Biosynthesis of Albomycin 未2 Provides a Template for Assembling Siderophore and Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetase Inhibitor Conjugates

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• 作者：Yu Zeng ; Aditya Kulkarni ; Zhaoyong Yang ; Preeti B. Patil ; Wei Zhou ; Xiuling Chi ; Steven Van Lanen ; Shawn Chen
• 刊名：ACS Chemical Biology
• 出版年：2012
• 出版时间：September 21, 2012
• 年：2012
• 卷：7
• 期：9
• 页码：1565-1575
• 全文大小：572K
• 年卷期：v.7,no.9(September 21, 2012)
• ISSN：1554-8937

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鈥淭rojan horse鈥?antibiotic albomycins are peptidyl nucleosides consisting of a highly modified 4鈥?thiofuranosyl cytosine moiety and a ferrichrome siderophore that are linked by a peptide bond via a serine residue. While the latter component serves to sequester iron from the environment, the seryl nucleoside portion is a potent inhibitor of bacterial seryl-tRNA synthetases, resulting in broad-spectrum antimicrobial activities of albomycin 未₂. The isolation of albomycins has revealed this biological activity is optimized only following two unusual cytosine modifications, N4-carbamoylation and N3-methylation. We identified a genetic locus (named abm) for albomycin production in Streptomyces sp. ATCC 700974. Gene deletion and complementation experiments along with bioinformatic analysis suggested 18 genes are responsible for albomycin biosynthesis and resistance, allowing us to propose a potential biosynthetic pathway for installing the novel chemical features. The gene abmI, encoding a putative methyltransferase, was functionally assigned in vitro and shown to modify the N3 of a variety of cytosine-containing nucleosides and antibiotics such as blasticidin S. Furthermore, a 螖abmI mutant was shown to produce the descarbamoyl-desmethyl albomycin analogue, supporting that the N3-methylation occurs before the N4-carbamoylation in the biosynthesis of albomycin 未₂. The combined genetic information was utilized to identify an abm-related locus (named ctj) from the draft genome of Streptomyces sp. C. Cross-complementation experiments and in vitro studies with CtjF, the AbmI homologue, suggest the production of a similar 4鈥?thiofuranosyl cytosine in this organism. In total, the genetic and biochemical data provide a biosynthetic template for assembling siderophore-inhibitor conjugates and modifying the albomycin scaffold to generate new derivatives.