Digitoxosyltetracenomycin C and glucosyltetracenomycin C, two novel elloramycin analogues obtained by exploring the sugar donor substrate specificity of glycosyltransferase ElmGT

J Nat Prod. 2002 Nov;65(11):1685-9. doi: 10.1021/np020112z.

Abstract

Our explorations of glycosyltransferase ElmGT from Streptomyces olivaceus Tü 2353, which shows an interesting flexibility regarding its sugar donor substrate, were extended toward various previously unexplored sugar co-substrates. The studies revealed that ElmGT, which normally transfers L-rhamnose to 8-demethyltetracenomycin C as a crucial biosynthetic step in elloramycin biosynthesis, is also able to process an activated non-deoxygenated sugar, NDP-D-glucose, as well as NDP-L-digitoxose, which is the first example of an NDP-L-sugar co-substrate of ElmGT possessing an axial 3-OH group. The structures of the resulting novel elloramycin analogues of these experiments, 8-demethyl-8-L-digitoxosyltetracenomycin C (4) and 8-demethyl-8-D-glucosyltetracenomycin C (7), were elucidated mainly by (1)H and (13)C NMR spectroscopy and by mass spectrometry.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Anthraquinones / chemistry*
  • Anthraquinones / isolation & purification*
  • Anthraquinones / metabolism*
  • Anthraquinones / pharmacology
  • Anti-Bacterial Agents / biosynthesis*
  • Anti-Bacterial Agents / metabolism
  • Catalysis
  • Glycosyltransferases / chemistry
  • Glycosyltransferases / metabolism*
  • Molecular Structure
  • Plasmids / metabolism
  • Streptomyces / enzymology*
  • Substrate Specificity

Substances

  • Anthraquinones
  • Anti-Bacterial Agents
  • digitoxosyltetracenomycin C
  • glucosyltetracenomycin C
  • elloramycin
  • Glycosyltransferases