Journal of the American Chemical Society, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown
Опубликована: Март 31, 2025
The biosynthetic pathways of natural products involve unusual biochemical reactions catalyzed by unique enzymes. Aminopropylation, although apparently simple, is an extremely rare modification outside polyamine biosynthesis. canonical pathway used in the biosynthesis peptide-adenylate antibiotic microcin C E. coli (Eco-McC) entails alkylation S-adenosyl-methionine-derived 3-amino-3-carboxypropyl group adenylate moiety and subsequent decarboxylation to yield bioactive aminopropylated compound. Here, we report structure a new member family antibiotics, Bsu-McC, produced Bacillus subtilis MG27, which employs alternative aminopropylation pathway. Like Eco-McC, Bsu-McC consists peptide that facilitates prodrug import into susceptible bacteria warhead, nonhydrolyzable modified isoasparaginyl-adenylate, which, when released cytoplasm, binds aspartyl-tRNA synthetase (AspRS) inhibiting translation. In contrast whose warhead carries single aminopropyl attached phosphate decorated with tandem two groups. Our silico docking AspRS-tRNA complex suggests groups form extended interactions enzyme tRNA, stabilizing enzyme–inhibitor complex. We show results 32-fold increase biological activity peptidyl-adenylate. also B. adopted for homologous 3-aminopropyltransferases utilize decarboxylated S-adenosylmethionine as substrate. Additionally, alters social behavior producer strain, resulting sharp decrease their ability biofilms.
Язык: Английский