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TY - JOUR
T1 - Understanding the competing pathways leading to hydropyrene and isoelisabethatriene
AU - Zev, Shani
AU - Ringel, Marion
AU - Driller, Ronja
AU - Loll, Bernhard
AU - Brück, Thomas
AU - Major, Dan T.
PY - 2022/8
Y1 - 2022/8
N2 - Terpene synthases are responsible for the biosynthesis of terpenes, the largest family of natural products. Hydropyrene synthase generates hydropyrene and hydropyrenol as its main products along with two byproducts, isoelisabethatrienes A and B. Fascinatingly, a single active site mutation (M75L) diverts the product distribution towards isoelisabethatrienes A and B. In the current work, we study the competing pathways leading to these products using quantum chemical calculations in the gas phase. We show that there is a great thermodynamic preference for hydropyrene and hydropyrenol formation, and hence most likely in the synthesis of the isoelisabethatriene products kinetic control is at play.
AB - Terpene synthases are responsible for the biosynthesis of terpenes, the largest family of natural products. Hydropyrene synthase generates hydropyrene and hydropyrenol as its main products along with two byproducts, isoelisabethatrienes A and B. Fascinatingly, a single active site mutation (M75L) diverts the product distribution towards isoelisabethatrienes A and B. In the current work, we study the competing pathways leading to these products using quantum chemical calculations in the gas phase. We show that there is a great thermodynamic preference for hydropyrene and hydropyrenol formation, and hence most likely in the synthesis of the isoelisabethatriene products kinetic control is at play.
KW - diterpenes
KW - enzyme mechanism
KW - kinetic control
KW - quantum mechanics
KW - terpene synthases
KW - thermodynamic
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85138053221&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3762/bjoc.18.97
DO - 10.3762/bjoc.18.97
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 35965858
AN - SCOPUS:85138053221
VL - 18
SP - 972
EP - 978
JO - Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry
JF - Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry
SN - 2195-951X
ER -