title: Substrate specificity of native dTDP-D-glucose-4,6-dehydratase: chemo-enzymatic syntheses of artificial and naturally occurring deoxy sugars.
abstract: Incubation of dTDP-glucose with the enzyme dTDP-glucose-4,6-dehydratase [EC 4.2.1.46] from wild type E. coli B yielded a mixture of 3- and 4-keto-6-deoxy sugars after work-up. Model experiments with chemically synthesized methyl 6-deoxy-4-keto-glucoside (9) revealed that dTDP-6-deoxy-alpha-D-ribo-hexopyran-3-ulose (3) is formed by keto-enol tautomerization during the isolation procedure from initially formed dTDP-6-deoxy-alpha-D-xylo-hexopyran-4-ulose (2). dTDP-3-deoxyglucose (4) and dTDP-3-azido-3-deoxyglucose (6) were substrates and showed Michaelis-Menten kinetics (4: KM = 200 microM and V(max) = 130 mumol/h mg; 6: KM = 300 microM and V(max) = 90 mumol/h mg). In 100-mg-scale experiments, both non-natural substrates gave the respective 6-deoxy-4-keto compounds, dTDP-3,6-dideoxy-alpha-D-erythro-hexopyran-4-ulose (5) and dTDP-3-azido-3,6-dideoxy-alpha-D-xylo-hexopyran-4-ulose++ + (7), in yields ranging from 24 to 40%.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Organische Chemie, Universität Hamburg, Germany.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Naundorf
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Klaffke
mesh_terms: D003837:Deoxy Sugars / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000201:enzymology*; D005947:Glucose / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000378:metabolism; D006836:Hydro-Lyases / Q000378:metabolism*; D007535:Isomerases / Q000378:metabolism; D007661:Ketoses / Q000096:biosynthesis; D007700:Kinetics; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D015394:Molecular Structure; D012210:Rhamnose / Q000031:analogs & derivatives; D013379:Substrate Specificity; D013942:Thymine Nucleotides / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D003837:Deoxy Sugars; D007661:Ketoses; D013942:Thymine Nucleotides; C103522:deoxythymidine diphosphate-glucose; D006836:Hydro-Lyases; C022771:dTDPglucose 4,6-dehydratase; D007535:Isomerases; D005947:Glucose; D012210:Rhamnose