BacD is an ATP‐dependent dipeptideligase responsible for the biosynthesis of L‐alanyl‐L‐anticapsin, a precursor of an antibiotic produced by Bacillus spp. In contrast to the well‐studied and phylogenetically related D‐alanine: D‐alanine ligase (Ddl), BacD synthesizes dipeptides using L‐amino acids as substrates and has a low substrate specificity in vitro. The enzyme is of great interest because of
The ATP-dependentcarboxylate-amine/thiolligasesuperfamily is known to contain enzymes catalyzing the formation of various types of peptide, such as d-alanyl-d-alanine, polyglutamate, and gamma-peptide, but, curiously, no enzyme synthesizing alpha-dipeptides of l-amino acids is known. We attempted to find such an enzyme. By in silico screening based on the consensus sequence of the superfamily followed
Enantioselective Total Synthesis of the Antifungal Natural Products Chlorotetaine, Bacilysin, and Anticapsin and of Related Compounds: Revision of the Relative Configuration
作者:Hanno Wild
DOI:10.1021/jo00089a019
日期:1994.5
Enantioselective and diastereoselective syntheses of the title antifungal natural products and some of their diastereoisomers are described. Key steps include the diastereoselective 1,6-addition of bislactim ether 14 and a stereoselective, deprotonation of ketone 17 using lithium (S,S)-bis(1-phenylethyl)amide as a chiral base. All natural products possess the (S)-configuration at C-1 of the substituted cyclohex(en)yl residues of the C-terminal amino acids, which contradicts the assignments in the literature. At physiological pH most of the dipeptides are instable and react by an intramolecular 1,4-addition with the formation of 6-oxoperhydroindoles.
Action and Timing of BacC and BacD in the Late Stages of Biosynthesis of the Dipeptide Antibiotic Bacilysin
作者:Jared B. Parker、Christopher T. Walsh
DOI:10.1021/bi3016229
日期:2013.2.5
Biosynthesis of the dipeptide antibiotic bacilysin, encoded by the seven Bacillus subtilis genes bacA-G, involves diversion of flux from prephenate to the noncognate amino acid anticapsin. The anticapsin warhead is then ligated to the C-terminus of L-alanine to produce mature bacilysin. We have previously noted the formation of two diastereomers of tetrahydrotyrosine (4S- and 4R-H(4)Tyr) by tandem action of the four purified enzymes BacABGF. BacC (oxidase) and BacD (ligase) have been hypothesized to be remaining late stage enzymes in bacilysin biosynthesis. Using a combination of BacCD in vitro studies, B. subtilis deletion mutants, and isotopic feeding studies, we were able to determine that the H(4)Tyr diastereomers are actually shunt products that are not on-pathway to bacilysin biosynthesis. Dihydroanticapsin and dihydrobacilysin accumulate in extracts of a Delta bacC strain and are processed to anticapsin and then bacilysin upon addition of BacC and BacD, respectively. These results suggest the epoxide group in bacilysin is installed in an earlier step of bacilysin biosynthesis, while BacC oxidation of the C-7-hydroxyl and the subsequent BacD ligation of anticapsin to L-Ala are the penultimate and ultimate steps of bacilysin biosynthesis, respectively.
Single Mutation Alters the Substrate Specificity of <scp>l</scp>-Amino Acid Ligase
作者:Takeo Tsuda、Mana Asami、Yoshiaki Koguchi、Shuichi Kojima
DOI:10.1021/bi500292b
日期:2014.4.29
L-Amino acid ligase (Lal) catalyzes the formation of a dipeptide from two L-amino acids in an ATP-dependent manner and belongs to the ATP-grasp superfamily. Bacillus subtilis YwfE, the first identified Lal, produces the dipeptide antibiotic bacilysin, which consists of L-Ala and L-anticapsin. Its substrate specificity is restricted to smaller amino acids such as L-Ala for the N-terminal end of the dipeptide, whereas a wide range of hydrophobic amino acids including L-Phe and L-Met are recognized for the C-terminal end in vitro. We determined the crystal structures of YwfE with bound ADP-Mg2+-Pi and ADP-Mg2+-L-Ala at 1.9 and 2.0 angstrom resolutions, respectively. On the basis of these structures, we generated point mutants of residues that are considered to participate in the recognition of L-Ala and measured their ATPase activity. The conserved Arg328 is suggested to be a crucial residue for L-Ala recognition and catalysis. The mutation of Trp332 to Ala caused the enzyme to hydrolyze ATP, even in the absence of L-Ala, and the structure of this mutant protein appeared to show a cavity in the N-terminal substrate-binding pocket. These results suggest that Trp332 plays a key role in restricting the substrate specificity to smaller amino acids such as L-Ala. Moreover, Trp332 mutants can alter the substrate specificity and activity depending on the size and shape of substituted amino acids. These observations provide sufficient scope for the rational design of Lal to produce desirable dipeptides. We propose that the positioning of the conserved Arg residue in Lal is important for enantioselective recognition of L-amino acids.