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CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL
Volume 19, Issue 27, Pages 8922-8928Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201300554
Keywords
enzyme catalysis; polyketides; stereospecificity; stereoselectivity; vibrational circular dichroism
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- DFG [IRTG 1038]
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The stereospecificity of an enzymatic reaction depends on the way in which a substrate and its enantiomer bind to the active site. These binding modes cannot be easily predicted. We have studied the stereospecificity and stereoselectivity of the ketoreductase domain Tyl-KR1 of the tylactone polyketide synthase from Streptomyces fradiae by analysing the stereochemical outcome of the reduction of five different keto ester substrates. The absolute configuration of the Tyl-KR1 reduction products was determined by using vibrational circular dichroism (VCD) spectroscopy combined with quantum chemical calculations. The conversion of only one of the tested substrates, 2-methyl-3-oxovaleric acid N-acetylcysteamine thioester, afforded the expected anti-(2R,3R) configuration of the -methyl--hydroxyl ester product, representing the stereochemistry observed for the physiological polyketide product tylactone. For all other substrates, which were modified with respect to the type of ester and/or the chain length (C4 instead of C5), the opposite configuration (anti-(2S,3S)) was obtained with significant enantio- and diastereoselectivity. Inversion of both stereocentres suggests completely different binding modes invoked by only minor modifications of the substrate structure.
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