Guanidine N-methylation by BlsL Is Dependent on Acylation of Beta-amine Arginine in the Biosynthesis of Blasticidin S

The peptidyl nucleoside blasticidin S (BS) produced by Streptomyces griseochromogenes was the first non-mercurial fungicide used to prevent rice blast and increasingly used as a selection reagent in transgenic study. Acylation by addition of a leucine residue at the beta amine group of arginine side...

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Main Authors: Xiankun Wang, Aiqin Du, Guiyang Yu, Zixin Deng, Xinyi He
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Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-08-01
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2017.01565/full
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author Xiankun Wang
Aiqin Du
Guiyang Yu
Zixin Deng
Xinyi He
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Aiqin Du
Guiyang Yu
Zixin Deng
Xinyi He
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description The peptidyl nucleoside blasticidin S (BS) produced by Streptomyces griseochromogenes was the first non-mercurial fungicide used to prevent rice blast and increasingly used as a selection reagent in transgenic study. Acylation by addition of a leucine residue at the beta amine group of arginine side chain of demethylblasticidin S (DBS) has been proposed as a novel self-resistance to the cytotoxic biosynthetic intermediate. But the resultant product leucyldemethylblasticidin S (LDBS) has not been isolated as a metabolite, and LDBS synthetase activity remained to be demonstrated in S. griseochromogenes. In this study, we isolated LDBS in a BS heterologous producer S. lividans WJ2 upon the deletion of blsL, which encodes a S-Adenosyl methionine-dependent methyltransferase. Purified BlsL efficiently methylated LDBS at the delta N of beta-arginine to generate the ultimate intermediate LBS, but nearly didn’t methylate DBS to final product BS. Above experiments demonstrated that LDBS is indeed an intermediate in BS biosynthetic pathway, and acylation of beta-amino group of arginine side chain is prerequisite for efficient guanidine N-methylation in addition to being a self-resistance mechanism.
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spelling doaj.art-82b5c217e6b6494596f562c53017f3312022-12-21T18:45:41ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Microbiology1664-302X2017-08-01810.3389/fmicb.2017.01565284381Guanidine N-methylation by BlsL Is Dependent on Acylation of Beta-amine Arginine in the Biosynthesis of Blasticidin SXiankun WangAiqin DuGuiyang YuZixin DengXinyi HeThe peptidyl nucleoside blasticidin S (BS) produced by Streptomyces griseochromogenes was the first non-mercurial fungicide used to prevent rice blast and increasingly used as a selection reagent in transgenic study. Acylation by addition of a leucine residue at the beta amine group of arginine side chain of demethylblasticidin S (DBS) has been proposed as a novel self-resistance to the cytotoxic biosynthetic intermediate. But the resultant product leucyldemethylblasticidin S (LDBS) has not been isolated as a metabolite, and LDBS synthetase activity remained to be demonstrated in S. griseochromogenes. In this study, we isolated LDBS in a BS heterologous producer S. lividans WJ2 upon the deletion of blsL, which encodes a S-Adenosyl methionine-dependent methyltransferase. Purified BlsL efficiently methylated LDBS at the delta N of beta-arginine to generate the ultimate intermediate LBS, but nearly didn’t methylate DBS to final product BS. Above experiments demonstrated that LDBS is indeed an intermediate in BS biosynthetic pathway, and acylation of beta-amino group of arginine side chain is prerequisite for efficient guanidine N-methylation in addition to being a self-resistance mechanism.http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2017.01565/fullarginine N-methyltransferaseblasticidin S biosynthesisnucleoside resistanceleucyldemethylblasticidin Ssubstrate preference
spellingShingle Xiankun Wang
Aiqin Du
Guiyang Yu
Zixin Deng
Xinyi He
Guanidine N-methylation by BlsL Is Dependent on Acylation of Beta-amine Arginine in the Biosynthesis of Blasticidin S
Frontiers in Microbiology
arginine N-methyltransferase
blasticidin S biosynthesis
nucleoside resistance
leucyldemethylblasticidin S
substrate preference
title Guanidine N-methylation by BlsL Is Dependent on Acylation of Beta-amine Arginine in the Biosynthesis of Blasticidin S
title_full Guanidine N-methylation by BlsL Is Dependent on Acylation of Beta-amine Arginine in the Biosynthesis of Blasticidin S
title_fullStr Guanidine N-methylation by BlsL Is Dependent on Acylation of Beta-amine Arginine in the Biosynthesis of Blasticidin S
title_full_unstemmed Guanidine N-methylation by BlsL Is Dependent on Acylation of Beta-amine Arginine in the Biosynthesis of Blasticidin S
title_short Guanidine N-methylation by BlsL Is Dependent on Acylation of Beta-amine Arginine in the Biosynthesis of Blasticidin S
title_sort guanidine n methylation by blsl is dependent on acylation of beta amine arginine in the biosynthesis of blasticidin s
topic arginine N-methyltransferase
blasticidin S biosynthesis
nucleoside resistance
leucyldemethylblasticidin S
substrate preference
url http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2017.01565/full
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