Ribosomal biosynthesis of the cyclic peptide toxins of Amanita mushrooms.
Ribosomal biosynthesis of the cyclic peptide toxins of Amanita mushrooms.
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DOI:
10.1002/bip.21416
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发表时间:
2010
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Luo, Hong
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作者:
Walton, Jonathan D.;Hallen-Adams, Heather E.;Luo, Hong
Some species of mushrooms in the genus Amanita are extremely poisonous and frequently fatal to mammals including humans and dogs. Their extreme toxicity is due to amatoxins such as α- and β-amanitin. Amanita mushrooms also biosynthesize a chemically related group of toxins, the phallotoxins, such as phalloidin. The amatoxins and phallotoxins (collectively known as the Amanita toxins) are bicyclic octa- and heptapeptides, respectively. Both contain an unusual Trp-Cys cross-bridge known as tryptathionine. We have shown that, in Amanita bisporigera, the amatoxins and phallotoxins are synthesized as proproteins on ribosomes and not by nonribosomal peptide synthetases. The proproteins are 34–35 amino acids in length and have no predicted signal peptides. The genes for α-amanitin (AMA1) and phallacidin (PHA1) are members of a large family of related genes, characterized by highly conserved amino acid sequences flanking a hypervariable “toxin” region. The toxin regions are flanked by invariant proline (Pro) residues. An enzyme that could cleave the proprotein of phalloidin was purified from the phalloidin-producing lawn mushroom Conocybe apala. The enzyme is a serine protease in the prolyl oligopeptidase (POP) subfamily. The same enzyme cuts at both Pro residues to release the linear hepta- or octapeptide.
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影响因子:
4.8
作者:
Luo, Hong;Hallen-Adams, Heather E.;Walton, Jonathan D.
通讯作者:
Walton, Jonathan D.
影响因子:
3.5
作者:
Wight, Wanessa D.;Kim, Kwang-Hyung;Walton, Jonathan D.
通讯作者:
Walton, Jonathan D.
影响因子:
11.9
作者:
McIntosh JA;Donia MS;Schmidt EW
通讯作者:
Schmidt EW
DOI:
10.1073/pnas.2335845100
发表时间:
2003-11-25
影响因子:
11.1
作者:
Bulaj, G;Buczek, O;Olivera, BM
通讯作者:
Olivera, BM
影响因子:
14.8
作者:
Donia, Mohamed S.;Ravel, Jacques;Schmidt, Eric W.
通讯作者:
Schmidt, Eric W.