title: Enzymatic processing of fumiquinazoline F: a tandem oxidative-acylation strategy for the generation of multicyclic scaffolds in fungal indole alkaloid biosynthesis.
abstract: Aspergillus fumigatus Af293 is a known producer of quinazoline natural products, including the antitumor fumiquinazolines, of which the simplest member is fumiquinazoline F (FQF) with a 6-6-6 tricyclic core derived from anthranilic acid, tryptophan, and alanine. FQF is the proposed biological precursor to fumiquinazoline A (FQA) in which the pendant indole side chain has been modified via oxidative coupling of an additional molecule of alanine, yielding a fused 6-5-5 imidazoindolone. We recently identified fungal anthranilate-activating nonribosomal peptide synthetase (NRPS) domains through bioinformatics approaches. One domain previously identified is part of the trimodular NRPS Af12080, which we predict is responsible for FQF formation. We now show that two adjacent A. fumigatus ORFs, a monomodular NRPS Af12050 and a flavoprotein Af12060, are necessary and sufficient to convert FQF to FQA. Af12060 oxidizes the 2',3'-double bond of the indole side chain of FQF, and the three-domain NRPS Af12050 activates l-Ala as the adenylate, installs it as the pantetheinyl thioester on its carrier protein domain, and acylates the oxidized indole for subsequent intramolecular cyclization to create the 6-5-5 imidazolindolone of FQA. This work provides experimental validation of the fumiquinazoline biosynthetic cluster of A. fumigatus Af293 and describes an oxidative annulation biosynthetic strategy likely shared among several classes of polycyclic fungal alkaloids.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, 240 Longwood Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
authors.forename: Brian D
authors.initials: BD
authors.lastname: Ames
authors.forename: Xinyu
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Christopher T
authors.initials: CT
authors.lastname: Walsh
mesh_terms: D000215:Acylation; D001232:Aspergillus fumigatus / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000235:genetics; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D005656:Fungal Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*; D005800:Genes, Fungal; D026121:Indole Alkaloids / Q000378:metabolism*; D016366:Open Reading Frames; D058451:Oxidative Coupling; D011799:Quinazolines / Q000378:metabolism*; D014364:Tryptophan / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D005656:Fungal Proteins; D026121:Indole Alkaloids; D011799:Quinazolines; C419468:fumiquinazoline A; C504706:fumiquinazoline F; D014364:Tryptophan
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