Probing the substrate specificity of an enzyme catalyzing inactivation of streptogramin B antibiotics using LC-MS and LC-MS/MS
✍ Scribed by Bateman, Kevin P.; Thibault, Pierre; Yang, Keqian; White, Robert L.; Vining, Leo C.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 451 KB
- Volume
- 32
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1076-5174
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✦ Synopsis
LC-MS and LC-MS/MS analyses indicated that an enzyme responsible for inactivating the antibiotic etamycin is speciÐc for streptogramins and acts on both type B-I and B-II streptogramin subgroups. No enzymatic activity was detected for other cyclodepsipeptides such as surfactins and viscosin. It was demonstrated using analogs of etamycin that the picolinyl moiety is essential to obtain enzyme-generated ring-opened compounds. Because the picolinyl moiety is also essential for the biological activity of streptogramins, it is proposed that this residue is a distinctive topographic feature in the binding of this group of antibiotics to enzyme active sites.
1997 by John Wiley & ( Sons, Ltd.