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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 130, Issue 37, Pages 12230-+Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja8040543
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- Mitsubishi Foundation
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) [(A)17208010, 17710175]
- JSPS
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [17710175] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Polyether metabolites are an important class of natural products. Although their biosynthesis, especially construction of polyether skeletons, attracted organic chemists for many years, no experimental data on the enzymatic polyether formation has been obtained. In this study, a putative epoxide hydrolase gene lsd19 found on the biosynthetic gene cluster of an ionophore polyether lasalocid was cloned and successfully overexpressed in Escherichia coli. Using the purified Lsd19, a proposed substrate, bisepoxyprelasalocid, and its synthesized analogue were successfully converted into lasalocid A and its derivative via a 6-endo-tet cyclization mode. On the other hand, treatment of the bisepoxide with trichloroacetic acid gave isolasalocid A via a 5-exo-tet cyclization mode. Therefore, the enzymatic conversion observed in this study unambiguously showed that the bisepoxyprelasalocid is an intermediate of the lasalocid biosynthesis and that Lsd19 catalyzes the sequential cyclic ether formations involving an energetically disfavored 6-endo-tet cyclization. This is the first example of the enzymatic epoxide-opening reactions leading to a polyether natural product.
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