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18630910

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
32
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-8-7
pubmed:abstractText
Putrebactin is a dihydroxamate iron chelator produced by the metabolically versatile marine bacterium Shewanella putrefaciens. It is a macrocyclic dimer of N-hydroxy-N-succinyl-putrescine (HSP) and is structurally related to desferrioxamine E, which is a macrocyclic trimer of N-hydroxy-N-succinyl-cadaverine (HSC). We recently showed that DesD, a member of the NIS synthetase superfamily, catalyzes the key step in desferrioxamine E biosynthesis: ATP-dependent trimerisation and macrocylization of HSC. Here we report identification of a conserved gene cluster in the sequenced genomes of several Shewanella species, including Shewanella putrefaciens, which is hypothesized to direct putrebactin biosynthesis from putrescine, succinyl-CoA and molecular oxygen. The pubC gene within this gene cluster encodes a protein with 65% similarity to DesD. We overexpressed pubC from Shewanella species MR-4 and MR-7 in E. coli. The resulting His6-PubC fusion proteins were purified by Ni-NTA affinity and gel filtration chromatography. The recombinant proteins were shown to catalyze ATP-dependent cyclodimerization of HSP to form putrebactin. The uncyclized dimer of HSP pre-putrebactin was shown to be an intermediate in the conversion of two molecules of HSP to putrebactin. The data indicate that pre-putrebactin is converted to putrebactin via PubC-catalyzed activation of the carboxyl group by adenylation, followed by PubC-catalyzed nucleophilic attack of the amino group on the carbonyl carbon of the acyl adenylate. This mechanism for macrocycle formation is very different from the mechanism involved in the biosynthesis of many other macrocyclic natural products, where already-activated acyl thioesters are converted by thioesterase domains of polyketide synthases and nonribosomal peptide synthetases to macrocycles via covalent enzyme bound intermediates. The results of this study demonstrate that two closely related enzymes, PubC and DesD, catalyze specific cyclodimerization and cyclotrimerization reactions, respectively, of structurally similar substrates, raising intriguing questions regarding the molecular mechanism of specificity.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
1520-5126
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
13
pubmed:volume
130
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
10458-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-1-8
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
Identification of a gene cluster that directs putrebactin biosynthesis in Shewanella species: PubC catalyzes cyclodimerization of N-hydroxy-N-succinylputrescine.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't