• First studied in the early 20th century, discovery, biosynthesis, and application of polyketides has evolved. (wikipedia.org)
  • It is a large and diverse group of secondary metabolites caused by its complex biosynthesis which resembles that of fatty acid synthesis. (wikipedia.org)
  • It wasn't until 1955 that the biosynthesis of polyketides were understood. (wikipedia.org)
  • Arthur Birch used radioisotope labeling of carbon in acetate to trace the biosynthesis of 2-hydroxy-6-methylbenzoic acid in Penicillium patulum and demonstrate the head-to-tail linkage of acetic acids to form the polyketide. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the 1980s and 1990s, advancements in genetics allowed for isolation of the genes associated to polyketides to understand the biosynthesis. (wikipedia.org)
  • Termination of the polyketide scaffold biosynthesis can also vary. (wikipedia.org)
  • Mycobacteria grow by polar extension and recent studies showed that cell envelope incorporation of mycolic acids, the major constituent of the cell wall and outer membrane, is coordinated with peptidoglycan biosynthesis at the cell poles. (bvsalud.org)
  • Using fluorescence microscopy approaches, we investigated the subcellular localization of MmpL3 and MmpL10, respectively involved in the export of mycolic acids and TPP, in growing cells and their colocalization with Wag31, a protein playing a critical role in regulating peptidoglycan biosynthesis in mycobacteria. (bvsalud.org)
  • While the polyketides are extraordinarily diverse, they are produced by evolutionarily related proteins that share the molecular logic for polyketide biosynthesis 4 . (nature.com)
  • Biosynthesis of 6-deoxyerythronolide B by the modular PKS 6-deoxyerythronolide B synthase. (nature.com)
  • Two key focus areas of our research with outstanding relevance for human health are the mTOR kinase, the central regulator of cellular growth and proliferation, and fatty acid and lipid biosynthesis. (unibas.ch)
  • Major downstream targets include fatty acid and lipid metabolism, protein and nucleotide biosynthesis. (unibas.ch)
  • A landmark example are giant eukaryotic fatty acid synthases (FASs), which comprise seven types of functional domains and carry out more than 40 reaction steps for the biosynthesis of fatty acids from acetyl- and malonyl-CoA. (unibas.ch)
  • Cpr37, which belongs to the adenylation domain protein in the nonribosomal peptide synthase (NRPS), subsequently activates PABA and loads it to holo-Cpr36 Two proteins Cpr34 and Cpr35 work in concert to catalyze decarboxylative condensation between a thioester linked PABA and malonyl- S -acyl carrier protein (ACP) during aromatic polyketide biosynthesis catalyzed by type II polyketide synthases. (uky.edu)
  • In this scenario, hydride is predicted to be added to the re face to generate the S configuration resulting in the same stereochemical outcome as other 3-oxoacyl-ACP reductase (FabG) from bacterial type II fatty acid synthases.These findings are critical advancement for interrogating the biosynthesis of the unusual chemical components of the family of antibiotics of capuramycin. (uky.edu)
  • A new type of pyrrolidine biosynthesis is involved in the late steps of xenocoumacin production in Xenorhabdus nematophila. (secondarymetabolites.org)
  • This study describes new gamma-lactam and related metabolites at the intersection of colibactin and fatty acid biosynthesis, establishing a new form of "cross-talk" between secondary polyketide and primary fatty acid pathways. (yale.edu)
  • The polyketide chains produced by a minimal polyketide synthase (consisting of a acyltransferase and ketosynthase for the stepwise condensation of the starter unit and extender units) are almost invariably modified. (wikipedia.org)
  • Fabclavines are hybrid SMs derived from nonribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPS), polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA), and polyketide synthases (PKS). (beilstein-journals.org)
  • Several classes of structurally diverse secondary metabolites with a broad spectrum of bioactivities (e.g. antibacterial, insecticidal, antifungal) are known from different Xenorhabdus and Photorhabdus strains and are produced by nonribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPS) and the fatty acid synthase (FAS)-related polyketide synthases (PKS) or even hybrids thereof. (uni-frankfurt.de)
  • Both BPs and Muddy become TPP-independent through single amino acid substitutions in their tail spike proteins, and M. abscessus mutants resistant to TPP-independent phages reveal additional resistance mechanisms. (bvsalud.org)
  • Modular polyketide synthases (PKSs) were discovered in the 1990s in bacteria and thousands of these proteins have been identified since then. (nature.com)
  • Twenty alpha-amino acids are the subunits which are polymerized to form proteins. (lookformedical.com)
  • Eukaryotic lipid and fatty acid metabolism remains a critical challenge for studies at the atomic, molecular and cellular scale: In contrast to simple prokaryotic systems, fatty acid metabolism in eukaryotes builds upon large multienzymes, which integrate multiple catalytic activities into giant proteins. (unibas.ch)
  • These enzymes are found in a variety of biosynthetic contexts, which include fatty-acid activating enzymes, type I or type III polyketide synthases, dialkylresorcinol-generating enzymes, monooxygenases or Rieske proteins. (biomedcentral.com)
  • functional characterization of nat/ncs2 proteins of aspergillus brasiliensis reveals a genuine xanthine-uric acid transporter and an intrinsically misfolded polypeptide. (liverpool.ac.uk)
  • Polyketides are synthesized by multienzyme polypeptides that resemble eukaryotic fatty acid synthase but are often much larger. (wikipedia.org)
  • Impaired lipid and fatty acid metabolism plays a considerable role in the pathogenesis of major threats to human health, including type 2 diabetes, fatty liver disease, atherosclerosis and cancer. (unibas.ch)
  • A central aim of our work is to improve our understanding of the regulation of fatty acid and lipid metabolism. (unibas.ch)
  • This study establishes the biochemical function of LACC1 in humans/mice and its role in bridging inducible nitric oxide synthase and polyamine metabolism in inflammatory macrophages. (yale.edu)
  • Interrelationships of glycolysis, tricarboxylic acid cycle and fruit quality related metabolism. (biomedcentral.com)
  • A microbial hormone, A-factor (2-isocapryloyl-3 R -hydroxymethyl-γ-butyrolactone), triggers morphological differentiation and secondary metabolism in Streptomyces griseus . (go.jp)
  • Activation of the acyl carrier protein (ACP) domain of the SwfA protein to its holo-form by co-expression with Svp is the first functional proof of swf type genes in marine sponges. (cirn-na.com)
  • The enzyme is capable of transferring the 4'-phosphopantetheine moiety of coenzyme A to a conserved serine residue in both the acyl carrier protein domain of the human cytosolic multifunctional fatty acid synthase and the acyl carrier protein associated independently with human mitochondria. (rhea-db.org)
  • Instead, they are found in gene clusters in the genome close to the polyketide synthase genes. (wikipedia.org)
  • Polyketide genes in the marine sponge Plakortis simplex: a new group of mono-modular type I polyketide synthases from sponge symbionts. (cirn-na.com)
  • These eukaryotes harbor a large number of polyketide biosynthetic genes in their genomes, yet virtually none of the corresponding products can be isolated or characterized. (nih.gov)
  • They include acyl-carrier domains plus an assortment of enzymatic units that can function in an iterative fashion, repeating the same elongation/modification steps (as in fatty acid synthesis), or in a sequential fashion so as to generate more heterogeneous types of polyketides. (wikipedia.org)
  • It is sometimes accompanied by a thioesterase that releases the polyketide via hydrating the thioester linkage (as in fatty acid synthesis) creating a linear polyketide scaffold. (wikipedia.org)
  • The synthesis of four novel platinum complexes, bearing N6-(6-amino-hexyl)adenosine or a 1,6-di(adenosin-N6-yl)-hexane respectively, as ligands of mono-functional cisplatin or monochloro(ethylendiamine)platinum(II), is reported. (cirn-na.com)
  • Synthesis is shown for one half of the modules only, and complexity of the synthesis is reduced to key steps, that are: (1) entry of the polyketide from upstream, (2) KS-mediated elongation of the polyketide by two carbons, (3) processing of the elongated polyketide shown for reduction by KR only, (4) exit of the elongated and processed polyketide to the downstream module by translocation. (nature.com)
  • The applicability of different enzymes such as glycosidases, glycosyltransferases, glycophosphorylases and glycosynthases have been de-scribed around the review article considering their advantages and disadvantages of these biocat-alysts in the stereoselective and regioselective synthesis of different types of glycosylated mole-cules, phenolic and aliphatic alcohols, oligosaccharides, polysaccharides, glycoderivatives, glyco-peptides and glycoproteins with a clear focus on food and pharmaceutical chemistry. (preprints.org)
  • The remarkable diversity of natural products (NPs) results from a similarly diverse pool of biosynthetic enzymes [ 2 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • During this work, xenocoumacin 1 (XCN 1) and 2 (XCN 2), the major antimicrobial compounds produced by Xenorhabdus nematophila and their corresponding biosynthetic gene cluster were identified and studied in detail. (uni-frankfurt.de)
  • Polyketides are produced by polyketide synthases (PKSs). (wikipedia.org)
  • A new review article details how new structural insight regarding modular polyketide synthases (PKSs) helps us better understand the organization of catalytic events within a PKS module. (nature.com)
  • Polyketide processing in modular PKSs is illustrated for one module (module n, yellow background) embedded in a modular assembly line. (nature.com)
  • Biotechnology has enabled discovery of more naturally-occurring polyketides and evolution of new polyketides with novel or improved bioactivity. (wikipedia.org)
  • Earlier discovery of naturally occurring polyketides involved the isolation of the compounds being produced by the specific organism using organic chemistry purification methods based on bioactivity screens. (wikipedia.org)
  • Analysis of the temporospatial production pattern of this compound in conjunction with detailed bioactivity studies revealed the polyketide to be a spore germination suppressor. (nih.gov)
  • In addition, for three diatoms we also tested two different clones to disclose diversity in clone bioactivity. (frontiersin.org)
  • This review summarizes our study of these two characteristics of Streptomyces , focusing on the A-factor regulatory cascade and work derived from the A-factor study. (go.jp)
  • Screening of the metagenome of the marine sponge Plakortis simplex led to the discovery of the swf family, a new group of mono-modular type I polyketide synthase/fatty acid synthase (PKS/FAS) specifically associated with sponge symbionts. (cirn-na.com)
  • Smenamides A and B, chlorinated peptide/polyketide hybrids containing a dolapyrrolidinone unit from the Caribbean sponge Smenospongia aurea. (cirn-na.com)
  • Polyketides are a structurally diverse family. (wikipedia.org)
  • The mTOR kinase exerts its functions in two functionally and structurally distinct complexes, mTORC1 & 2. (unibas.ch)
  • In addition, further advancements in biotechnology have allowed for the use of metagenomics and genome mining to find new polyketides using similar enzymes to known polyketides. (wikipedia.org)
  • These enzymes are not part of the domains of the polyketide synthase. (wikipedia.org)
  • Our study also reveals that dimetal-carboxylate halogenases are among the most abundant types of halogenating enzymes in the phylum Cyanobacteria. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The current chapter focuses on different types of enzymes, their applications for waste management, and their limitations. (preprints.org)
  • The former contains the enzymes for novel benzene ring formation and phenoxazinone formation, and the latter contains enzymes belonging to a type III polyketide synthase and a cytochrome P-450. (go.jp)
  • Further studies in 1903 by Collie on the triketone polyketide intermediate noted the condensation occurring amongst compounds with multiple keten groups coining the term polyketides. (wikipedia.org)
  • Bacterial natural products, also called secondary or specialized metabolites (SM), such as daptomycin, vancomycin, or erythromycin, have already been shown to be potent antibiotics [2-4] . (beilstein-journals.org)
  • This enzymatic domain is part of bacterial polyketide synthases and catalyses the first step in the reductive modification of the beta-carbonyl centres in the growing polyketide chain. (embl-heidelberg.de)
  • Each polyketide synthases is unique to each polyketide chain because they contain different combinations of domains that reduce the carbonyl group to a hydroxyl (via a ketoreductase), an olefin (via a dehydratase), or a methylene (via an enoylreductase). (wikipedia.org)
  • Extrachromosomal expression of the respective gene led to the identification of a yellow polyunsaturated fatty acid. (nih.gov)
  • Functional characterization of Cpr38, which has sequence similarity to the gene products encoded by pabA and pabB from E. coli , revealed that it functions as a 4-amino-4-deoxychorismate (ADC) synthase catalyzing a two-step reaction involving amidohydrolysis of L-Gln with ammonia channeled and incorporated into chorismic acid to generate ADC. (uky.edu)
  • Each module harbors a region for the elongation of the polyketide intermediate and can possess an additional region responsible for further processing of the elongated polyketide. (nature.com)
  • Using complementary molecular biology approaches, including CRISPR-Cas9, we generated polyketide synthase ( pks5 ) inactivation and overproduction strains of the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum . (nih.gov)
  • Independently of the type module, that means the number and nature of domains provided by the module as well as the polyketide intermediate that it processes, the critical step is the translocation of the growing polyketide to the KS domain of the downstream module for C-C bond formation and the simultaneous suppression of its re-loading into the KS of the same module ( Figure 2 ). (nature.com)
  • A desaturase (XcnN) and a saccharopine dehydrogenase-like enzyme (XcnM) are essential for this unusual transformation via two new identified intermediates and the catalytic reaction is regulated by the response regulator OmpR. (uni-frankfurt.de)
  • The location of the atoms, groups or ions relative to one another in a molecule, as well as the number, type and location of covalent bonds. (lookformedical.com)
  • The two complexes share the defining core mTOR protein but employ characteristic subunits, Raptor for mTORC1 and Rictor for mTORC2, for capturing input signals controlling and localization, as well as for recognizing specific targets for phosphorylation. (unibas.ch)
  • To date, the global marine pharmaceutical pipeline consists of seven approved pharmaceuticals in clinical use, four of which are anticancer drugs, and about 26 natural products in Phase I to Phase III clinical trials, 23 as anticancer agents, two for schizophrenia and Alzheimer's, and one for chronic pain ( http://marinepharmacology.midwestern.edu/clinPipeline.htm ). (frontiersin.org)
  • Intuitively, one would account substrate specificity of the condensing enzyme responsible for translocation, e.g., by the condensing enzyme of the same module preventing the elongated polyketide from re-binding, but several studies demonstrated that the substrate specificity is rather weak and cannot meet this demand (e.g. ref 7 ). (nature.com)
  • However, if water is not able to reach the active site, the hydrating reaction will not occur and an intramolecular reaction is more probable creating a macrocyclic polyketide. (wikipedia.org)
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  • ii) CD1d knockdown inhibits monocyte activation by simplexide and iii) simplexide induces cytokine production from CD1d-transfected but not parental C1R cell line. (cirn-na.com)
  • As XCN 1 is also toxic to the producing strain, this compound is taken up by X. nematophila and a detoxification by XcnMN via a conversion of XCN 1 into the less active XCN 2 occurs due to a new type of pyrrolidine ring formation. (uni-frankfurt.de)
  • It is conjugated to GLYCINE in the liver and excreted as hippuric acid. (lookformedical.com)
  • 5) Re-loading the polyketide into the KS of the same module needs to be suppressed. (nature.com)
  • Differential, untargeted metabolomics of wild-type versus mutant fruiting bodies allowed us to pinpoint candidate metabolites derived from the amoebal PKS5. (nih.gov)
  • Naturally produced polyketides by various plants and organisms have been used by humans since before studies on them began in the 19th and 20th century. (wikipedia.org)
  • natural variation in bcvel1 encoding the ortholog of aspergillus nidulans vea, a member of the velvet complex, was previously shown to affect light-dependent differentiation, the formation of oxalic acid (oa), and virulence. (liverpool.ac.uk)
  • 2 Evolution of Microbial Interactions, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology-Hans Knöll Institute, D-07745 Jena, Germany. (nih.gov)