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ArticleAngewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)2022

Two Radical SAM Enzymes Are Necessary and Sufficient for the In Vitro Production of the Oxetane Nucleoside Antiviral Agent Albucidin.

Po-Hsun Fan, Yujie Geng, Anthony J Romo, Aoshu Zhong, Jiawei Zhang, Yu-Cheng Yeh, Yu-Hsuan Lee, Hung-Wen Liu

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Article in Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Po-Hsun FanDepartment of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA.
Yujie GengDivision of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA.
Anthony J RomoDivision of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA.
Aoshu ZhongDivision of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA.
Jiawei ZhangDepartment of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA.
Yu-Cheng YehDepartment of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA.
Yu-Hsuan LeeDepartment of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA.
Hung-Wen LiuDepartment of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8953-4794
The University of Texas at Austin · US

Funding

Mechanistic Studies of Deoxy Sugar BiosynthesisR01GM035906 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN · PI LIU, HUNG-WEN · 1986 to 2023
$6.1M
MECHANISMS OF BIOSYNTHETIC FORMATION OF DEOXY SUGARSR37GM035906 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AUSTIN · PI LIU, HUNG-WEN · 1999 to 2008
$3.4M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM035906NIGMS NIH HHS R37 GM035906
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Oxetanocin A and albucidin are two oxetane natural products. While the biosynthesis of oxetanocin A has been described, less is known about albucidin. In this work, the albucidin biosynthetic gene cluster is identified in Streptomyces. Heterologous expression in a nonproducing strain demonstrates that the genes alsA and alsB are necessary and sufficient for albucidin biosynthesis confirming a previous study (Myronovskyi et al. Microorganisms 2020, 8, 237). A two-step construction of albucidin 4'-phosphate from 2'-deoxyadenosine monophosphate (2'-dAMP) is shown to be catalyzed in vitro by the cobalamin dependent radical S-adenosyl-l-methionine (SAM) enzyme AlsB, which catalyzes a ring contraction, and the radical SAM enzyme AlsA, which catalyzes elimination of a one-carbon fragment. Isotope labelling studies show that AlsB catalysis begins with stereospecific H-atom transfer of the C2'-pro-R hydrogen from 2'-dAMP to 5'-deoxyadenosine, and that the eliminated one-carbon fragment originates from C3' of 2'-dAMP.

Indexed as

Biological ProductsS-AdenosylmethionineAntiviral AgentsCarbonEthers, CyclicHydrogenNucleosidesPhosphatesVitamin B 12albucidinAntiviral AgentsBiological ProductsCarbonEthers, CyclicHydrogenNucleosidesoxetanePhosphatesS-AdenosylmethionineVitamin B 12AlbucidinNucleosidesOxetanesRadical SAM EnzymesRing Contraction

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PMID36064953
PMCPMC9561071
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