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生物合成的多任务处理促进了海洋细菌中thalassospiramide结构的多样性
Avena C Ross1, Ying Xu, Liang Lu
1Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California 92037, USA.
Journal of the American Chemical Society
|December 29, 2012
概括
海洋细菌thalassospira和tistrella产生新的免疫抑制循环脂,thalassospiramides. 这些强大的calpain 1蛋白酶抑制剂由于复杂的生物合成途径而表现出广泛的结构多样性.
科学领域:
- 海洋天然产品化学 海洋天然产品化学
- 微生物生物化学 微生物生物化学
- 免疫学 免疫学 免疫学
背景情况:
- 塔拉索司匹拉胺A和B是从Thalassospira sp.中分离出来的免疫抑制周期性脂. 在CNJ-328.28.
- 这些化合物是已知的calpain 1蛋白酶的抑制剂.
研究的目的:
- 为了发现和描述新的thalassospiramide类似物.
- 研究这些化合物的生物合成途径和结构多样性.
主要方法:
- 从Tistrella和Thalassospira物种中分离和描述新的类似物.
- 生物合成基因集群的基因组序列分析.
- 对非核糖体合成酶/多基合成酶基因集群的生物信息学分析.
- 对N端非核糖体合成酶模块进行初步生化分析.
主要成果:
- 发现了14种属于六个结构类别的新索皮拉米德类似物.
- 鉴定编码混合非核糖体合成酶/多基合成酶的属性特定生物合成位点.
- 生物信息分析表明,复杂的生物合成机制,包括基质通道和酶模块跳过/代,有助于结构多样性.
- 生物化学数据支持一种在cis和trans氨基酸激活中竞争N终端基质合并的模型.
结论:
- 这项研究扩大了已知的thalassospiramides家族,揭示了显著的结构多样性.
- 基因组和生物化学分析提供了对产生这些免疫抑制化合物的复杂生物合成机制的洞察.
- 这些发现有助于了解海洋微生物产品的化学多样性及其作为治疗剂的潜力.
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