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BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 43, Issue 15, Pages 4548-4558Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/bi035945i
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The antitumor drug aclacinomycin A is a representative member of the anthracycline subgroup that contains a C-7-O-trisaccharide chain composed Of L-2-deoxysugars. The sugar portion of the molecule, which greatly affects its biological activity, is assembled by dedicated glycosyltransferases; however, these enzymes have not been well-studied. Here we report the heterologous expression and purification of one of these enzymes, AknK, as well as the preparation of dTDP-L-2-deoxysugar donors, dTDP-L-2-deoxyfucose and dTDP-L-daunosamine, and the monoglycosyl aglycone, rhodosaminyl aklavinone. Our experiments show that AknK catalyzes the addition of the second sugar to the chain, using TDP-L-2-deoxyfucose and rhodosaminyl aklavinone, to create the L-2-deoxyfucosyl-L-rhodosaminyl aklavinone. AknK also accepts an alternate dTDP-L-sugar, dTDP-L-daunosamine, and other monoglycosylated anthracyclines, including daunomycin, adriamycin, and idarubicin, to build alternate disaccharides on variant anthracycline backbones. Remarkably, AknK also catalyzes a tandem addition of a second L-2-deoxyfucosyl moiety, albeit with reduced activity, to the natural disaccharide chain to produce L-deoxyfucosyl-L-deoxyfucosyl-L-rhodosaminyl aklavinone, a variant of the natural aclacinomycin A. These results demonstrate that AknK may be a useful enzyme for the chemoenzymatic synthesis of anthracycline variants.
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