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Publication Abstract from PubMed

Cofactor F420 plays critical roles in primary and secondary metabolism in a range of bacteria and archaea as a low-potential hydride transfer agent. It mediates a variety of important redox transformations involved in bacterial persistence, antibiotic biosynthesis, pro-drug activation and methanogenesis. However, the biosynthetic pathway for F420 has not been fully elucidated: neither the enzyme that generates the putative intermediate 2-phospho-L-lactate, nor the function of the FMN-binding C-terminal domain of the gamma-glutamyl ligase (FbiB) in bacteria are known. Here we present the structure of the guanylyltransferase FbiD and show that, along with its archaeal homolog CofC, it accepts phosphoenolpyruvate, rather than 2-phospho-L-lactate, as the substrate, leading to the formation of the previously uncharacterized intermediate dehydro-F420-0. The C-terminal domain of FbiB then utilizes FMNH2 to reduce dehydro-F420-0, which produces mature F420 species when combined with the gamma-glutamyl ligase activity of the N-terminal domain. These new insights have allowed the heterologous production of F420 from a recombinant F420 biosynthetic pathway in Escherichia coli.

A revised biosynthetic pathway for the cofactor F420 in prokaryotes.,Bashiri G, Antoney J, Jirgis ENM, Shah MV, Ney B, Copp J, Stuteley SM, Sreebhavan S, Palmer B, Middleditch M, Tokuriki N, Greening C, Scott C, Baker EN, Jackson CJ Nat Commun. 2019 Apr 5;10(1):1558. doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-09534-x. PMID:30952857^[2]

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