Structural diversification of natural substrates modified by the O-methyltransferase AurJ from Fusarium Graminearum
Pei-Pei Ou1, Qing-Li He1, Qunfei Zhao1
1The Research Center of Chiral Drugs, Innovation Research Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 1200 Cailun Road, Shanghai, 201203, China.
Abstract:
Aromatic polyketide and phenylpropanoid derivatives are a large class of natural products produced by bacteria, fungi, and plants. The O-methylation is a unique decoration that can increase structural diversity of aromatic compounds and improve their pharmacological properties, but the substrate specificity of O-methyltransferase hinders the discovery of more natural products with O-methylation through biosynthesis. Here, we reported that the O-methyltransferase AurJ from plant pathogenic fungus Fusarium graminearum could methylate a broad range of natural substrates of monocyclic, bicyclic, and tricyclic aromatic precursors, exhibiting excellent substrate tolerance. This finding will partly change our stereotype about the specificity of traditional methyltransferases, and urge us to mine more O-methyltransferases with good substrate tolerance and discover more methylated natural products for drug discovery and development through directed evolution and combinatorial biosynthesis.
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