Chin. J. Org. Chem. ›› 2014, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (6): 1240-1252.DOI: 10.6023/cjoc201401012 Previous Articles     Next Articles

醌霉素类抗生素生物合成研究进展

张晨, 孔令新, 雷璇, 邓子新, 由德林   

  1. 上海交通大学生命科学技术学院 微生物代谢国家重点实验室 上海 200030
  • 收稿日期:2014-01-09 修回日期:2014-02-17 发布日期:2014-03-10
  • 通讯作者: 由德林 E-mail:dlyou@sjtu.edu.cn
  • 基金资助:

    国家自然科学基金(Nos. 31170085,31070058)、国家重点基础研究发展计划(No. 2012CB721004)资助项目.

Advance in the Research on Quinomycins Biosynthesis

Zhang Chen, Kong Lingxin, Lei Xuan, Deng Zixin, You Delin   

  1. State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism and School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200030
  • Received:2014-01-09 Revised:2014-02-17 Published:2014-03-10
  • Supported by:

    Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 31170085, 31070058) and the Key Project of China National Programs for Fundamental Research and Development (No. 2012CB721004).

Quinomycins are a type of cyclic oligopeptide antibiotics, featuring a pair of moieties, either quinoxaline-2-carboxy or 3-hydroxyquinoline-2-carboxy group. The characteristic structural units are capable of intercalating preferentially into particular DNA basepairs, thereby inhibiting DNA replication and transcription and hence confer remarkable tumor-inhibiting potency to quinomycins. Herein, an overview is made about the development of the exploration on quinomycin biosynthesis mainly during the past decade. Biosynthetic gene clusters are compared among various quinomycin family members, common biochemical reactions experienced in the biosynthesis of these compounds and natural products of other types as well as tryptophan catabolism are inducted with functional characteristics of the enzymes responsible for these reactions dissected, concurrently lending profundity to the revelation of the reasons for the formation of structural features shared and variances differentiated by quinomycins. Based on the elaboration, an exemplar is presented about the combinatorial biosynthesis in E. coli, the heterologous host to produce the unnatural natural product of quinomycin family, showing the potentiality of industrialization for the biosynthesis.

Key words: tumor inhibiting, quinomycin, natural product, biosynthesis