A crotonyl-CoA reductase-carboxylase independent pathway for assembly of unusual alkylmalonyl-CoA polyketide synthase extender units

Lauren Ray, Timothy R. Valentic, Takeshi Miyazawa, David M. Withall, Lijiang Song, Jacob C. Milligan, Hiroyuki Osada, Shunji Takahashi, Shiou-Chuan Tsai () and Gregory L. Challis ()
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Lauren Ray: University of Warwick
Timothy R. Valentic: Chemistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California
Takeshi Miyazawa: Chemical Biology Research Group, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science
David M. Withall: University of Warwick
Lijiang Song: University of Warwick
Jacob C. Milligan: Chemistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California
Hiroyuki Osada: Chemical Biology Research Group, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science
Shunji Takahashi: Chemical Biology Research Group, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science
Shiou-Chuan Tsai: Chemistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California
Gregory L. Challis: University of Warwick

Nature Communications, 2016, vol. 7, issue 1, 1-12

Abstract: Abstract Type I modular polyketide synthases assemble diverse bioactive natural products. Such multienzymes typically use malonyl and methylmalonyl-CoA building blocks for polyketide chain assembly. However, in several cases more exotic alkylmalonyl-CoA extender units are also known to be incorporated. In all examples studied to date, such unusual extender units are biosynthesized via reductive carboxylation of α, β-unsaturated thioesters catalysed by crotonyl-CoA reductase/carboxylase (CCRC) homologues. Here we show using a chemically-synthesized deuterium-labelled mechanistic probe, and heterologous gene expression experiments that the unusual alkylmalonyl-CoA extender units incorporated into the stambomycin family of polyketide antibiotics are assembled by direct carboxylation of medium chain acyl-CoA thioesters. X-ray crystal structures of the unusual β-subunit of the acyl-CoA carboxylase (YCC) responsible for this reaction, alone and in complex with hexanoyl-CoA, reveal the molecular basis for substrate recognition, inspiring the development of methodology for polyketide bio-orthogonal tagging via incorporation of 6-azidohexanoic acid and 8-nonynoic acid into novel stambomycin analogues.

Date: 2016
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