DAHP

Figure 10.22 Synthetic approaches to DAHP and KDO by a backbone inversion strategy using FruA cataiysis.

Propanediol. In its racemic form, 1,2-propanediol is a petroleum-based high-volume chemical with an aimual production of over 500,0001, mostly used to manufacture the unsaturated polyester resins, yet also featuring excellent antifreeze properties. Enantiomerically pure (/ )-1,2-propanediol accumulates along two different pathways via DAHP (3-deoxy-D-flrahmo-heptulosonic acid 7-phosphate) and methylglyoxal, which then is reduced with either... 

Deoxy-D-araZu o-heptulosonate-7-phosphate synthetase (DAHPS) is the initial enzyme in the pathway responsible for the synthesis of aromatic compounds in microorganisms and plants. It catalyses the reaction shown in Equation (4) ... 

The structure DAHPS from E. coli with Mn " " and the substrate analogue, 2-phosphoglycolate (PGL), in the active site has been determined. Mn " ", the most efficient metal activator of DAHPS, is coordinated by four amino acid side chains the PGL and a water molecule complete the octahedral coordination (Figure 25). " This structure is notable for the fact that it contains a rare example of a Mn—S bond in a protein. The Mn—S bond is quite long, 2.74 A, and spectroscopic evidence for the formation of this bond is lacking. " ... 

Figure 25 Schematic of the active site of DAHPS with the substrate analogue PGL bound to...

The shikimate pathway begins with a coupling of phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP) and D-erythrose 4-phosphate to give the seven-carbon 3-deoxy-D-arabino-heptulo-sonic acid 7-phosphate (DAHP) through an aldol-type condensation. Elimination of phosphoric acid from DAHP, followed by an intramolecular aldol reaction, generates the first carbocyclic intermediate, 3-dehydroquinic acid. Shikimic acid (394) is... 

Figure 1. Hypothetical mechanism for shuttling of intermediates of the common aromatic pathway between plastidic and cytosolic compartments. Enzymes denoted with an asterisk (DAHP synthase-Co, chorismate mutase-2, and cytosolic anthranilate synthase) have been demonstrated to be isozymes located in the cytosol. DAHP molecules from the cytosol are shown to be shuttled into the plastid compartment in exchange for EPSP molecules synthesized within the plastid. Abbreviations C3, phosphoenolpyruvate C4, erythrose 4-P DAHP, 3-deoxy-D-arabino-heptulosonate 7-phosphate EPSP, 5-enolpyruvylshikimate 3-phosphate CHA, chorismate ANT, anthranilate TRP, L-tryptophan PPA, prephenate AGN, L-arogenate TYR, L-tyrosine and PHE, L-phenylalanine.

Of the separately compartmented isozyme pairs that exist for DAHP synthase, chorismate mutase, and anthranilate synthase, each isozyme member of a given pair has different properties of regulation and other distinctive characteristics (see Tables I and II). This suggests a high probability that each isozyme is the gene product of a different gene. 

Table I. Differential Properties of DAHP Synthase Isozymes...

Assay at low pH (7.0) can be used to increase the selectivity of assay conditions for DAHP synthase-Mn in isozyme mixtures. 

Figure 4. Reactions catalyzed by the broad-specificity DAHP synthase-Co of higher plant cytosol. Condensation of PEP and erythrose 4-P (top) yields 3-deoxy-D-arabino-heptulosonate 7-P (DAHP), whereas condensation of PEP and D-glyceraldehyde 3-P (G-3-P) yields 2-keto-3-deoxy-D-threo-hexulosonate 6-P (DTHP).

Figure 6. Effects of various treatments or manipulations upon levels of phenylalanine ammonia-lyase (PAL), chalcone synthase (CHS), and the separately compartmented isozymes of DAHP synthase and chorismate mu-tase. Upwardly pointed arrows indicate a positive response (enzyme elevation) to the indicated treatment, whereas horizontal arrows indicate no change in enzyme level. References documenting the results shown are line 1 (54 our results with DAHP synthase and chorismate mutase isozymes) line 2 (49,55) line 3 (49,50,56) line 4 (57) line 5 (51) line 6 (52).

We have examined the time course of changes induced in isozymes of chorismate mutase and DAHP synthase in potato tubers following mechanical wounding (Table III). In each case both isozymes responded—the plastidic isozyme responding sooner and to a greater extent than the cytosolic isozyme. All five of the other pathway enzymes so far examined were induced by mechanical wounding. 

Accordingly, a strain of E. coli was first engineered to produce elevated levels of DHQ by increasing the levels of certain key enzymes transketolase, 3-deoxy-D-arabino-heptulosonic acid 7-phospate (DAHP) synthase, and DHQ synthase. Also, the strain has reduced levels of DHQ dehydratase, which if present would divert some of the metabolic flow into the biosynthesis of aromatic amino acids its blockage results in higher production of quinic acid. 

Enzymatic synthesis relying on the use of aldolases offers several advantages. As opposed to chemical aldolization, aldolases usually catalyze a stereoselective aldol reaction under mild conditions there is no need for protection of functional groups and no cofactors are required. Moreover, whereas high specificity is reported for the donor substrate, broad flexibility toward the acceptor is generally observed. Finally, aldolases herein discussed do not use phosphorylated substrates, contrary to phosphoenolpyruvate-dependent aldolases involved in vivo in the biosynthetic pathway, such as KDO synthetase or DAHP synthetase [18,19]. 

Most bacteria and fungi have three isozymes of DAHP synthase, each controlled by feedback inhibition by one of the three products tyrosine, phenylalanine, or tryptophan. In E. coli these are encoded by genes aro F, am G, and aro H, respectively.11-123 All of the enzymes contain one atom of iron per molecule and show spectral similarities to hemerythrin.13... 

The product of the DAHP synthase, 3-deoxy-D-arabino-heptulosonate 7-phosphate, is shown in its cyclic hemiacetal form at the beginning of Eq. 25-2. Its conversion to 3-dehydroquinate is a multistep process that is catalyzed by a single enzyme, 14/15 which is the product of E. coli gene am B. The elimination of... 

The six carbons of the benzene ring of the aromatic amino acids are derived from the four carbons of erythrose 4-phosphate and two of the three carbons of phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP). The initial step in the pathway (Fig. 25-1, step a) is the condensation of erythrose 4-P with PEP and is catalyzed by 3-deoxy-D-arafrmo-heptulosonate-7-phosphate (DAHP) synthase. Closely analogous to an aldol condensation, the mechanism provides a surprise.10 When PEP containing lsO in the oxygen bridge to the phospho group reacts, the lsO is retained in the eliminated phosphate biochemical intuition would suggest that it should stay in the... 

The 3-deoxy D-arabino-heptulosonic acid 7-phosphate (DAHP, 34), intermediate of the shikimic acid pathway (cf. Sect. 2.2.4), has also been prepared... 

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