Abstract:
:Insights into the structure and dynamics of modular polyketide synthases (PKS) are essential for understanding the mechanistic details of the biosynthesis of a large number of pharmaceutically important secondary metabolites. The crystal structures of the KS-AT di-domain from erythromycin synthase have revealed the relative orientation of various catalytic domains in a minimal PKS module. However, the relatively large distance between catalytic centers of KS and AT domains in the static structure has posed certain intriguing questions regarding mechanistic details of substrate transfer during polyketide biosynthesis. In order to investigate the role of inter-domain movements in substrate channeling, we have carried out a series of explicit solvent MD simulations for time periods ranging from 10 to 15 ns on the KS-AT di-domain and its sub-fragments. Analyses of these MD trajectories have revealed that both the catalytic domains and the structured inter-domain linker region remain close to their starting structures. Inter-domain movements at KS-linker and linker-AT interfaces occur around hinge regions which connect the structured linker region to the catalytic domains. The KS-linker interface was found to be more flexible compared to the linker-AT interface. However, inter-domain movements observed during the timescale of our simulations do not significantly reduce the distance between catalytic centers of KS and AT domains for facilitating substrate channeling. Based on these studies and prediction of intrinsic disorder we propose that the intrinsically unstructured linker stretch preceding the ACP domain might be facilitating movement of ACP domains to various catalytic centers.
journal_name
Mol Biosystjournal_title
Molecular bioSystemsauthors
Anand S,Mohanty Ddoi
10.1039/c2mb05425fsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
2012-04-01 00:00:00pages
1157-71issue
4eissn
1742-206Xissn
1742-2051journal_volume
8pub_type
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