摘要:
                                BacA and BacB, the first two enzymes of the bacilysin pathway, convert prephenate to an exocylic regio-isomer of dihydrohydroxyphenylpyruvate (ex-H2HPP) on the way to the epoxycyclohexanone warhead in the dipeptide antibiotic, bacilysin. BacA decarboxylates prephenate without aromatization, converting the 1,4-diene in prephenate to the endocyclic 1,3-diene in Delta(4),Delta(8)-dihydrohydroxyphenylpyruvate (en-H2HPP). BacB then performs an allylic isomerization to bring the diene into conjugation with the 2-ketone in the product Delta(3),Delta(5)-dihydrohydroxyphenylpyruvate (ex-H2HPP). To prove that BacA acts regiospecifically on one of the two prochiral olefins in prephenate, we generated 1,5,8-[C-13]-chorismate from bacterial fermentation of 5-[C-13]-glucose and in turn produced 2,4,6-[C-13]-prephenate via chorismate mutase. Tandem action of BacA and BacB gave 2,4,8-[C-13]-7R-ex-H2HPP, showing that Bath isomerizes only the pro-R double bond in prephenate. Nonenzymatic isomerization of the Bath product into conjugation gives only the Delta E-3-geometric isomer of Delta(3),Delta(5)-ex-H2HPP. On the other hand, acceleration of the allylic isomerization by BacB gives a mixture of the E- and Z-geometric isomers of the 7R- product, indicating some rerouting of the flux, likely through dienolate geometric isomers.