Abstract
Prodiginines, which are tripyrrole alkaloids displaying a wide array of bioactivities, occur as linear and cyclic congeners. Identification of an unclustered biosynthetic gene led to the discovery of the enzyme responsible for catalyzing the regiospecific C–H activation and cyclization of prodigiosin to cycloprodigiosin in Pseudoalteromonas rubra. This enzyme is related to alkylglycerol monooxygenase and unrelated to RedG, the Rieske oxygenase that produces cyclized prodiginines in Streptomyces, implying convergent evolution.
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We thank A. Deutschbauer for gifting E. coli WM3064. We thank I. Budin, J. Alonso-Gutierrez, M. Thompson, D. Fercher, J. Barajas, C. Eiben, C. Bailey, S. Richardson, M. Brown, M. Garber, S. Nies, C. Meadows, T.S. Lee, L. Katz, and S. Weschler for helpful discussions; E. de Ugarte for work on the graphical abstract; as well as S. Gardner, E. Coyne, and M. Agnitsch for everyday support. This work was supported by ERASynBio (81861: “SynPath”) to J.D.K., the NIGMS (086374) to R.S., and the UC Berkeley SURF Rose Hills fellowship to P.S., as well as the DOE Joint BioEnergy Institute and the DOE Joint Genome Institute, both funded by the US Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Biological and Environmental Research, through contract DE-AC02-05CH11231 between Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the US Department of Energy. The publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the United States Government retains a nonexclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, worldwide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for United States Government purposes.
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T.d.R., R.E.J., R.S., and J.D.K. conceived of the study. T.d.R., P.S. and I.E. constructed plasmids and performed microbiological manipulations and extractions, R.E.J. performed synthetic organic chemistry. T.d.R., E.E.K.B., and C.J.P. performed analytical chemistry, L.J.G.C. and C.J.P. performed proteomic analysis, and G.G. and N.J.H. PCR amplified and purified DNA fragments. T.d.R. performed bioinformatic analysis. All authors contributed to the manuscript.
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de Rond, T., Stow, P., Eigl, I. et al. Oxidative cyclization of prodigiosin by an alkylglycerol monooxygenase-like enzyme. Nat Chem Biol 13, 1155–1157 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchembio.2471
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