Modified modular PKS with retained scaffold

Details Modified modular PKS with retained scaffold Modified modular PKS with retained scaffold

1997-04-30

2002-05-21

Nashed, Nashaat T. (Department: 1652)

Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology

Micro-organism, tissue cell culture or enzyme using process...

Preparing compound containing saccharide radical

C435S183000, C435S193000, C435S455000, C435S471000, C435S486000, C435S252350, C435S320100, C536S023200

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06391594

ABSTRACT:

TECHNICAL FIELD
The invention relates to the field of combinatorial libraries. More particularly, it concerns construction of libraries of polyketides synthesized by a multiplicity of polyketide synthases derived from a naturally occurring PKS, as illustrated by the erythromycin gene cluster.
BACKGROUND ART
Polyketides represent a large family of diverse compounds ultimately synthesized from 2-carbon units through a series of Claisen-type condensations and subsequent modifications. Members of this group include antibiotics such as tetracyclines, anticancer agents such as daunomycin, and immunosuppressants such as FK506 and rapamycin. Polyketides occur in many types of organisms including fungi and mycelial bacteria, in particular, the actinomycetes.
The polyketides are synthesized by polyketide synthases (PKS). This group of enzymatically active proteins is considered in a different category from the fatty acid synthases which also catalyze condensation of 2-carbon units to result in, for example, fatty acids and prostaglandins. Two major types of PKS are known which are vastly different in their construction and mode of synthesis. These are commonly referred to as Type I or “modular” and Type II, “aromatic.”
The PKS scaffold that is the subject of the present invention is a member of the group designated Type I or “modular” PKS. In this type, a set of separate active sites exists for each step of carbon chain assembly and modification, but the individual proteins contain a multiplicity of such separate active sites. There may be only one multifunctional protein of this type, such as that required for the biosynthesis of 6-methyl salicylic acid (Beck, J. et al.,
Eur J Biochem
(1990) 192:487-498; Davis, R. et al.,
Abstracts of Genetics of Industrial Microorganism Meeting,
Montreal, Abstract P288 (1994)). More commonly, and in bacterial-derived Type I PKS assemblies, there are several such multifunctional proteins assembled to result in the end product polyketide. (Cortes, J. et al.,
Nature
(1990) 348:176; Donadlo, S. et al.,
Science
(1991) 1S2:673; MacNeil, D. J. et al.,
Gene
(1992) 115:119.)
The PKS for erythromycin, used as an illustrative system is a modular PKS. Erythromycin was originally isolated from
S. erythraeus
(since reclassified as
Saccharopolyspora erythraea
) which was found in a soil sample from the Philippine archipelago. Cloning the genes was described by Donadio, S. et al.,
Science
(1991) 252:675. The particulars have been reviewed by Perun, T. J. in
Drug Action and Drug MResistance in Bacteria,
Vol. 1, S. Mitsuhashi (ed.) University Park Press, Baltimore, 1977. The antibiotic occurs in various glycosylated forms, designated A, B, C, and D during various stages of fermentation. The entire erythromycin biosynthetic gene cluster from
S. erythraeus
has been mapped and sequenced by Donadio et al. in
Industrial Microorganisms: Basic and Applied Molecular Genetics
(1993) R. H. Baltz, G. D. Hegeman, and P. L. Skatrud (eds.) (
Amer Soc Microbiol
) and the entire PKS is an assembly of three such multifunctional proteins usually designated DEBS-1, DEBS-2, and DEBS-3, encoded by three separate genes.
Type II PKS, in contrast, include several proteins, each of which is simpler than those found in Type I polyketide synthases. The active sites in these enzymes are used iteratively so that the proteins themselves are generally monofunctional or bifunctional. For example, the aromatic PKS complexes derived from Streptomyces have so far been found to contain three proteins encoded in three open reading frames. One protein provides ketosynthase (KS) and acyltransferase (AT) activities, a second provides a chain length determining factor (CLDF) and a third is an acyl carrier protein (ACP).
The present invention is concerned with PKS systems derived from modular PKS gene clusters. The nature of these clusters and their manipulation are further described below.
DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION
The invention provides recombinant materials for the production of combinatorial libraries of polyketides wherein the polyketide members of the library are synthesized by various PKS systems derived from naturally occurring PKS systems by using these systems as scaffolds. Generally, many members of these libraries may themselves be novel compounds, and the invention further includes novel polyketide members of these libraries. The invention also includes methods to recover novel polyketides with desired binding activities by screens the libraries of the invention.
Thus, in one aspect, the invention is directed to a multiplicity of cell colonies comprising a library of colonies wherein each colony of the library contains an expression vector for the production of a different modular PKS, but derived from a naturally occurring PKS. In a preferred embodiment, the different PKS are derived from the erythromycin PKS. In any case, the library of different modular PKS is obtained by modifying one or more of the regions of a naturally occurring gene or gene cluster encoding an enzymatic activity so as to alter that activity, leaving intact the scaffold portions of the naturally occurring gene. In another aspect, the invention is directed to a multiplicity of cell colonies comprising a library of colonies wherein each colony of the library contains a different modular PKS derived from a naturally occurring PKS, preferably the erythromycin PKS. The invention is also directed to methods to produce libraries of PKS complexes and to produce libraries of polyketides by culturing these colonies, as well as to the libraries so produced. In addition, the invention is directed to methods to screen the resulting polyketide libraries and to novel polyketides contained therein.


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