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Li K, Guo Z, Bai L. Digitoxose as powerful glycosyls for building multifarious glycoconjugates of natural products and un-natural products. Synth Syst Biotechnol 2024; 9:701-712. [PMID: 38868608 PMCID: PMC11167396 DOI: 10.1016/j.synbio.2024.05.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2023] [Revised: 05/17/2024] [Accepted: 05/24/2024] [Indexed: 06/14/2024] Open
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Digitoxose, a significant 2,6-dideoxyhexose found in nature, exists in many small-molecule natural products. These digitoxose-containing natural products can be divided into steroids, macrolides, macrolactams, anthracyclines, quinones, enediynes, acyclic polyene, indoles and oligosaccharides, that exhibit antibacterial, anti-viral, antiarrhythmic, and antitumor activities respectively. As most of digitoxose-containing natural products for clinical application or preclinical tests, this review also summarizes the biosynthesis of digitoxose, and application of compound diversification by introducing sugar plasmids. It may provide a practical approach to expanding the diversity of digitoxose-containing products.
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- Kemeng Li
- CAMS Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology for Drug Innovation, Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100050, China
- NHC Key Laboratory of Biotechnology of Antibiotics, Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100050, China
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- CAMS Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology for Drug Innovation, Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100050, China
- NHC Key Laboratory of Biotechnology of Antibiotics, Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100050, China
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- CAMS Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology for Drug Innovation, Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100050, China
- NHC Key Laboratory of Biotechnology of Antibiotics, Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100050, China
- State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Key Laboratory of Ecological Safety and Sustainable Development in Arid Lands, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, 830011, China
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Zang H, Cheng Y, Li M, Zhou L, Hong LL, Deng H, Lin HW, Zhou Y. Mutagenetic analysis of the biosynthetic pathway of tetramate bripiodionen bearing 3-(2H-pyran-2-ylidene)pyrrolidine-2,4-dione skeleton. Microb Cell Fact 2024; 23:87. [PMID: 38515152 PMCID: PMC10956176 DOI: 10.1186/s12934-024-02364-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2024] [Accepted: 03/12/2024] [Indexed: 03/23/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Natural tetramates are a family of hybrid polyketides bearing tetramic acid (pyrrolidine-2,4-dione) moiety exhibiting a broad range of bioactivities. Biosynthesis of tetramates in microorganisms is normally directed by hybrid polyketide synthase (PKS) and nonribosomal peptide synthetase (NRPS) machineries, which form the tetramic acid ring by recruiting trans- or cis-acting thioesterase-like Dieckmann cyclase in bacteria. There are a group of tetramates with unique skeleton of 3-(2H-pyran-2-ylidene)pyrrolidine-2,4-dione, which remain to be investigated for their biosynthetic logics. RESULTS Herein, the tetramate type compounds bripiodionen (BPD) and its new analog, featuring the rare skeleton of 3-(2H-pyran-2-ylidene)pyrrolidine-2,4-dione, were discovered from the sponge symbiotic bacterial Streptomyces reniochalinae LHW50302. Gene deletion and mutant complementation revealed the production of BPDs being correlated with a PKS-NRPS biosynthetic gene cluster (BGC), in which a Dieckmann cyclase gene bpdE was identified by sit-directed mutations. According to bioinformatic analysis, the tetramic acid moiety of BPDs should be formed on an atypical NRPS module constituted by two discrete proteins, including the C (condensation)-A (adenylation)-T (thiolation) domains of BpdC and the A-T domains of BpdD. Further site-directed mutagenetic analysis confirmed the natural silence of the A domain in BpdC and the functional necessities of the two T domains, therefore suggesting that an unusual aminoacyl transthiolation should occur between the T domains of two NRPS subunits. Additionally, characterization of a LuxR type regulator gene led to seven- to eight-fold increasement of BPDs production. The study presents the first biosynthesis case of the natural molecule with 3-(2H-pyran-2-ylidene)pyrrolidine-2,4-dione skeleton. Genomic mining using BpdD as probe reveals that the aminoacyl transthiolation between separate NRPS subunits should occur in a certain population of NRPSs in nature.
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- Haixia Zang
- Research Center for Marine Drugs, Department of Pharmacy, Ren Ji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200127, China
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- Research Center for Marine Drugs, Department of Pharmacy, Ren Ji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200127, China
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- Research Center for Marine Drugs, Department of Pharmacy, Ren Ji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200127, China
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- Research Center for Marine Drugs, Department of Pharmacy, Ren Ji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200127, China
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- Research Center for Marine Drugs, Department of Pharmacy, Ren Ji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200127, China
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, AB24 3UE, UK
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- Research Center for Marine Drugs, Department of Pharmacy, Ren Ji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200127, China.
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- Research Center for Marine Drugs, Department of Pharmacy, Ren Ji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200127, China.
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Kato S, Yuzawa S, Takeda T, Arakawa K. Complete genome sequence of Kitasatospora aureofaciens Tü117. Microbiol Resour Announc 2024; 13:e0101423. [PMID: 38231185 PMCID: PMC10868214 DOI: 10.1128/mra.01014-23] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2023] [Accepted: 12/30/2023] [Indexed: 01/18/2024] Open
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Actinobacteria produce about two-thirds of all naturally derived antibiotics currently in clinical use. Kitasatospora aureofaciens Tü117 is a species of Actinobacteria and produces α-lipomycin. We report the complete genome sequence of K. aureofaciens, composed of a single linear chromosome of 8,717,539 Mbp with a G + C content of 72.0%.
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- Shotaro Kato
- Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Keio University, Tsuruoka, Yamagata, Japan
- Systems Biology Program, Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University, Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Keio University, Tsuruoka, Yamagata, Japan
- Systems Biology Program, Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University, Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan
- Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University, Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Keio University, Tsuruoka, Yamagata, Japan
- Systems Biology Program, Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University, Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Keio University, Tsuruoka, Yamagata, Japan
- Systems Biology Program, Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University, Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan
- Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University, Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan
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Zhang T, Cai G, Rong X, Xu J, Jiang B, Wang H, Li X, Wang L, Zhang R, He W, Yu L. Mining and characterization of the PKS-NRPS hybrid for epicoccamide A: a mannosylated tetramate derivative from Epicoccum sp. CPCC 400996. Microb Cell Fact 2022; 21:249. [PMID: 36419162 PMCID: PMC9685919 DOI: 10.1186/s12934-022-01975-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2022] [Accepted: 11/16/2022] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Genomic analysis indicated that the genomes of ascomycetes might carry dozens of biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs), yet many clusters have remained enigmatic. The ascomycete genus Epicoccum, belonging to the family Didymellaceae, is ubiquitous that colonizes different types of substrates and is associated with phyllosphere or decaying vegetation. Species of this genus are prolific producers of bioactive substances. The epicoccamides, as biosynthetically distinct mannosylated tetramate, were first isolated in 2003 from Epicoccum sp. In this study, using a combination of genome mining, chemical identification, genetic deletion, and bioinformatic analysis, we identified the required BGC epi responsible for epicoccamide A biosynthesis in Epicoccum sp. CPCC 400996. RESULTS The unconventional biosynthetic gene cluster epi was obtained from an endophyte Epicoccum sp. CPCC 400996 through AntiSMASH-based genome mining. The cluster epi includes six putative open reading frames (epiA-epiF) altogether, in which the epiA encodes a tetramate-forming polyketide synthase and nonribosomal peptide synthetases (PKS-NRPS hybrid). Sequence alignments and bioinformatic analysis to other metabolic pathways of fungal tetramates, we proposed that the gene cluster epi could be involved in generating epicoccamides. Genetic knockout of epiA completely abolished the biosynthesis of epicoccamide A (1), thereby establishing the correlation between the BGC epi and biosynthesis of epicoccamide A. Bioinformatic adenylation domain signature analysis of EpiA and other fungal PKS-NRPSs (NRPs) indicated that the EpiA is L-alanine incorporating tetramates megasynthase. Furthermore, based on the molecular structures of epicoccamide A and deduced gene functions of the cluster epi, a hypothetic metabolic pathway for biosynthesizing compound 1 was proposed. The corresponding tetramates releasing during epicoccamide A biosynthesis was catalyzed through Dieckmann-type cyclization, in which the reductive (R) domain residing in terminal module of EpiA accomplished the conversion. These results unveiled the underlying mechanism of epicoccamides biosynthesis and these findings might provide opportunities for derivatization of epicoccamides or generation of new chemical entities. CONCLUSION Genome mining and genetic inactivation experiments unveiled a previously uncharacterized PKS - NRPS hybrid-based BGC epi responsible for the generation of epicoccamide A (1) in endophyte Epicoccum sp. CPCC 400996. In addition, based on the gene cluster data, a hypothetical biosynthetic pathway of epicoccamide A was proposed.
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- Tao Zhang
- grid.506261.60000 0001 0706 7839Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100050 China
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- grid.506261.60000 0001 0706 7839Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100050 China ,grid.452240.50000 0004 8342 6962Medical Research Center, Binzhou Medical University Hospital, Binzhou, 256603 Shandong China
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- grid.506261.60000 0001 0706 7839Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100050 China ,grid.510447.30000 0000 9970 6820College of Biotechnology, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang, 212003 Jiangsu China
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- grid.506261.60000 0001 0706 7839Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100050 China
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- grid.506261.60000 0001 0706 7839Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100050 China
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- grid.506261.60000 0001 0706 7839Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100050 China
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- grid.506261.60000 0001 0706 7839Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100050 China
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- grid.506261.60000 0001 0706 7839Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100050 China
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- grid.506261.60000 0001 0706 7839Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100050 China
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- grid.506261.60000 0001 0706 7839Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100050 China
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- grid.506261.60000 0001 0706 7839Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100050 China
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Flores ADR, Barber CC, Narayanamoorthy M, Gu D, Shen Y, Zhang W. Biosynthesis of Isonitrile- and Alkyne-Containing Natural Products. Annu Rev Chem Biomol Eng 2022; 13:1-24. [PMID: 35236086 PMCID: PMC9811556 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-chembioeng-092120-025140] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Natural products are a diverse class of biologically produced compounds that participate in fundamental biological processes such as cell signaling, nutrient acquisition, and interference competition. Unique triple-bond functionalities like isonitriles and alkynes often drive bioactivity and may serve as indicators of novel chemical logic and enzymatic machinery. Yet, the biosynthetic underpinnings of these groups remain only partially understood, constraining the opportunity to rationally engineer biomolecules with these functionalities for applications in pharmaceuticals, bioorthogonal chemistry, and other value-added chemical processes. Here, we focus our review on characterized biosynthetic pathways for isonitrile and alkyne functionalities, their bioorthogonal transformations, and prospects for engineering their biosynthetic machinery for biotechnological applications.
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- Antonio Del Rio Flores
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA,Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, San Francisco, California, USA
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Gu D, Zhang W. Engineered biosynthesis of alkyne-tagged polyketides. Methods Enzymol 2022; 665:347-373. [PMID: 35379442 PMCID: PMC9829517 DOI: 10.1016/bs.mie.2021.11.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Polyketides have demonstrated their significance as therapeutics, industrial products, pesticides, and biological probes following intense study over the past decades. Tagging polyketides with a bioorthogonal functionality enables various applications such as diversification, quantification, visualization and mode-of-action elucidation. The terminal alkyne moiety, as a small, stable and highly selective clickable functionality, is widely adopted in tagging natural products. De novo biosynthesis of alkyne-tagged polyketides offers the unique advantage of reducing the background from feeding the biorthogonal moiety itself, leading to the accomplishment of in situ generation of a clickable functionality for bioorthogonal reactions. Here, we introduce several engineering strategies to apply terminal alkyne biosynthetic machinery, represented by JamABC, which produces a short terminal alkyne-bearing fatty acyl chain on a carrier protein, to functions with different downstream polyketide synthases (PKSs). Successful results in engineering type III and type I PKSs provide engineering guidelines and strategies that are applicable to additional PKSs to produce targeted alkyne-tagged metabolites for chemical and biological applications.
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- Di Gu
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States,Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, San Francisco, CA, United States,Corresponding author:
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Little RF, Hertweck C. Chain release mechanisms in polyketide and non-ribosomal peptide biosynthesis. Nat Prod Rep 2021; 39:163-205. [PMID: 34622896 DOI: 10.1039/d1np00035g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Review covering up to mid-2021The structure of polyketide and non-ribosomal peptide natural products is strongly influenced by how they are released from their biosynthetic enzymes. As such, Nature has evolved a diverse range of release mechanisms, leading to the formation of bioactive chemical scaffolds such as lactones, lactams, diketopiperazines, and tetronates. Here, we review the enzymes and mechanisms used for chain release in polyketide and non-ribosomal peptide biosynthesis, how these mechanisms affect natural product structure, and how they could be utilised to introduce structural diversity into the products of engineered biosynthetic pathways.
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- Rory F Little
- Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, HKI, Germany.
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- Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, HKI, Germany.
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Mo X, Gulder TAM. Biosynthetic strategies for tetramic acid formation. Nat Prod Rep 2021; 38:1555-1566. [PMID: 33710214 DOI: 10.1039/d0np00099j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Covering: up to the end of 2020Natural products bearing tetramic acid units as part of complex molecular architectures exhibit a broad range of potent biological activities. These compounds thus attract significant interest from both the biosynthetic and synthetic communities. Biosynthetically, most of the tetramic acids are derived from hybrid polyketide synthase (PKS) and nonribosomal peptide synthetase (NRPS) machineries. To date, over 30 biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) involved in tetramate formation have been identified, from which different biosynthetic strategies evolved in Nature to assemble this intriguing structural unit were characterized. In this Highlight we focus on the biosynthetic concepts of tetramic acid formation and discuss the molecular mechanism towards selected representatives in detail, providing a systematic overview for the development of strategies for targeted tetramate genome mining and future applications of tetramate-forming biocatalysts for chemo-enzymatic synthesis.
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- Xuhua Mo
- Shandong Key Laboratory of Applied Mycology, School of Life Sciences, Qingdao Agricultural University, 266109 Qingdao, China. and Chair of Technical Biochemistry, Technische Universität Dresden, Bergstraße 66, 01069 Dresden, Germany.
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- Chair of Technical Biochemistry, Technische Universität Dresden, Bergstraße 66, 01069 Dresden, Germany.
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Li X, Lv JM, Hu D, Abe I. Biosynthesis of alkyne-containing natural products. RSC Chem Biol 2021; 2:166-180. [PMID: 34458779 PMCID: PMC8341276 DOI: 10.1039/d0cb00190b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2020] [Accepted: 11/30/2020] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Alkyne-containing natural products are important molecules that are widely distributed in microbes and plants. Inspired by the advantages of acetylenic products used in the fields of medicinal chemistry, organic synthesis and material science, great efforts have focused on discovering the biosynthetic enzymes and pathways for alkyne formation. Here, we summarize the biosyntheses of alkyne-containing natural products and introduce de novo biosynthetic strategies for alkyne-tagged compound production.
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- Xinyang Li
- Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo 7-3-1 Hongo Bunkyo-ku Tokyo 113-0033 Japan
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- Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Natural Products, College of Pharmacy, Jinan University Guangzhou 510632 People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Natural Products, College of Pharmacy, Jinan University Guangzhou 510632 People's Republic of China
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- Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo 7-3-1 Hongo Bunkyo-ku Tokyo 113-0033 Japan
- Collaborative Research Institute for Innovative Microbiology, The University of Tokyo Yayoi 1-1-1 Bunkyo-ku Tokyo 113-8657 Japan
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Cogan DP, Ly J, Nair SK. Structural Basis for Enzymatic Off-Loading of Hybrid Polyketides by Dieckmann Condensation. ACS Chem Biol 2020; 15:2783-2791. [PMID: 33017142 DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.0c00579] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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While several bioactive natural products that contain tetramate or pyridone heterocycles have been described, information on the enzymology underpinning these functionalities has been limited. Here we biochemically characterize an off-loading Dieckmann cyclase, NcmC, that installs the tetramate headgroup in nocamycin, a hybrid polyketide/nonribosomal peptide natural product. Crystal structures of the enzyme (1.6 Å) and its covalent complex with the epoxide cerulenin (1.6 Å) guide additional structure-based mutagenesis and product-profile analyses. Our results offer mechanistic insights into how the conserved thioesterase-like scaffold has been adapted to perform a new chemical reaction, namely, heterocyclization. Additional bioinformatics combined with docking and modeling identifies likely candidates for heterocycle formation in underexplored gene clusters and uncovers a modular basis of substrate recognition by the two subdomains of these Dieckmann cyclases.
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McLean TC, Lo R, Tschowri N, Hoskisson PA, Al Bassam MM, Hutchings MI, Som NF. Sensing and responding to diverse extracellular signals: an updated analysis of the sensor kinases and response regulators of Streptomyces species. MICROBIOLOGY-SGM 2020; 165:929-952. [PMID: 31334697 DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.000817] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Streptomyces venezuelae is a Gram-positive, filamentous actinomycete with a complex developmental life cycle. Genomic analysis revealed that S. venezuelae encodes a large number of two-component systems (TCSs): these consist of a membrane-bound sensor kinase (SK) and a cognate response regulator (RR). These proteins act together to detect and respond to diverse extracellular signals. Some of these systems have been shown to regulate antimicrobial biosynthesis in Streptomyces species, making them very attractive to researchers. The ability of S. venezuelae to sporulate in both liquid and solid cultures has made it an increasingly popular model organism in which to study these industrially and medically important bacteria. Bioinformatic analysis identified 58 TCS operons in S. venezuelae with an additional 27 orphan SK and 18 orphan RR genes. A broader approach identified 15 of the 58 encoded TCSs to be highly conserved in 93 Streptomyces species for which high-quality and complete genome sequences are available. This review attempts to unify the current work on TCS in the streptomycetes, with an emphasis on S. venezuelae.
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- Thomas C McLean
- School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, Norfolk NR4 7TJ, UK
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, Norfolk NR4 7TJ, UK
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- Institut für Biologie/Mikrobiologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde, 161 Cathedral Street, Glasgow G4 0RE, UK
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- Department of Paediatrics, Division of Host-Microbe Systems and Therapeutics, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, Norfolk NR4 7TJ, UK
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, Norfolk NR4 7TJ, UK
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Porterfield WB, Poenateetai N, Zhang W. Engineered Biosynthesis of Alkyne-Tagged Polyketides by Type I PKSs. iScience 2020; 23:100938. [PMID: 32146323 PMCID: PMC7063234 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2020.100938] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2019] [Revised: 01/21/2020] [Accepted: 02/20/2020] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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Polyketides produced by modular polyketide synthases (PKSs) are important small molecules widely used as drugs, pesticides, and biological probes. Tagging these polyketides with a clickable functionality enables the visualization, diversification, and mode of action study through bio-orthogonal chemistry. We report the de novo biosynthesis of alkyne-tagged polyketides by modular type I PKSs through starter unit engineering. Specifically, we use JamABC, a terminal alkyne biosynthetic machinery from the jamaicamide B biosynthetic pathway, in combination with representative modular PKSs. We demonstrate that JamABC works as a trans loading system for engineered type I PKSs to produce alkyne-tagged polyketides. In addition, the production efficiency can be improved by enhancing the interactions between the carrier protein (JamC) and PKSs using docking domains and site-directed mutagenesis of JamC. This work thus provides engineering guidelines and strategies that are applicable to additional modular type I PKSs to produce targeted alkyne-tagged metabolites for chemical and biological applications. Alkyne-tagged polyketides are de novo biosynthesized using type I PKSs Docking domains and ACP mutagenesis improve alkyne starter unit translocation Docking domains, but not ACP mutagenesis, perturb alkyne biosynthetic machinery
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- William B Porterfield
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94709, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94709, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94709, USA; Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA.
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Mohanty I, Podell S, Biggs JS, Garg N, Allen EE, Agarwal V. Multi-Omic Profiling of Melophlus Sponges Reveals Diverse Metabolomic and Microbiome Architectures that Are Non-overlapping with Ecological Neighbors. Mar Drugs 2020; 18:E124. [PMID: 32092934 PMCID: PMC7074536 DOI: 10.3390/md18020124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2020] [Revised: 02/14/2020] [Accepted: 02/17/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Marine sponge holobionts, defined as filter-feeding sponge hosts together with their associated microbiomes, are prolific sources of natural products. The inventory of natural products that have been isolated from marine sponges is extensive. Here, using untargeted mass spectrometry, we demonstrate that sponges harbor a far greater diversity of low-abundance natural products that have evaded discovery. While these low-abundance natural products may not be feasible to isolate, insights into their chemical structures can be gleaned by careful curation of mass fragmentation spectra. Sponges are also some of the most complex, multi-organismal holobiont communities in the oceans. We overlay sponge metabolomes with their microbiome structures and detailed metagenomic characterization to discover candidate gene clusters that encode production of sponge-derived natural products. The multi-omic profiling strategy for sponges that we describe here enables quantitative comparison of sponge metabolomes and microbiomes to address, among other questions, the ecological relevance of sponge natural products and for the phylochemical assignment of previously undescribed sponge identities.
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- Ipsita Mohanty
- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA; (I.M.); (N.G.)
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- Marine Biology Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA; (S.P.); (E.E.A.)
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- University of Guam Marine Laboratory, UOG Station, Mangilao 96913, Guam;
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- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA; (I.M.); (N.G.)
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- Marine Biology Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA; (S.P.); (E.E.A.)
- Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA; (I.M.); (N.G.)
- School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
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Pang B, Valencia LE, Wang J, Wan Y, Lal R, Zargar A, Keasling JD. Technical Advances to Accelerate Modular Type I Polyketide Synthase Engineering towards a Retro-biosynthetic Platform. BIOTECHNOL BIOPROC E 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s12257-019-0083-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Shi J, Zeng YJ, Zhang B, Shao FL, Chen YC, Xu X, Sun Y, Xu Q, Tan RX, Ge HM. Comparative genome mining and heterologous expression of an orphan NRPS gene cluster direct the production of ashimides. Chem Sci 2019; 10:3042-3048. [PMID: 30996885 PMCID: PMC6427947 DOI: 10.1039/c8sc05670f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2018] [Accepted: 01/20/2019] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
Abstract
The ever-increasing bacterial genomic repositories reveal a great number of uncharacterized biosynthetic gene clusters, representing a tremendous resource for natural product discovery. Genome mining of the marine Streptomyces sp. NA03103 indicates the presence of an orphan nonribosomal peptide synthetase (NRPS) gene cluster (asm), to which there are no homologous gene clusters in the public genome databases. Heterologous expression of the asm gene cluster in the S. lividans SBT18 strain led to the discovery of two novel cyclopeptides, ashimides A and B (1 and 2), with 2 showing cytotoxic activity. In addition, we use bioinformatic analysis, gene inactivation and stable isotope labelling experiments, as well as in vitro biochemical assays, to present a coherent and novel assembly line for ashimide biosynthesis, featuring an unusual desaturation, halogenation and cyclization cascade catalyzed by a P450 monooxygenase and a FAD-dependent halogenase.
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- Jing Shi
- State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology , Institute of Functional Biomolecules , School of Life Sciences , Nanjing University , 210023 , China . ;
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- State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology , Institute of Functional Biomolecules , School of Life Sciences , Nanjing University , 210023 , China . ;
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- State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology , Institute of Functional Biomolecules , School of Life Sciences , Nanjing University , 210023 , China . ;
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- State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology , Institute of Functional Biomolecules , School of Life Sciences , Nanjing University , 210023 , China . ;
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- State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology , Institute of Functional Biomolecules , School of Life Sciences , Nanjing University , 210023 , China . ;
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- State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology , Institute of Functional Biomolecules , School of Life Sciences , Nanjing University , 210023 , China . ;
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- State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology , Institute of Functional Biomolecules , School of Life Sciences , Nanjing University , 210023 , China . ;
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- State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology , Institute of Functional Biomolecules , School of Life Sciences , Nanjing University , 210023 , China . ;
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- State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology , Institute of Functional Biomolecules , School of Life Sciences , Nanjing University , 210023 , China . ;
- State Key Laboratory Cultivation Base for TCM Quality and Efficacy , Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine , Nanjing 210023 , China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology , Institute of Functional Biomolecules , School of Life Sciences , Nanjing University , 210023 , China . ;
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Yuzawa S, Mirsiaghi M, Jocic R, Fujii T, Masson F, Benites VT, Baidoo EEK, Sundstrom E, Tanjore D, Pray TR, George A, Davis RW, Gladden JM, Simmons BA, Katz L, Keasling JD. Short-chain ketone production by engineered polyketide synthases in Streptomyces albus. Nat Commun 2018; 9:4569. [PMID: 30385744 PMCID: PMC6212451 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-07040-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2018] [Accepted: 09/26/2018] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
Abstract
Microbial production of fuels and commodity chemicals has been performed primarily using natural or slightly modified enzymes, which inherently limits the types of molecules that can be produced. Type I modular polyketide synthases (PKSs) are multi-domain enzymes that can produce unique and diverse molecular structures by combining particular types of catalytic domains in a specific order. This catalytic mechanism offers a wealth of engineering opportunities. Here we report engineered microbes that produce various short-chain (C5-C7) ketones using hybrid PKSs. Introduction of the genes into the chromosome of Streptomyces albus enables it to produce >1 g · l-1 of C6 and C7 ethyl ketones and several hundred mg · l-1 of C5 and C6 methyl ketones from plant biomass hydrolysates. Engine tests indicate these short-chain ketones can be added to gasoline as oxygenates to increase the octane of gasoline. Together, it demonstrates the efficient and renewable microbial production of biogasolines by hybrid enzymes.
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- Satoshi Yuzawa
- Biogical Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, 94720, United States. .,Joint BioEnegy Institute, Emeryville, California, 94608, United States. .,Biotechnology Research Center, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-8657, Japan.
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- Biogical Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, 94720, United States.,Advanced Biofuels & Bioproducts Process Development Unit, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, 94720, United States
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- Biogical Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, 94720, United States
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- Joint BioEnegy Institute, Emeryville, California, 94608, United States.,Research Institute for Sustainable Chemistry, Institute for Synthetic Biology, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Higashi-hiroshima, Hiroshima, 739-0046, Japan
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- Biogical Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, 94720, United States.,Advanced Biofuels & Bioproducts Process Development Unit, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, 94720, United States
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- Biogical Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, 94720, United States.,Joint BioEnegy Institute, Emeryville, California, 94608, United States
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- Biogical Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, 94720, United States.,Joint BioEnegy Institute, Emeryville, California, 94608, United States
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- Biogical Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, 94720, United States.,Advanced Biofuels & Bioproducts Process Development Unit, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, 94720, United States
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- Biogical Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, 94720, United States.,Advanced Biofuels & Bioproducts Process Development Unit, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, 94720, United States
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- Biogical Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, 94720, United States.,Advanced Biofuels & Bioproducts Process Development Unit, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, 94720, United States
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- Joint BioEnegy Institute, Emeryville, California, 94608, United States.,Department of Biomass Science and Conversion Technologies, Sandia National Laboratory, Livermore, California, 94551, United States
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- Department of Biomass Science and Conversion Technologies, Sandia National Laboratory, Livermore, California, 94551, United States
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- Joint BioEnegy Institute, Emeryville, California, 94608, United States.,Department of Biomass Science and Conversion Technologies, Sandia National Laboratory, Livermore, California, 94551, United States
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- Biogical Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, 94720, United States.,Joint BioEnegy Institute, Emeryville, California, 94608, United States
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- Joint BioEnegy Institute, Emeryville, California, 94608, United States.,QB3 Institute, University of California, Berkeley, California, 94720, United States
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- Biogical Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, 94720, United States. .,Joint BioEnegy Institute, Emeryville, California, 94608, United States. .,QB3 Institute, University of California, Berkeley, California, 94720, United States. .,Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, California, 94720, United States. .,Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California, 94720, United States. .,Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, Building 220, Kemitorvet, DK-2800, Kgs, Lyngby, Denmark. .,Center for Synthetic Biochemistry, Shenzhen Institutes for Advanced Technologies, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518055, China.
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Peek J, Lilic M, Montiel D, Milshteyn A, Woodworth I, Biggins JB, Ternei MA, Calle PY, Danziger M, Warrier T, Saito K, Braffman N, Fay A, Glickman MS, Darst SA, Campbell EA, Brady SF. Rifamycin congeners kanglemycins are active against rifampicin-resistant bacteria via a distinct mechanism. Nat Commun 2018; 9:4147. [PMID: 30297823 PMCID: PMC6175910 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-06587-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2018] [Accepted: 08/29/2018] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
Abstract
Rifamycin antibiotics (Rifs) target bacterial RNA polymerases (RNAPs) and are widely used to treat infections including tuberculosis. The utility of these compounds is threatened by the increasing incidence of resistance (RifR). As resistance mechanisms found in clinical settings may also occur in natural environments, here we postulated that bacteria could have evolved to produce rifamycin congeners active against clinically relevant resistance phenotypes. We survey soil metagenomes and identify a tailoring enzyme-rich family of gene clusters encoding biosynthesis of rifamycin congeners (kanglemycins, Kangs) with potent in vivo and in vitro activity against the most common clinically relevant RifR mutations. Our structural and mechanistic analyses reveal the basis for Kang inhibition of RifR RNAP. Unlike Rifs, Kangs function through a mechanism that includes interfering with 5'-initiating substrate binding. Our results suggest that examining soil microbiomes for new analogues of clinically used antibiotics may uncover metabolites capable of circumventing clinically important resistance mechanisms.
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- James Peek
- Laboratory of Genetically Encoded Small Molecules, The Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10065, USA
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- Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, The Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10065, USA
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- Laboratory of Genetically Encoded Small Molecules, The Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10065, USA
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- Laboratory of Genetically Encoded Small Molecules, The Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10065, USA
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- Laboratory of Genetically Encoded Small Molecules, The Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10065, USA
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- Laboratory of Genetically Encoded Small Molecules, The Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10065, USA
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- Laboratory of Genetically Encoded Small Molecules, The Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10065, USA
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- Laboratory of Genetically Encoded Small Molecules, The Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10065, USA
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- Laboratory of Genetically Encoded Small Molecules, The Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10065, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, 10065, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, 10065, USA
- Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, 10065, USA
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- Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, The Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10065, USA
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- Immunology Program, Sloan-Kettering Institute, New York, NY, 10065, USA
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- Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, The Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10065, USA
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- Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, The Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10065, USA.
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- Laboratory of Genetically Encoded Small Molecules, The Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10065, USA.
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Sarmiento-Vizcaíno A, Espadas J, Martín J, Braña AF, Reyes F, García LA, Blanco G. Atmospheric Precipitations, Hailstone and Rainwater, as a Novel Source of Streptomyces Producing Bioactive Natural Products. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:773. [PMID: 29740412 PMCID: PMC5924784 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.00773] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2018] [Accepted: 04/05/2018] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
Abstract
A cultivation-dependent approach revealed that highly diverse populations of Streptomyces were present in atmospheric precipitations from a hailstorm event sampled in February 2016 in the Cantabrian Sea coast, North of Spain. A total of 29 bioactive Streptomyces strains isolated from small samples of hailstone and rainwater, collected from this hailstorm event, were studied here. Taxonomic identification by 16S rRNA sequencing revealed more than 20 different Streptomyces species, with their closest homologs displaying mainly oceanic but also terrestrial origins. Backward trajectory analysis revealed that the air-mass sources of the hailstorm event, with North Western winds, were originated in the Arctic Ocean (West Greenland and North Iceland) and Canada (Labrador), depending on the altitude. After traveling across the North Atlantic Ocean during 4 days the air mass reached Europe and precipitated as hailstone and rain water at the sampling place in Spain. The finding of Streptomyces species able to survive and disperse through the atmosphere increases our knowledge of the biogeography of genus Streptomyces on Earth, and reinforces our previous dispersion model, suggesting a generalized feature for the genus which could have been essential in his evolution. This unique atmospheric-derived Streptomyces collection was screened for production of bioactive secondary metabolites. Analyses of isolates ethyl acetate extracts by LC-UV-MS and further database comparison revealed an extraordinary diversity of bioactive natural products. One hundred molecules were identified, mostly displaying contrasted antibiotic and antitumor/cytotoxic activities, but also antiparasitic, antiviral, anti-inflammatory, neuroprotector, and insecticide properties. More interestingly, 38 molecules not identified in natural products databases might represent new natural products. Our results revealed for the first time an extraordinary diversity of Streptomyces species in the atmosphere able to produce an extraordinary repertoire of bioactive molecules, thus providing a very promising source for the discovery of novel pharmaceutical natural products.
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- Aida Sarmiento-Vizcaíno
- Departamento de Biología Funcional, Área de Microbiología, e Instituto Universitario de Oncología del Principado de Asturias, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
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- Departamento de Biología Funcional, Área de Microbiología, e Instituto Universitario de Oncología del Principado de Asturias, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
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- Fundación MEDINA, Centro de Excelencia en Investigación de Medicamentos Innovadores en Andalucía, Parque Tecnológico de Ciencias de la Salud, Granada, Spain
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- Departamento de Biología Funcional, Área de Microbiología, e Instituto Universitario de Oncología del Principado de Asturias, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
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- Fundación MEDINA, Centro de Excelencia en Investigación de Medicamentos Innovadores en Andalucía, Parque Tecnológico de Ciencias de la Salud, Granada, Spain
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- Departamento de Ingeniería Química y Tecnología del Medio Ambiente, Área de Ingeniería Química, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
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- Departamento de Biología Funcional, Área de Microbiología, e Instituto Universitario de Oncología del Principado de Asturias, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
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Kepplinger B, Morton-Laing S, Seistrup KH, Marrs ECL, Hopkins AP, Perry JD, Strahl H, Hall MJ, Errington J, Allenby NEE. Mode of Action and Heterologous Expression of the Natural Product Antibiotic Vancoresmycin. ACS Chem Biol 2018; 13:207-214. [PMID: 29185696 DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.7b00733] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Antibiotics that interfere with the bacterial cytoplasmic membrane have long-term potential for the treatment of infectious diseases as this mode of action is anticipated to result in low resistance frequency. Vancoresmycin is an understudied natural product antibiotic consisting of a terminal tetramic acid moiety fused to a linear, highly oxygenated, stereochemically complex polyketide chain. Vancoresmycin shows minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) from 0.125 to 2 μg/mL against a range of clinically relevant, antibiotic-resistant Gram-positive bacteria. Through a comprehensive mode-of-action study, utilizing Bacillus subtilis reporter strains, DiSC3(5) depolarization assays, and fluorescence microscopy, we have shown that vancoresmycin selectively targets the cytoplasmic membrane of Gram-positive bacteria via a non-pore-forming, concentration-dependent depolarization mechanism. Whole genome sequencing of the producing strain allowed identification of the 141 kbp gene cluster encoding for vancoresmycin biosynthesis and a preliminary model for its biosynthesis. The size and complex structure of vancoresmycin could confound attempts to generate synthetic analogues. To overcome this problem and facilitate future studies, we identified, cloned, and expressed the 141 kbp biosynthetic gene cluster in Streptomyces coelicolor M1152. Elucidation of the mode-of-action of vancoresmycin, together with the heterologous expression system, will greatly facilitate further studies of this and related molecules.
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- Bernhard Kepplinger
- Centre for Bacterial Cell Biology, Newcastle University
, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4BN, United Kingdom
- Demuris Limited , Newcastle Biomedicine Bio-Incubators
, Framlington Place, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH, United Kingdom
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- Demuris Limited , Newcastle Biomedicine Bio-Incubators
, Framlington Place, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Bacterial Cell Biology, Newcastle University
, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4BN, United Kingdom
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- Demuris Limited , Newcastle Biomedicine Bio-Incubators
, Framlington Place, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH, United Kingdom
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- Microbiology Department, Freeman Hospital
, Newcastle upon Tyne NE7 7DN, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Bacterial Cell Biology, Newcastle University
, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4BN, United Kingdom
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- School of Chemistry, Newcastle University
, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Bacterial Cell Biology, Newcastle University
, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4BN, United Kingdom
- Demuris Limited , Newcastle Biomedicine Bio-Incubators
, Framlington Place, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH, United Kingdom
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- Demuris Limited , Newcastle Biomedicine Bio-Incubators
, Framlington Place, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH, United Kingdom
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Yuzawa S, Bailey CB, Fujii T, Jocic R, Barajas JF, Benites VT, Baidoo EEK, Chen Y, Petzold CJ, Katz L, Keasling JD. Heterologous Gene Expression of N-Terminally Truncated Variants of LipPks1 Suggests a Functionally Critical Structural Motif in the N-terminus of Modular Polyketide Synthase. ACS Chem Biol 2017; 12:2725-2729. [PMID: 29028314 DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.7b00714] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Abstract
Streptomyces genomes have a high G + C content and typically use an ATG or GTG codon to initiate protein synthesis. Although gene-finding tools perform well in low GC genomes, it is known that the accuracy in predicting a translational start site (TSS) is much less for high GC genomes. LipPks1 is a Streptomyces-derived, well-characterized modular polyketide synthase (PKS). Using this enzyme as a model, we experimentally investigated the effects of alternative TSSs using a heterologous host, Streptomyces venezuelae. One of the TSSs employed boosted the protein level by 59-fold and the product yield by 23-fold compared to the originally annotated start codon. Interestingly, a structural model of the PKS indicated the presence of a structural motif in the N-terminus, which may explain the observed different protein levels together with a proline and arginine-rich sequence that may inhibit translational initiation. This structure was also found in six other modular PKSs that utilize noncarboxylated starter substrates, which may guide the selection of optimal TSSs in conjunction with start-codon prediction software.
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- Satoshi Yuzawa
- Biogical
Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Joint BioEnegy Institute, Emeryville, California 94608, United States
- Agile BioFoundary, Emeryville, California 94608, United States
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- Biogical
Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Research
Institute for Sustainable Chemistry, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Higashi-hiroshima, Hiroshima, 739-0046, Japan
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- Biogical
Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Agile BioFoundary, Emeryville, California 94608, United States
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- Biogical
Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Joint BioEnegy Institute, Emeryville, California 94608, United States
- Agile BioFoundary, Emeryville, California 94608, United States
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- Biogical
Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Joint BioEnegy Institute, Emeryville, California 94608, United States
- Agile BioFoundary, Emeryville, California 94608, United States
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- Biogical
Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Joint BioEnegy Institute, Emeryville, California 94608, United States
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- Biogical
Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Joint BioEnegy Institute, Emeryville, California 94608, United States
- Agile BioFoundary, Emeryville, California 94608, United States
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- QB3
Institute, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Biogical
Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Joint BioEnegy Institute, Emeryville, California 94608, United States
- QB3
Institute, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Department
of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Department
of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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Park HB, Park JS, Lee SI, Shin B, Oh DC, Kwon HC. Gordonic Acid, a Polyketide Glycoside Derived from Bacterial Coculture of Streptomyces and Gordonia Species. JOURNAL OF NATURAL PRODUCTS 2017; 80:2542-2546. [PMID: 28845982 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.7b00293] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Despite numerous efforts to discover novel bioactive products from microorganisms, previously reported compounds are repetitively reisolated. A new polyketide glycoside, gordonic acid (1), isolated from the mixed culture of two Gram-positive bacteria, Gordonia sp. KMC005 and Streptomyces tendae KMC006, is reported. The structure of 1 was characterized as an acyclic polyene polyketide substituted with a β-d-digitoxopyranose through NMR, HR-ESI-QTOF-MS, IR, and UV spectral data. The stereochemistry for 1 was determined by Mosher's method followed by 2D NOESY analysis and by NMR chemical shift calculations supported by DP4 analysis. Gordonic acid (1) showed weak activity against Micrococcus luteus and Enterococcus hirae.
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- Hyun Bong Park
- Natural Constituents Research Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) , Gangneung, Gangwon-do 25451, Republic of Korea
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- Natural Constituents Research Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) , Gangneung, Gangwon-do 25451, Republic of Korea
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- Natural Constituents Research Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) , Gangneung, Gangwon-do 25451, Republic of Korea
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- Natural Products Research Institute, College of Pharmacy, Seoul National University , Seoul 151-742, Republic of Korea
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- Natural Products Research Institute, College of Pharmacy, Seoul National University , Seoul 151-742, Republic of Korea
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- Natural Constituents Research Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) , Gangneung, Gangwon-do 25451, Republic of Korea
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The enzymology of 135 assembly lines containing primarily cis-acyltransferase modules is comprehensively analyzed, with greater attention paid to less common phenomena. Diverse online transformations, in which the substrate and/or product of the reaction is an acyl chain bound to an acyl carrier protein, are classified so that unusual reactions can be compared and underlying assembly-line logic can emerge. As a complement to the chemistry surrounding the loading, extension, and offloading of assembly lines that construct primarily polyketide products, structural aspects of the assembly-line machinery itself are considered. This review of assembly-line phenomena, covering the literature up to 2017, should thus be informative to the modular polyketide synthase novice and expert alike.
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- Adrian T Keatinge-Clay
- Department of Molecular Biosciences, The University of Texas at Austin , Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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Harunari E, Komaki H, Igarashi Y. Biosynthetic origin of butyrolactol A, an antifungal polyketide produced by a marine-derived Streptomyces. Beilstein J Org Chem 2017; 13:441-450. [PMID: 28382182 PMCID: PMC5355916 DOI: 10.3762/bjoc.13.47] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2017] [Accepted: 02/20/2017] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Butyrolactol A is an antifungal polyketide of Streptomyces bearing an uncommon tert-butyl starter unit and a polyol system in which eight hydroxy/acyloxy carbons are contiguously connected. Except for its congener butyrolactol B, there exist no structurally related natural products to date. In this study, inspired by our previous genomic analysis, incorporation of 13C- and 2H-labeled precursors into butyrolactol A was investigated. Based on the labeling pattern and sequencing analytical data, we confirmed that the tert-butyl group is derived from valine and its C-methylation with methionine and the polyol carbons are derived from a glycolysis intermediate, possibly hydroxymalonyl-ACP.
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- Enjuro Harunari
- Biotechnology Research Center and Department of Biotechnology, Toyama Prefectural University, 5180 Kurokawa, Imizu, Toyama 939-0398, Japan
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- Biological Resource Center, National Institute of Technology and Evaluation (NBRC), 2-5-8 Kazusakamatari, Kisarazu, Chiba 292-0818, Japan
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- Biotechnology Research Center and Department of Biotechnology, Toyama Prefectural University, 5180 Kurokawa, Imizu, Toyama 939-0398, Japan
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Yuzawa S, Keasling JD, Katz L. Bio-based production of fuels and industrial chemicals by repurposing antibiotic-producing type I modular polyketide synthases: opportunities and challenges. J Antibiot (Tokyo) 2016; 70:378-385. [PMID: 27847387 DOI: 10.1038/ja.2016.136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2016] [Revised: 10/10/2016] [Accepted: 10/14/2016] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
Abstract
Complex polyketides comprise a large number of natural products that have broad application in medicine and agriculture. They are produced in bacteria and fungi from large enzyme complexes named type I modular polyketide synthases (PKSs) that are composed of multifunctional polypeptides containing discrete enzymatic domains organized into modules. The modular nature of PKSs has enabled a multitude of efforts to engineer the PKS genes to produce novel polyketides of predicted structure. We have repurposed PKSs to produce a number of short-chain mono- and di-carboxylic acids and ketones that could have applications as fuels or industrial chemicals.
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- Satoshi Yuzawa
- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA.,QB3 Institute, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.,Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA, USA.,Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.,Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.,Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, Hørsholm, Denmark
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- QB3 Institute, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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Horbal L, Luzhetskyy A. Dual control system - A novel scaffolding architecture of an inducible regulatory device for the precise regulation of gene expression. Metab Eng 2016; 37:11-23. [PMID: 27040671 PMCID: PMC4915818 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2016.03.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2016] [Revised: 03/29/2016] [Accepted: 03/30/2016] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Here, we present a novel scaffolding architecture of an inducible regulatory device. This dual control system is completely silent in the off stage and is coupled to the regulation of gene expression at both the transcriptional and translational levels. This system also functions as an AND gate. We demonstrated the effectiveness of the cumate-riboswitch dual control system for the control of pamamycin production in Streptomyces albus. Placing the cre recombinase gene under the control of this system permitted the construction of synthetic devices with non-volatile memory that sense the signal and respond by altering DNA at the chromosomal level, thereby producing changes that are heritable. In addition, we present a library of synthetic inducible promoters based on the previously described cumate switch. With only one inducer and different promoters, we demonstrate that simultaneous modulation of the expression of several genes to different levels in various operons is possible. Because all modules of the AND gates are functional in bacteria other than Streptomyces, we anticipate that these regulatory devices can be used to control gene expression in other Actinobacteria. The features described in this study make these systems promising tools for metabolic engineering and biotechnology in Actinobacteria.
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- L Horbal
- Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany; University of Saarland, Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, 66123 Saarbrucken, Germany
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- Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany; University of Saarland, Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, 66123 Saarbrucken, Germany.
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Yuzawa S, Keasling JD, Katz L. Insights into polyketide biosynthesis gained from repurposing antibiotic-producing polyketide synthases to produce fuels and chemicals. J Antibiot (Tokyo) 2016; 69:494-9. [PMID: 27245558 DOI: 10.1038/ja.2016.64] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2016] [Revised: 05/05/2016] [Accepted: 05/06/2016] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
Abstract
Complex polyketides comprise a large number of natural products that have broad application in medicine and agriculture. They are produced in bacteria and fungi from enzyme complexes named type I polyketide synthases (PKSs) that are composed of multifunctional polypeptides containing discrete enzymatic domains organized into modules. The modular nature of PKSs has enabled a multitude of efforts to engineer the PKS genes to produce novel polyketides with enhanced or new properties. We have repurposed PKSs, employing up to three modules to produce a number of short-chain molecules that could have applications as fuels or industrial chemicals. Examining the enzymatic functions in vitro of these repurposed PKSs, we have uncovered a number of expanded substrate specificities and requirements of various PKS domains not previously reported and determined an unexpected difference in the order of enzymatic reactions within a module. In addition, we were able to efficiently change the stereochemistry of side chains in selected PKS products.
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- Satoshi Yuzawa
- QB3 Institute, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- QB3 Institute, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.,Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA 94608, USA.,Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.,Synthetic Biology Research Center, Emeryville, CA 94608, USA.,Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.,Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- QB3 Institute, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.,Synthetic Biology Research Center, Emeryville, CA 94608, USA
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Eng CH, Yuzawa S, Wang G, Baidoo EEK, Katz L, Keasling JD. Alteration of Polyketide Stereochemistry from anti to syn by a Ketoreductase Domain Exchange in a Type I Modular Polyketide Synthase Subunit. Biochemistry 2016; 55:1677-80. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.6b00129] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Clara H. Eng
- Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center, 5885 Hollis Street, Emeryville, California 94608, United States
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- Joint BioEnergy Institute, 5885 Hollis Street, Emeryville, California 94608, United States
- Biological
Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94270, United States
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- Joint BioEnergy Institute, 5885 Hollis Street, Emeryville, California 94608, United States
- Biological
Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94270, United States
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- Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center, 5885 Hollis Street, Emeryville, California 94608, United States
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- Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center, 5885 Hollis Street, Emeryville, California 94608, United States
- Joint BioEnergy Institute, 5885 Hollis Street, Emeryville, California 94608, United States
- Biological
Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94270, United States
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Li J, Xie Z, Wang M, Ai G, Chen Y. Identification and analysis of the paulomycin biosynthetic gene cluster and titer improvement of the paulomycins in Streptomyces paulus NRRL 8115. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0120542. [PMID: 25822496 PMCID: PMC4425429 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0120542] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2014] [Accepted: 01/26/2015] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
Abstract
The paulomycins are a group of glycosylated compounds featuring a unique paulic
acid moiety. To locate their biosynthetic gene clusters, the genomes of two
paulomycin producers, Streptomyces paulus NRRL 8115 and
Streptomyces sp. YN86, were sequenced. The paulomycin
biosynthetic gene clusters were defined by comparative analyses of the two
genomes together with the genome of the third paulomycin producer
Streptomyces albus J1074. Subsequently, the identity of the
paulomycin biosynthetic gene cluster was confirmed by inactivation of two genes
involved in biosynthesis of the paulomycose branched chain
(pau11) and the ring A moiety (pau18) in
Streptomyces paulus NRRL 8115. After determining the gene
cluster boundaries, a convergent biosynthetic model was proposed for paulomycin
based on the deduced functions of the pau genes. Finally, a
paulomycin high-producing strain was constructed by expressing an
activator-encoding gene (pau13) in S.
paulus, setting the stage for future investigations.
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- Jine Li
- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources, Institute of
Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, 100101, P. R.
China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources, Institute of
Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, 100101, P. R.
China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources, Institute of
Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, 100101, P. R.
China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources, Institute of
Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, 100101, P. R.
China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources, Institute of
Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, 100101, P. R.
China
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Gui C, Li Q, Mo X, Qin X, Ma J, Ju J. Discovery of a New Family of Dieckmann Cyclases Essential to Tetramic Acid and Pyridone-Based Natural Products Biosynthesis. Org Lett 2015; 17:628-31. [PMID: 25621700 DOI: 10.1021/ol5036497] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Chun Gui
- CAS
Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Guangdong
Key Laboratory of Marine Materia Medica, RNAM Center for Marine Microbiology,
South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 164 West Xingang Road, Guangzhou 510301, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19 Yuquan Road, Beijing, 110039, China
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- CAS
Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Guangdong
Key Laboratory of Marine Materia Medica, RNAM Center for Marine Microbiology,
South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 164 West Xingang Road, Guangzhou 510301, China
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- CAS
Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Guangdong
Key Laboratory of Marine Materia Medica, RNAM Center for Marine Microbiology,
South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 164 West Xingang Road, Guangzhou 510301, China
- Shandong
Key Laboratory of Applied Mycology, School of Life Sciences, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao 266109, China
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- CAS
Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Guangdong
Key Laboratory of Marine Materia Medica, RNAM Center for Marine Microbiology,
South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 164 West Xingang Road, Guangzhou 510301, China
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- CAS
Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Guangdong
Key Laboratory of Marine Materia Medica, RNAM Center for Marine Microbiology,
South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 164 West Xingang Road, Guangzhou 510301, China
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- CAS
Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Guangdong
Key Laboratory of Marine Materia Medica, RNAM Center for Marine Microbiology,
South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 164 West Xingang Road, Guangzhou 510301, China
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Hartmann O, Kalesse M. The Structure Elucidation and Total Synthesis of β‐Lipomycin. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2014; 53:7335-8. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201402259] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2014] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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- Olaf Hartmann
- Institute for Organic Chemistry and Centre of Biomolecular Drug Research (BMWZ), Leibniz Universität Hannover, Schneiderberg 1B, 30167 Hannover (Germany)
- Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Inhoffenstrasse 7, 38124 Braunschweig (Germany)
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- Institute for Organic Chemistry and Centre of Biomolecular Drug Research (BMWZ), Leibniz Universität Hannover, Schneiderberg 1B, 30167 Hannover (Germany)
- Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Inhoffenstrasse 7, 38124 Braunschweig (Germany)
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Hofferberth ML, Brückner R. α‐ and β‐Lipomycin: Total Syntheses by Sequential Stille Couplings and Assignment of the Absolute Configuration of All Stereogenic Centers. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2014; 53:7328-34. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201402255] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2014] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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- Max L. Hofferberth
- Institut für Organische Chemie, Albert‐Ludwigs‐Universität Freiburg, Albertstrasse 21, 79104 Freiburg (Germany) http://www.brueckner.uni‐freiburg.de
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- Institut für Organische Chemie, Albert‐Ludwigs‐Universität Freiburg, Albertstrasse 21, 79104 Freiburg (Germany) http://www.brueckner.uni‐freiburg.de
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Hofferberth ML, Brückner R. α‐ und β‐Lipomycin: Totalsynthesen auf der Grundlage sequentieller Stille‐Kupplungen und Zuordnung der absoluten Konfiguration aller stereogenen Zentren. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2014. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201402255] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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- Max L. Hofferberth
- Institut für Organische Chemie, Albert‐Ludwigs‐Universität Freiburg, Albertstraße 21, 79104 Freiburg (Deutschland) http://www.brueckner.uni‐freiburg.de
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- Institut für Organische Chemie, Albert‐Ludwigs‐Universität Freiburg, Albertstraße 21, 79104 Freiburg (Deutschland) http://www.brueckner.uni‐freiburg.de
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Hartmann O, Kalesse M. Die Strukturaufklärung und Totalsynthese von β‐Lipomycin. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2014. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201402259] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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- Olaf Hartmann
- Institut für Organische Chemie und Biomolekulares Wirkstoff‐ zentrum (BMWZ), Leibniz Universität Hannover, Schneiderberg 1B, 30167 Hannover (Deutschland)
- Helmholtz Zentrum für Infektionsforschung (HZI), Inhoffenstraße 7, 38124 Braunschweig (Deutschland)
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- Institut für Organische Chemie und Biomolekulares Wirkstoff‐ zentrum (BMWZ), Leibniz Universität Hannover, Schneiderberg 1B, 30167 Hannover (Deutschland)
- Helmholtz Zentrum für Infektionsforschung (HZI), Inhoffenstraße 7, 38124 Braunschweig (Deutschland)
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Hong H, Fill T, Leadlay PF. A Common Origin for Guanidinobutanoate Starter Units in Antifungal Natural Products. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2013. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201308136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Hong H, Fill T, Leadlay PF. A Common Origin for Guanidinobutanoate Starter Units in Antifungal Natural Products. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2013; 52:13096-9. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201308136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2013] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Enzyme analysis of the polyketide synthase leads to the discovery of a novel analog of the antibiotic α-lipomycin. J Antibiot (Tokyo) 2013; 67:199-201. [PMID: 24169801 DOI: 10.1038/ja.2013.110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2013] [Revised: 09/26/2013] [Accepted: 10/03/2013] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Engineered short branched-chain acyl-CoA synthesis in E. coli and acylation of chloramphenicol to branched-chain derivatives. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2013; 97:10339-48. [PMID: 24100682 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-013-5262-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2013] [Revised: 09/11/2013] [Accepted: 09/14/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
Abstract
Short branched-chain acyl-CoAs are important building blocks for a wide variety of pharmaceutically valuable natural products. Escherichia coli has been used as a heterologous host for the production of a variety of natural compounds for many years. In the current study, we engineered synthesis of isobutyryl-CoA and isovaleryl-CoA from glucose in E. coli by integration of the branched-chain α-keto acid dehydrogenase complex from Streptomyces avermitilis. In the presence of the chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (cat) gene, chloramphenicol was converted to both chloramphenicol-3-isobutyrate and chloramphenicol-3-isovalerate by the recombinant E. coli strains, which suggested successful synthesis of isobutyryl-CoA and isovaleryl-CoA. Furthermore, we improved the α-keto acid precursor supply by overexpressing the alsS gene from Bacillus subtilis and the ilvC and ilvD genes from E. coli and thus enhanced the synthesis of short branched-chain acyl-CoAs. By feeding 25 mg/L chloramphenicol, 2.96 ± 0.06 mg/L chloramphenicol-3-isobutyrate and 3.94 ± 0.06 mg/L chloramphenicol-3-isovalerate were generated by the engineered E. coli strain, which indicated efficient biosynthesis of short branched-chain acyl-CoAs. HPLC analysis showed that the most efficient E. coli strain produced 80.77 ± 3.83 nmol/g wet weight isovaleryl-CoA. To our knowledge, this is the first report of production of short branched-chain acyl-CoAs in E. coli and opens a way to biosynthesize various valuable natural compounds based on these special building blocks from renewable carbon sources.
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Yuzawa S, Eng CH, Katz L, Keasling JD. Broad substrate specificity of the loading didomain of the lipomycin polyketide synthase. Biochemistry 2013; 52:3791-3. [PMID: 23692164 DOI: 10.1021/bi400520t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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LipPks1, a polyketide synthase subunit of the lipomycin synthase, is believed to catalyze the polyketide chain initiation reaction using isobutyryl-CoA as a substrate, followed by an elongation reaction with methylmalonyl-CoA to start the biosynthesis of antibiotic α-lipomycin in Streptomyces aureofaciens Tü117. Recombinant LipPks1, containing the thioesterase domain from the 6-deoxyerythronolide B synthase, was produced in Escherichia coli, and its substrate specificity was investigated in vitro. Surprisingly, several different acyl-CoAs, including isobutyryl-CoA, were accepted as the starter substrates, while no product was observed with acetyl-CoA. These results demonstrate the broad substrate specificity of LipPks1 and may be applied to producing new antibiotics.
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- Satoshi Yuzawa
- QB3 Institute, University of California, Berkeley, California 94270, United States
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Zhang W, Fortman JL, Carlson JC, Yan J, Liu Y, Bai F, Guan W, Jia J, Matainaho T, Sherman DH, Li S. Characterization of the bafilomycin biosynthetic gene cluster from Streptomyces lohii. Chembiochem 2013; 14:301-6. [PMID: 23362147 PMCID: PMC3771327 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.201200743] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2012] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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New hope for old bones: The plecomacrolide bafilomycin has been explored for decades as an anti-osteoporotic. However, its structural complexity has limited the synthesis of analogues. The cloning of the bafilomycin biosynthetic gene cluster from the environmental isolate Streptomyces lohii opens the door to the production of new analogues through bioengineering.
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- Wei Zhang
- Key Laboratory of Biofuels, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Energy Genetics, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 189 Songling Road, Qingdao, Shandong 266101 (P. R. China), Fax: (+86)-532-8066-2778
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- Life Sciences Institute, Departments of Medicinal Chemistry, Chemistry, and Microbiology and Immunology University of Michigan, 210 Washtenaw Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2216 (USA), Fax: (+1)-734-615-3641
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- Life Sciences Institute, Departments of Medicinal Chemistry, Chemistry, and Microbiology and Immunology University of Michigan, 210 Washtenaw Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2216 (USA), Fax: (+1)-734-615-3641
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- Key Laboratory of Biofuels, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Energy Genetics, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 189 Songling Road, Qingdao, Shandong 266101 (P. R. China), Fax: (+86)-532-8066-2778
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- Key Laboratory of Biofuels, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Energy Genetics, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 189 Songling Road, Qingdao, Shandong 266101 (P. R. China), Fax: (+86)-532-8066-2778
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- Key Laboratory of Biofuels, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Energy Genetics, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 189 Songling Road, Qingdao, Shandong 266101 (P. R. China), Fax: (+86)-532-8066-2778
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- Key Laboratory of Biofuels, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Energy Genetics, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 189 Songling Road, Qingdao, Shandong 266101 (P. R. China), Fax: (+86)-532-8066-2778
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- Life Sciences Institute, Departments of Medicinal Chemistry, Chemistry, and Microbiology and Immunology University of Michigan, 210 Washtenaw Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2216 (USA), Fax: (+1)-734-615-3641
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- Professor Teatulohi Matainaho, Department of Pharmacology, University of Papua New Guinea, Port Morseby (Papua New Guinea)
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- Life Sciences Institute, Departments of Medicinal Chemistry, Chemistry, and Microbiology and Immunology University of Michigan, 210 Washtenaw Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2216 (USA), Fax: (+1)-734-615-3641
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- Key Laboratory of Biofuels, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Energy Genetics, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 189 Songling Road, Qingdao, Shandong 266101 (P. R. China), Fax: (+86)-532-8066-2778
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Wu Q, Wu Z, Qu X, Liu W. Insights into Pyrroindomycin Biosynthesis Reveal a Uniform Paradigm for Tetramate/Tetronate Formation. J Am Chem Soc 2012; 134:17342-5. [DOI: 10.1021/ja304829g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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- Qiongqiong Wu
- State Key Laboratory of Bioorganic and Natural Products
Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 345 Lingling Road, Shanghai 200032,
China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioorganic and Natural Products
Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 345 Lingling Road, Shanghai 200032,
China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioorganic and Natural Products
Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 345 Lingling Road, Shanghai 200032,
China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioorganic and Natural Products
Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 345 Lingling Road, Shanghai 200032,
China
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Gómez C, Olano C, Méndez C, Salas JA. Three pathway-specific regulators control streptolydigin biosynthesis in Streptomyces lydicus. Microbiology (Reading) 2012; 158:2504-2514. [DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.061325-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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- Cristina Gómez
- Departamento de Biología Funcional e Instituto Universitario de Oncología del Principado de Asturias (I.U.O.P.A), Universidad de Oviedo, 33006 Oviedo, Spain
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- Departamento de Biología Funcional e Instituto Universitario de Oncología del Principado de Asturias (I.U.O.P.A), Universidad de Oviedo, 33006 Oviedo, Spain
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- Departamento de Biología Funcional e Instituto Universitario de Oncología del Principado de Asturias (I.U.O.P.A), Universidad de Oviedo, 33006 Oviedo, Spain
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- Departamento de Biología Funcional e Instituto Universitario de Oncología del Principado de Asturias (I.U.O.P.A), Universidad de Oviedo, 33006 Oviedo, Spain
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Novel compounds produced by Streptomyces lydicus NRRL 2433 engineered mutants altered in the biosynthesis of streptolydigin. J Antibiot (Tokyo) 2012; 65:341-8. [PMID: 22569159 DOI: 10.1038/ja.2012.37] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Streptolydigin is a tetramic acid antibiotic produced by Streptomyces lydicus NRRL 2433 and involving a hybrid polyketide synthase (PKS)-nonribosomal peptide synthetase (NRPS) system in its biosynthesis. The streptolydigin amino-acid precursor, 3-methylaspartate, has been proposed to be condensed to the polyketide portion of the molecule by a NRPS composed by three enzymes (SlgN1, SlgN2 and SlgL). On the other hand, biosynthesis of the polyketide moiety involves the participation of cytochrome P450 SlgO2 for the correct cyclization of the characteristic bicyclic ketal. Independent disruption of slgN1, slgN2, slgL or slgO2 resulted in S. lydicus mutants unable to produce the antibiotic thus confirming the involvement of these genes in the biosynthesis of the antibiotic. These mutants did not accumulate any streptolydigin biosynthesis intermediate or shunt product derived from early polyketides released from the PKS. However, they produced three novel compounds identified as 4-(2-carboxy-propylamino)-3-chloro-benzoic acid, 4-(2-carboxy-propylamino)-3-hydroxy-benzoic acid and 4-(2-carboxy-propylamino)-benzoic acid, which were designated as christolane A, christolane B and christolane C, respectively. These compounds have been shown to exert some antibiotic activity.
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Site-specific recombination strategies for engineering actinomycete genomes. Appl Environ Microbiol 2012; 78:1804-12. [PMID: 22247163 DOI: 10.1128/aem.06054-11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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The feasibility of using technologies based on site-specific recombination in actinomycetes was shown several years ago. Despite their huge potential, these technologies mostly have been used for simple marker removal from a chromosome. In this paper, we present different site-specific recombination strategies for genome engineering in several actinomycetes belonging to the genera Streptomyces, Micromonospora, and Saccharothrix. Two different systems based on Cre/loxP and Dre/rox have been utilized for numerous applications. The activity of the Cre recombinase on the heterospecific loxLE and loxRE sites was similar to its activity on wild-type loxP sites. Moreover, an apramycin resistance marker flanked by the loxLERE sites was eliminated from the Streptomyces coelicolor M145 genome at a surprisingly high frequency (80%) compared to other bacteria. A synthetic gene encoding the Dre recombinase was constructed and successfully expressed in actinomycetes. We developed a marker-free expression method based on the combination of phage integration systems and site-specific recombinases. The Cre recombinase has been used in the deletion of huge genomic regions, including the phenalinolactone, monensin, and lipomycin biosynthetic gene clusters from Streptomyces sp. strain Tü6071, Streptomyces cinnamonensis A519, and Streptomyces aureofaciens Tü117, respectively. Finally, we also demonstrated the site-specific integration of plasmid and cosmid DNA into the chromosome of actinomycetes catalyzed by the Cre recombinase. We anticipate that the strategies presented here will be used extensively to study the genetics of actinomycetes.
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Biosynthesis of the RNA polymerase inhibitor streptolydigin in Streptomyces lydicus: tailoring modification of 3-methyl-aspartate. J Bacteriol 2011; 193:2647-51. [PMID: 21398531 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00108-11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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The asparaginyl-tRNA synthetase-like SlgZ and methyltransferase SlgM enzymes are involved in the biosynthesis of the tetramic acid streptolydigin in Streptomyces lydicus. Inactivation of slgZ led to a novel streptolydigin derivative. Overexpression of slgZ, slgM, or both in S. lydicus led to a considerable increase in streptolydigin production.
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Gulder TAM, Freeman MF, Piel J. The Catalytic Diversity of Multimodular Polyketide Synthases: Natural Product Biosynthesis Beyond Textbook Assembly Rules. Top Curr Chem (Cham) 2011. [PMID: 21360321 DOI: 10.1007/128_2010_113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Bacterial multimodular polyketide synthases (PKSs) are responsible for the biosynthesis of a wide range of pharmacologically active natural products. These megaenzymes contain numerous catalytic and structural domains and act as biochemical templates to generate complex polyketides in an assembly line-like fashion. While the prototypical PKS is composed of only a few different domain types that are fused together in a combinatorial fashion, an increasing number of enzymes is being found that contain additional components. These domains can introduce remarkably diverse modifications into polyketides. This review discusses our current understanding of such noncanonical domains and their role in expanding the biosynthetic versatility of bacterial PKSs.
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Mo X, Wang Z, Wang B, Ma J, Huang H, Tian X, Zhang S, Zhang C, Ju J. Cloning and characterization of the biosynthetic gene cluster of the bacterial RNA polymerase inhibitor tirandamycin from marine-derived Streptomyces sp. SCSIO1666. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2011; 406:341-7. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2011.02.040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2011] [Accepted: 02/11/2011] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Common biosynthetic origins for polycyclic tetramate macrolactams from phylogenetically diverse bacteria. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2010; 107:11692-7. [PMID: 20547882 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1001513107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 155] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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A combination of small molecule chemistry, biosynthetic analysis, and genome mining has revealed the unexpected conservation of polycyclic tetramate macrolactam biosynthetic loci in diverse bacteria. Initially our chemical analysis of a Streptomyces strain associated with the southern pine beetle led to the discovery of frontalamides A and B, two previously undescribed members of this antibiotic family. Genome analyses and genetic manipulation of the producing organism led to the identification of the frontalamide biosynthetic gene cluster and several biosynthetic intermediates. The biosynthetic locus for the frontalamides' mixed polyketide/amino acid structure encodes a hybrid polyketide synthase nonribosomal peptide synthetase (PKS-NRPS), which resembles iterative enzymes known in fungi. No such mixed iterative PKS-NRPS enzymes have been characterized in bacteria. Genome-mining efforts revealed strikingly conserved frontalamide-like biosynthetic clusters in the genomes of phylogenetically diverse bacteria ranging from proteobacteria to actinomycetes. Screens for environmental actinomycete isolates carrying frontalamide-like biosynthetic loci led to the isolation of a number of positive strains, the majority of which produced candidate frontalamide-like compounds under suitable growth conditions. These results establish the prevalence of frontalamide-like gene clusters in diverse bacterial types, with medicinally important Streptomyces species being particularly enriched.
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Carlson JC, Fortman JL, Anzai Y, Li S, Burr DA, Sherman DH. Identification of the tirandamycin biosynthetic gene cluster from Streptomyces sp. 307-9. Chembiochem 2010; 11:564-72. [PMID: 20127927 PMCID: PMC3019614 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.200900658] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2009] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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The structurally intriguing bicyclic ketal moiety of tirandamycin is common to several acyl-tetramic acid antibiotics, and is a key determinant of biological activity. We have identified the tirandamycin biosynthetic gene cluster from the environmental marine isolate Streptomyces sp. 307-9, thus providing the first genetic insight into the biosynthesis of this natural product scaffold. Sequence analysis revealed a hybrid polyketide synthase-nonribosomal peptide synthetase gene cluster with a colinear domain organization, which is entirely consistent with the core structure of the tirandamycins. We also identified genes within the cluster that encode candidate tailoring enzymes for elaboration and modification of the bicyclic ketal system. Disruption of tamI, which encodes a presumed cytochrome P450, led to a mutant strain deficient in production of late stage tirandamycins that instead accumulated tirandamycin C, an intermediate devoid of any post assembly-line oxidative modifications.
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- Jacob C. Carlson
- Life Sciences Institute and Departments of Medicinal Chemistry, Microbiology & Immunology and Chemistry, University of Michigan, 210 Washtenaw Avenue, Ann Arbor, Michigan (US)
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- Life Sciences Institute and Departments of Medicinal Chemistry, Microbiology & Immunology and Chemistry, University of Michigan, 210 Washtenaw Avenue, Ann Arbor, Michigan (US)
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- Life Sciences Institute and Departments of Medicinal Chemistry, Microbiology & Immunology and Chemistry, University of Michigan, 210 Washtenaw Avenue, Ann Arbor, Michigan (US)
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- Life Sciences Institute and Departments of Medicinal Chemistry, Microbiology & Immunology and Chemistry, University of Michigan, 210 Washtenaw Avenue, Ann Arbor, Michigan (US)
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- Life Sciences Institute and Departments of Medicinal Chemistry, Microbiology & Immunology and Chemistry, University of Michigan, 210 Washtenaw Avenue, Ann Arbor, Michigan (US)
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- Life Sciences Institute and Departments of Medicinal Chemistry, Microbiology & Immunology and Chemistry, University of Michigan, 210 Washtenaw Avenue, Ann Arbor, Michigan (US)
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This review covers the recent literature on the release mechanisms for polyketides and nonribosomal peptides produced by microorganisms. The emphasis is on the novel enzymology and mechanistic insights revealed by the biosynthetic studies of new natural products.
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- Liangcheng Du
- Department of Chemistry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, NE 68588, USA.
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