Oral presentation at the Synthetic Biology of Antibiotic Production II (http://syntheticbio.esf.org), 30 August - 4 September 2014 at Sant Feliu de Guixols, Costa Brava, Spain.
Recombination DNA Technology (Nucleic Acid Hybridization )
A recognition model of ACP-HCS interaction for programmed beta-branching in type I polyketide synthases
1. A recognition model of ACP-HCS
interaction for programmed beta-
branching in type I polyketide
synthases
Rohit Farmer
2. @rohitfarmer
Haines et al., A conserved motif flags acyl carrier
proteins for β-branching in polyketide synthesis. Nature
Chemical Biology. 2013 Nov;9(11):685-92.
#BranchOut
5. Polyketide synthases (PKS)
@rohitfarmer
Minimal Type I modular PKS
Kapur S et al. PNAS 2012;109:4110-4115
ACP: Acyl carrier protein - holds substrate
KS: Ketosynthase domain catalyzes chain elongation via decarboxylative condensation
AT: AT domain catalyzes transfer of a selected extender unit
6. Mupirocin and Beta Branching
@rohitfarmer
Mupirocin ~ effective against MRSA
Portion of mupirocin biosynthesis pathway; beta-branching mechanism
Mupirocin
7. Questions??
@rohitfarmer
How does the HCS cassette ‘know’ where to
act?
• Tandem array of ACPs?
• Absence of KR?
• Neighbouring sequence structure?
• ACP structure?
ACP : Acyl carrier protein - holds substrate
KR : Ketoreductase - alters sidechain, incompatible with β-branch
HCS cassette - introduces β-branch
8. Answers
@rohitfarmer
How does the HCS cassette ‘know’ where to
act?
• Tandem array of ACPs?
• Absence of KR?
• Neighbouring sequence structure?
• ACP structure?
ACP : Acyl carrier protein - holds substrate
KR : Ketoreductase - alters sidechain, incompatible with β-branch
HCS cassette - introduces β-branch
9. Tryptophan Defines the Branching ACPs
@rohitfarmer
Standard ACPs
Branching ACPs
From 15 well characterized PKS clusters known to have beta branching
#TonyHaines
11. Residues 29-35 (central part of the loop between helix I and helix II), 41, 44 (in
helix II), 57-59 (N-ter of helix III), and 64 (C-ter of helix 3) show significantly
greater motion in the mutant than in the wild type.
ACP-A3a/b MD simulation
@rohitfarmer Haines et al., Nat Chem Biol. 2013 Nov;9(11):685-92.
12. Residues 29-35 (central part of the loop between helix I and helix II), 41, 44 (in
helix II), 57-59 (N-ter of helix III), and 64 (C-ter of helix 3) show significantly
greater motion in the mutant than in the wild type.
ACP-A3a
@rohitfarmer
N
C
Helix I
Helix II
Loop I-II
Helix III
Helix IV
13. ACP + MupH Docking
@rohitfarmer
R
HADDOCK MupHACP
26. Hidden Markov Models
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Training set for branching-ACPs
Test set for branching-ACPs
Virginiamycin cluster
Leinamycin cluster
Haines et al., Nat Chem Biol. 2013 Nov;9(11):685-92.
Training set for Std-ACPs
Test set for Std-ACPs
27. Hidden Markov Models
@rohitfarmer
Std ACP HMMsearch against
TrEMBL and RefSeq microbial
databases fetched 16,490 ACP like
sequences.
Unlisted variants in similar clusters
Known branching
Predicted branching
ACPs that may add branches in
a non-type I PKS pathway
Insufficient sequence context or
conflicting information
Predicted nonbranching
Sequences not examined
Haines et al., Nat Chem Biol. 2013 Nov;9(11):685-92.
29. Acknowledgement
@rohitfarmer
Supervisors
Peter J. Winn
Christopher M. Thomas
Thomas Group Members
Anthony Haines
Yusra Alsammarraie
Joanne Hothersall
Elton R Stephens
Claire Miller
Rachel Gurney
Yuiko Takebayashi
Collaborators
Matthew Crump, Bristol, UK
Russell J Cox, Bristol, UK
Christine L Willis, Bristol, UK
Thomas J Simpson, Bristol, UK
John Crosby, Bristol, UK
Rob Lavigne, Heverlee, Belgium
Special Thanks To
Alexandre M.J.J. Bonvin
PhD Scholarship
The Darwin Trust of Edinburgh
Facility
BlueBEAR: UoB supercomputing
facility