Mechanism of taxadiene synthase, a diterpene cyclase that catalyzes the first step of taxol biosynthesis in Pacific yew

Biochemistry
X LinR Croteau

Abstract

The first committed step in the formation of taxol has been shown to involve the cyclization of geranylgeranyl diphosphate to taxa-4(5),11(12)-diene. The formation of this endocyclic diterpene olefin isomer as the precursor of taxol was unexpected, since the exocyclic isomer, taxa-4(20),11(12)-diene, had been predicted as the initial product of the taxol pathway on the basis of metabolite co-occurrence. [1-2H2,20-2H3] and [20-2H3]geranylgeranyl diphosphates were employed as substrates with the partially purified taxadiene synthase from Pacific yew (Taxus brevifolia) stems to examine the possibility of a preliminary cyclization to taxa-4(20),11(12)-diene followed by isomerization to the more stable endocyclic double bond isomer. GLC-MS analysis of the derived taxa-4(5),11(12)-diene, via selected ion monitoring of the parent ion and the P-15 and C-ring fragment ions, compared to those of unlabeled standard, showed the olefin product to possess a deuterium enrichment essentially identical to that of the acyclic precursor, thus ruling out the putative isomerization step. With [4-2H2]geranylgeranyl diphosphate as substrate, similar product analysis established the enzymatically derived taxa-4(5),11(12)-diene to contain only one deut...Continue Reading

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