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Reconstitution and characterization of the Vibrio cholerae vibriobactin synthetase from VibB, VibE, VibF, and VibH.

Vibriobactin [N(1)-(2,3-dihydroxybenzoyl)-N(5),N(9)-bis[2-(2, 3-dihydroxyphenyl)-5-methyloxazolinyl-4-carboxamido]norspermidine] , is an iron chelator from the cholera-causing bacterium Vibrio cholerae. The six-domain, 270 kDa nonribosomal peptide synthetase (NRPS) VibF, a component of vibriobactin synthetase, has been heterologously expressed in Escherichia coli and purified. VibF has an unusual NRPS domain organization: cyclization-cyclization-adenylation-condensation-peptidyl carrier protein-condensation (Cy(1)-Cy(2)-A-C(1)-PCP-C(2)). VibF activates and covalently loads its PCP with L-threonine, and together with vibriobactin synthetase proteins VibE (adenylation) and VibB (aryl carrier protein) condenses and heterocyclizes 2, 3-dihydroxybenzoyl-VibB with L-Thr to 2-dihydroxyphenyl-5-methyloxazolinyl-4-carboxy-VibF in the first demonstration of oxazoline formation by an NRPS cyclization domain. This enzyme-bound aryl oxazoline can be transferred by VibF to various amine acceptors but most efficiently to N(1)-(2, 3-dihydroxybenzoyl)norspermidine (k(cat) = 122 min(-1), K(m) = 1.7 microM), the product of 2,3-dihydroxybenzoyl-VibB, norspermidine, and VibH. This diacylated product undergoes a second aryl oxazoline acylation on its remaining secondary amine, also catalyzed by VibF, to yield vibriobactin. Vibriobactin biosynthesis in vitro has thus been accomplished from four proteins, VibE, VibB, VibF, and VibH, with the substrates 2,3-dihydroxybenzoic acid, L-Thr, norspermidine, and ATP. Vibriobactin synthetase is an unusual NRPS in that all intermediates are not covalently tethered as PCP thioesters and in that it represents an NRPS pathway with two branch points.[1]

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