PMID- 29958422 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20200929 IS - 2079-6382 (Print) IS - 2079-6382 (Electronic) IS - 2079-6382 (Linking) VI - 7 IP - 3 DP - 2018 Jun 28 TI - Lysoquinone-TH1, a New Polyphenolic Tridecaketide Produced by Expressing the Lysolipin Minimal PKS II in Streptomyces albus. LID - 10.3390/antibiotics7030053 [doi] LID - 53 AB - The structural repertoire of bioactive naphthacene quinones is expanded by engineering Streptomyces albus to express the lysolipin minimal polyketide synthase II (PKS II) genes from Streptomyces tendae Tü 4042 (llpD-F) with the corresponding cyclase genes llpCI-CIII. Fermentation of the recombinant strain revealed the two new polyaromatic tridecaketides lysoquinone-TH1 (7, identified) and TH2 (8, postulated structure) as engineered congeners of the dodecaketide lysolipin (1). The chemical structure of 7, a benzo[a]naphthacene-8,13-dione, was elucidated by NMR and HR-MS and confirmed by feeding experiments with [1,2-(13)C(2)]-labeled acetate. Lysoquinone-TH1 (7) is a pentangular polyphenol and one example of such rare extended polyaromatic systems of the benz[a]napthacene quinone type produced by the expression of a minimal PKS II in combination with cyclases in an artificial system. While the natural product lysolipin (1) has antimicrobial activity in nM-range, lysoquinone-TH1 (7) showed only minor potency as inhibitor of Gram-positive microorganisms. The bioactivity profiling of lysoquinone-TH1 (7) revealed inhibitory activity towards phosphodiesterase 4 (PDE4), an important target for the treatment in human health like asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). These results underline the availability of pentangular polyphenolic structural skeletons from biosynthetic engineering in the search of new chemical entities in drug discovery. FAU - Hofeditz, Torben AU - Hofeditz T AD - Institut fur Organische Chemie, Eberhard Karls Universitat Tubingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 18, 72076 Tubingen, Germany. torben.hofeditz@gmx.de. FAU - Unsin, Claudia Eva-Maria AU - Unsin CE AD - Interfakultares Institut fur Mikrobiologie und Infektionsmedizin, Eberhard Karls Universitat Tubingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 28, 72076 Tubingen, Germany. claudia_unsin@yahoo.de. FAU - Wiese, Jutta AU - Wiese J AD - GEOMAR, Helmholtz-Zentrum fur Ozeanforschung Kiel, Dusternbrooker Weg 20, 24105 Kiel, Germany. jwiese@geomar.de. FAU - Imhoff, Johannes F AU - Imhoff JF AD - GEOMAR, Helmholtz-Zentrum fur Ozeanforschung Kiel, Dusternbrooker Weg 20, 24105 Kiel, Germany. jimhoff@geomar.de. FAU - Wohlleben, Wolfgang AU - Wohlleben W AD - Interfakultares Institut fur Mikrobiologie und Infektionsmedizin, Eberhard Karls Universitat Tubingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 28, 72076 Tubingen, Germany. wolfgang.wohlleben@biotech.uni-tuebingen.de. AD - German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), partner site Tubingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 28, 72076 Tubingen, Germany. wolfgang.wohlleben@biotech.uni-tuebingen.de. FAU - Grond, Stephanie AU - Grond S AD - Institut fur Organische Chemie, Eberhard Karls Universitat Tubingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 18, 72076 Tubingen, Germany. stephanie.grond@uni-tuebingen.de. FAU - Weber, Tilmann AU - Weber T AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-8260-5120 AD - Interfakultares Institut fur Mikrobiologie und Infektionsmedizin, Eberhard Karls Universitat Tubingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 28, 72076 Tubingen, Germany. tiwe@biosustain.dtu.dk. AD - The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, Kemitorvet bygning 220, 2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark. tiwe@biosustain.dtu.dk. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20180628 PL - Switzerland TA - Antibiotics (Basel) JT - Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) JID - 101637404 PMC - PMC6164072 OTO - NOTNLM OT - aromatic polyketide OT - benz[a]naphthacene quinone OT - cyclases OT - extended polyketide chain OT - lysolipin OT - minimal PKS II OT - pentacyclic angular polyphenol OT - tridecaketide COIS- The authors declare no conflict of interest. EDAT- 2018/07/01 06:00 MHDA- 2018/07/01 06:01 PMCR- 2018/06/28 CRDT- 2018/07/01 06:00 PHST- 2018/05/04 00:00 [received] PHST- 2018/06/12 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2018/06/22 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2018/07/01 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2018/07/01 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2018/07/01 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2018/06/28 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - antibiotics7030053 [pii] AID - antibiotics-07-00053 [pii] AID - 10.3390/antibiotics7030053 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Antibiotics (Basel). 2018 Jun 28;7(3):53. doi: 10.3390/antibiotics7030053.