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Identification and localization of the gene cluster encoding biosynthesis of the antitumor macrolactam leinamycin in streptomyces atroolivaceus s-140

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authors

  • Cheng, Y. Q.
  • Tang, G. L.
  • Shen, Ben

publication date

  • December 2002

journal

  • Journal of Bacteriology  Journal

abstract

  • Leinamycin (LNM), produced by Streptomyces atroolivaceus, is a thiazole-containing hybrid peptide-polyketide natural product structurally characterized with an unprecedented 1,3-dioxo-1,2-dithiolane moiety that is spiro-fused to a 18-member macrolactam ring. LNM exhibits a broad spectrum of antimicrobial and antitumor activities, most significantly against tumors that are resistant to clinically important anticancer drugs, resulting from its DNA cleavage activity in the presence of a reducing agent. Using a PCR approach to clone a thiazole-forming nonribosomal peptide synthetase (NRPS) as a probe, we localized a 172-kb DNA region from S. atroolivaceus S-140 that harbors the lnm biosynthetic gene cluster. Sequence analysis of 11-kb DNA revealed three genes, lnmG, lnmH, and lnmI, and the deduced product of lnmI is characterized by domains characteristic to both NRPS and polyketide synthase (PKS). The involvement of the cloned gene cluster in LNM biosynthesis was confirmed by disrupting the lnmI gene to generate non-LNM-producing mutants and by characterizing LnmI as a hybrid NRPS-PKS megasynthetase, the NRPS module of which specifies for L-Cys and catalyzes thiazole formation. These results have now set the stage for full investigations of LNM biosynthesis and for generation of novel LNM analogs by combinatorial biosynthesis.

subject areas

  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Antibiotics, Antineoplastic
  • Chromosome Mapping
  • Cloning, Molecular
  • Cysteine
  • Genes, Bacterial
  • Lactams
  • Macrolides
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Multienzyme Complexes
  • Multigene Family
  • Peptide Synthases
  • Polymerase Chain Reaction
  • Streptomyces
  • Thiazoles
  • Thiones
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Identity

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0021-9193

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1128/jb.184.24.7013-7024.2002

PubMed ID

  • 12446651
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Additional Document Info

start page

  • 7013

end page

  • 7024

volume

  • 184

issue

  • 24

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