NRPS condensation domain–substrate studies using X-ray crystallography
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Nonribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPSs) are a family of large multimodular enzymes that synthesize structurally and functionally diverse peptides including siderophores, toxins, agriculturally-important compounds and pharmaceutically-important compounds. The condensation (C) domain is responsible for peptide bond formation, the central chemical step in nonribosomal peptide synthesis. Here we present the crystal structure of the first condensation domain of the calcium-dependent antibiotic (CDA) synthetase (CDA-C1) from Streptomyces coelicolor soaked with a small molecule compound representing the acceptor substrate. To increase the likelihood of complex formation, we designed the compound to contain a free thiol group in order to form a covalent bond between the substrate and a cysteine residue of the CDA-C1. The tethering of the substrate to the active site mimics delivery of substrate to the active site by the NRPS PCP domain, and the disulfide bond it forms with the protein will ensure a high local concentration of substrate. Initial maps, calculated from diffraction datasets collected at the home source, indicated density corresponding to the presence of substrate at the active site. This result, along with activity assay data, will help implicate residues important to enzyme catalysis and substrate specificity. In all, these studies will help characterize C domain function in NRPSs and potentiate the use of NRPSs in bioengineering experiments to produce novel or improved therapeutics.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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