The bottromycin epimerase BotH defines a group of atypical α/β-hydrolase-fold enzymes

D-amino acids endow peptides with diverse, desirable properties, but the post-translational and site-specific epimerization of L-amino acids into their D-counterparts is rare and chemically challenging. Bottromycins are ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides that have overcome this challenge and feature a D-aspartate (D-Asp), which was proposed to arise spontaneously during biosynthesis. We have identified the highly unusual α/β-hydrolase (ABH) fold enzyme BotH as a peptide epimerase responsible for the post-translational epimerization of L-Asp to D-Asp during bottromycin biosynthesis. The biochemical characterization of BotH combined with the structures of BotH and the BotH-substrate complex allowed us to propose a mechanism for this reaction. Bioinformatic analyses of BotH homologs show that similar ABH enzymes are found in diverse biosynthetic gene clusters. This places BotH as the founding member of a group of atypical ABH enzymes that may be able to epimerize non-Asp stereocenters across different families of secondary metabolites.

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ErratumIn: Nat Chem Biol. 2020 Jul 15;:. - PMID 32669684

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:16

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Nature chemical biology - 16(2020), 9 vom: 29. Sept., Seite 1013-1018

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Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Sikandar, Asfandyar [VerfasserIn]
Franz, Laura [VerfasserIn]
Adam, Sebastian [VerfasserIn]
Santos-Aberturas, Javier [VerfasserIn]
Horbal, Liliya [VerfasserIn]
Luzhetskyy, Andriy [VerfasserIn]
Truman, Andrew W [VerfasserIn]
Kalinina, Olga V [VerfasserIn]
Koehnke, Jesko [VerfasserIn]

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1393-68-6
30KYC7MIAI
Aspartic Acid
Bacterial Proteins
Bottromycin
EC 5.1.-
Journal Article
Peptides, Cyclic
Racemases and Epimerases
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 13.11.2020

Date Revised 16.07.2022

published: Print-Electronic

ErratumIn: Nat Chem Biol. 2020 Jul 15;:. - PMID 32669684

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1038/s41589-020-0569-y

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NLM311795501