| Literature DB >> 12183629 |
Joachim Ahlert1, Erica Shepard, Natalia Lomovskaya, Emmanuel Zazopoulos, Alfredo Staffa, Brian O Bachmann, Kexue Huang, Leonid Fonstein, Anne Czisny, Ross E Whitwam, Chris M Farnet, Jon S Thorson.
Abstract
The enediynes exemplify nature's ingenuity. We have cloned and characterized the biosynthetic locus coding for perhaps the most notorious member of the nonchromoprotein enediyne family, calicheamicin. This gene cluster contains an unusual polyketide synthase (PKS) that is demonstrated to be essential for enediyne biosynthesis. Comparison of the calicheamicin locus with the locus encoding the chromoprotein enediyne C-1027 reveals that the enediyne PKS is highly conserved among these distinct enediyne families. Contrary to previous hypotheses, this suggests that the chromoprotein and nonchromoprotein enediynes are generated by similar biosynthetic pathways.Entities:
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Year: 2002 PMID: 12183629 DOI: 10.1126/science.1072105
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Science ISSN: 0036-8075 Impact factor: 47.728