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BIOCHEMISTRY
卷 49, 期 45, 页码 9698-9705出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/bi101422r
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [Ke 452/8-4, Ke 452/11-4, SPP1152]
- Unicat Center of Excellence of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft at the Technische Universitat Berlin
The actinomycin biosynthetic gene cluster of Streptomyces chrysomallus harbors two paralogous genes, acmI and acmL, encoding methyltransferases. To unveil their suspected role in the formation of 3-hydroxy-4-methyl-anthranilic acid (4-MHA), the building block of the actinomycin chromophore, each gene was expressed in Escherichia coli. Testing the resulting similar to 40 kDa His(6)-tagged proteins with compounds of biogenetic relevance as substrates and S-adenosyl-L-methionine revealed that each exclusively methylated 3-hydroxykynurenine (3-HK) with formation of 3-hydroxy-4-methylkynurenine (4-MHK) identified by its in vitro conversion to 4-MHA with hydroxykynureninase. AcmI and AcmL methylate also hydroxyphenylamino propanoic acids such as p-tyrosine, m-tyrosine, or 3,4-dihydroxy-L-phenylalanine (DOPA) but at a lower rate than 3-HK. The presence of the alpha-amino group was necessary for substrate recognition. Phenolic acids with shorter chains such as 4-hydoxyphenyl-L-glycine (HPG), 3-hydroxybenzoic acid (3-HB), or 3-hydroxyanthranilic acid (3-HA) gave no product. Both enzymes were stereospecific for the optical configuration at alpha-C with unprecedented antipodal selectivity for the D-enantiomer of 3-HK and the L-enantiomer of p-tyrosine or m-tyrosine. AcmI and AcmL show sequence similarity to various C- and O-methyltransferases from bacteria. Phylogenetic analysis places them into the clade of C-methyltransferases comprising among others orthologues involved in 4-MHA formation of other biosynthesis systems and methyltransferases putatively involved in the C-methylation of tyrosine. Remarkably, computational remodelling of AcmI and AcmL structures revealed significant similarity with the 3-D structures of type 1 O-methyltransferases from plants such as caffeic acid O-methyltransferase (COMT) and other phenylpro-panoid methyltransferases. The relevance of 3-HK or 3-HA methylation in the actinomycin biosynthesis pathways of different actinomycetes is discussed.
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