The bleomycins (BLMs), a family of glycopeptide antibiotics, are currently used clinically in combination with a number of other agents for the treatment of malignant tumors. Other members of the BLM family include tallysomycins (TLMs), phleomycins and zorbamycin (ZBM). We previously cloned and characterized the biosynthetic gene clusters for BLMs, TLMs and ZBM. Applications of combinatorial biosynthesis strategies to the three biosynthetic machineries enabled the engineered production of several BLM analogs with unique structural characteristics and varying DNA cleavage activities, thereby providing an outstanding opportunity to study the structure-activity relationship (SAR) for the BLM family of anticancer drugs. We now report the engineered production of a new BLM-TLM-ZBM hybrid metabolite, named 6'-deoxy-TLM H-1, which consists of the 22-desmethyl-BLM aglycone, the TLM A C-terminal amine and the ZBM disaccharide, by heterologous expression of the zbmGL genes from the ZBM biosynthetic gene cluster in the Streptoalloteichus hindustanus ΔtlmH mutant strain SB8005. Evaluation of the DNA cleavage activities of 6'-deoxy-TLM H-1 as a measurement for its potential anticancer activity, in comparison with TLM H-1 and BLM A2, reveals new insight into the SAR of BLM family of anticancer drugs.The Journal of Antibiotics advance online publication, 23 August 2017; doi:10.1038/ja.2017.93.
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