Kanamycin Group Antibiotics Were Subjected to Enzymatic Acetylation
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VOL. 51 NO. 8 THE JOURNAL OF ANTIBIOTICS 735 The Novel Enzymatic 3"-N-Acetylation of Arbekacin by an Aminoglycoside 3-N-Acetyltransferase of Streptomyces Origin and the Resulting Activity † KUNIMOTO HOTTA*, ATSUKO SUNADA, JUN ISHIKAWA and SATOSHI MIZUNO National Institute of Infectious Diseases, 1-23-1 Toyama, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8640, Japan YOKO IKEDA and SHINICHI KONDO Institute of Microbial Chemistry, 3-14-23 Kamiosaki, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141-0021, Japan (Received for publication May 19, 1998) Kanamycin group antibiotics were subjected to enzymatic acetylation by a cell free extract containing an aminoglycoside 3-N-acetyltransferase, AAC (3)-X, derived from Streptomyces griseus SS-1198PR. Characterization of the incubated reaction mixtures by TLC and antibiotic assay revealed that a product retaining activity was specifically formed from arbekacin, an anti-MRSA semisynthetic aminoglycoside. The structural determination demonstrated that acetylation occurred at the 3"-amino group in arbekacin and amikacin, and at the 3-amino group in dibekacin as in the case of kanamycin. These results should reflected the effect of the (S)-4-amino-2-hydroxybutyryl side chain which is present in arbekacin and amikacin, but absent in dibekacin and kanamycin. The 3"-N acetylation is the first finding in the enzymatic modifications of aminoglycoside antibiotics. 3"-N-Acetylarbekacin showed antibiotic activity as high as that of 2'-N acetylarbekacin reported previously, whereas 3"-N-acetylamikacin showed no substantial activity. Thus, our results illuminated a novel aspect of arbekacin distinct from the other aminoglycosides. Enzymatic mechanisms of resistance to aminoglyco- excellent activity against all of methicillin-resistant side antibiotics were first reported in 1967 by UMEZAWA Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains containing any and his colleagues. 1,2) They demonstrated all the three sort of aminoglycoside-modifying enzyme available in types of aminoglycoside-modifying enzymes in clinically- the 1980s. Therefore, ABK was approved as a chemo- isolated resistant bacteria carrying R plasmids; i.e., an therapeutic agent for the treatment of infections caused aminoglycoside acetyltransferase, AAC(6')3) as well as a by MRSA, since 1990 in Japan,9~11) and has been used phosphotransferase, APH(3'),4) that inactivated kanamy- extensively until today. Only a small number of MRSA cin (KM), and an adenylyltransferase, AAD(3"),5) that strains with a moderate level (12.5~25μg/ml) of inactivated streptomycin (SM). On the basis of these ABK-resistance due to a bifunctional enzyme APH(2")/ findings, they predicted structures refractory to these AAC(6') have emerged12,13) so that the incidence of enzymes and eventually synthesized dibekacin (DKB) as ABK-registant MRSA strains has been very low. How- the first rationally designed semisynthetic aminoglyco- ever, one cannot rule out the possibility of emergence in side.6) Subsequently, arbekacin (ABK)7) having the the future of novel ABK-resistant strains, since ABK 1-N-[(S)-4-amino-2-hydroxybutyryl] side chain were contains several amino and hydroxyl groups that may synthesized as in the case of amikacin (AMK).8) Among be modified by enzymes such as AAC(3), AAC(2') and a lot of aminoglycoside derivatives synthesized for active AAC(6'). agents against resistant bacteria, only ABK showed an To check these possibility, we attempted to use AACs † A part of this work was presented at ASM General Meeting (96th) that was held on May 21 , 1996 in New Orleans, La. and at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Eastern Branch of the Japan Society of Chemotherapy held on November 15, 1996 in Tokyo. 736 THE JOURNAL OF ANTIBIOTICS AUG. 1998 Fig. 1. Structures. available from actinomycetes such as aminoglycoside- Results producers. First, we exposed ABK to AAC (2') derived from a kasugamycin-producing strain, Streptomyces In a preliminary study on acetylation with a cell free kasugaensis MB273. Consequently it turned out that extract of S. lividans TK21/pANT3-1 containing the ABK was readily converted to the 2'-N-acetyl derivative AAC (3)-X gene (aac(3)-Xa) cloned from a KM-resistant retaining antibiotic activity, indicating that AAC (2')- mutant of SM-producing S. griseus SS-1198, ABK was dependent aminoglycoside resistant bacteria could not completely converted to a single modified product be resistant to ABK.14) While, an inactivated product, monitored by TLC, similar to KM and DKB. The anti- 3-N-acetyl KM was isolated by the enzymatic reaction biotic assay of the reaction mixtures demonstrated that of KM with an AAC (3) obtained from S. griseus SS- no apparent inactivation occurred with ABK suggesting 1198PR, a KM-resistant mutant derived from a wild type that the acetylation product of ABK retained antibiotic SM-producing strain (S. griseus SS-1198). Although this activity as comparable as that of ABK. By contrast, the enzyme was first designated AAC (3)-V,15)it was renamed reaction mixtures of DKB and KM lost the activity.15) AAC(3)-X as a new aminoglycoside-modifying en- While, acetylation of AMK proceeded so slowly that it zyme.16) 16)zyme . was not completed even by 96-hour incubation. In the present study, ABK, AMK and DKB were The acetylated product in the enzymatic reaction exposed to AAC (3)-X of S. griseus origin. Interestingly, mixture of ABK and a cell free extract of S. lividans ABK and AMK that have the same 1-N-aryl side chain TK21/pANT3-1 was isolated by column chromatogra- turned out to be modified by acetylation at the 3"-amino phy on Amberlite CG-50 (NH+4) resin in a good yield. group that has never been reported in any aminoglyco- FAB-MS of the product provided m/z 595 (M+H)+ side, whereas DKB lacking the side chain was converted indicating monoacetylated ABK. As shown in Tables 1 to 3-N-acetyl DKB by the intrinsic action of AAC (3)-X and 2, the 1H and 13C NMR spectra of the acetylated (Fig. 1). In this paper, the formation, isolation, structural product were compared with those of ABK in an acidic elucidation and antimicrobial activity of enzymatic D2O. The 1H NMR spectrum of the product showed an reaction products of ABK, AMK and DKB by AAC (3)- acetyl CH3 signal at δ 2.07 and the 3"-H signal at δ 4.10 X are presented. shifted to lower field than that of ABK (δ 3.45). The 13C VOL. 51 NO. 8 THE JOURNAL OF ANTIBIOTICS 737 Table 1. 1H NMR spectral data. Bold letters show lower-field shifts due to the N-acetylation. NMR spectrum showed an acetyl CO (δ 176.0) and CH3 two known enzymes, AAC (3)-III produced by Pseu- (δ 23.1) signals, and the β-carbons (C-2" and C-4") of domonas aeruginosa PST117) and AAC (3)-IV produced the acetamide group shifted to lower field (δ 70.4 and by Escherichia coli JR225,18) were not able to acetylate 68.3, respectively). Thus, the structure of the product was ABK and AMK, but readily converted KM and DKB elucidated to be 3"-N-acetyl ABK. The enzymatic reac- to the 3-N-acetyl derivatives. tion of AMK by 48-hour incubation gave 3"-N-acetyl Furthermore, a new product, 3"-N-acetyl ABK showed AMK in 35% yield. However, the product of DKB was a substantial antibiotic activity (55% activity of ABK the 3-N-acetyl derivative similar to that of KM.15) against Bacillus subtilis PCI219) as same as 2'-N-acetyl As shown in Table 3, by the enzymatic reaction with ABK (42% activity of ABK).15) Minimum inhibitory the enzyme AAC(3)-X, ABK and AMK that have the concentrations of 3"-N-acetyl ABK are shown in Table 4. same 1-N-acyl side chain, (S)-4-amino-2-hydroxybutyric acid, were converted into 3"-N-acetyl ABK and 3"-N- Discussion acetyl AMK, respectively, instead of 3-N-acetyl prod- ucts. As expected, the modification product of DKB It was surprise to us to learn that AAC (3)-X was was confirmed to be 3-N-acetyl DKB. On the other hand, capable of converting both ABK and AMK to novel 738 THE JOURNAL OF ANTIBIOTICS AUG. 1998 Table 2. 13C NMR spectral data. Bold letters show β-carbon shifts due to the N-acetylation. Table 3. Enzymatic N-acetylation of aminoglycoside antibiotics. MICs against enzyme-producing strains are shown in parentheses. monoacetylated derivatives, 3"-N-acetyl ABK and 3"- ABK and AMK. The 3"-N-acetylation will take place N-acetyl AMK, respectively, while the enzyme produced on the opposite side of the 3-amino group possibly due 3-N-acetyl derivatives of both KM and DKB as we to the effect of the side chain. The long arm of the expected. The 3"-N-acetylation should reflect a steric panthoteine residue in acetyl CoA molecule may also be hindrance effect of the acyl side chain common to both critical to the 3"-N-acetylation. It should also be noted VOL. 51 NO. 8 THE JOURNAL OF ANTIBIOTICS 739 Table 4. Minimum inhibitory concentrations of 3"AcABK and ABK . 740 THE JOURNAL OF ANTIBIOTICS AUG. 1998 that AACs derived from P, aeruginosa and E, coli failed were obtained from Meiji Seika Kaisha, Ltd. Other to do the 3"-N-acetylation, although these enzymes chemicals were commercially available. produced 3-N-acetyl derivatives from KM and DKB. This means that AAC (3)-X has a unique catalytic prop- Antibiotic Activity erty. Antimicrobial activities against Bacillus subtilis The other point to note is that 3"-N-acetyl ABK PCI219 were determined by an ordinary cup or paper showed a substantial antibiotic activity whereas no sig- disc method in Mycin Assay Agar (Difco).