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JOURNAL OF NATURAL PRODUCTS
卷 80, 期 5, 页码 1264-1274出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.6b00807
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- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health [R01 AI111965, AI098771]
The increasing prevalence of polymyxin-resistant bacteria has stimulated the search for improved polymyxin lipopeptides. Here we describe the sequence and product profile for polymyxin D nonribosomal peptide synthetase from Paenibacillus polymyxa ATCC 10401. The polymyxin D synthase gene cluster comprised five genes that encoded ABC transporters (pmxC and pmxD) and enzymes responsible for the biosynthesis of polymyxin D (pmxA, pmxB, and pmxE). Unlike polymyxins B and E, polymyxin D contains D-Ser at position 3 as opposed to L-alpha,gamma-diaminobutyric acid and has an L-Thr at position 7 rather than L-Leu. Module 3 of pmxE harbored an auxiliary epimerization domain that catalyzes the conversion of L-Ser to the D-form. Structural modeling suggested that the adenylation domains of module 3 in PmxE and modules 6 and 7 in PmxA could bind amino acids with larger side chains than their preferred substrate. Feeding individual amino acids into the culture media not only affected production of polymyxins D-1 and D-2 but also led to the incorporation of different amino acids at positions 3, 6, and 7 of polymyxin D. Interestingly, the unnatural polymyxin analogues did not show antibiotic activity against a panel of Gram-negative clinical isolates, while the natural polymyxins D-1 and D-2 exhibited excellent in vitro antibacterial activity and were efficacious against Klebsiella pneumoniae and Acinetobacter baumannii in a mouse blood infection model. The results demonstrate the excellent antibacterial activity of these unusual D-Ser(3) polymxyins and underscore the possibility of incorporating alternate amino acids at positions 3, 6, and 7 of polymyxin D via manipulation of the polymyxin nonribosomal biosynthetic machinery.
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