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未解明された estreptococcal の生物合成景観を図表に描くことによって,独特なペプチド循環の動機が明らかになった

Leah B Bushin¹, Kenzie A Clark¹, István Pelczer¹

¹Department of Chemistry , Princeton University , Princeton , New Jersey 08544 , United States.

Journal of the American Chemical Society

|November 7, 2018

まとめ

研究者らは,細菌が S-アデノシルメチオニン (RaS) 酵素を用いて複雑なペプチドを生成する新しい方法を発見しました. この発見は微生物の生物合成能力と潜在的な新たな治療法に関する知識を広げています

科学分野:

生物化学
微生物学
生物有機化学

背景:

ペプチドは信号や抗生物質として重要な役割を果たします
ペプチドの異常な構造の変化は自然界の生物合成と治療の可能性を洞察させます
哺乳類の微生物群に含まれるストレプトコックスの細菌は十分に研究されていない生物合成能力を持っています

研究の目的:

ストレプトコックスの生体合成の可能性を調査する
ストレプトコックスの新しい天然産物と生物合成経路を特定する.
ペプチド改変における前例のない酵素反応を特徴づける.

主な方法:

生物情報学的検索戦略を開発しました
ラジカルS-アデノシルメチオニン (RaS) 酵素スーパーファミリーと自然産物発見の関連
捜索戦略でクオラムセンシング制御を活用した.
詳細な分析のために特定の生物合成場所に焦点を当てた.

主要な成果:

ストライプコックスの生物合成部位を特定した
リボソームペプチドに前例のない翻訳後の変化を発見した
テトラヒドロ[5,6]ベンジンドールサイクルモチーフを特徴付けている.
単一のRaS酵素による地域およびステレオ固有のC-C結合形成が実証された.

結論:

複雑なリボソームペプチドを合成する微生物の既知の反応を拡張した.
新種の生物活性化合物の源としてストレプトコックスの可能性を強調した.
S-アデノシルメチオニンの酵素触媒反応の理解を進めた.

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