Biosynthetic origin of butyrolactol A, an antifungal polyketide produced by a marine-derived Streptomyces

• Enjuro Harunari,
• Hisayuki Komaki and
• Yasuhiro Igarashi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 441–450, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.47

• , Kisarazu, Chiba 292-0818, Japan 10.3762/bjoc.13.47 Abstract Butyrolactol A is an antifungal polyketide of Streptomyces bearing an uncommon tert-butyl starter unit and a polyol system in which eight hydroxy/acyloxy carbons are contiguously connected. Except for its congener butyrolactol B, there exist no

• valine and its C-methylation with methionine and the polyol carbons are derived from a glycolysis intermediate, possibly hydroxymalonyl-ACP. Keywords: biosynthesis; butyrolactol; contiguous polyol; hydroxymalonyl-ACP; polyketide; Streptomyces; tert-butyl; Introduction Actinomycetes produce structurally

• diverse secondary metabolites with pharmaceutically useful bioactivities. Importantly, members of the genus Streptomyces have been the main source of drug discovery programs due to their high capacity in secondary metabolism including polyketides, peptides, terpenoids, alkaloids, and amino acid

Polyketide stereocontrol: a study in chemical biology

• Kira J. Weissman

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 348–371, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.39

First DMAP-mediated direct conversion of Morita–Baylis–Hillman alcohols into γ-ketoallylphosphonates: Synthesis of γ-aminoallylphosphonates

• Marwa Ayadi,
• Haitham Elleuch,
• Emmanuel Vrancken and
• Farhat Rezgui

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2906–2915, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.290

• derivatives were originally isolated from microorganisms [37][38], e.g., the fosmidomycin [39] is as an antimalarial drug that was isolated from broths of bacteria of the genus Streptomyces [40]. The γ-aminophosphonates were prepared through numerous synthetic methods [41][42][43][44][45]. For instance, they

Biochemical and structural characterisation of the second oxidative crosslinking step during the biosynthesis of the glycopeptide antibiotic A47934

• Veronika Ulrich,
• Clara Brieke and
• Max J. Cryle

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2849–2864, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.284

• the teicoplanin-related A47934 (sta) GPA biosynthetic machinery from Streptomyces toyocaensis [33] (Figure 1a) have revealed that the X-domain is in fact far from an innocent bystander during peptide oxidation and that switching this domain to other homologues can affect the selectivity of the Oxy

A non-canonical peptide synthetase adenylates 3-methyl-2-oxovaleric acid for auriculamide biosynthesis

• Daniel Braga,
• Dirk Hoffmeister and
• Markus Nett

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2766–2770, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.274

• (Figure 2) [10]. Of particular interest, the occurrence of two sequential adenylation (A) domains is a very rare feature and only preceded by PyrG from Streptomyces pyridomyceticus [11]. Since the lack of a genetic system for H. aurantiacus makes the use of reverse genetics prohibitive, we sought to

Enduracididine, a rare amino acid component of peptide antibiotics: Natural products and synthesis

• Darcy J. Atkinson,
• Briar J. Naysmith,
• Daniel P. Furkert and
• Margaret A. Brimble

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2325–2342, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.226

• as components of the mannopeptimycin antibiotics, isolated from Streptomyces hygroscopicus LL-AC98 in 2002 [7] and to date, have not been isolated as the free amino acids or observed in any other natural products. Natural products containing enduracididine and hydroxyenduracididine Enduracidin A and

• B Enduracidin A (7) and B (8) were first isolated from Streptomyces fungicidicus B 5477 from a soil sample collected in Nishinomiya, Japan (Figure 2) [1]. Detailed reports of the isolation procedures, in vivo and in vitro antimicrobial activity, physical properties and structure elucidation have

• been published [1][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]. Enduracidin A (7) and B (8) have also been isolated from Streptomyces sp. NJWGY366516 [16], Streptomyces atrovirens MGR140 [17] and along with five analogues with various halogenation patterns, from a genetically altered strain of Streptomyces

A detailed view on 1,8-cineol biosynthesis by Streptomyces clavuligerus

• Jan Rinkel,
• Patrick Rabe,
• Laura zur Horst and
• Jeroen S. Dickschat

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2317–2324, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.225

• -cineol synthase from Streptomyces clavuligerus was investigated using stereospecifically deuterated substrates. In contrast to the well investigated plant enzyme from Salvia officinalis, the reaction proceeds via (S)-linalyl diphosphate and the (S)-terpinyl cation, while the final cyclisation reaction is

• reactions (reviewed in [25]). While the stereochemical course of the GPP cyclisation to 1 has been investigated for the 1,8-cineol synthase from Salvia officinalis [26][27], it is unknown for the bacterial enzyme that was recently reported from Streptomyces clavuligerus [28]. Here we describe isotopic

• cyclases are monodomain enzymes (α) [9][10][36]. Accordingly, also the 1,8-cineol synthases from Salvia officinalis and from Streptomyces clavuligerus are not related and have evolved independently. While the plant enzyme was shown to convert GPP via (R)-LPP ((R)-5) and the (R)-terpinyl cation ((R)-6) into

Evidence for an iterative module in chain elongation on the azalomycin polyketide synthase

• Hui Hong,
• Yuhui Sun,
• Yongjun Zhou,
• Emily Stephens,
• Markiyan Samborskyy and
• Peter F. Leadlay

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2164–2172, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.206

• (marginolactones) azalomycin and kanchanamycin, isolated respectively from Streptomyces malaysiensis DSM4137 and Streptomyces olivaceus Tü4018, the first extension module catalyses both the first and second cycles of polyketide chain extension. To confirm the integrity of the azl gene cluster, it was cloned intact

• on a bacterial artificial chromosome and transplanted into the heterologous host strain Streptomyces lividans, which does not possess the genes for marginolactone production. When furnished with 4-guanidinobutyramide, a specific precursor of the azalomycin starter unit, the recombinant S. lividans

• gene cluster for biosynthesis of the polyketide β-lactone ebelactone in Streptomyces aburaviensis has shown that, contrary to a recently-published proposal, the ebelactone polyketide synthase faithfully follows the colinear modular paradigm. Keywords: colinearity; ebelactone; enzyme catalysis

The direct oxidative diene cyclization and related reactions in natural product synthesis

• Juliane Adrian,
• Leona J. Gross and
• Christian B. W. Stark

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2104–2123, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.200

• coupling [53][54]. The oxidative cyclization diastereoselectively led to the THF diol 13 in 88% yield from which neodysiherbaine A (14) was obtained in a further three steps. Ionomycin Ionomycin (19), an ionophore antibiotic isolated from Streptomyces conglobatus in 1978 [55][56][57], has a high affinity

• . Venustatriol (96) could then be obtained by C–C-coupling with the corresponding THP fragment in an enantioselective fashion. Glaciapyrrol A Glaciapyrrol A (100), B and C form a family of pyrrolo sesquiterpenoids which have been isolated in 2005 from a marine Streptomyces sp. (NPS008187) by Macherla et al. [161

Mechanistic investigations on six bacterial terpene cyclases

• Patrick Rabe,
• Thomas Schmitz and
• Jeroen S. Dickschat

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 1839–1850, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.173

• bacterial [28][35] and fungal [36][37] terpene cyclases. Results and Discussion Incubation of a recombinant terpene cyclase from Streptomyces viridochromogenes DSM 40736 (NCBI accession number WP_039931950) with farnesyl diphosphate (FPP) yielded a single product that was identified as α-amorphene (1

• relative of the enzyme from S. viridochromogenes is found in Streptomyces sp. NRRL S-481 (86% identity). Incubation of FPP with a recombinant terpene synthase from Roseiflexus castenholzii DSM 13941 (accession number WP_012119179) resulted in the formation of the sesquiterpene alcohol 2, previously

• established the structure of T-muurolol (2). The absolute configuration was determined as (1R,6S,7R,10R)-(+)-T-muurolol (2) from its optical rotary power ([α]D23 = +99.4 (c 1.10, CH2Cl2)). This is the same compound as was reported from a terpene cyclase from Streptomyces clavuligerus (accession number

Synthesis of the C8’-epimeric thymine pyranosyl amino acid core of amipurimycin

• Pramod R. Markad,
• Navanath Kumbhar and
• Dilip D. Dhavale

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 1765–1771, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.165

• miharamycin that are known as antifungal agents [2]. Amipurimycin (1) isolated from Streptomyces novoguineensis sp. nov., displays antifungal activity against pyricularia oryzae – a causative agent in rice blast disease [3][4]. Goto and co-workers have proposed the primary structure of amipurimycin (1, Figure

Total synthesis of leopolic acid A, a natural 2,3-pyrrolidinedione with antimicrobial activity

• Atul A. Dhavan,
• Rahul D. Kaduskar,
• Loana Musso,
• Leonardo Scaglioni,
• Piera Anna Martino and
• Sabrina Dallavalle

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 1624–1628, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.159

• ]. Chemical analysis of a terrestrial-derived Streptomyces sp. isolated from the rhizosphere of the plant Juniperus excelsa yielded a new metabolite, leopolic acid A (1, Figure 1) [2]. Leopolic acid has unprecedented structural features consisting of an aliphatic side chain attached to a 2,3-pyrrolidinedione

Biosynthesis of oxygen and nitrogen-containing heterocycles in polyketides

• Franziska Hemmerling and
• Frank Hahn

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 1512–1550, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.148

• chapter 1.1.1, furan rings can also be biosynthesised via oxa-Michael additions. Nonactin. Nonactin (70) is the smallest homolog of the macrotetrolides, a family of cyclic polyethers that commonly have activity as ionophore antibiotics (Scheme 11a). It is produced by Streptomyces griseus subsp. griseus

• ETH A7796 as well as by Streptomyces fulvissimus and consists of four nonactic acid units, which are assembled in a head-to-tail fashion giving a C2-symmetric (−)-(+)-(−)-(+) macrocycle [53]. Nonactin (70) biosynthesis has been extensively studied and shows multiple unusual features. Genes of an ACP

• enzyme is proposed to convert both enantiomers, finally giving the nonactic acid monomers 69a and 69b. Priestley et al. showed that the cell lysate of a recombinant Streptomyces lividans strain overexpressing the nonS gene was able to convert the N-caprylcysteamine thioester (71b) into the respective

The EIMS fragmentation mechanisms of the sesquiterpenes corvol ethers A and B, epi-cubebol and isodauc-8-en-11-ol

• Patrick Rabe and
• Jeroen S. Dickschat

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 1380–1394, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.132

• bacterial terpene cyclases corvol ether synthase from Kitasatospora setae, the epi-cubebol synthase from Streptosporangium roseum, and the isodauc-8-en-11-ol synthase from Streptomyces venezuelae. The enzyme products were analysed by GC–MS and GC–QTOF MS2 and the obtained data were used to delineate the

• studies with (1(10)E,4E,6S,7R)-germacradien-6-ol synthase from Streptomyces pratensis and epi-isozizaene synthase from Streptomyces albus, that the enzymatically obtained products from the (13C1)FPP isotopomers are useful for detailed investigations on the EIMS fragmentation mechanisms of sesquiterpenes

• isodauc-8-en-11-ol made by terpene cyclases from Streptosporangium roseum [19][20] and from Streptomyces venezuelae [21]. Results and Discussion To investigate the EIMS fragmentation mechanisms for the two sesquiterpene ethers corvol ether A (1) and corvol ether B (2), and for the sesquiterpene alcohols

Muraymycin nucleoside-peptide antibiotics: uridine-derived natural products as lead structures for the development of novel antibacterial agents

• Daniel Wiegmann,
• Stefan Koppermann,
• Marius Wirth,
• Giuliana Niro,
• Kristin Leyerer and
• Christian Ducho

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 769–795, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.77

• biosynthesis. This review will focus on muraymycins as a subclass of nucleoside antibiotics, covering their mode of action, synthetic approaches as well as SAR studies on several derivatives. Furthermore, first insights into the biosynthesis of these Streptomyces-produced secondary metabolites will be

• discussed. Review Structures of naturally occurring muraymycins The muraymycins were first isolated in 2002 from a broth of a Streptomyces sp. [22]. McDonald et al. discovered and characterised 19 naturally occurring muraymycins (Figure 1). These compounds belong to the family of nucleoside antibiotics

• peptidoglycan biosynthesis is given by Bugg et al. in two review articles [23][24] and by Ichikawa et al. in a recent review [25]. Representing the first discovered nucleoside antibiotics, the tunicamycins were isolated in 1971 from Streptomyces lysosuperficus nov. sp. by Takatsuki and Tamura et al. [26][27][28

Antibiotics from predatory bacteria

• Juliane Korp,
• María S. Vela Gurovic and
• Markus Nett

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 594–607, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.58

• likely that corallopyronin is produced by myxobacteria to facilitate feeding on other bacteria. Althiomycin: The antibiotic althiomycin (Figure 4) had been initially discovered in cultures of Streptomyces althioticus [107], before it was also reported from strains of Myxococcus virescens, M. xanthus, and

Biosynthesis of α-pyrones

• Till F. Schäberle

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 571–588, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.56

• was described, i.e., murayalactone (28) isolated from Streptomyces murayamaensis (Figure 5) [33]. 1.2 Monocyclic α-pyrones In addition to the aforementioned examples also the simplest α-pyrones show remarkable biological effects. Isolated from several fungi, e.g., Trichoderma viride, 6-pentyl-α-pyrone

• -pyran-2-one (47, Figure 10) [52]. Also antitumor activities of α-pyrones had been shown. Thus, pironetin (47, Figure 10) induced apoptosis in a dose- and time-dependent manner, and tubulin assembly was inhibited in vitro [53]. The natural product was isolated from Streptomyces sp. NK10958 [54], and its

• Streptomyces viridochromogenes NRRL B-1551, whereby the compounds had been detected in the supernatant of germinated spores, as well as in the supernatant of the submerged culture [59]. The excretion of these compounds prevents the germination of the spores too close to the parent culture. Germination of S

Natural products in synthesis and biosynthesis II

• Jeroen S. Dickschat

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 413–414, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.44

• Sciences) for the discovery of the terpenoid antimalaria drug artemisinin that is produced by the plant Artemisia annua [3], and to Satoshi Õmura and William C. Campbell for the discovery of avermectins isolated from the actinobacterium Streptomyces avermitilis at the famous Kitasato Institute and for the

Natural products from microbes associated with insects

• Christine Beemelmanns,
• Huijuan Guo,
• Maja Rischer and
• Michael Poulsen

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 314–327, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.34

• the solitary digger wasp European beewolf (Philanthus triangulum), catch and paralyze honeybees and use the insect prey as food source for their larvae. To protect the offspring, beewolves cultivate the endosymbiont ”Candidatus Streptomyces philanthi” in antennal glands. By inoculation of the soil of

• . Using symbiont pairing bioassays and chemical analysis one of the major isolates Streptomyces thermosacchari was shown to produce the fungicide mycangimycin (12), which inhibits the growth of the antagonist O. minus. Mycangimycin is an unusual carboxylic acid derivative with an endoperoxide unit and a

• conjugated heptaene moiety [86][87]. Subsequent chemical analysis of another Streptomyces strain associated with the southern pine beetle led to the discovery of two new members of polyketide-derived polycyclic tetramate macrolactams named frontalamides A (13) and B (14) (Figure 5) [88][89], which also

Recent highlights in biosynthesis research using stable isotopes

• Jan Rinkel and
• Jeroen S. Dickschat

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 2493–2508, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.271

• mechanism. An interesting feeding experiment was performed for the elucidation of both absolute configuration and biosynthesis of the polyketid alkaloid coelimycin P1 (8, Scheme 2). The compound was isolated from Streptomyces coelicolor M145 after genetically engineered increase of the metabolic flux and is

• polyketide products. Emphasizing the same principle, the biosynthesis of trioxacarcin A (9, Scheme 3), a complex aromatic natural product originally isolated from Streptomyces bottropensis DO-45 and showing remarkable antibacterial and antitumor properties [25], was investigated using isotopically labeled

• . on the anthraquinone crysophanol, for which different folding modes in fungi (F type folding) and in bacteria (S type, “Streptomyces” type) were found by isotopic labeling experiments for one and the same compound [30]. As an additional concluding remark of this chapter, the role of isotopic labeling

A novel and widespread class of ketosynthase is responsible for the head-to-head condensation of two acyl moieties in bacterial pyrone biosynthesis

• Darko Kresovic,
• Florence Schempp,
• Zakaria Cheikh-Ali and
• Helge B. Bode

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 1412–1417, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.152

• . The biosynthetic importance of the second group including PpyS homologues from Burkholderia, Legionella, Nocardia, Microcystis and Streptomyces needs to be determined in future work. In contrary, MxnB and CorB are located within the FabH clade, showing that not only the reaction mechanism of these two

A new and convenient synthetic way to 2-substituted thieno[2,3-b]indoles

• Roman A. Irgashev,
• Arseny A. Karmatsky,
• Gennady L. Rusinov and
• Valery N. Charushin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 1000–1007, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.112

• of Streptomyces albogriseolus and characterized by Kanbe et al. [2][3], has shown to exhibit a plant-growth-regulation activity (Figure 1). Furthermore, it has been reported that some thienoindoles are therapeutically agents for treating diseases of the central nervous system [4], potential

(2R,1'S,2'R)- and (2S,1'S,2'R)-3-[2-Mono(di,tri)fluoromethylcyclopropyl]alanines and their incorporation into hormaomycin analogues

• Armin de Meijere,
• Sergei I. Kozhushkov,
• Dmitrii S. Yufit,
• Christian Grosse,
• Marcel Kaiser and
• Vitaly A. Raev

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 2844–2857, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.302

• isolated from a Streptomyces griseoflavus (strain W-384) fermentation broth by Zähner et al. in Tübingen, Germany and structurally identified by Zeeck et al. in Göttingen, Germany in 1989–1990 [3][4]. Once the absolute configuration of all the previously unassigned stereogenic centers in the

Sacrolide A, a new antimicrobial and cytotoxic oxylipin macrolide from the edible cyanobacterium Aphanothece sacrum

• Naoya Oku,
• Miyako Matsumoto,
• Kohsuke Yonejima,
• Keijiroh Tansei and
• Yasuhiro Igarashi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1808–1816, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.190

• . Antimicrobial testing against four Gram-positive bacteria (Bacillus subtilis, Micrococcus luteus, Staphylococcus aureus, and Streptomyces lividans), one Gram-negative bacterium (Escherichia coli), two yeasts (Candida albicans and Saccharomyces cerevisiae), and two fungi (Aspergillus oryzae and Penicillum

• the growth of Gram-positive bacteria (Micrococcus luteus, Streptomyces lividans, Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus subtilis), a yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) and a fungus (Penicillium chrysogenum) (Table 2). Moreover, 1 was cytotoxic to 3Y1 rat fibroblasts (GI50 4.5 μM). Under microscopic observation

• strains were grown on agar media (Staphylococcus aureus FDA209P JC-1, Micrococcus luteus ATCC9341, Escherichia coli NIHJ JC-2, Saccharomyces cerevisiae S100, and Candida albicans A9540) or in Sabouraud broth (Penicillum chrysogenum NBRC4626, Streptomyces lividans TK23) overnight and then diluted with

Multicomponent reactions in nucleoside chemistry

• Mariola Koszytkowska-Stawińska and
• Włodzimierz Buchowicz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1706–1732, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.179

• hydantoins attracted a considerable attention because of their importance in medicine and industry [116][117]. N-Nucleoside analogs with (thio)hydatantoin scaffold as a nucleobase mimic were also extensively investigated [118]. (+)-Hydantocidin (Scheme 43), isolated from Streptomyces hygroscopicus, is a