JP2005151971A - New microorganism for transforming validamycin into valienamine and validamine - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently produce valienamine and (or) validamine from validamycin or validoxylamine by a microbial transformation process. <P>SOLUTION: The valienamine and (or) the validamine are efficiently produced in an industrial scale by culturing a microorganism belonging to the genus Bacillus which has ability of efficiently transforming the validamycin or the validoxylamine into the valienamine and (or) the validamine, or utilizing an enzyme source which is derived from the microorganism belonging to the genus Bacillus and has activity of transforming the validamycin or the validoxylamine into the valienamine and (or) the validamine. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a process for producing valienamine and / or validamine.

  Variolamines derived from varienamine and validamine each have α-glucosidase inhibitory activity, and are useful as preventive and therapeutic agents for obesity, adiposity, diabetes and the like. Among these N-substituted compounds, those having stronger α-glucosidase inhibitory activity are known (Patent Document 1, Patent Document 2 and Patent Document 3). Varienamine and validamine are important as raw material compounds for variolamine and its N-substituted product.

  Non-Patent Document 1 discloses that valienamine [1L- (1,3,4 / 2)-] is obtained by allowing Pseudomonas denitrificans to act on validamycin A or validoxylamine A. 4-amino-6-hydroxymethyl-5-cyclohexene-1,2,3-triol] and validamine [1L- (1,3,4 / 2,6) -4-amino-6-hydroxymethyl-1 2,3-cyclohexanetriol] is obtained.

  Patent Document 4 can convert Flavobacterium saccharophilum IFO13984, and Patent Document 5 can convert Cytophaga heparina IFO12017 and ATCC13125 to convert validamycin to valienamine and validamine. It is disclosed.

  Furthermore, Agrobacterium radiobacter IFO12664, IFO13258, IFO13259, IFO13532, IFO13533, Agrobacterium tumefaciens (Agrobacterium tumefaciens) IFO3058 and Aeromonas hydrophila subsp. Subsp. Hydrophila IFO13286, Subsp. Proteolytica IFO13287, Aeromonas punctata subsp. Cavice IFO13288, and Aeromonas salmonisidas Aeromonas salmonicida subsp. Salmonicida) IFO12659 is also known to be able to convert validamycin to valienamine and valididamin (Patent Document 6).

JP 57-64648 A Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 57-114554 Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 57-200335 JP 57-54593 A JP 58-152496 A Japanese Patent Publication No. 06-69380 Journal of Chemical Society Chemical Communications pp. 746-747 1972

  The present inventors have intensively studied whether there is a substance other than the known microorganisms that can efficiently produce valienamine and / or validamine by converting validamycin or validoxylamine. As a result, it has been found that a microorganism belonging to the genus Bacillus or a processed product thereof can act on validamycin or validoxylamine to efficiently produce valienamine and / or validamine, and the present invention has been completed.

  The present invention relates to a bacterium belonging to the genus Bacillus and producing varienamine and / or an enzyme capable of producing validamine by acting on validamycin or validoxylamine, or valenamine by treating the treated product with validamycin or validoxylamine. And / or to the production of validamine.

  According to the present invention, a validamycin and / or validoxylamine can be converted by a microorganism belonging to the genus Bacillus to efficiently produce valienamine and / or validamine.

  The chemical structure of validamycin used as a raw material in the method of the present invention consists of validoxylamine and D-glucose. Validoxylamine is known to be A, B, G, and validamycin is known to be A, B, C, D, E, F, G in combination with D-glucose [The Journal・ Of Antibiotics, 43, 722-726 (1990)].

  In the present invention, various validamycins, various validoxylamines, or a mixture thereof can be used as a raw material. For example, a culture of a validamycin-producing bacterium or a treated product thereof can be advantageously used.

  The microorganism used in the method of the present invention may be any microorganism belonging to the genus Bacillus having the ability to convert validamycin or validoxylamine to valienamine and / or validamine, such as Bacillus gibsonii DSM8722. Bacillus clausii DSM 8716, Bacillus chitinolyticus NBRC15660, Bacillus flexus NBRC15715, Bacillus amyloliquefaciens NBRC15535, NBRC15535, Benci Bacillus subtilis IAM1026 and the like.

  In the present invention, mutant strains of these microorganisms, recombinants produced by gene recombination techniques, and the like can also be used.

  The medium used for culturing the microorganism used in the present invention contains a carbon source, nitrogen source, inorganic salts, etc. that can be assimilated by the microorganism of the present invention, and can efficiently culture the microorganism of the present invention. As long as it is a medium, either a natural medium or a synthetic medium can be used.

  Specific examples of the carbon source in the medium include carbohydrates such as glucose, fructose, glycerol, maltose, sucrose, sorbitol, and starch, organic acids such as acetic acid and citric acid, alcohols, and molasses.

  Specific examples of nitrogen sources include ammonia, ammonium chloride, ammonium sulfate, ammonium nitrate, ammonium phosphate, ammonium acetate, ammonium lactate and other inorganic acid ammonium salts, organic acid ammonium salts, peptone, meat extract, corn steep liquor, soybean flour Cotton seeds and the like.

  Specific examples of the inorganic substance include monopotassium phosphate, dipotassium phosphate, magnesium phosphate, magnesium sulfate, sodium chloride, ferrous sulfate, manganese sulfate, copper sulfate, zinc sulfate, calcium carbonate and the like.

  If necessary, vitamins such as thiamine and biotin, amino acids such as glutamic acid and aspartic acid, and nucleic acid-related substances such as adenine and guanine may be added.

  The culture of the microorganism used in the present invention is preferably performed under aerobic conditions such as shaking culture and aeration stirring culture. In the case of aeration and agitation culture, it is preferable to add an appropriate amount of an antifoaming agent to prevent foaming. The culture is preferably performed at a temperature range of 10 to 80 ° C., most preferably at 24 to 40 ° C. for about 2 to 8 days. During the cultivation, the pH is maintained at 5.0 to 10.0, preferably 6.0 to 8.5. The pH adjustment is performed using an inorganic or organic acid, an alkaline solution, calcium carbonate, ammonia or the like.

  Processed products of the culture of microorganisms thus obtained include cultured cells, dried products of the cells, sonicated products, lysed enzyme products, surfactant-treated products, organic solvent-treated products, mechanical products Examples include treated cells such as ground products, protein fractions of cells, immobilized cells and treated cells.

  In order to separate and purify the thus produced valienamine and validamine from the culture solution or the cell suspension, various known methods can be selected and combined. For example, filtration, centrifugation, concentration, drying, freeze-drying, adsorption, desorption, a method utilizing a difference in solubility in various solvents (for example, precipitation, crystallization, recrystallization), chromatography, or the like is used. Further, a method used for isolating and purifying a water-soluble basic substance by utilizing the fact that valienamine and validamine are soluble in water and hardly soluble in general organic solvents, for example, ion exchange resins Chromatography and adsorption / desorption methods using activated carbon, high porous polymer, Sephadex, cellulose, ion exchange cellulose, silica gel, alumina and the like are advantageously used.

  As described above, by allowing a microorganism belonging to the genus Bacillus or a processed product thereof to act on validamycin or validoxylamine, it is possible to efficiently produce valienamine and / or validamine, which are useful compounds as a raw material for producing an α-glucosidase inhibitor. I was able to do that. The method of the present invention is one of industrial-scale methods for producing valienamine and / or validamine by further improving the breeding of bacteria, culture conditions and reaction conditions generally performed in the field of fermentation engineering. Can be used.

  EXAMPLES Hereinafter, although an Example demonstrates this invention in detail, this invention is not limited to these Examples.

Example 1
Bacillus gibsonii DSM 8722 was inoculated into a preculture medium in which 1.0 g of peptone, 0.7 g of yeast extract, and 0.3 g of sodium chloride were dissolved in 100 mL of water, and cultured with shaking at 30 ° C. for 24 hours. Next, 150 g ammonium sulfate, 105 g dipotassium hydrogen phosphate, 45 g potassium dihydrogen phosphate, 1.5 g magnesium sulfate heptahydrate, 30 g yeast extract, and validamycin A crude powder (validamycin A content: about 60%) 100 g was dissolved in 15 L of water, and 3 g of antifoam was added to adjust the pH to 7.1. The entire amount of the preculture was transplanted to this main fermentation medium and cultured for 96 hours at 30 ° C., aeration rate of 15 L / min, and stirring speed of 250 rpm.

The obtained culture broth was centrifuged, and the entire amount of the supernatant was adsorbed on a 12 L column of Amberlite IRC-50 (NH ₄ ⁺ type, manufactured by Rohm and Haas). After washing the column with 36 L of water, 0.5 Elution with 20 L of aqueous ammonia. The elution fraction was concentrated under reduced pressure to about 500 mL. A 1/5 volume (100 mL) of this concentrated solution was subjected to column chromatography (2.0 L) of Dowex 1 × 2 (OH ⁻ type, manufactured by Dow Chemical Co.) and eluted with water. Each elution fraction was obtained by thin-layer chromatography (silica gel 60F254 (Merck); developing solvent n-propanol / acetic acid / water (4: 1: 1); color reagent ninhydrin; valienamine Rf = 0.42 valididamine Rf = 0.35). Examined. The elution fraction of validamin eluted earlier was concentrated under reduced pressure, and then lyophilized to obtain 151 mg of validamin white powder. The elution fraction of valienamine eluted after validadamine was concentrated under reduced pressure, and ethanol was added to the resulting concentrated liquid to obtain 1.53 g of valienamine crystals.

Example 2
A Bacillus clausii DSM 8716 was operated in the same manner as in Example 1 to obtain 0.98 g of validamin white powder and 1.53 g of valienamine crystals.

Example 3
Bacillus chitinolyticus (Bacillus chitinolyticus) NBRC15660, Bacillus flexus NBRC15715, Bacillus amyloliquefaciens NBRC15535, Bacillus mojavensis (Bacillus mojavensis) NBRC15718, Bacillus mojavensis NBRC15718 0.15% urea, 0.15% ammonium sulfate, 0.15% ammonium nitrate, 0.15% potassium dihydrogen phosphate, 0.15% disodium hydrogen phosphate 0.15%, magnesium sulfate heptahydrate 0.03%, calcium chloride dihydrate 10mL medium containing 0.001% hydrate, 0.001% zinc sulfate heptahydrate, 0.001% ferric sulfate heptahydrate, 0.0001% manganese sulfate pentahydrate, 0.2% yeast extract, 0.5% purified validamycin A One platinum ear inoculation was carried out at pH 7.0, followed by shaking culture at 30 ° C. and 250 rpm for 7 days.

After completion of the culture, the culture broth was centrifuged, and 1 mL of the supernatant was adsorbed through Sepppack Plus CM (manufactured by Waters), washed with 2 mL of water, and eluted with 1.5 mL of 0.2N aqueous ammonia. The eluate was air-dried with nitrogen and then dissolved in water to obtain a sample for analysis. Using HPLC (column is CARBOSep CHO-682 manufactured by Transgenomic, 7.8φ × 200mm, mobile phase is 20 mM Pb (NO ₃ ) ₂ , flow rate 0.6 mL / min), sample was detected (RI) by 10 μL injection, 144 μg, Production of 69 μg, 27 μg, 26 μg and 18 μg of valienamine was confirmed.

According to the present invention, validamycin and / or validoxylamine can be decomposed and microorganisms belonging to the genus Bacillus can be efficiently produced.

Claims (2)

  By culturing a microorganism belonging to the genus Bacillus that has the ability to act on validamycin or validoxylamine to convert to valienamine and / or valididamin, in a medium containing validamycin or validoxylamine, ) A method for producing validdamin. It is derived from a microorganism belonging to the genus Bacillus having the ability to act on validamycin or validoxylamine and convert it to valienamine and / or valididamin, and converts validamycin or validoxylamine to valienamine and / or validamine. A method for producing valienamine and / or validamine by adding an active enzyme source to a reaction solution containing validamycin or validoxylamine.