Methylenomycin A
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| Category | Antibiotics |
| Catalog number | BBF-01927 |
| CAS | 52775-76-5 |
| Molecular Weight | 182.17 |
| Molecular Formula | C9H10O4 |
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Description
Methylenomycin A is a cyclopentanone derived antibiotic produced by Streptomyces violaceoruber 2416 that is effective against both Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria.
Specification
| IUPAC Name | (1S,2R,5S)-1,5-dimethyl-3-methylidene-4-oxo-6-oxabicyclo[3.1.0]hexane-2-carboxylic acid |
| Canonical SMILES | CC12C(C(=C)C(=O)C1(O2)C)C(=O)O |
| InChI | InChI=1S/C9H10O4/c1-4-5(7(11)12)8(2)9(3,13-8)6(4)10/h5H,1H2,2-3H3,(H,11,12)/t5-,8-,9+/m0/s1 |
| InChI Key | HBECYYFDLZZMPL-WLGLDCGKSA-N |
Properties
| Appearance | Colorless Needle Crystal |
| Antibiotic Activity Spectrum | Gram-positive bacteria; Gram-negative bacteria |
| Boiling Point | 341.2±42.0°C at 760 mmHg |
| Melting Point | 115°C (dec.) |
| Density | 1.4±0.1 g/cm3 |
Reference Reading
1. MmfL catalyses formation of a phosphorylated butenolide intermediate in methylenomycin furan biosynthesis
Shanshan Zhou, Nicolas R Malet, Lijiang Song, Christophe Corre, Gregory L Challis Chem Commun (Camb). 2020 Nov 19;56(92):14443-14446. doi: 10.1039/d0cc05658h.
Using a combination of a synthetic substrate analogue and product standard, MmfL, a homologue of the γ-butyrolactone biosynthetic enzyme AfsA, was shown to catalyse the condensation of dihydroxyacetone phosphate with a β-ketoacyl thioester to form a phosphorylated butenolide intermediate in the biosynthesis of the methylenomycin furans, which induce methlenomycin antibiotic production in Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2). AfsA homologues are also involved in the biosynthesis of 2-akyl-4-hydroxy-3-methyl butenolide inducers of antibiotic production in other Streptomyces species, indicating that diverse signalling molecules are assembled from analogous phosphorylated butenolide intermediates.
2. Modeling the architecture of the regulatory system controlling methylenomycin production in Streptomyces coelicolor
Jack E Bowyer, Emmanuel Lc de Los Santos, Kathryn M Styles, Alex Fullwood, Christophe Corre, Declan G Bates J Biol Eng. 2017 Oct 3;11:30. doi: 10.1186/s13036-017-0071-6. eCollection 2017.
Background: The antibiotic methylenomycin A is produced naturally by Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2), a model organism for streptomycetes. This compound is of particular interest to synthetic biologists because all of the associated biosynthetic, regulatory and resistance genes are located on a single cluster on the SCP1 plasmid, making the entire module easily transferable between different bacterial strains. Understanding further the regulation and biosynthesis of the methylenomycin producing gene cluster could assist in the identification of motifs that can be exploited in synthetic regulatory systems for the rational engineering of novel natural products and antibiotics. Results: We identify and validate a plausible architecture for the regulatory system controlling methylenomycin production in S. coelicolor using mathematical modeling approaches. Model selection via an approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) approach identifies three candidate model architectures that are most likely to produce the available experimental data, from a set of 48 possible candidates. Subsequent global optimization of the parameters of these model architectures identifies a single model that most accurately reproduces the dynamical response of the system, as captured by time series data on methylenomycin production. Further analyses of variants of this model architecture that capture the effects of gene knockouts also reproduce qualitative experimental results observed in mutant S. coelicolor strains. Conclusions: The mechanistic mathematical model developed in this study recapitulates current biological knowledge of the regulation and biosynthesis of the methylenomycin producing gene cluster, and can be used in future studies to make testable predictions and formulate experiments to further improve our understanding of this complex regulatory system.
3. Molecular basis for control of antibiotic production by a bacterial hormone
Shanshan Zhou, Hussain Bhukya, Nicolas Malet, Peter J Harrison, Dean Rea, Matthew J Belousoff, Hariprasad Venugopal, Paulina K Sydor, Kathryn M Styles, Lijiang Song, Max J Cryle, Lona M Alkhalaf, Vilmos Fülöp, Gregory L Challis, Christophe Corre Nature. 2021 Feb;590(7846):463-467. doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03195-x. Epub 2021 Feb 3.
Actinobacteria produce numerous antibiotics and other specialized metabolites that have important applications in medicine and agriculture1. Diffusible hormones frequently control the production of such metabolites by binding TetR family transcriptional repressors (TFTRs), but the molecular basis for this remains unclear2. The production of methylenomycin antibiotics in Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) is initiated by the binding of 2-alkyl-4-hydroxymethylfuran-3-carboxylic acid (AHFCA) hormones to the TFTR MmfR3. Here we report the X-ray crystal structure of an MmfR-AHFCA complex, establishing the structural basis for hormone recognition. We also elucidate the mechanism for DNA release upon hormone binding through the single-particle cryo-electron microscopy structure of an MmfR-operator complex. DNA binding and release assays with MmfR mutants and synthetic AHFCA analogues define the role of individual amino acid residues and hormone functional groups in ligand recognition and DNA release. These findings will facilitate the exploitation of actinobacterial hormones and their associated TFTRs in synthetic biology and in the discovery of new antibiotics.
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