Fluorescent profiling of modular biosynthetic enzymes by complementary metabolic and activity based probes

J Am Chem Soc. 2008 Apr 23;130(16):5443-5. doi: 10.1021/ja711263w. Epub 2008 Apr 1.

Abstract

The study of the enzymes responsible for natural product biosynthesis has proven a valuable source of new enzymatic activities and been applied to a number of biotechnology applications. Protein profiling could prove highly complementary to genetics based approaches by allowing us to understand the activity, transcriptional control, and post-translational modification of these enzymes in their native and dynamic proteomic environments. Here we present a method for the fluorescent profiling of PKS, NRPS, and FAS multidomain modular synthases in their whole proteomes using complementary metabolic and activity based probes. After first examining the reactivity of these activity based probes with a variety of purified recombinant PKS, NRPS, and FAS enzymes in vitro, we apply this duel labeling strategy to the analysis of modular synthases in a human breast cancer cell line and two strains of the natural product producer Bacillus subtilis. Collectively, these studies demonstrate that complementary protein profiling approaches can prove highly useful in the identification and assignment of inhibitor specificity and domain structure of these modular biosynthetic enzymes.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Affinity Labels / chemistry*
  • Affinity Labels / metabolism
  • Bacillus subtilis / enzymology
  • Biotechnology / methods*
  • Breast Neoplasms / enzymology
  • Breast Neoplasms / pathology
  • Fatty Acid Synthases / biosynthesis*
  • Fatty Acid Synthases / genetics
  • Female
  • Fluorescent Dyes / chemistry*
  • Fluorescent Dyes / metabolism
  • Humans
  • Peptide Synthases / biosynthesis*
  • Peptide Synthases / genetics
  • Polyketide Synthases / biosynthesis*
  • Polyketide Synthases / genetics
  • Proteomics / methods*
  • Substrate Specificity
  • Tumor Cells, Cultured

Substances

  • Affinity Labels
  • Fluorescent Dyes
  • Polyketide Synthases
  • Fatty Acid Synthases
  • Peptide Synthases