New insights into chloramphenicol biosynthesis in Streptomyces venezuelae ATCC 10712

Fernandez-Martinez, Lorena T., Borsetto, Chiara, Gomez-Escribano, Juan Pablo, Bibb, Maureen J., Al-Bassam, Mahmoud M., Chandra, Govind and Bibb, Mervyn J. (2014) New insights into chloramphenicol biosynthesis in Streptomyces venezuelae ATCC 10712. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 58 (12). pp. 7441-7450. ISSN 0066-4804

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Abstract

Comparative genome analysis revealed seven uncharacterized genes, sven0909 to sven0915, adjacent to the previously identified chloramphenicol biosynthetic gene cluster (sven0916–sven0928) of Streptomyces venezuelae strain ATCC 10712 that was absent in a closely related Streptomyces strain that does not produce chloramphenicol. Transcriptional analysis suggested that three of these genes might be involved in chloramphenicol production, a prediction confirmed by the construction of deletion mutants. These three genes encode a cluster-associated transcriptional activator (Sven0913), a phosphopantetheinyl transferase (Sven0914), and a Na+/H+ antiporter (Sven0915). Bioinformatic analysis also revealed the presence of a previously undetected gene, sven0925, embedded within the chloramphenicol biosynthetic gene cluster that appears to encode an acyl carrier protein, bringing the number of new genes likely to be involved in chloramphenicol production to four. Microarray experiments and synteny comparisons also suggest that sven0929 is part of the biosynthetic gene cluster. This has allowed us to propose an updated and revised version of the chloramphenicol biosynthetic pathway.

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Additional Information: Copyright © 2014 Fernández-Martínez et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Science > School of Biological Sciences
Depositing User: Pure Connector
Date Deposited: 24 Jul 2015 22:51
Last Modified: 05 Jul 2023 11:30
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/53728
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.04272-14

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