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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
13
pubmed:dateCreated
2007-9-3
pubmed:abstractText
Genome-sequencing projects have revealed that Streptomyces bacteria have the genetic potential to produce considerably larger numbers of natural products than can be observed under standard laboratory conditions. Cryptic angucycline-type aromatic polyketide gene clusters are particularly abundant. Sequencing of two such clusters from Streptomyces sp. PGA64 and H021 revealed the presence of several open reading frames that could be involved in processing the basic angucyclic carbon skeleton. The pga gene cluster contains one putative FAD-dependant monooxygenase (pgaE) and a putatively bifunctional monooxygenase/short chain alcohol reductase (pgaM), whereas the cab cluster contains two similar monooxygenases (cabE and cabM) and an independent reductase (cabV). In this study we have reconstructed the biosynthetic pathways for aglycone synthesis by cloning and sequentially expressing the angucycline tailoring genes with genes required for the synthesis of the unmodified angucycline metabolite-UWM6-in Streptomyces lividans TK24. The expression studies unequivocally showed that, after the production of UWM6, the pathways proceed through the action of the similar monooxygenases PgaE and CabE, followed by reactions catalysed by PgaM and CabMV. Analysis of the metabolites produced revealed that addition of pgaE and cabE genes directs both pathways to a known shunt product, rabelomycin, whereas expression of all genes from a given pathway results in the production of the novel angucycline metabolites gaudimycin A and B. However, one of the end products is most probably further modified by endogenous S. lividans TK24 enzymes. These experiments demonstrate that genes that are either inactive or cryptic in their native host can be used as biosynthetic tools to generate new compounds.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Anthraquinones, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Anti-Bacterial Agents, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Antioxidants, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Flavin-Adenine Dinucleotide, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Macrolides, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Mixed Function Oxygenases, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Oxygenases, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Quinones, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Telomerase, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/beta-rubromycin, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/dimethylaniline monooxygenase..., http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/rabelomycin
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
1439-4227
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
3
pubmed:volume
8
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1577-84
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:17654627-Anthraquinones, pubmed-meshheading:17654627-Anti-Bacterial Agents, pubmed-meshheading:17654627-Antioxidants, pubmed-meshheading:17654627-Biosynthetic Pathways, pubmed-meshheading:17654627-Chromatography, Liquid, pubmed-meshheading:17654627-Cloning, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:17654627-Flavin-Adenine Dinucleotide, pubmed-meshheading:17654627-Gene Expression Regulation, pubmed-meshheading:17654627-Genes, Bacterial, pubmed-meshheading:17654627-Macrolides, pubmed-meshheading:17654627-Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, pubmed-meshheading:17654627-Mass Spectrometry, pubmed-meshheading:17654627-Mixed Function Oxygenases, pubmed-meshheading:17654627-Multigene Family, pubmed-meshheading:17654627-Open Reading Frames, pubmed-meshheading:17654627-Oxygenases, pubmed-meshheading:17654627-Phylogeny, pubmed-meshheading:17654627-Quinones, pubmed-meshheading:17654627-Streptomyces, pubmed-meshheading:17654627-Telomerase
pubmed:year
2007
pubmed:articleTitle
Artificial reconstruction of two cryptic angucycline antibiotic biosynthetic pathways.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Biochemistry and Food Chemistry, University of Turku, 20014 Turku, Finland.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't