CloN6, a Novel Methyltransferase Catalysing the Methylation of the Pyrrole‐2‐carboxyl Moiety of Clorobiocin

ChemBioChem - Tập 4 Số 8 - Trang 768-773 - 2003
Lucia Westrich1, Lutz Heide1, Shu‐Ming Li1
1Pharmazeutische Biologie, Pharmazeutisches Institut, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 8, 72076 Tübingen (Germany), Fax: (+49) 7071-295250

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AbstractThe aminocoumarin antibiotic clorobiocin contains a 5‐methylpyrrole‐2‐carboxylic acid unit. This pyrrole unit is derived from L‐proline, and it would be expected that its 5‐methyl group should be introduced by a methylation reaction. However, sequence analysis of the clorobiocin biosynthetic gene cluster did not reveal a gene with sequence similarity to the SAM‐dependent methyltransferases that could be assigned to this reaction. This study, however, has provided evidence that the gene cloN6 is involved in this methylation reaction. Its gene product CloN6 shares conserved sequence motifs with the recently identified radical SAM protein superfamily, and it has been suggested that members of this family can catalyse methylcobalamin‐dependent methylation reactions. cloN6 was inactivated in the clorobiocin producer Streptomyces roseochromogenes var. oscitans DS 12.976 by use of the PCR‐targeting method. The cloN6− mutants accumulated, instead of clorobiocin, a derivative lacking the 5′′′‐methyl group of the pyrrole moiety (termed novclobiocin 109). A structural isomer carrying the pyrrole‐2‐carboxyl moiety at 2″‐OH rather than at the 3″‐OH of the deoxysugar (novclobiocin 110), and a derivative completely lacking the pyrrole unit (novclobiocin 104) were also identified. The structures of the metabolites were confirmed by NMR and MS analysis. Antibacterial activity tests against Bacillus subtilis showed that novclobiocin 109 and novclobiocin 110 have antibacterial activities about eight times less than that of clorobiocin, whereas novclobiocin 104 showed no activity under the test conditions.

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ChemBioChem

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