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J Microbiol Biotechnol ; 29(3): 367-372, 2019 Mar 28.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30661323

ABSTRACT

Deactivation of aminoglycosides by their modifying enzymes, including a number of aminoglycoside O-phosphotransferases, is the most ubiquitous resistance mechanism in aminoglycoside-resistant pathogens. Nonetheless, in a couple of biosynthetic pathways for gentamicins, fortimicins, and istamycins, phosphorylation of aminoglycosides seems to be a unique and initial step for the creation of a natural defensive structural feature such as a 3',4'- dideoxy scaffold. Our aim was to elucidate the biochemical details on the beginning of these C3',4'-dideoxygenation biosynthetic steps for aminoglycosides. The biosynthesis of istamycins must surely involve these 3',4'-didehydroxylation steps, but much less has been reported in terms of characterization of istamycin biosynthetic genes, especially about the phosphotransferase-encoding gene. In the disruption and complementation experiments pointing to a putative gene, istP, in the genome of wild-type Streptomyces tenjimariensis, the function of the istP gene was proved here to be a phosphotransferase. Next, an in-frame deletion of a known phosphotransferase-encoding gene forP from the genome of wild-type Micromonospora olivasterospora resulted in the appearance of a hitherto unidentified fortimicin shunt product, namely 3-O-methyl-FOR-KK1, whereas complementation of forP restored the natural fortimicin metabolite profiles. The bilateral complementation of an istP gene (or forP) in the ΔforP mutant ( or ΔistP mutant strain) successfully restored the biosynthesis of 3',4'- dideoxy fortimicins and istamycins , thus clearly indicating that they are interchangeable launchers of the biosynthesis of 3',4'-dideoxy types of 1,4-diaminocyclitol antibiotics.


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Aminoglycosides/biosynthesis , Anti-Bacterial Agents/biosynthesis , Biosynthetic Pathways/genetics , Biosynthetic Pathways/physiology , Genes, Bacterial/genetics , Phosphotransferases/genetics , Amino Acid Sequence , Aminoglycosides/genetics , Bacterial Proteins/genetics , Bacterial Proteins/metabolism , Deoxyguanine Nucleotides/biosynthesis , Deoxyguanine Nucleotides/genetics , Dideoxynucleotides/biosynthesis , Dideoxynucleotides/genetics , Gentamicins/biosynthesis , Micromonospora/genetics , Micromonospora/metabolism , Sequence Alignment , Streptomyces/genetics , Streptomyces/metabolism
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Anal Biochem ; 427(2): 193-201, 2012 Aug 15.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22543091

ABSTRACT

Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS)-based methods have been widely explored for DNA sequencing. We report here the design, synthesis, and evaluation of a novel set of chemically cleavable biotinylated dideoxynucleotides, ddNTPs-N3-biotin, for the DNA polymerase extension reaction and its application in DNA sequencing by mass spectrometry (MS). These nucleotide analogs have a biotin moiety attached to the 5 position of the pyrimidines (C and U) or the 7 position of the purines (A and G) via a chemically cleavable azido-based linker, with different length linker arms serving as mass tags that contribute to large mass differences among the nucleotides. We demonstrate that these modified nucleotides are efficiently incorporated by DNA polymerase, and the DNA strand bearing biotinylated nucleotides is captured by streptavidin-coated beads and efficiently released using tris(2-carboxyethyl)phosphine in aqueous solution, which is compatible with DNA and downstream procedures. We performed Sanger sequencing reactions using these nucleotides to generate DNA fragments for MALDI-TOF MS analysis. Both synthetic DNA and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) products were accurately decoded, and a read length of approximately 37 bases was achieved using these nucleotides in MS sequencing.


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DNA-Directed DNA Polymerase/metabolism , DNA/analysis , Dideoxynucleotides/biosynthesis , Sequence Analysis, DNA/methods , Base Sequence , Biotin/chemistry , Biotinylation , DNA-Directed DNA Polymerase/chemistry , Dideoxynucleotides/isolation & purification , Humans , Molecular Sequence Data , Phosphines/chemistry , Polymerase Chain Reaction , Purines/chemistry , Pyrimidines/chemistry , Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization , Streptavidin/chemistry , rho GTP-Binding Proteins/chemistry , rho GTP-Binding Proteins/metabolism
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Nucleic Acids Symp Ser (Oxf) ; (52): 293-4, 2008.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-18776369

ABSTRACT

The synthesis of a photoresponsive alpha-5-cyanovinyl- 2',3'-dideoxyuridine-5'-triphosphate (alpha dd(C)UTP) is described. A one-pot enzymatic synthesis of photoresponsive alpha-5-cyanovinyl-2',3'-dideoxyuridine (alpha dd(C)U) labeled ODNs with terminal deoxynucleotideyl transferase (TdT) would be a powerful tool for the development of modified long-chain DNA and branched DNA unable to be prepared by DNA synthesizer or enzymatic ligation.


Subject(s)
Dideoxynucleotides/biosynthesis , Dideoxynucleotides/chemistry , Uracil Nucleotides/biosynthesis , Uracil Nucleotides/chemistry , Uridine Triphosphate/analogs & derivatives , DNA Nucleotidylexotransferase/metabolism , Deoxyribonucleotides/biosynthesis , Deoxyribonucleotides/chemistry , Photochemistry , Uridine Triphosphate/biosynthesis , Uridine Triphosphate/chemistry
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