Issue 64, 2017

A mechanistic study of the non-oxidative decarboxylation catalyzed by the radical S-adenosyl-l-methionine enzyme BlsE involved in blasticidin S biosynthesis

Abstract

Decarboxylation is a fundamentally important reaction in biology and involves highly diverse mechanisms. Here we report a mechanistic study of the non-oxidative decarboxylation catalyzed by BlsE, a radical S-adenosyl-L-methionine (SAM) enzyme involved in blasticidin S biosynthesis. Through a series of biochemical analysis with isotopically labeled reagents, we show that the BlsE-catalyzed reaction is initiated by the 5′-deoxyadenosyl (dAdo) radical-mediated hydrogen abstraction from a sugar carbon of the substrate cytosylglucuronic acid (CGA), and does not involve a carboxyl radical as has been proposed for 4-hydroxyphenylacetate decarboxylase (HPAD). Our study reveals that BlsE represents a mechanistically new type of radical-based decarboxylase.

Graphical abstract: A mechanistic study of the non-oxidative decarboxylation catalyzed by the radical S-adenosyl-l-methionine enzyme BlsE involved in blasticidin S biosynthesis

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Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
02 Jun 2017
Accepted
26 Jun 2017
First published
26 Jun 2017

Chem. Commun., 2017,53, 8952-8955

A mechanistic study of the non-oxidative decarboxylation catalyzed by the radical S-adenosyl-L-methionine enzyme BlsE involved in blasticidin S biosynthesis

L. Liu, X. Ji, Y. Li, W. Ji, T. Mo, W. Ding and Q. Zhang, Chem. Commun., 2017, 53, 8952 DOI: 10.1039/C7CC04286H

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