| Literature DB >> 24412543 |
Meng Wang1, Mirko Beissner1, Huimin Zhao2.
Abstract
Aryl-aldehydes are a common feature in fungal polyketides, which are considered to be exclusively generated by the R domain of nonreducing polyketide synthases (NR-PKSs). However, by cloning and heterologous expression of both cryptic NR-PKS and nonribosomal peptide synthase (NRPS)-like genes from Aspergillus terreus in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, we identified a distinct mechanism for aryl-aldehyde formation in which a NRPS-like protein activates and reduces an aryl-acid produced by the accompanying NR-PKS to an aryl-aldehyde. Bioinformatics study indicates that such a mechanism may be widely used throughout the fungi kingdom.Entities:
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Year: 2014 PMID: 24412543 PMCID: PMC3943900 DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2013.12.005
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Chem Biol ISSN: 1074-5521