BIOSYNTHESIS OF THE MODIFIED PEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC NOSIHEPTIDE IN STREPTOMYCES-ACTUOSUS
BIOSYNTHESIS OF THE MODIFIED PEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC NOSIHEPTIDE IN STREPTOMYCES-ACTUOSUS
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DOI:
10.1021/ja00225a035
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发表时间:
1988-08-17
影响因子:
15
通讯作者:
FLOSS, HG
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作者:
HOUCK, DR;CHEN, LC;FLOSS, HG
The biosynthesis of the modified, sulfur-rich peptide antibiotic nosiheptide (1) was studied in feeding experiments with radioactive and 13C-labeled precursors in Streptomyces actuosus. Following extensive chemical-shift assignments, 13C-labeled samples of 1 were analyzed by 13C NMR spectroscopy. In addition to supporting the expected origin of the thiazole ring and the L-cysteine moiety from cysteine, the L-threonine and butyrine moieties from threonine, and the hydroxyglutamate moiety from glutamate, the results demonstrated that the dehydroalanine moiety arises by dehydration of serine. The pyridine ring is formed uniquely by "tail-to-tail" condensation of two series residues. As demonstrated by a double-labeling experiment, the indolic acid moiety arises by a novel intramolecular rearrangement of tryptophan in which the carboxyl group is connected to C2 of the indole and the .alpha.-carbon and the amino nitrogen are eliminated. Only the hydroxymethyl group at C4 of the indole ring is derived by a C-methylation, but not via 4-methyltryptophan. The results define the sequence of a hypothetical peptide precursor of 1.