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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-10-21
pubmed:abstractText
The final step of penicillin biosynthesis in the filamentous fungus Aspergillus nidulans is catalysed by isopenicillin N acyltransferase encoded by the aatA gene. Because there is no bacterial homologue, its evolutionary origin remained obscure. As shown here,disruption of aatA still enabled penicillin production. Genome mining led to the discovery of the aatB gene(AN6775.3) which has a similar structure and expression pattern as aatA. Disruption of aatB resulted in a reduced penicillin titre. Surface plasmon resonance analysis and Northern blot analysis indicated that the promoters of both aatA and aatB are bound and regulated by the same transcription factors AnCF and AnBH1f. In contrast to aatA, aatB does not encode a peroxisomal targeting signal (PTS1). Overexpression of a mutated aatB(PTS1) gene in an aatA-disruption strain(leading to peroxisomal localization of AatB)increased the penicillin titre more than overexpression of the wild-type aatB. Homologues of aatA are exclusively part of the penicillin biosynthesis gene cluster,whereas aatB homologues also exist in non-producing fungi. Our findings suggest that aatB is a paralogue of aatA. They extend the model of evolution of the penicillin biosynthesis gene cluster by recruitment of a biosynthesis gene and its cis-regulatory sites upon gene duplication.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
1365-2958
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
70
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
445-61
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-7-13
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:18942174-Acyltransferases, pubmed-meshheading:18942174-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:18942174-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:18942174-Aspergillus nidulans, pubmed-meshheading:18942174-Blotting, Northern, pubmed-meshheading:18942174-Evolution, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:18942174-Fungal Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:18942174-Gene Deletion, pubmed-meshheading:18942174-Gene Expression Profiling, pubmed-meshheading:18942174-Gene Order, pubmed-meshheading:18942174-Genes, Fungal, pubmed-meshheading:18942174-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:18942174-Molecular Structure, pubmed-meshheading:18942174-Multigene Family, pubmed-meshheading:18942174-Mutagenesis, Insertional, pubmed-meshheading:18942174-Penicillin-Binding Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:18942174-Penicillins, pubmed-meshheading:18942174-Phylogeny, pubmed-meshheading:18942174-Protein Sorting Signals, pubmed-meshheading:18942174-Sequence Homology, Amino Acid, pubmed-meshheading:18942174-Surface Plasmon Resonance, pubmed-meshheading:18942174-Transcription Factors
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
Identification of the novel penicillin biosynthesis gene aatB of Aspergillus nidulans and its putative evolutionary relationship to this fungal secondary metabolism gene cluster.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Molecular and Applied Microbiology, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, 07745 Jena, Germany.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't