Substrate specificity of Rv3378c, an enzyme from Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and the inhibitory activity of the bicyclic diterpenoids against macrophagephagocytosis
作者:Tsutomu Hoshino、Chiaki Nakano、Takahiro Ootsuka、Yosuke Shinohara、Takashi Hara
DOI:10.1039/c0ob00884b
日期:——
The Rv3378c gene product from Mycobacterium tuberculosis encodes a diterpene synthase to produce tuberculosinol (3), 13R-isotuberculosinol (4a), and 13S-isotuberculosinol (4b) from tuberculosinyl diphosphate (2). The product distribution ratios are 1 : 1 for 3 to 4 and 1 : 3 for 4a to 4b. The substrate specificity of the Rv3378c-encoded enzyme was examined. The 3 labdadienyl diphosphates, copalyl diphosphate (CDP) (7), ent-CDP (8), and syn-CDP (9), underwent the conversion reaction, with good yields (67–78%). Copalol (23) and manool (24) were produced from 7, ent-copalol (25) and ent-manool (26) from 8, and syn-copalol (27) and vitexifolin A (28) from 9. The ratio of 23 to 24 was 40 : 27, that of 25:26 was 22 : 50, and that of 27:28 was 16 : 62. Analysis on a GC-MS chromatograph equipped with a chiral column revealed that 24, 26, and 28 consisted of a mixture of 13R- (a) and 13S-stereoisomers (b) in the following ratio: ca. 1 : 1 for 24a to 24b, ca. 1 : 5 for 26a to 26b, and ca. 1 : 19 for 28a to 28b. The structures of these products indicate that the reactions of the 3 CDPs proceeded in the same fashion as that of 2. This is the first report on the enzymatic synthesis of natural diterpenes manool, ent-manool, and vitexifolin A. Both Rv3377c and Rv3378c genes are found in virulent Mycobacterium species, but not in avirulent species. We found that 3 and 4 inhibited the phagocytosis of opsonized zymosan particles by human macrophage-like cells. Interestingly, the inhibitory activity was synergistically increased by the coexistence of 3 and 4b. Other labdane-related diterpenes, 13–16 and 23–28, had little or no inhibitory activity. This synergistic inhibition by 3 and 4 may provide further advantage to the impairment of phagocyte function, which might contribute to pathogenicity of M. tuberculosis.
结核分枝杆菌的 Rv3378c 基因产品编码一种二萜合成酶,可从结核苷二磷酸(2)中产生结核苷醇(3)、13R-异结核苷醇(4a)和 13S- 异结核苷醇(4b)。产物分布比为 1 :3 和 4 的产物分布比为 1 : 1,4a 和 4b 的产物分布比为 1 :4a 和 4b 的产物分布比分别为 1 : 1 和 1 : 3。对 Rv3378c 编码酶的底物特异性进行了研究。3 种拉巴二烯基二磷酸酯,即二磷酸 copalyl (CDP)(7)、二磷酸 ent-CDP(8)和二磷酸 syn-CDP(9)发生了转化反应,且收率良好(67-78%)。由 7 生成了 Copalol (23) 和 manool (24),由 8 生成了 ent-copalol (25) 和 ent-manool (26),由 9 生成了 syn-copalol (27) 和 vitexifolin A (28):50,27:28 的比例为 16:62。在配有手性色谱柱的气相色谱-质谱仪上进行的分析表明,24、26 和 28 由 13R 立体异构体 (a) 和 13S 立体异构体 (b) 的混合物组成,比例如下:24a 和 24b 约为 1 :24a 至 24b 约为 1 : 1,26a 至 26b 约为 1 :26a 至 26b 约为 1 : 5,28a 至 28b 约为 1 :28a 至 28b 的比例约为 1 : 19。这些产物的结构表明,3 个 CDPs 的反应过程与 2 的反应过程相同。 这是首次报道天然二萜马诺醇、ent-马诺醇和荆芥苷 A 的酶法合成。我们发现,3 和 4 可抑制类人巨噬细胞对蛋白溶解酶颗粒的吞噬作用。有趣的是,3 和 4b 同时存在时,其抑制活性会协同增强。其他与拉巴旦相关的二萜(13-16 和 23-28)几乎没有抑制活性。3 和 4 的这种协同抑制作用可能会进一步损害吞噬细胞的功能,从而导致结核杆菌的致病性。