Abstract
Hispidin is a polyketide found in plants and fungi. In bioluminescent fungi, hispidin serves as a precursor of luciferin and is produced by hispidin synthases. Previous studies revealed that hispidin synthases differ in orthologous polyketide synthases from non-bioluminescent fungi by the absence of two domains with predicted ketoreductase and dehydratase activities. Here, we investigated the hypothesis that the loss of these domains in evolution led to the production of hispidin and the emergence of bioluminescence. We cloned three orthologous polyketide synthases from non-bioluminescent fungi, as well as their truncated variants, and assessed their ability to produce hispidin in a bioluminescence assay in yeast. Interestingly, expression of the full-length enzyme hsPKS resulted in dim luminescence, indicating that small amounts of hispidin are likely being produced as side products of the main reaction. Deletion of the ketoreductase and dehydratase domains resulted in no luminescence. Thus, domain truncation by itself does not appear to be a sufficient step for the emergence of efficient hispidin synthases from orthologous polyketide synthases. At the same time, the production of small amounts of hispidin or related compounds by full-length enzymes suggests that ancestral fungal species were well-positioned for the evolution of bioluminescence.
Funder
RFBR and the Moscow city government
RSF
MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences
Subject
Inorganic Chemistry,Organic Chemistry,Physical and Theoretical Chemistry,Computer Science Applications,Spectroscopy,Molecular Biology,General Medicine,Catalysis
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