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- Title
Catalytic innovation underlies independent recruitment of polyketide synthases in cocaine and hyoscyamine biosynthesis.
- Authors
Tian, Tian; Wang, Yong-Jiang; Huang, Jian-Ping; Li, Jie; Xu, Bingyan; Chen, Yin; Wang, Li; Yang, Jing; Yan, Yijun; Huang, Sheng-Xiong
- Abstract
Tropane alkaloids such as hyoscyamine and cocaine are of importance in medicinal uses. Only recently has the hyoscyamine biosynthetic machinery become complete. However, the cocaine biosynthesis pathway remains only partially elucidated. Here we characterize polyketide synthases required for generating 3-oxo-glutaric acid from malonyl-CoA in cocaine biosynthetic route. Structural analysis shows that these two polyketide synthases adopt distinctly different active site architecture to catalyze the same reaction as pyrrolidine ketide synthase in hyoscyamine biosynthesis, revealing an unusual parallel/convergent evolution of biochemical function in homologous enzymes. Further phylogenetic analysis suggests lineage-specific acquisition of polyketide synthases required for tropane alkaloid biosynthesis in Erythroxylaceae and Solanaceae species, respectively. Overall, our work elucidates not only a key unknown step in cocaine biosynthesis pathway but also, more importantly, structural and biochemical basis for independent recruitment of polyketide synthases in tropane alkaloid biosynthesis, thus broadening the understanding of conservation and innovation of biosynthetic catalysts. Cocaine is a tropane alkaloid produced by Erythroxylum novogranatense. Here the authors identify two polyketide synthases involved in cocaine biosynthesis and provide insight into the parallel evolution of these enzymes in tropane alkaloids-producing plants.
- Subjects
POLYKETIDES; POLYKETIDE synthases; ATROPINE; BIOSYNTHESIS; TECHNOLOGICAL innovations; COCAINE; MOLECULAR evolution
- Publication
Nature Communications, 2022, Vol 13, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2041-1723
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s41467-022-32776-1