Identification of neuroprotective spoxazomicin and oxachelin glycosides via chemoenzymatic glycosyl-scanning

Jianjun Zhang, Ryan R. Hughes, Meredith A. Saunders, Sherif I. Elshahawi, Larissa V. Ponomareva, Yinan Zhang, Sydney R. Winchester, Samantha A. Scott, Manjula Sunkara, Andrew J. Morris, Mark A. Prendergast, Khaled A. Shaaban, Jon S. Thorson

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Abstract

The assessment of glycosyl-scanning to expand the molecular and functional diversity of metabolites from the underground coal mine fire-associated Streptomyces sp. RM-14- 6 is reported. Using the engineered glycosyltransferase OleD Loki and a 2-chloro-4-nitrophenylglycoside-based screen, six metabolites were identified as substrates of OleD Loki, from which 12 corresponding metabolite glycosides were produced and characterized. This study highlights the first application of the 2-chloro-4-nitrophenylglycoside-based screen toward an unbiased set of unique microbial natural products and the first reported application of the 2-chloro-4-nitrophenylglycosidebased transglycosylation reaction for the corresponding preparative synthesis of target glycosides. Bioactivity analysis (including antibacterial, antifungal, anticancer, and EtOH damage neuroprotection assays) revealed glycosylation to attenuate the neuroprotective potency of 4, while glycosylation of the structurally related inactive spoxazomicin C (3) remarkably invoked neuroprotective activity.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)12-18
Number of pages7
JournalJournal of Natural Products
Volume80
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 27 2017

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 American Chemical Society and American Society of Pharmacognosy.

Funding

This work was supported in part by NIH R37 AI52188, NIH T32 DA016176 (YZ), the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy, the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center, and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (UL1TR001998).

FundersFunder number
University of Kentucky
National Institutes of Health (NIH)R37 AI52188
Author National Institute on Drug Abuse DA031791 Mark J Ferris National Institute on Drug Abuse DA006634 Mark J Ferris National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism AA026117 Mark J Ferris National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism AA028162 Elizabeth G Pitts National Institute of General Medical Sciences GM102773 Elizabeth G Pitts Peter McManus Charitable Trust Mark J Ferris National Institute on Drug AbuseT32DA016176
National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)UL1TR001998
University of Kentucky Markey Comprehensive Cancer Center

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Analytical Chemistry
    • Molecular Medicine
    • Pharmacology
    • Pharmaceutical Science
    • Drug Discovery
    • Complementary and alternative medicine
    • Organic Chemistry

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