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- Title
- Characterization of tailoring genes involved in the modification of geldanamycin polyketide in Streptomyces hygroscopicus JCM4427
- Author(s)
- J C Shin; Z Na; D H Lee; Won Cheol Kim; Kyeong Lee; Y M Shen; S G Paik; Young-Soo Hong; Jung Joon Lee
- Bibliographic Citation
- Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, vol. 18, no. 6, pp. 1101-1108
- Publication Year
- 2008
- Abstract
- Geldanamycin and its analogs are important anticancer agents that inhibit the newly targeted, heat-shock protein (Hsp) 90, which is a chaperone protein in eukaryotic cells. To resolve which geldanamycin biosynthetic genes are responsible for particular post-polyketide synthase (PKS) processing steps and in which order the reactions occur, we individually inactivated candidate genes in Streptomyces hygroscopicus subsp. duamyceticus JCM4427, and isolated and elucidated the structures of intermediates from each mutant. The results indicated that gel7 governs at least one of the benzoquinone ring oxidation steps. In addition, gel16 was found to be involved in double-bond formation between C-4 and C-5 of 4,5-dihydrogeldanamycin, which confirmed our previous findings that this double bond reduced during the post-PKS modification of the polyketide assembly. In addition, pro-geldanamycin, which does not possess a double bond at C-4/5, was purified from the gel7 and 8 double-gene-inactivated mutant.
- Keyword
- BiosynthesisGeldanamycinPolyketideStreptomyces
- ISSN
- 1017-7825
- Publisher
- Korea Soc-Assoc-Inst
- Type
- Article
- Appears in Collections:
- Ochang Branch Institute > Chemical Biology Research Center > 1. Journal Articles
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