Genome mining for unknown-unknown natural products.
Nat Chem Biol
; 19(5): 633-640, 2023 05.
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ABSTRACT
Genome mining of biosynthetic pathways with no identifiable core enzymes can lead to discovery of the so-called unknown (biosynthetic route)-unknown (molecular structure) natural products. Here we focused on a conserved fungal biosynthetic pathway that lacks a canonical core enzyme and used heterologous expression to identify the associated natural product, a highly modified cyclo-arginine-tyrosine dipeptide. Biochemical characterization of the pathway led to identification of a new arginine-containing cyclodipeptide synthase (RCDPS), which was previously annotated as a hypothetical protein and has no sequence homology to non-ribosomal peptide synthetase or bacterial cyclodipeptide synthase. RCDPS homologs are widely encoded in fungal genomes; other members of this family can synthesize diverse cyclo-arginine-Xaa dipeptides, and characterization of a cyclo-arginine-tryptophan RCDPS showed that the enzyme is aminoacyl-tRNA dependent. Further characterization of the biosynthetic pathway led to discovery of new compounds whose structures would not have been predicted without knowledge of RCDPS function.
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Productos Biológicos
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Nat Chem Biol
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BIOLOGIA
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2023
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Estados Unidos