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Escherichia coli-Derived γ-Lactams and Structurally Related Metabolites Are Produced at the Intersection of Colibactin and Fatty Acid Biosynthesis.

ABSTRACT: Colibactin is a genotoxic hybrid polyketide-nonribosomal peptide that drives colorectal cancer initiation. While clinical data suggest colibactin genotoxicity in vivo is largely caused by the major DNA-cross-linking metabolite, the colibactin locus produces a diverse collection of metabolites with mostly unknown biological activities. Here, we describe 10 new colibactin pathway metabolites (1-10) that are dependent on its α-aminomalonyl-carrier protein. The most abundant metabolites, 1 and 2, were isolated and structurally characterized mainly by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to be γ-lactam derivatives, and the remaining related structures were inferred via shared biosynthetic logic. Our proposed formation of 1-10, which is supported by stereochemical analysis, invokes cross-talk between colibactin and fatty acid biosynthesis, illuminating further the complexity of this diversity-oriented pathway.

SUBMITTER: Kim CS

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10577019 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Escherichia coli-Derived γ-Lactams and Structurally Related Metabolites Are Produced at the Intersection of Colibactin and Fatty Acid Biosynthesis.

Kim Chung Sub CS Turocy Tayah T Moon Gyuri G Shine Emilee E EE Crawford Jason M JM

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Colibactin is a genotoxic hybrid polyketide-nonribosomal peptide that drives colorectal cancer initiation. While clinical data suggest colibactin genotoxicity in vivo is largely caused by the major DNA-cross-linking metabolite, the colibactin locus produces a diverse collection of metabolites with mostly unknown biological activities. Here, we describe 10 new colibactin pathway metabolites (1-10) that are dependent on its α-aminomalonyl-carrier protein. The most abundant metabolite ...[more]

PMID: 34406772

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Project description:Modular polyketide synthases (PKSs) and nonribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPSs) comprise giant multidomain enzymes responsible for the "assembly line" biosynthesis of many genetically encoded small molecules. Site-directed mutagenesis, protein biochemical, and structural studies have focused on elucidating the catalytic mechanisms of individual multidomain proteins and protein domains within these megasynthases. However, probing their functions at the cellular level typically has invoked the complete deletion (or overexpression) of multidomain-encoding genes or combinations of genes and comparing those mutants with a control pathway. Here we describe a "domain-targeted" metabolomic strategy that combines genome editing with pathway analysis to probe the functions of individual PKS and NRPS catalytic domains at the cellular metabolic level. We apply the approach to the bacterial colibactin pathway, a genotoxic NRPS-PKS hybrid pathway found in certain Escherichia coli. The pathway produces precolibactins, which are converted to colibactins by a dedicated peptidase, ClbP. Domain-targeted metabolomics enabled the characterization of "multidomain signatures", or functional readouts of NRPS-PKS domain contributions to the pathway-dependent metabolome. These multidomain signatures provided experimental support for individual domain contributions to colibactin biosynthesis and delineated the assembly line timing events of colibactin heterocycle formation. The analysis also led to the structural characterization of two reactive precolibactin metabolites. We demonstrate the fate of these reactive intermediates in the presence and absence of ClbP, which dictates the formation of distinct product groups resulting from alternative cyclization cascades. In the presence of the peptidase, the reactive intermediates are converted to a known genotoxic scaffold, providing metabolic support of our mechanistic model for colibactin-induced genotoxicity. Domain-targeted metabolomics could be more widely used to characterize NRPS-PKS pathways with unprecedented genetic and metabolic precision.

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Escherichia coli-Derived γ-Lactams and Structurally Related Metabolites Are Produced at the Intersection of Colibactin and Fatty Acid Biosynthesis.

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<i>Escherichia coli</i>-Derived γ-Lactams and Structurally Related Metabolites Are Produced at the Intersection of Colibactin and Fatty Acid Biosynthesis.

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