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From a Natural Product to Its Biosynthetic Gene Cluster: A Demonstration Using Polyketomycin from Streptomyces diastatochromogenes Tü6028
Published on: January 13, 2017
Post Polyketide Synthase Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation in Type-II PKS-Derived Natural Products from Streptomyces
Andrew W Robertson, Jeanna M MacLeod, Logan W MacIntyre
1Department of Chemistry, University of Prince Edward Island , Charlottetown, PE C1A 4P3, Canada.
Abstract:
Polyketide synthase (PKS) derived natural products are biosynthesized by head-to-tail addition of acetate and malonate extender units resulting in linear extended-polyketide chains. Despite the well-documented structural diversity associated with PKS-derived natural products, C-C chain branching deviating from the usual linear pattern is relatively rare. Herein, type-II PKS angucyclic natural products containing a hemiaminal functionality were identified and proposed as the parent of a series of C-C-branched analogues. These C-C linked acetate or pyruvate branching units were located at the α-positions on the extended polyketide chains of jadomycins incorporating 3- and 4-aminomethylbenzoic acids. Labeling studies utilizing [1-13C]-d-glucose provided mechanistic evidence that the C-C bond formation occurred as a result of a previously unidentified post-PKS processing, additional to the enzymes encoded within the biosynthetic gene cluster. Selected compounds were evaluated in cytotoxic or antimicrobial assays.
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