Rescrutiny of the sansanmycin biosynthetic gene cluster leads to the discovery of a novel sansanmycin analogue with more potency against Mycobacterium tuberculosis

J Antibiot (Tokyo). 2019 Oct;72(10):769-774. doi: 10.1038/s41429-019-0210-z. Epub 2019 Jul 24.

Abstract

A novel sansanmycin analogue, sansanmycin Q (1), was identified by genome mining from the fermentation broth of Streptomyces sp. SS (CPCC 200442). In comparison with other sansanmycin compounds, sansanmycin Q has an extra glycine residue at the N-terminus of the pseudopeptide backbone. The additional glycine was proved to be assembled to sansanmycin A by SsaB, a tRNA-dependent aminoacyltransferase, based on the results of rescrutiny of sansanmycin biosynthetic gene cluster, and then overexpression and knockout of ssaB in the wild-type strain. The structure of sansanmycin Q was assigned by interpretation of NMR and mass spectral data. The results of the bioassay disclosed that sansanmycin Q exhibited more potency against Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv and a rifampicin- and isoniazid-resistant strain than sansanmycin A.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Antitubercular Agents / chemistry
  • Antitubercular Agents / metabolism*
  • Antitubercular Agents / pharmacology*
  • Biosynthetic Pathways / genetics*
  • Computational Biology
  • Fermentation
  • Genome, Bacterial
  • Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
  • Mass Spectrometry
  • Microbial Sensitivity Tests
  • Molecular Structure
  • Multigene Family*
  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis / drug effects
  • Oligopeptides / biosynthesis*
  • Oligopeptides / chemistry
  • Oligopeptides / pharmacology*
  • Streptomyces / growth & development
  • Streptomyces / metabolism*
  • Uridine / analogs & derivatives*
  • Uridine / biosynthesis
  • Uridine / chemistry
  • Uridine / pharmacology

Substances

  • Antitubercular Agents
  • Oligopeptides
  • sansanmycin
  • Uridine