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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ; 112(37): 11547-52, 2015 Sep 15.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26240321

ABSTRACT

Orthosomycins are oligosaccharide antibiotics that include avilamycin, everninomicin, and hygromycin B and are hallmarked by a rigidifying interglycosidic spirocyclic ortho-δ-lactone (orthoester) linkage between at least one pair of carbohydrates. A subset of orthosomycins additionally contain a carbohydrate capped by a methylenedioxy bridge. The orthoester linkage is necessary for antibiotic activity but rarely observed in natural products. Orthoester linkage and methylenedioxy bridge biosynthesis require similar oxidative cyclizations adjacent to a sugar ring. We have identified a conserved group of nonheme iron, α-ketoglutarate-dependent oxygenases likely responsible for this chemistry. High-resolution crystal structures of the EvdO1 and EvdO2 oxygenases of everninomicin biosynthesis, the AviO1 oxygenase of avilamycin biosynthesis, and HygX of hygromycin B biosynthesis show how these enzymes accommodate large substrates, a challenge that requires a variation in metal coordination in HygX. Excitingly, the ternary complex of HygX with cosubstrate α-ketoglutarate and putative product hygromycin B identified an orientation of one glycosidic linkage of hygromycin B consistent with metal-catalyzed hydrogen atom abstraction from substrate. These structural results are complemented by gene disruption of the oxygenases evdO1 and evdMO1 from the everninomicin biosynthetic cluster, which demonstrate that functional oxygenase activity is critical for antibiotic production. Our data therefore support a role for these enzymes in the production of key features of the orthosomycin antibiotics.


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Aminoglycosides/chemistry , Anti-Bacterial Agents/chemistry , Oxygen/chemistry , Oxygenases/chemistry , Catalytic Domain , Crystallography, X-Ray , Cyclization , Hydrogen/chemistry , Hygromycin B/chemistry , Metals/chemistry , Micromonospora/enzymology , Micromonospora/genetics , Multigene Family , Oligosaccharides/chemistry , Open Reading Frames , Oxidation-Reduction , Phylogeny , Protein Binding , Protein Structure, Secondary , Reproducibility of Results , Streptomyces/enzymology , Streptomyces/genetics
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Nat Prod Rep ; 31(8): 1026-42, 2014 Aug.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24883430

ABSTRACT

Covering up to December 2013. Oligosaccharide natural products target a wide spectrum of biological processes including disruption of cell wall biosynthesis, interference of bacterial translation, and inhibition of human α-amylase. Correspondingly, oligosaccharides possess the potential for development as treatments of such diverse diseases as bacterial infections and type II diabetes. Despite their potent and selective activities and potential clinical relevance, isolated bioactive secondary metabolic oligosaccharides are less prevalent than other classes of natural products and their biosynthesis has received comparatively less attention. This review highlights the unique modes of action and biosynthesis of four classes of bioactive oligosaccharides: the orthosomycins, moenomycins, saccharomicins, and acarviostatins.


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Anti-Bacterial Agents , Biological Products , Oligosaccharides , alpha-Amylases/antagonists & inhibitors , Anti-Bacterial Agents/biosynthesis , Anti-Bacterial Agents/chemistry , Anti-Bacterial Agents/isolation & purification , Anti-Bacterial Agents/pharmacology , Biological Products/chemistry , Biological Products/isolation & purification , Biological Products/metabolism , Biological Products/pharmacology , Humans , Molecular Structure , Oligosaccharides/biosynthesis , Oligosaccharides/chemistry , Oligosaccharides/isolation & purification , Oligosaccharides/pharmacology
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