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- Title
An Esterase‐like Lyase Catalyzes Acetate Elimination in Spirotetronate/Spirotetramate Biosynthesis.
- Authors
Lees, Nicholas R.; Han, Li‐Chen; Byrne, Matthew J.; Davies, Jonathan A.; Parnell, Alice E.; Moreland, Pollyanna E. J.; Stach, James E. M.; van der Kamp, Marc W.; Willis, Christine L.; Race, Paul R.
- Abstract
Spirotetronate and spirotetramate natural products include a multitude of compounds with potent antimicrobial and antitumor activities. Their biosynthesis incorporates many unusual biocatalytic steps, including regio‐ and stereo‐specific modifications, cyclizations promoted by Diels–Alderases, and acetylation‐elimination reactions. Here we focus on the acetate elimination catalyzed by AbyA5, implicated in the formation of the key Diels–Alder substrate to give the spirocyclic system of the antibiotic abyssomicin C. Using synthetic substrate analogues, it is shown that AbyA5 catalyzes stereospecific acetate elimination, establishing the (R)‐tetronate acetate as a biosynthetic intermediate. The X‐ray crystal structure of AbyA5, the first of an acetate‐eliminating enzyme, reveals a deviant acetyl esterase fold. Molecular dynamics simulations and enzyme assays show the use of a His‐Ser dyad to catalyze either elimination or hydrolysis, via disparate mechanisms, under substrate control.
- Subjects
ESTERASES; BIOSYNTHESIS; ACETATES; LYASES; BIOCATALYSIS
- Publication
Angewandte Chemie, 2019, Vol 131, Issue 8, p2327
- ISSN
0044-8249
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ange.201812105