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38. Enzyme-Catalyzed Intramolecular Enantioselective Hydroalkoxylation

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Gao, Shu-Shan, Garcia-Borràs, Marc, Barber, Joyann S, Hai, Yang, Duan, Abing, Garg, Neil K, Houk, KN, and Tang, Yi

Subjects
Infectious Diseases, Rare Diseases, Biocatalysis, Lyases, Molecular Structure, Phenalenes, Quantum Theory, Stereoisomerism, Chemical Sciences, General Chemistry
Abstract

Hydroalkoxylation is a powerful and efficient method of forming C-O bonds and cyclic ethers in synthetic chemistry. In studying the biosynthesis of the fungal natural product herqueinone, we identified an enzyme that can perform an intramolecular enantioselective hydroalkoxylation reaction. PhnH catalyzes the addition of a phenol to the terminal olefin of a reverse prenyl group to give a dihydrobenzofuran product. The enzyme accelerates the reaction by 3 × 105-fold compared to the uncatalyzed reaction. PhnH belongs to a superfamily of proteins with a domain of unknown function (DUF3237), of which no member has a previously verified function. The discovery of PhnH demonstrates that enzymes can be used to promote the enantioselective hydroalkoxylation reaction and form cyclic ethers.

Published
2017

40. Phenalenone Polyketide Cyclization Catalyzed by Fungal Polyketide Synthase and Flavin-Dependent Monooxygenase

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Gao, Shu-Shan, Duan, Abing, Xu, Wei, Yu, Peiyuan, Hang, Leibniz, Houk, KN, and Tang, Yi

Subjects
Organic Chemistry, Chemical Sciences, Catalysis, Chromatography, Liquid, Cyclization, Flavins, Fungi, Molecular Structure, Multigene Family, Oxygenases, Phenalenes, Polyketide Synthases, General Chemistry, Chemical sciences, Engineering
Abstract

Phenalenones are polyketide natural products that display diverse structures and biological activities. The core of phenalenones is a peri-fused tricyclic ring system cyclized from a linear polyketide precursor via an unresolved mechanism. Toward understanding the unusual cyclization steps, the phn biosynthetic gene cluster responsible for herqueinone biosynthesis was identified from the genome of Penicillium herquei. A nonreducing polyketide synthase (NR-PKS) PhnA was shown to synthesize the heptaketide backbone and cyclize it into the angular, hemiketal-containing naphtho-γ-pyrone prephenalenone. The product template (PT) domain of PhnA catalyzes only the C4-C9 aldol condensation, which is unprecedented among known PT domains. The transformation of prephenalenone to phenalenone requires an FAD-dependent monooxygenase (FMO) PhnB, which catalyzes the C2 aromatic hydroxylation of prephenalenone and ring opening of the γ-pyrone ring simultaneously. Density functional theory calculations provide insights into why the hydroxylated intermediate undergoes an aldol-like phenoxide-ketone cyclization to yield the phenalenone core. This study therefore unveiled new routes and biocatalysts for polyketide cyclization.

Published
2016

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