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Recent Advances in the Biosynthesis of Carbazoles Produced by Actinomycetes

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BIOMOLECULES
Volume 10, Issue 8, Pages -

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MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/biom10081147

Keywords

biosynthesis; carbazoles; cyclization; enzymes; protein structure

Funding

  1. JSPS KAKENHI [16H06453]
  2. JSPS A3 Foresight Program [16822333]
  3. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [16H06453] Funding Source: KAKEN

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Structurally diverse carbazole alkaloids are valuable due to their pharmaceutical properties and have been isolated from nature. Experimental knowledge on carbazole biosynthesis is limited. The latest development of in silico analysis of the biosynthetic gene clusters for bacterial carbazoles has allowed studies on the biosynthesis of a carbazole skeleton, which was established by sequential enzyme-coupling reactions associated with an unprecedented carbazole synthase, a thiamine-dependent enzyme, and a ketosynthase-like enzyme. This review describes the carbazole biosynthetic mechanism, which includes a key step in enzymatic formation of a tricyclic carbazole skeleton, followed by modifications such as prenylation and hydroxylation in the skeleton.

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