Biosynthesis of oxygen and nitrogen-containing heterocycles in polyketides
- Franziska Hemmerling and
- Frank Hahn
Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 1512–1550, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.148
Graphical Abstract
Scheme 1: Schematic description of the cyclisation reaction catalysed by TE domains. In most cases, the nucle...
Scheme 2: Mechanisms for the formation of oxygen heterocycles. The degree of substitution can differ from tha...
Scheme 3: Pyran-ring formation in pederin (24) biosynthesis. Incubation of recombinant PedPS7 with substrate ...
Scheme 4: The domain AmbDH3 from ambruticin biosynthesis catalyses the dehydration of 25 and subsequent cycli...
Scheme 5: SalBIII catalyses dehydration of 29 and subsequent cyclisation to tetrahydropyran 30 [18].
Figure 1: All pyranonaphtoquinones contain either the naphtha[2,3-c]pyran-5,10-dione (32) or the regioisomeri...
Scheme 6: Pyran-ring formation in actinorhodin (34) biosynthesis. DNPA: 4-dihydro-9-hydroxy-1-methyl-10-oxo-3H...
Scheme 7: Pyran formation in granaticin (36) biosynthesis. DNPA: 4-dihydro-9-hydroxy-1-methyl-10-oxo-3H-napht...
Scheme 8: Pyran formation in alnumycin (37) biosynthesis. Adapted from [21].
Scheme 9: Biosynthesis of pseudomonic acid A (61). The pyran ring is initially formed in 57 after dehydrogena...
Scheme 10: Epoxidation–cyclisation leads to the formation of the tetrahydropyran ring in the western part of t...
Scheme 11: a) Nonactin (70) is formed from heterodimers of (−)(+)-dimeric nonactic acid and (+)(−)-dimeric non...
Figure 2: Pamamycins (73) are macrodiolide antibiotics containing three tetrahydrofuran moieties, which are a...
Scheme 12: A PS domain homolog in oocydin A (76) biosynthesis is proposed to catalyse furan formation via an o...
Scheme 13: Mechanism of oxidation–furan cyclisation by AurH, which converts (+)-deoxyaureothin (77) into (+)-a...
Scheme 14: Leupyrrin A2 (80) and the proposed biosynthesis of its furylidene moiety [69,70].
Scheme 15: Asperfuranone (93) biosynthesis, adapted from [75].
Figure 3: The four major aflatoxins produced by Aspergilli are the types B1, B2, G1 and G2 (94–97). In the di...
Scheme 16: Overview on aflatoxin B1 (94) biosynthesis. HOMST = 11-hydroxy-O-methylsterigmatocystin [78,79,82-106].
Scheme 17: A zipper mechanism leads to the formation of oxygen heterocycles in monensin biosynthesis [109-111].
Scheme 18: Formation of the 2,6-dioxabicyclo[3.2.1]octane (DBO) ring system in aurovertin B (118) biosynthesis ...
Figure 4: Structures of the epoxide-containing polyketides epothilone A (119) and oleandomycin (120) [123-125].
Scheme 19: Structures of phoslactomycin B (121) (a) and jerangolid A (122) (b). The heterocycle-forming steps ...
Scheme 20: a) Structures of rhizoxin (130) and cycloheximide (131). Model for the formation of δ-lactones (b) ...
Scheme 21: EncM catalyses a dual oxidation sequence and following processing of the highly reactive intermedia...
Figure 5: Mesomeric structures of tetronates [138,139].
Figure 6: Structures of tetronates for which gene clusters have been sequenced. The tetronate moiety is shown...
Scheme 22: Conserved steps for formation and processing in several 3-acyl-tetronate biosynthetic pathways were...
Scheme 23: In versipelostatin A (153) biosynthesis, VstJ is a candidate enzyme for catalysing the [4 + 2] cycl...
Scheme 24: a) Structures of some thiotetronate antibiotics. b) Biosynthesis of thiolactomycin (165) as propose...
Scheme 25: Aureusidine synthase (AS) catalyses phenolic oxidation and conjugate addition of chalcones leading ...
Scheme 26: a) Oxidative cyclisation is a key step in the biosynthesis of spirobenzofuranes 189, 192 and 193. b...
Scheme 27: A bicyclisation mechanism forms a β-lactone and a pyrrolidinone and removes the precursor from the ...
Scheme 28: Spontaneous cyclisation leads to off-loading of ebelactone A (201) from the PKS machinery [163].
Scheme 29: Mechanisms for the formation of nitrogen heterocycles.
Scheme 30: Biosynthesis of highly substituted α-pyridinones. a) Feeding experiments confirmed the polyketide o...
Scheme 31: Acridone synthase (ACS) catalyses the formation of 1,3-dihydroxy-N-methylacridone (224) by condensa...
Scheme 32: A Dieckmann condensation leads to the formation of a 3-acyl-4-hydroxypyridin-2-one 227 and removes ...
Scheme 33: a) Biosynthesis of the pyridinone tenellin (234). b) A radical mechanism was proposed for the ring-...
Scheme 34: a) Oxazole-containing PKS–NRPS-derived natural products oxazolomycin (244) and conglobatin (245). b...
Scheme 35: Structure of tetramic acids 251 (a) and major tautomers of 3-acyltetramic acids 252a–d (b). Adapted...
Scheme 36: Equisetin biosynthesis. R*: terminal reductive domain. Adapted from [202].
Scheme 37: a) Polyketides for which a similar biosynthetic logic was suggested. b) Pseurotin A (256) biosynthe...
Figure 7: Representative examples of PTMs with varying ring sizes and oxidation patterns [205,206].
Scheme 38: Ikarugamycin biosynthesis. Adapted from [209-211].
Scheme 39: Tetramate formation in pyrroindomycin aglycone (279) biosynthesis [213-215].
Scheme 40: Dieckmann cyclases catalyse tetramate or 2-pyridone formation in the biosynthesis of, for example, ...
Synthesis of complex intermediates for the study of a dehydratase from borrelidin biosynthesis
- Frank Hahn,
- Nadine Kandziora,
- Steffen Friedrich and
- Peter F. Leadlay
Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 634–640, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.55
Graphical Abstract
Figure 1: a) Structure of borrelidin (1); b) PKS intermediates are attached to an acyl carrier protein domain...
Scheme 1: Retrosynthetic analysis of surrogate substrates for BorDH3 and reference molecules for enzyme assay...
Scheme 2: Synthesis of the common precursor aldehyde 11. Compound 13 was prepared in six steps and with an ov...
Scheme 3: Synthesis of the BorDH3 substrates. a) Thiophenolpropionate, Cy2BCl, Me2EtN, Et2O, −78 °C to −20 °C...
Scheme 4: Synthesis of reference compounds for the BorDH3 assay. a) 24, CH2Cl2, 50 °C, 3 h (88% over two step...
Peptoids and polyamines going sweet: Modular synthesis of glycosylated peptoids and polyamines using click chemistry
- Daniel Fürniss,
- Timo Mack,
- Frank Hahn,
- Sidonie B. L. Vollrath,
- Katarzyna Koroniak,
- Ute Schepers and
- Stefan Bräse
Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 56–63, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.7
Graphical Abstract
Figure 1: Azidosugars used in this study. The synthesis of the azidosugars 1–3 was modified from [47,48], compounds 4...
Scheme 1: Reaction conditions and reagents: (a) Ns-chloride (6.00 equiv), 2,4,6-collidine (12.0 equiv), CH2Cl2...
Scheme 2: Synthesis of spermine conjugates 20,21 and 24,25. 2-chlorotrityl chloride resin was used as a solid...
Scheme 3: Synthesis of hexaalkynyl peptoids 26 and 27 on solid supports.
Scheme 4: Synthesis of a hexa-glycosylated peptoid 28.
