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ArticleNature chemical biology2019

Convergent biosynthetic transformations to a bacterial specialized metabolite.

Yi-Ling Du, Melanie A Higgins, Guiyun Zhao, Katherine S Ryan

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Article in Nature chemical biology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. A shared mechanistic pathway for pyridoxal phosphate-dependent arginine oxidases.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Yi-Ling DuInstitute of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China. yldu@zju.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7072-4803
Melanie A HigginsDepartment of Chemistry, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1485-1378
Guiyun ZhaoInstitute of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9795-4235
Katherine S RyanDepartment of Chemistry, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. ksryan@chem.ubc.ca.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1643-1940
First Affiliated Hospital Zhejiang University · CNUniversity of British Columbia · CAUniversity of British Columbia Hospital · CA

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Microbes produce specialized metabolites to thrive in their natural habitats. However, it is rare that a given specialized metabolite is biosynthesized via pathways with distinct intermediates and enzymes. Here, we show that the core assembly mechanism of the antibiotic indolmycin in marine gram-negative Pseudoalteromonas luteoviolacea is distinct from its counterpart in terrestrial gram-positive Streptomyces species, with a molecule that is a shunt product in the Streptomyces pathway employed as a biosynthetic substrate for a novel metal-independent N-demethylindolmycin synthase in the P. luteoviolacea pathway. To provide insight into this reaction, we solved the 1.5 Å resolution structure in complex with product and identified the active site residues. Guided by our biosynthetic insights, we then engineered the Streptomyces indolmycin producer for titer improvement. This study provides a paradigm for understanding how two unique routes to a microbial specialized metabolite can emerge from convergent biosynthetic transformations.

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Biosynthetic PathwaysBacteriaBiocatalysisMultigene Family

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