Antibiotic optimization via in vitro glycorandomization

Xun Fu; Christoph Albermann; Jiqing Jiang; Jianchun Liao; Changsheng Zhang; Jon S. Thorson

doi:10.1038/nbt909

Antibiotic optimization via in vitro glycorandomization

Xun Fu, Christoph Albermann, Jiqing Jiang, Jianchun Liao, Changsheng Zhang, Jon S. Thorson

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Abstract

In nature, the attachment of sugars to small molecules is often used to mediate targeting, mechanism of action and/or pharmacology. As an alternative to pathway engineering or total synthesis, we report a useful method, in vitro glycorandomization (IVG), to diversify the glycosylation patterns of complex natural products. We have used flexible glycosyltransferases on nucleotide diphosphosugar (NDP-sugar) libraries to generate glycorandomized natural products and then applied chemoselective ligation to produce monoglycosylated vancomycins that rival vancomycin.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1467-1469
Number of pages	3
Journal	Nature Biotechnology
Volume	21
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt909
State	Published - Dec 2003

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We gratefully acknowledge the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Pharmacy Analytical Facility for LC-MS support (Gary Girdaukas) and Christopher T. Walsh and Heather Losey for graciously providing the glycosyltransferase E expression strain. J.S.T. is an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow. This work was supported in part by the US National Institutes of Health (GM58196, CA84374 and AI52218).

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Biotechnology
Bioengineering
Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
Molecular Medicine
Biomedical Engineering

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