Structural Elucidation of the Bispecificity of A Domains as a Basis for Activating Non-natural Amino Acids.
Angew Chem Int Ed Engl
; 54(30): 8833-6, 2015 Jul 20.
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ABSTRACT
Many biologically active peptide secondary metabolites of bacteria are produced by modular enzyme complexes, the non-ribosomal peptide synthetases. Substrate selection occurs through an adenylation (A) domain, which activates the cognate amino acid with high fidelity. The recently discovered Aâ
domain of an Anabaenopeptin synthetase from Planktothrix agardhii (ApnA A1) is capable of activating two chemically distinct amino acids (Arg and Tyr). Crystal structures of the Aâ
domain reveal how both substrates fit into to binding pocket of the enzyme. Analysis of the binding pocket led to the identification of three residues that are critical for substrate recognition. Systematic mutagenesis of these residues created Aâ
domains that were monospecific, or changed the substrate specificity to tryptophan. The non-natural amino acid 4-azidophenylalanine is also efficiently activated by a mutant Aâ
domain, thus enabling the production of diversified non-ribosomal peptides for bioorthogonal labeling.
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