title: Identification of a napsamycin biosynthesis gene cluster by genome mining.
abstract: Napsamycins are potent inhibitors of bacterial translocase I, an essential enzyme in peptidoglycan biosynthesis, and are classified as uridylpeptide antibiotics. They comprise an N-methyl diaminobutyric acid, an ureido group, a methionine and two non-proteinogenic aromatic amino acid residues in a peptide backbone that is linked to a 5'-amino-3'-deoxyuridine by an unusual enamide bond. The napsamycin gene cluster was identified in Streptomyces sp. DSM5940 by using PCR probes from a putative uridylpeptide biosynthetic cluster found in S. roseosporus NRRL15998 by genome mining. Annotation revealed 29 hypothetical genes encoding for resistance, regulation and biosynthesis of the napsamycins. Analysis of the gene cluster indicated that the peptide core structure is assembled by a nonlinear non-ribosomal peptide synthetase (NRPS)-like mechanism that involves several discrete single or didomain proteins. Some genes could be assigned, for example, to the synthesis of the N-methyl diaminobutyric acid, to the generation of m-tyrosine and to the reduction of the uracil moiety. The heterologous expression of the gene cluster in Streptomyces coelicolor M1154 resulted in the production of napsamycins and mureidomycins as demonstrated by LC-ESI-MS and MS/MS analysis. The napsamycin gene cluster provides a molecular basis for the detailed study of the biosynthesis of this class of structurally unusual compounds.
authors.affiliation: Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Pharmazeutische Biologie, Auf der Morgenstelle 8, 72076 Tübingen, Germany.
authors.forename: Leonard
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Kaysser
authors.forename: Xiaoyu
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.forename: Emmanuel
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Wemakor
authors.forename: Katharina
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sedding
authors.forename: Susanne
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hennig
authors.forename: Stefanie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Siebenberg
authors.forename: Bertolt
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Gust
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000096:biosynthesis* / Q000737:chemistry; D023181:Antimicrobial Cationic Peptides; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D016680:Genome, Bacterial; D009097:Multienzyme Complexes / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D005810:Multigene Family; D009705:Nucleosides / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000737:chemistry; D010453:Peptide Synthases / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D010455:Peptides / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D021241:Spectrometry, Mass, Electrospray Ionization; D013302:Streptomyces / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics; D014443:Tyrosine / Q000378:metabolism; D014498:Uracil / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D023181:Antimicrobial Cationic Peptides; D009097:Multienzyme Complexes; D009705:Nucleosides; D010455:Peptides; C059803:mureidomycin A; C059804:mureidomycin B; C088537:napsamycin C; D014443:Tyrosine; D014498:Uracil; D010453:Peptide Synthases; C104385:non-ribosomal peptide synthase