese von Naturstoffzuckern und enzymatische Glycodiversifizierung. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2008. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.200801204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Zhang C, Bitto E, Goff RD, Singh S, Bingman CA, Griffith BR, Albermann C, Phillips GN, Thorson JS. Biochemical and structural insights of the early glycosylation steps in calicheamicin biosynthesis. CHEMISTRY & BIOLOGY 2008; 15:842-53. [PMID: 18721755 PMCID: PMC2965851 DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2008.06.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2008] [Revised: 06/12/2008] [Accepted: 06/20/2008] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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The enediyne antibiotic calicheamicin (CLM) gamma(1)(I) is a prominent antitumor agent that is targeted to DNA by a novel aryltetrasaccharide comprised of an aromatic unit and four unusual carbohydrates. Herein we report the heterologous expression and the biochemical characterization of the two "internal" glycosyltransferases CalG3 and CalG2 and the structural elucidation of an enediyne glycosyltransferase (CalG3). In conjunction with the previous characterization of the "external" CLM GTs CalG1 and CalG4, this study completes the functional assignment of all four CLM GTs, extends the utility of enediyne GT-catalyzed reaction reversibility, and presents conclusive evidence of a sequential glycosylation pathway in CLM biosynthesis. This work also reveals the common GT-B structural fold can now be extended to include enediyne GTs.
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- Changsheng Zhang
- Laboratory for Biosynthetic Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, School of Pharmacy, UW-National Cooperative Drug Discovery Group Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 777 Highland Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53705-2222, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 777 Highland Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706-1544, USA
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- Laboratory for Biosynthetic Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, School of Pharmacy, UW-National Cooperative Drug Discovery Group Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 777 Highland Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53705-2222, USA
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- Laboratory for Biosynthetic Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, School of Pharmacy, UW-National Cooperative Drug Discovery Group Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 777 Highland Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53705-2222, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 777 Highland Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706-1544, USA
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- Laboratory for Biosynthetic Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, School of Pharmacy, UW-National Cooperative Drug Discovery Group Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 777 Highland Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53705-2222, USA
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- Laboratory for Biosynthetic Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, School of Pharmacy, UW-National Cooperative Drug Discovery Group Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 777 Highland Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53705-2222, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 777 Highland Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706-1544, USA
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- Laboratory for Biosynthetic Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, School of Pharmacy, UW-National Cooperative Drug Discovery Group Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 777 Highland Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53705-2222, USA
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Kren V, Rezanka T. Sweet antibiotics - the role of glycosidic residues in antibiotic and antitumor activity and their randomization. FEMS Microbiol Rev 2008; 32:858-89. [PMID: 18647177 DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6976.2008.00124.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 141] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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A large number of antibiotics are glycosides. In numerous cases the glycosidic residues are crucial to their activity; sometimes, glycosylation only improves their pharmacokinetic parameters. Recent developments in molecular glycobiology have improved our understanding of aglycone vs. glycoside activities and made it possible to develop new, more active or more effective glycodrugs based on these findings - a very illustrative recent example is vancomycin. The majority of attention has been devoted to glycosidic antibiotics including their past, present, and probably future position in antimicrobial therapy. The role of the glycosidic residue in the biological activity of glycosidic antibiotics, and the attendant targeting and antibiotic selectivity mediated by glycone and aglycone in antibiotics some antitumor agents is discussed here in detail. Chemical and enzymatic modifications of aglycones in antibiotics, including their synthesis, are demonstrated on various examples, with particular emphasis on the role of specific and mutant glycosyltransferases and glycorandomization in the preparation of these compounds. The last section of this review describes and explains the interactions of the glycone moiety of the antibiotics with DNA and especially the design and structure-activity relationship of glycosidic antibiotics, including their classification based on their aglycone and glycosidic moiety. The new enzymatic methodology 'glycorandomization' enabled the preparation of glycoside libraries and opened up new ways to prepare optimized or entirely novel glycoside antibiotics.
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- Vladimír Kren
- Centre of Biocatalysis and Biotransformation, Institute of Microbiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic.
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Thibodeaux CJ, Melançon CE, Liu HW. Natural-product sugar biosynthesis and enzymatic glycodiversification. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2008; 47:9814-59. [PMID: 19058170 PMCID: PMC2796923 DOI: 10.1002/anie.200801204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 320] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Many biologically active small-molecule natural products produced by microorganisms derive their activities from sugar substituents. Changing the structures of these sugars can have a profound impact on the biological properties of the parent compounds. This realization has inspired attempts to derivatize the sugar moieties of these natural products through exploitation of the sugar biosynthetic machinery. This approach requires an understanding of the biosynthetic pathway of each target sugar and detailed mechanistic knowledge of the key enzymes. Scientists have begun to unravel the biosynthetic logic behind the assembly of many glycosylated natural products and have found that a core set of enzyme activities is mixed and matched to synthesize the diverse sugar structures observed in nature. Remarkably, many of these sugar biosynthetic enzymes and glycosyltransferases also exhibit relaxed substrate specificity. The promiscuity of these enzymes has prompted efforts to modify the sugar structures and alter the glycosylation patterns of natural products through metabolic pathway engineering and enzymatic glycodiversification. In applied biomedical research, these studies will enable the development of new glycosylation tools and generate novel glycoforms of secondary metabolites with useful biological activity.
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- Christopher J. Thibodeaux
- Division of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX. (USA), 78712
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- Division of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX. (USA), 78712
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- Division of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX. (USA), 78712
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Thibodeaux CJ, Melançon CE, Liu HW. Unusual sugar biosynthesis and natural product glycodiversification. Nature 2007; 446:1008-16. [PMID: 17460661 DOI: 10.1038/nature05814] [Citation(s) in RCA: 250] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The enzymes involved in the biosynthesis of carbohydrates and the attachment of sugar units to biological acceptor molecules catalyse an array of chemical transformations and coupling reactions. In prokaryotes, both common sugar precursors and their enzymatically modified derivatives often become substituents of biologically active natural products through the action of glycosyltransferases. Recently, researchers have begun to harness the power of these biological catalysts to alter the sugar structures and glycosylation patterns of natural products both in vivo and in vitro. Biochemical and structural studies of sugar biosynthetic enzymes and glycosyltransferases, coupled with advances in bioengineering methodology, have ushered in a new era of drug development.
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- Christopher J Thibodeaux
- Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, 1 University Station A4810, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
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Thibodeaux CJ, Liu HW. Manipulating nature's sugar biosynthetic machineries for glycodiversification of macrolides: Recent advances and future prospects. PURE APPL CHEM 2007. [DOI: 10.1351/pac200779040785] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
Abstract
Changing the sugar structures and glycosylation patterns of natural products is an effective means of altering the biological activity of clinically useful drugs. Several recent strategies have provided researchers with the opportunity to manipulate sugar structures and to change the sugar moieties attached to these natural products via a biosynthetic approach. In this review, we explore the utility of contemporary in vivo and in vitro methods to achieve natural product glycodiversification. This study will focus on recent progress from our laboratory in elucidating the biosynthesis of D-desosamine, a deoxysugar component of many macrolide antibiotics, and will highlight how we have engineered the D-desosamine biosynthetic pathway in Streptomyces venezuelae through targeted disruption and heterologous expression of the sugar biosynthetic genes to generate a variety of new glycoforms. The in vitro exploitation of the substrate flexibility of the endogenous D-desosamine glycosyltransferase (GT) to generate many non-natural glycoforms will also be discussed. These experiments are compared with recent work from other research groups on the same topics. Finally, the significance of these studies for the future prospects of natural product glycodiversification is discussed.
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Affiliation(s)
- Christopher J. Thibodeaux
- 1Division of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA
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- 1Division of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA
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