Genome mining of cryptic tetronate natural products from a PKS-NRPS encoding gene cluster in Trichoderma harzianum t-22

Org Biomol Chem. 2021 Mar 11;19(9):1985-1990. doi: 10.1039/d0ob02545c.

Abstract

Trichoderma harzianum is a widely used biocontrol agent in agriculture. Obtaining a full inventory of the small molecules that can be biosynthesized from the encoded biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) is therefore useful for understanding associated plant-microbe and microbe-microbe interactions. Here we heterologously reconstituted a polyketide synthase-nonribosomal peptide synthetase (PKS-NRPS) encoding gene cluster from T. harzianum t-22 in Aspergillus nidulans A1145. Six new tetronate natural products trihazone A-F (1-6) were isolated and elucidated by HRESIMS and 1D and 2D NMR data. Three of the products contain an exocyclic olefin, which is derived from the oxidative decarboxylation of an α-ketoglutarate-dependent dioxygenase ThnC as shown by biochemical assays.

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • 4-Butyrolactone / analogs & derivatives
  • 4-Butyrolactone / analysis
  • Biological Products / analysis*
  • Biological Products / chemistry
  • Fungal Proteins / genetics
  • Genomics / methods
  • Hypocreales / chemistry*
  • Hypocreales / genetics
  • Mass Spectrometry / methods
  • Multigene Family*
  • Peptide Synthases / chemistry*
  • Peptide Synthases / genetics
  • Polyketide Synthases / chemistry*
  • Polyketide Synthases / genetics

Substances

  • Biological Products
  • Fungal Proteins
  • Polyketide Synthases
  • Peptide Synthases
  • non-ribosomal peptide synthase
  • 4-Butyrolactone

Supplementary concepts

  • Trichoderma harzianum