Suppression of linear side products by macromolecular crowding in nonribosomal enterobactin biosynthesis
Zu-Feng Guo1, Ming Jiang, Suilan Zheng
1Department of Chemistry, Center for Cancer Research, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Abstract:
Nonribosomal enterobactin synthetase of Escherichia coli was found to prematurely release a large amount of linear precursors in an in vitro reconstitution. However, these side products are suppressed to negligible levels by polymeric cosolvents that create macromolecular crowding, a prominent feature of the intracellular environment. These findings show that macromolecular crowding is essential to normal functioning of the nonribosomal peptide synthetase and suggest that it may be crucial to biotechnological utilization of similar enzyme systems.
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