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Matsuda S, Tsunematsu Y, Matsushita T, Ogata Y, Hachiya S, Kishimoto S, Miyoshi N, Watanabe K. Toward Engineered Biosynthesis of Drugs in Human Cells. Chembiochem 2021; 23:e202100645. [PMID: 34889017 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.202100645] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2021] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
Abstract
Biosynthetic genes are not only responsible for the formation of bioactive substances but also suited for other applications including gene therapy. To test the feasibility of human cells producing antibiotics in situ when provided with a heterologous biosynthetic gene, we focused on cytochrome P450, the class of enzymes important in conferring bioactivity to natural product precursors. We selected Fma-P450 that plays a central role in the fumagillin antimicrobial biosynthesis in Aspergillus fumigatus to examine fungal metabolite production by HeLa cells that express fma-P450 heterologously. Here we show that HeLa cells harboring fma-P450 can biosynthesize 5-hydroxyl-β-trans-bergamoten and cytotoxic 5-epi-demethoxyfumagillol when supplemented with the nontoxic precursor β-trans-bergamotene. While the production level was insufficient to effect cell death, we demonstrate that programming human cells to autogenerate antibiotics by introducing a heterologous biosynthetic gene is feasible.
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- Shinya Matsuda
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Shizuoka, Shizuoka, 422-8526, Japan
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Shizuoka, Shizuoka, 422-8526, Japan
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Shizuoka, Shizuoka, 422-8526, Japan
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Shizuoka, Shizuoka, 422-8526, Japan
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Shizuoka, Shizuoka, 422-8526, Japan
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Shizuoka, Shizuoka, 422-8526, Japan
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Shizuoka, Shizuoka, 422-8526, Japan
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Shizuoka, Shizuoka, 422-8526, Japan
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Secondary metabolites produced by mangrove endophytic fungus Aspergillus fumigatus HQD24 with immunosuppressive activity. BIOCHEM SYST ECOL 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bse.2020.104166] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Lin HC, Tsunematsu Y, Dhingra S, Xu W, Fukutomi M, Chooi YH, Cane D, Calvo AM, Watanabe K, Tang Y. Generation of complexity in fungal terpene biosynthesis: discovery of a multifunctional cytochrome P450 in the fumagillin pathway. J Am Chem Soc 2014; 136:4426-36. [PMID: 24568283 PMCID: PMC3985917 DOI: 10.1021/ja500881e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2014] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
Abstract
Fumagillin (1), a meroterpenoid from Aspergillus fumigatus, is known for its antiangiogenic activity due to binding to human methionine aminopeptidase 2. 1 has a highly oxygenated structure containing a penta-substituted cyclohexane that is generated by oxidative cleavage of the bicyclic sesquiterpene β-trans-bergamotene. The chemical nature, order, and biochemical mechanism of all the oxygenative tailoring reactions has remained enigmatic despite the identification of the biosynthetic gene cluster and the use of targeted-gene deletion experiments. Here, we report the identification and characterization of three oxygenases from the fumagillin biosynthetic pathway, including a multifunctional cytochrome P450 monooxygenase, a hydroxylating nonheme-iron-dependent dioxygenase, and an ABM family monooxygenase for oxidative cleavage of the polyketide moiety. Most significantly, the P450 monooxygenase is shown to catalyze successive hydroxylation, bicyclic ring-opening, and two epoxidations that generate the sesquiterpenoid core skeleton of 1. We also characterized a truncated polyketide synthase with a ketoreductase function that controls the configuration at C-5 of hydroxylated intermediates.
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- Hsiao-Ching Lin
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular
Engineering,
and Department of Chemistry
and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095
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- Department
of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of
Shizuoka, Shizuoka 422-8526, Japan
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- Department
of Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois
University, DeKalb, Illinois 60115, United
States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular
Engineering,
and Department of Chemistry
and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095
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- Department
of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of
Shizuoka, Shizuoka 422-8526, Japan
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- Research
School of Biology, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT
0200, Australia
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E. Cane
- Department
of Chemistry, Box H, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, United States
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- Department
of Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois
University, DeKalb, Illinois 60115, United
States
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- Department
of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of
Shizuoka, Shizuoka 422-8526, Japan
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular
Engineering,
and Department of Chemistry
and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095
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Sun Y, Zhao Z, Feng Q, Xu Q, Lü L, Liu JK, Zhang L, Wu B, Li YQ. Unusual Spirodecane Sesquiterpenes and a Fumagillol Analogue fromCordyceps ophioglossoides. Helv Chim Acta 2013. [DOI: 10.1002/hlca.201200068] [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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Zörb A, Brückner R. Conversion of Conjugated Enones into Enantiomerically Pure -Hydroxy Ketones or 1,3-Diols - Samarium(II) Bromide Reductions of Protected ,-Dihydroxy Ketones. European J Org Chem 2010. [DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.201000279] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Ben-Ami R, Lewis RE, Leventakos K, Kontoyiannis DP. Aspergillus fumigatus inhibits angiogenesis through the production of gliotoxin and other secondary metabolites. Blood 2009; 114:5393-9. [PMID: 19843884 PMCID: PMC2925388 DOI: 10.1182/blood-2009-07-231209] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2009] [Accepted: 09/22/2009] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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In susceptible hosts, angioinvasion by Aspergillus fumigatus triggers thrombosis, hypoxia, and proinflammatory cytokine release, all of which are stimuli for angiogenesis. We sought to determine whether A fumigatus directly modulates angiogenesis. A fumigatus culture filtrates profoundly inhibited the differentiation, migration, and capillary tube formation of human umbilical vein endothelial cells in vitro. To measure angiogenesis at the site of infection, we devised an in vivo Matrigel assay in cyclophosphamide-treated BALB/c mice with cutaneous invasive aspergillosis. Angiogenesis was significantly suppressed in Matrigel plugs implanted in A fumigatus-infected mice compared with plugs from uninfected control mice. The antiangiogenic effect of A fumigatus was completely abolished by deletion of the global regulator of secondary metabolism, laeA, and to a lesser extent by deletion of gliP, which controls gliotoxin production. Moreover, pure gliotoxin potently inhibited angiogenesis in vitro in a dose-dependent manner. Finally, overexpression of multiple angiogenesis mediator-encoding genes was observed in the lungs of cortisone-treated mice during early invasive aspergillosis, whereas gene expression returned rapidly to baseline levels in cyclophosphamide/cortisone-treated mice. Taken together, these results indicate that suppression of angiogenesis by A fumigatus both in vitro and in a neutropenic mouse model is mediated through secondary metabolite production.
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- Ronen Ben-Ami
- Department of Infectious Diseases, Infection Control and Employee Health, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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Frisvad JC, Rank C, Nielsen KF, Larsen TO. Metabolomics of Aspergillus fumigatus. Med Mycol 2008; 47 Suppl 1:S53-71. [PMID: 18763205 DOI: 10.1080/13693780802307720] [Citation(s) in RCA: 112] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022] Open
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Aspergillus fumigatus is the most important species in Aspergillus causing infective lung diseases. This species has been reported to produce a large number of extrolites, including secondary metabolites, acids, and proteins such as hydrophobins and extracellular enzymes. At least 226 potentially bioactive secondary metabolites have been reported from A. fumigatus that can be ordered into 24 biosynthetic families. Of these families we have detected representatives from the following families of secondary metabolites: fumigatins, fumigaclavines, fumiquinazolines, trypacidin and monomethylsulochrin, fumagillins, gliotoxins, pseurotins, chloroanthraquinones, fumitremorgins, verruculogen, helvolic acids, and pyripyropenes by HPLC with diode array detection and mass spectrometric detection. There is still doubt whether A. fumigatus can produce tryptoquivalins, but all isolates produce the related fumiquinazolines. We also tentatively detected sphingofungins in A. fumigatus Af293 and in an isolate of A. lentulus. The sphingofungins may have a similar role as the toxic fumonisins, found in A. niger. A further number of mycotoxins, including ochratoxin A, and other secondary metabolites have been reported from A. fumigatus, but in those cases either the fungus or its metabolite appear to be misidentified.
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- Jens C Frisvad
- Center for Microbial Biotechnology, DTU Biosys, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark.
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Lee HW, Cho CS, Kang SK, Yoo YS, Shin JS, Ahn SK. Design, Synthesis, and Antiangiogenic Effects of a Series of Potent Novel Fumagillin Analogues. Chem Pharm Bull (Tokyo) 2007; 55:1024-9. [PMID: 17603194 DOI: 10.1248/cpb.55.1024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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A series of fumagillin analogues containing the C6-substituted cinnamoyl moiety were designed, synthesized, and evaluated for antiangiogenic activity. Among them, 4-hydroxyethoxy-cinnamoyl fumagillol (4a) and 4-hydroxyethoxy-3,5-dimethoxycinnamoyl fumagillol (4d) exhibited more potent anti-proliferation activity in CPAE and HUVEC cells with low cytotoxicity in vitro. These compounds are presently under further pharmacological evaluation studies.
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- Hong Woo Lee
- New Drug Research Laboratories, Chong Kun Dang Research Institute, Cheonan, South Korea.
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Kim D, Ahn SK, Bae H, Kim HS. A stereoselective asymmetric synthesis of antibiotic (-)-Fumagillol using claisen rearrangement and intramolecular ester enolate alkylation as key steps. Arch Pharm Res 2005; 28:129-41. [PMID: 15789740 DOI: 10.1007/bf02977704] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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(-)-Fumagillol (1), a hydrolysis product of fumagillin, has been synthesized by several group from commercially available 1,2:5,6-di-O-isopropylidene-alpha-D-allofuranose in a highly stereoselective manner. Chiral centers on C5 and C6 came from D-allofuranose and the asymmetric center on C4 was accomplished by 1,3-chirality transfer using the Claisen rearrangement on a chiral allyl alcohol. Chirality, which is necessary on an epoxide consisting of the spiro-ring system, was diastereoselectively constructed by the well-known reaction, intramolecular ester enolate alkylation (IEEA), which showed that this reaction can be applied to the alpha-alkoxy ester system. The epoxide on the side chain was regioselectively introduced by the difference between the number of substituents on the vinyl groups. This accomplishment proved that IEEA can be a useful tool for the synthesis of complex molecules.
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- Deukjoon Kim
- College of Pharmacy, Seoul National University, Shinrim-Dong, Kwanak-Ku, Seoul 151-742, South Korea
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- Braulio M Fraga
- Instituto de Productos Naturales y Agrobiología, CSIC, Avda. Astrof. F. Sánchez 3, 38206, La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.
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Jin CZ, Nagasawa H, Shimamura M, Uto Y, Inayama S, Takeuchi Y, Kirk KL, Hori H. Angiogenesis inhibitor TX-1898: syntheses of the enantiomers of sterically diverse haloacetylcarbamoyl-2-nitroimidazole hypoxic cell radiosensitizers. Bioorg Med Chem 2004; 12:4917-27. [PMID: 15336271 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2004.06.039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2004] [Revised: 06/28/2004] [Accepted: 06/28/2004] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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(R)- and (S)-Epichlorohydrins were used to prepare the enantiomers of sterically diverse haloacetylcarbamoyl-2-nitroimidazoles that function as hypoxic cell radiosensitizers. The synthetic design allowed for introduction of a side chain of varying bulk that permitted an examination of the steric effects on enantio-discrimination in biological assay systems. The single stereocenter also connected the two pharmacophores--a 2-nitroimidazole moiety critical to hypoxic cell radiosensitization, and a haloacetylcarbamoyl group to function as an anti-angiogenesis pharmacophore. In the chick embryo chorioallantoic membrane (CAM) assay, the R-enantiomers possessing the bulky p-tert-butylphenyl group showed higher anti-angiogenic activity than the corresponding S-enantiomers, while there were no differences in the activity between the enantiomers containing the less bulky methyl and tert-butyl groups. Among the compounds we report, R-p-tert-butylphenyl-bromoacetylcarbamoyl-2-nitroimidazole, TX-1898, was found to be the most promising candidate for further development of as anti-angiogenic hypoxic cell radiosensitizer.
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- Cheng-Zhe Jin
- Department of Biological Science and Technology, Faculty of Engineering, University of Tokushima, Tokushima 770-8506, Japan
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