Studies on taxadiene synthase: interception of the cyclization cascade at the verticillene stage and rearrangement to phomactatriene
摘要:
The cyclization of geranylgeranyl diphosphate ( GGDP) to taxadiene catalyzed by taxadiene synthase has been suggested to proceed in stages, involving a transient bicyclic verticillyl carbocation intermediate, which also has been proposed in the biosynthetic pathway leading to phomactatriene by marine fungi of Phoma sp. On incubation with des-7-methylGGDP, which would be expected to decrease the stability of a carbocation produced by hydride migration, taxadiene synthase produced phomactatrienes as major products. This indicates that the verticillyl carbocation was indeed formed but underwent further skeletal rearrangements, diverging from the usual pathway taken by GGDP en route to taxadiene. Products were identified using GC-MS, one- and two-dimensional NMR, and X-ray crystallography. (c) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
The Diterpenoid Substrate Analogue 19‐<i>nor</i>‐GGPP Reveals Pronounced Methyl Group Effects in Diterpene Cyclisations
作者:Kizerbo A. Taizoumbe、Bernd Goldfuss、Jeroen S. Dickschat
DOI:10.1002/anie.202318375
日期:2024.2.5
te (with a methylgroup removed) has been synthesised and converted into diterpene analogues with 20 diterpene synthases. In some cases only the desmethyl derivatives of the natural enzyme products were obtained, but with several enzymes a dramatic change in the reactivity was observed. The newly opened reaction paths to compounds with unknown skeletons reveal an intriguing methylgroup effect in diterpene