This review surveys the biological activities and the iterative and recursive biosynthetic mechanisms of fungal cyclooligomer depsipeptides, and their structural diversification by various combinatorial biosynthetic methods.
The nonribosomal peptide synthetase PF1022-synthetase (PFSYN) synthesises the cyclooctadepsipeptide PF1022 from the building blocks D-lactate, D-phenyllactate and N-methylleucine. The substrate tolerance of PFSYN for hydroxy acids was probed by in vitro screening of a set of aliphatic and aromatic alpha-D-hydroxy acids with various structural modifications in the side chain. Thus, new PF1022 derivatives for example, propargyl-D-lactyl-PF1022 and beta-thienyl-D-lactyl-PF1022 were generated. The promiscuous behaviour of PFSYN towards aliphatic and aromatic alpha-D-hydroxy acids is considerably larger than that of related enniatin synthetase (ESYN) and thus gives rise to the enzymatic generation of various new PF1022 derivatives.
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