Sulfonium Acids Loaded onto an Unusual Thiotemplate Assembly Line Construct the Cyclopropanol Warhead of a Burkholderia Virulence Factor

Abstract: Pathogenic bacteria of the Burkholderia pseudomallei group cause severe infectious diseases such as glanders and melioidosis. Malleicyprols were identified as important bacterial virulence factors, yet the biosynthetic origin of their cyclopropanol warhead has remained enigmatic. By a combination of mutational analysis and metabolomics we found that sulfonium acids, dimethylsulfoniumpropionate (DMSP) and gonyol, known as osmolytes and as crucial components in the global organosulfur cycle, are key intermediates en route to the cyclopropanol unit. Functional genetics and in vitro analyses uncover a specialized pathway to DMSP involving a rare prokaryotic SET‐domain methyltransferase for a cryptic methylation, and show that DMSP is loaded onto the NRPS‐PKS hybrid assembly line by an adenylation domain dedicated to zwitterionic starter units. Then, the megasynthase transforms DMSP into gonyol, as demonstrated by heterologous pathway reconstitution in E. coli.

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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Umfang
Online-Ressource
Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Sulfonium Acids Loaded onto an Unusual Thiotemplate Assembly Line Construct the Cyclopropanol Warhead of a Burkholderia Virulence Factor ; volume:132 ; number:32 ; year:2020 ; pages:13613-13617 ; extent:5
Angewandte Chemie ; 132, Heft 32 (2020), 13613-13617 (gesamt 5)

Urheber
Trottmann, Felix
Ishida, Keishi
Franke, Jakob
Stanišić, Aleksa
Ishida‐Ito, Mie
Kries, Hajo
Pohnert, Georg
Hertweck, Christian

DOI
10.1002/ange.202003958
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022052912512846614362
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