Aims: The 2‐deoxystreptamine‐containing aminoglycoside antibiotics (AGAs) constitute the largest subgroup of the aminoglycosides. Neomycin (NEO) and lividomycin (LIV) are both representatives of the pseudo‐tetrasaccharide group among the NEO‐type AGAs. While NEO contains a 6′‐NH2 group, the 6′‐position remains unmodified in LIV. The aim of the study was to characterize the substrate specificities of the enzymes involved in the C‐6′‐ and C‐6‴‐modification in order to explain the different amination patterns.Methods and Results: We overproduced and purified the enzymes NeoQ (bifunctional 6′‐ and 6‴‐oxidoreductase) and NeoB (bifunctional 6′‐ and‐6‴‐aminotransferase), which had been analysed before (Huang et al. 2007), and compared the enzymatic properties with the corresponding enzymes LivQ (postulated 6‴‐oxidoreductase, 72% identity to NeoQ) and LivB (postulated 6‴‐aminotransferase, 71% identity to NeoB) from the LIV pathway. By applying a newly established photometric assay, we proved that LivQ oxidized only pseudotetrasaccharidic substrates at the 6‴‐position. In contrast, NeoQ accepted also the pseudodisaccharidic paromamine as a substrate and oxidized the 6′‐ and 6‴‐positions on two different precursors of NEO. The aminotransferases LivB and NeoB both transfer NH2 groups to the 6′‐position in the precursor 6′‐oxo‐paromamine and to the 6‴‐position of 6‴‐oxo‐neomycin C.Conclusions: The difference in the modification pattern of NEO and LIV at their 6′‐positions is based only on the difference in the substrate specificities of the oxidoreductases LivQ and NeoQ, respectively. The aminotransferases LivB and NeoB share identical biochemical properties, and both are capable to transaminate the 6′ and also the 6‴‐position of the tested AGAs.Significance and Impact of the Study: Our data provide information to understand the structural variations in aminoglycosides and may be helpful to interpret variations in other natural product bisoynthesis pathways.
目的:含 2-
脱氧链霉胺的
氨基糖苷类
抗生素(AGAs)是
氨基糖苷类药物中最大的亚类。新霉素(N
EO)和
红霉素(LIV)都是 N
EO 型 AGAs 中假四
糖类的代表。N
EO 含有一个 6′-NH2 基团,而 LIV 的 6′ 位则未被修饰。研究的目的是确定参与 C-6′- 和 C-6‴ 改性的酶的底物特异性,以解释不同的胺化模式:我们过量生产并纯化了 N
EOQ(双功能 6′-和 6‴-
氧化还原酶)和 N
EOB(双功能 6′-和 6‴-
氨基转移酶),这两种酶之前已经进行过分析(Huang et al.2007),并将其酶特性与 LIV 途径中的相应酶 LivQ(推测为 6‴-
氧化还原酶,与 N
EOQ 的同一性为 72%)和 LivB(推测为 6‴-
氨基转移酶,与 N
EOB 的同一性为 71%)进行了比较。通过应用一种新建立的光度测定法,我们证明 LivQ 只
氧化 6‴ 位的伪四糖底物。与此相反,N
EOQ 也接受假
双糖对
氨基的底物,并
氧化两种不同的 N
EO 前体上的 6′-和 6‴-位点。
氨基转移酶 LivB 和 N
EOB 都将 NH2 基团转移到前体 6′-oxo-paromamine 的 6′ 位和 6‴-oxo-n
EOmycin C 的 6‴ 位:N
EO和LIV在其6′位上的修饰模式差异仅基于
氧化还原酶LivQ和N
EOQ的底物特异性不同。
氨基转移酶 LivB 和 N
EOB 具有相同的生化特性,它们都能对被测 AGA 的 6′和 6‴ 位进行转
氨基:我们的数据为了解
氨基糖苷类化合物的结构变化提供了信息,并可能有助于解释其他
天然产物双合成途径的变化。