Validamycin A is a member of microbial-derived C7N-aminocyclitol family of natural products that is widely used as crop protectant and the precursor of the antidiabetic drug voglibose. Its biosynthetic gene clusters have been identified in several Streptomyces hygroscopicus strains, and a number of genes within the clusters have been functionally analyzed. Of these genes, valB, which encodes a sugar nucleotidyltransferase, was found through inactivation study to be essential for validamycin biosynthesis, but its role was unclear. To characterize the role of ValB in validamycin biosynthesis, four carbasugar phosphate analogues were synthesized and tested as substrate for ValB. The results showed that ValB efficiently catalyzes the conversion of valienol 1-phosphate to its nucleotidyl diphosphate derivatives, whereas other unsaturated carbasugar phosphates were found to be not the preferred substrate. ValB requires Mg2+, Mn2+, or Co2+ for its optimal activity and uses the purine-based nucleotidyltriphosphates (ATP and GTP) more efficiently than the pyrimidine-based NTPs (CTP, dTTP, and UTP) as nucleotidyl donor. ValB represents the first member of unsaturated carbasugar nucleotidyltransferases involved in natural products biosynthesis. Its characterization not only expands our understanding of aminocyclitol-derived natural products biosynthesis, but may also facilitate the development of new tools for chemoenzymatic synthesis of carbohydrate mimetics.
Validamycin A 是源自微
生物的 C7N-aminocyclitol
天然产物家族中的一员,被广泛用作作物保护剂和抗糖尿病药物
伏格列波糖的前体。已在多个吸
水链霉菌株中发现了其
生物合成
基因簇,并对
基因簇中的一些
基因进行了功能分析。在这些
基因中,通过灭活研究发现编码糖核苷酸转移酶的 ValB 是
有效霉素生物合成所必需的,但其作用尚不清楚。为了确定 ValB 在
有效霉素生物合成中的作用,研究人员合成了四种碳糖
磷酸类似物,并将其作为 ValB 的底物进行了测试。结果表明,ValB 能有效催化缬烯醇 1-
磷酸酯向其核苷酸二
磷酸衍
生物的转化,而其他不饱和碳糖
磷酸酯并非其首选底物。ValB 需要 Mg2+、Mn2+ 或 Co2+ 才能达到最佳活性,它使用
嘌呤型核苷酸
三磷酸酯(
ATP 和 GTP)作为核苷酸供体的效率要高于
嘧啶型 NTP(CTP、
dTTP 和 UTP)。ValB 是参与
天然产物生物合成的不饱和碳糖核苷酸转移酶的第一个成员。对它的鉴定不仅拓展了我们对
氨环糖醇衍生
天然产物生物合成的了解,还有助于开发
化学合成
碳水化合物模拟物的新工具。