Structure-based phylogeny of polyene macrolide antibiotic glycosyltransferases

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• 作者：Yanhua Sun<sup>asup> ; Fanxu Zeng<sup>bsup><sup> ; sup><sup>csup> ; Weiwen Zhang<sup>bsup><sup> ; sup><sup>csup> ; Jianjun Qiao<sup>bsup><sup> ; sup><sup>csup><sup> ; sup><sup>jianjunq@tju.edu.cnsup>
• 关键词：AGTs ; antibiotic glycosyltransferases ; AIC ; akaike information criterion ; BIC ; Bayesian information criterion ; CYP450 ; cytochrome P450 ; FGTs ; flavonoid glycosyltransferases ; GT ; glycosyltransferase ; HGT ; horizontal gene transfer ; MCMCMC ; Metropolis-couple
• 刊名：Gene
• 出版年：2012
• 出版时间：15 May, 2012
• 年：2012
• 卷：499
• 期：2
• 页码：288-296
• 全文大小：1777 K

文摘

Antibiotic glycosyltransferases (AGts) attach unusual deoxy-sugars to aglycons so antibiotics can exert function. It has been reported that polyene macrolide (PEM) AGts have different evolutionary origin when compared with other polyketide AGts, and our previous analysis have suggested that they could be results of horizontal gene transfer (HGT) from eukaryotes. In this paper, we compared the structures of PEM AGts with structures of eukaryotes and other AGts, and then built models of the representative PEM AGts and GT-1 glycosyltransferases. We also constructed the Neighbor-Joining (NJ) trees based on the normalized Root Mean Square (RMS) distance, the Bayesian tree guided by structural alignments, and carried out analysis on several key conserved residues in PEM AGts. The NJ tree showed a close relationship between PEM AGts and eukaryotic glycosyltransferases, and Bayesian tree further supported their affinity with UDP-glucuronosyltransferases (UGTs). Analysis on key conserved residues showed that PEM AGts may have similar interaction mechanism such as in the formation of hydrogen bonds as eukaryotic glycosyltransferases. Using structure-based phylogenetic approaches, this study further supported that PEM AGts were the result of HGT between prokaryotes and eukaryotes.