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Divergence of Classical and C-Ring-Cleaved Angucyclines : Elucidation of Early Tailoring Steps in Lugdunomycin and Thioangucycline Biosynthesis
Authors: Nuutila Aleksi, Xiao Xiansha, van der Heul Helga U., van Wezel Gilles P., Dinis Pedro, Elsayed Somayah S., Metsä-Ketelä Mikko
Publisher: American Chemical Society
Publication year: 2024
Journal: ACS Chemical Biology
Journal name in source: ACS chemical biology
Journal acronym: ACS Chem Biol
Volume: 19
Issue: 5
First page : 1131
Last page: 1141
ISSN: 1554-8929
eISSN: 1554-8937
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acschembio.4c00082(external)
Web address : https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acschembio.4c00082(external)
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Angucyclines are an important group of microbial natural products that display tremendous chemical diversity. Classical angucyclines are composed of a tetracyclic benz[a]anthracene scaffold with one ring attached at an angular orientation. However, in atypical angucyclines, the polyaromatic aglycone is cleaved at A-, B-, or C-rings, leading to structural rearrangements and enabling further chemical variety. Here, we have elucidated the branching points in angucycline biosynthesis leading toward cleavage of the C-ring in lugdunomycin and thioangucycline biosynthesis. We showed that 12-hydroxylation and 6-ketoreduction of UWM6 are shared steps in classical and C-ring-cleaved angucycline pathways, although the bifunctional 6-ketoreductase LugOIIred harbors additional unique 1-ketoreductase activity. We identified formation of the key intermediate 8-O-methyltetrangomycin by the LugN methyltransferase as the branching point toward C-ring-cleaved angucyclines. The final common step in lugdunomycin and thioangucycline biosynthesis is quinone reduction, catalyzed by the 7-ketoreductases LugG and TacO, respectively. In turn, the committing step toward thioangucyclines is 12-ketoreduction catalyzed by TacA, for which no orthologous protein exists on the lugdunomycin pathway. Our results confirm that quinone reductions are early tailoring steps and, therefore, may be mechanistically important for subsequent C-ring cleavage. Finally, many of the tailoring enzymes harbored broad substrate promiscuity, which we utilized in combinatorial enzymatic syntheses to generate the angucyclines SM 196 A and hydranthomycin. We propose that enzyme promiscuity and the competition of many of the enzymes for the same substrates lead to a branching biosynthetic network and formation of numerous shunt products typical for angucyclines rather than a canonical linear metabolic pathway.
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