Alanylclavam

Alanylclavam

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Alanylclavam
Category Antibiotics
Catalog number BBF-03371
CAS 74758-63-7
Molecular Weight 200.19
Molecular Formula C8H12N2O4

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Description

Alanylclavam is a beta-lactam antibiotic produced by Streptomyces clavuligerus NRRL 3585. It is neither a substrate for nor inhibitor of several beta-lactamases, shows antimicrobial activity in defined minimal medium but little or no inhibitory activity in nutrient-rich medium.

Specification

Synonyms Ro-22-5417; 3-(7-Oxo-1-aza-4-oxabicyclo(3.2.0)hept-3-yl)alanine
IUPAC Name (2S)-2-amino-3-[(3S,5S)-7-oxo-4-oxa-1-azabicyclo[3.2.0]heptan-3-yl]propanoic acid
Canonical SMILES C1C2N(C1=O)CC(O2)CC(C(=O)O)N
InChI InChI=1S/C8H12N2O4/c9-5(8(12)13)1-4-3-10-6(11)2-7(10)14-4/h4-5,7H,1-3,9H2,(H,12,13)/t4-,5-,7-/m0/s1
InChI Key KCAIYJDHLVYANU-VPLCAKHXSA-N

Properties

Melting Point 247-267°C (dec.)

Reference Reading

1. Alanylclavam biosynthetic genes are clustered together with one group of clavulanic acid biosynthetic genes in Streptomyces clavuligerus
Nathan J Zelyas, Hui Cai, Thomas Kwong, Susan E Jensen J Bacteriol. 2008 Dec;190(24):7957-65. doi: 10.1128/JB.00698-08. Epub 2008 Oct 17.
Streptomyces clavuligerus produces at least five different clavam metabolites, including clavulanic acid and the methionine antimetabolite, alanylclavam. In vitro transposon mutagenesis was used to analyze a 13-kb region upstream of the known paralogue gene cluster. The paralogue cluster includes one group of clavulanic acid biosynthetic genes in S. clavuligerus. Twelve open reading frames (ORFs) were found in this area, and mutants were generated in each using either in vitro transposon or PCR-targeted mutagenesis. Mutants with defects in any of the genes orfA, orfB, orfC, or orfD were unable to produce alanylclavam but could produce all of the other clavams, including clavulanic acid. orfA encodes a predicted hydroxymethyltransferase, orfB encodes a YjgF/YER057c/UK114-family regulatory protein, orfC encodes an aminotransferase, and orfD encodes a dehydratase. All of these types of proteins are normally involved in amino acid metabolism. Mutants in orfC or orfD also accumulated a novel clavam metabolite instead of alanylclavam, and a complemented orfC mutant was able to produce trace amounts of alanylclavam while still producing the novel clavam. Mass spectrometric analyses, together with consideration of the enzymes involved in its production, led to tentative identification of the novel clavam as 8-OH-alanylclavam, an intermediate in the proposed alanylclavam biosynthetic pathway.
2. Genes specific for the biosynthesis of clavam metabolites antipodal to clavulanic acid are clustered with the gene for clavaminate synthase 1 in Streptomyces clavuligerus
R H Mosher, A S Paradkar, C Anders, B Barton, S E Jensen Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 1999 May;43(5):1215-24. doi: 10.1128/AAC.43.5.1215.
Portions of the Streptomyces clavuligerus chromosome flanking cas1, which encodes the clavaminate synthase 1 isoenzyme (CAS1), have been cloned and sequenced. Mutants of S. clavuligerus disrupted in cvm1, the open reading frame located immediately upstream of cas1, were constructed by a gene replacement procedure. Similar techniques were used to generate S. clavuligerus mutants carrying a deletion that encompassed portions of the two open reading frames, cvm4 and cvm5, located directly downstream of cas1. Both classes of mutants still produced clavulanic acid and cephamycin C but lost the ability to synthesize the antipodal clavam metabolites clavam-2-carboxylate, 2-hydroxymethyl-clavam, and 2-alanylclavam. These results suggested that cas1 is clustered with genes essential and specific for clavam metabolite biosynthesis. When a cas1 mutant of S. clavuligerus was constructed by gene replacement, it produced lower levels of both clavulanic acid and most of the antipodal clavams except for 2-alanylclavam. However, a double mutant of S. clavuligerus disrupted in both cas1 and cas2 produced neither clavulanic acid nor any of the antipodal clavams, including 2-alanylclavam. This outcome was consistent with the contribution of both CAS1 and CAS2 to a common pool of clavaminic acid that is shunted toward clavulanic acid and clavam metabolite biosynthesis.
3. The claR gene of Streptomyces clavuligerus, encoding a LysR-type regulatory protein controlling clavulanic acid biosynthesis, is linked to the clavulanate-9-aldehyde reductase (car) gene
R Pérez-Redondo, A Rodríguez-García, J F Martín, P Liras Gene. 1998 May 12;211(2):311-21. doi: 10.1016/s0378-1119(98)00106-1.
Two genes, claR and car, encoding proteins involved in clavulanic acid biosynthesis, have been found in a 2.8-kb BglII-EcoRI DNA fragment of Streptomyces clavuligerus adjacent to the region containing the cephamycin and clavulanic acid biosynthesis gene cluster. claR encoded a protein of 431 amino acids (deduced Mr 47080), that showed a significant degree of homology with several transcriptional activators of the LysR family. The ClaR protein contained two helix-turn-helix (HTH) motifs in the amino and carboxyl terminal regions. The second gene, car, encoded a protein of 247 amino acids (Mr 26629) that showed a strong similarity to oxydoreductases of the SDR family. Twelve amino acids of the amino-terminal region were identical to those previously obtained by Edman degradation of the purified clavulanic-9-aldehyde reductase of S. clavuligerus. Amplification of the claR gene in multicopy plasmids resulted in a threefold increase in clavulanic acid production and in a five- to sixfold increase of alanylclavam biosynthesis, whereas cephamycin production was significantly reduced both in defined and in complex media. By contrast, amplification of the car gene had no significant effect on clavulanic acid and alanylclavam or cephamycin production. Both claR and car are expressed as monocistronic transcripts; the level of transcript declined rapidly after 48h in complex media, but low sustained levels of both transcripts were observed in defined GSPG medium until 96h. claR and car were not significantly expressed in mutants disrupted in the ccaR gene, a regulatory gene that controls positively clavulanic acid and cephamycin biosynthesis. These results indicate that clavulanic acid and cephamycin biosynthesis in S. clavuligerus is controlled by a cascade of regulatory proteins that include CcaR and ClaR.

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