Document Type

Post-Print

Publication Date

1-2009

Subjects

Polyketides -- Synthesis, Polyketides -- Metabolism, Molecular recognition, Binding sites (Biochemistry)

Abstract

Bacterial type I polyketide synthases (PKSs) assemble structurally diverse natural products of significant clinical value from simple metabolic building blocks. The synthesis of these compounds occurs in a processive fashion along a large multiprotein complex. Transfer of the acyl intermediate across interpolypeptide junctions is mediated, at least in large part, by N- and C-terminal docking domains. We report here a comprehensive analysis of the binding affinity and selectivity for the complete set of discrete docking domain pairs in the pikromycin and erythromycin PKS systems. Despite disconnection from their parent module, each cognate pair of docking domains retained exquisite binding selectivity. Further insights were obtained by X-ray crystallographic analysis of the PikAIII/PikAIV docking domain interface. This new information revealed a series of key interacting residues that enabled development of a structural model for the recently proposed H2-T2 class of polypeptides involved in PKS intermodular molecular recognition.

Description

This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in ACS Chemical Biology. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in ACS Chemical Biology, 2009, 4 (1), pp 41–52 and can be found online at: https://doi.org/10.1021/cb8002607

DOI

10.1021/cb8002607

Persistent Identifier

http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/19066

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Chemistry Commons

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