Characterization of the binding site of the tripeptide intermediate D-Phenylalanyl L-prolyl-L-valine in gramicidin S biosynthesis.

The Journal of Biological Chemistry
F LeendersP Franke

Abstract

The tripeptide intermediate D-Phe-Pro-Val in the biosynthesis of gramicidin S was labeled by incorporation of either L-[14C]phenylalanine or L-[14C]valine in an in vitro biosynthetic assay. The gramicidin S synthetase 2-tripeptide complex was first digested with CNBr and subsequently by Staphylococcus aureus V8 protease. The active site peptide carrying the radioactively labeled tripeptide was isolated in pure form by reversed phase high performance liquid chromatography technology and analyzed by liquid phase sequencing, mass spectrometry, and amino acid analysis. It was demonstrated that D-Phe-Pro-Val is attached to the 4'-phosphopantetheine cofactor at the thiolation center for valine of gramicidin S synthetase 2. In this way the attachment site of a peptide intermediate in nonribosomal peptide biosynthesis was identified for the first time. Our results are in full agreement with the multiple carrier model of nonribosomal peptide biosynthesis (Stein, T., Vater, J., Kruft, V., Otto, A., Wittmann-Liebold, B., Franke, P., Panico, M., McDowell, R., and Morris, H. R. (1996) J. Biol. Chem. 271, 15426-15435), which predicts that the growing peptide chain in the elongation process should always be bound to the thiotemplate site spec...Continue Reading

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