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Light-driven Enzymatic Decarboxylation
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埃波提隆C的宏拉克顿化和水解由埃波提隆聚基化合成酶的分离的铁酶域催化
Christopher N Boddy1, Tanya L Schneider, Kinya Hotta
1Departments of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-5025, USA.
Journal of the American Chemical Society
|March 20, 2003
概括
切除的epotilone thioesterase (TE) 域有效地催化了seco-epothilone C到epotilone C的巨乳化. 这一发现澄清了pyketide synthase (PKS) TE域在epotilone生物合成中的作用.
科学领域:
- 生物化学 生物化学
- 分子生物学分子生物学
- 酶学 是一种酶学.
背景情况:
- 埃波提隆C生物合成涉及一个多酶复合体,包括非核糖体合成酶 (NRPS) 和多基合成酶 (PKS) 模块.
- 最后的步骤是铁酶 (TE) 催化循环释放酶,但孤立的PKS TE域的活性仍然不清楚.
研究的目的:
- 为了研究一个切除的epotilone thioesterase (TE) 域的巨乳化活性.
- 为了确定是否孤立的PKS TE域可以执行epothilone C生物合成中的最后循环化步骤.
主要方法:
- 从多酶系统中切除了epothilone TE域.
- 评估经过切割的TE域的催化效率 (kcat/KM) 进行宏微乳化.
- 测量 TE 域在相关的硫基质上的水解活性 (kcat,KM).
主要成果:
- 切除的epotilone TE域有效地催化了seco-epothilone C到epothilone C (kcat/KM = 0.41 +/- 0.03 分钟-1 mM-1) 的宏微活性化.
- TE域也表现出对seco-epothilone C和epothilone C二氧化的水解活性,从而产生seco-epothilone C.
结论:
- 隔离的PKS TE域具有巨乳化活性,证实了它们在epotilone C生物合成中的作用.
- 叶皮龙TE域可以催化循环和水解,突出其酶的多功能性.
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