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Cross, Alice R., Roy, Sumita, Vega, Mirella Vivoli, Rejzek, Martin, Nepogodiev, Sergey A., Cliff, Matthew, Salmon, Debbie, Isupov, Michail N., Field, Robert A. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8574-0275, Prior, Joann L. and Harmer, Nicholas J.
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(2022)
Spinning sugars in antigen biosynthesis: Characterization of the Coxiella burnetii and Streptomyces griseus TDP-sugar epimerases.
Journal of Biological Chemistry, 298 (5).
ISSN 0021-9258
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Abstract
The sugars streptose and dihydrohydroxystreptose (DHHS) are unique to the bacteria Streptomyces griseus and Coxiella burnetii, respectively. Streptose forms the central moiety of the antibiotic streptomycin, while DHHS is found in the O-antigen of the zoonotic pathogen C. burnetii. Biosynthesis of these sugars has been proposed to follow a similar path to that of TDP-rhamnose, catalyzed by the enzymes RmlA, RmlB, RmlC, and RmlD, but the exact mechanism is unclear. Streptose and DHHS biosynthesis unusually requires a ring contraction step that could be performed by orthologs of RmlC or RmlD. Genome sequencing of S. griseus and C. burnetii has identified StrM and CBU1838 proteins as RmlC orthologs in these respective species. Here, we demonstrate that both enzymes can perform the RmlC 3’’,5’’ double epimerization activity necessary to support TDP-rhamnose biosynthesis in vivo. This is consistent with the ring contraction step being performed on a double epimerized substrate. We further demonstrate that proton exchange is faster at the 3’’-position than the 5’’-posi-tion, in contrast to a previously studied ortholog. We additionally solved the crystal structures of CBU1838 and StrM in complex with TDP and show that they form an active site highly similar to those of the previously characterized enzymes RmlC, EvaD, and ChmJ. These results support the hypothesis that streptose and DHHS are biosynthesized using the TDP pathway and that an RmlD paralog most likely performs ring contraction following double epimerization. This work will support the elucidation of the full pathways for biosynthesis of these unique sugars.
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| Additional Information: | Data availability statement: All data underpinning this work are publicly available. Structure coordinates and structure factor files are deposited with the Protein Data Bank (accession numbers: 7PA1, 7P7I, 7P7W, 7P9L, 7P9P, and 7P9Y). Enzymatic and mass spectrometry data are available as Supplementary Files or from Open Research Exeter (doi: http://doi.org/10.24378/exe.3724). Funding Information: S. R., M. V. V., R. A. F., and N. J. H. were funded by BBSRC grant BB/N001591/1. A. R. C. and N. J. H. were funded by BBSRC grant BB/M016404/1 and by Dstl grant DSTLX-1000098217. Work at the John Innes Centre (M. R., S. A. N., R. A. F.) was supported by the UK BBSRC Institute Strategic Program on Molecules from Nature -Products and Pathways [BBS/ E/J/000PR9790] and the John Innes Foundation, and the InnovateUK: IBCatalyst (Grant BB/M02903411). |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | biochemistry,molecular biology,cell biology ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1300/1303 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Chemistry, Pharmacy and Pharmacology |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Sep 2024 09:36 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Sep 2024 18:05 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/96460 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jbc.2022.101903 |
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