Journal
ACS SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY
Volume 9, Issue 6, Pages 1349-1360Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.0c00038
Keywords
biosynthetic gene cluster (BGC); cell-free protein synthesis (CFPS); hapalindole; fischerindole; in vitro TT-assay
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Funding
- National Institutes of Health [R35 GM118101]
- National Science Foundation under the CCI Center for Selective C-H Functionalization [CHE-1700982]
- Hans W. Vahlteich Professorship
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Genome sequencing and bioinformatics tools have facilitated the identification and expression of an increasing number of cryptic biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs). However, functional analysis of all components of a metabolic pathway to precisely determine biocatalytic properties remains time-consuming and labor intensive. One way to speed this process involves microscale cell-free protein synthesis (CFPS) for direct gene to biochemical function analysis, which has rarely been applied to study multicomponent enzymatic systems in specialized metabolism. We sought to establish an in vitro transcription/translation (TT)-assay to assess assembly of cyanobacterial-derived hapalindole-type natural products (cNPs because of their diverse bioactivity profiles and complex structural diversity. Using a CFPS system including a plasmid bearing faniD2 prenyltransferase from Fischerella ambigua UTEX 1903, we showed production of the central prenylated intermediate (3GC) in the presence of exogenous geranyl-pyrophosphate (GPP) and cis-indole isonitrile. Further addition of a plasmid bearing the famC1 Stig cydase resulted in synthesis of both FamD2 and FamC1 enzymes, which was confirmed by proteomics analysis, and catalyzed assembly of 12-epi-hapalindole U. Further combinations of Stig cydases (FamC1-C4) produced hapalindole U and hapalindole H, while FisC identified from Fischerella sp. SAG46.79 generated 12-epi-fischerindole U. The CFPS system was further employed to screen six unnatural halogenated cis-indole isonitrile substrates using FamC1 and FisC, and the reactions were scaled-up using chemoenzymatic synthesis and identified as 5- and 6-fiuoro-12-epi-hapalindole U, and 5- and 6-fiuoro-12-epi-fischerindole U, respectively. This approach represents an effective, high throughput strategy to determine the functional role of biosynthetic enzymes from diverse natural product BGCs.
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