• Genomics & Informatics
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.227-230
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• 2008

Compounds of polyketide origin possess a wealth of pharmacological effects, including antibacterial, antifungal, antiparasitic, anticancer and immunosuppressive activities. Many of these compounds and their semisynthetic derivatives are used today in the clinic. Most of the gene clusters encoding commercially important drugs have also been cloned and sequenced and their biosynthetic mechanisms studied in great detail. The area of biosynthetic engineering of the enzymes involved in polyketide biosynthesis has recently advanced and been transferred into the industrial arena. In this work, we introduce a computational system to provide the user with a wealth of information that can be utilized for biosynthetic engineering of enzymes involved in post-PKS tailoring steps. Post-PKS tailoring steps are necessary to add functional groups essential for the biological activity and are therefore important in polyketide biosynthesis.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제25권11호
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• pp.1796-1800
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• 2015

Sporopollenin is a poorly characterized mixed aliphatic and aromatic polymer with ester and ether linkages. Recent studies have reported that α-pyrone polyketide compounds generated by Arabidopsis thaliana, polyketide synthase A (PKSA) and tetraketide α-pyrone reductase 1 (TKPR1), are previously unknown sporopollenin precursors. Here, the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae was introduced to test potential sporopollenin biosynthetic pathways in vivo. A PKSA/TKPR1 dual expressor was generated and various chain-length alkyl α-pyrones were identified by GC-MS. The growth rate of the strain containing PKSA/TKPR1 appeared normal. These results indicate that PKSA/TKPR1-expressing yeast would be a starting platform to investigate in vivo sporopollenin metabolism.

• Natural Product Sciences
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.71-75
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• 2013

Actinofuranone C (1), a new 3-furanone-bearing polyketide, was isolated from an actinobacterium (Amycolatopsis sp.) associated with a female of the dung beetle, Copris tripartitus Waterhouse. The structure of actinofuranone C was elucidated by the spectroscopic interpretation of NMR, mass, UV, and IR data. The discovery of actinofuranone C indicates that chemical investigation of insect-associated microorganisms would be an effective strategy to explore natural chemical diversity.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제31권6호
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• pp.1695-1698
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• 2010

Protulactones A (1) and B (2), two new polyketide-derived fungal metabolites, have been isolated from an EtOAc extract of the marine-derived fungus Aspergillus sp. SF-5044 by various chromatographic methods. The structures of 1 and 2 were mainly determined by analysis of the NMR spectroscopic data and MS data, along with chemical methods such as Mosher method. Protulactones A (1) and B (2) are new members of polyketide-derived secondary metabolites, possessing unique ring systems among the fungal metabolites produced by the genus Aspergillus.

• 대한약학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한약학회 2003년도 Proceedings of the Convention of the Pharmaceutical Society of Korea Vol.2-1
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• pp.75-78
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• 2003

Polyketides are a class of structurally diverse natural products which possess a wide range of biological activities. These compounds are used throughout medicine and agriculture as antimicrobials, immunosuppressants, antiparasitics, and anticancer agents. While structurally diverse, polyketides are assembled by a common mechanism of decarboxylative condensations of simple malonate derivatives by polyketide synthases (PKSs) in a manner very similar to fatty acid biosynthesis (Fig 1). (omitted)

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.74-79
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• 1995

Sequence analysis of a DNA region encompassing the site of hybridization to actl, the gene for type II minimal polyketide synthase (PKS) for actinorhodin biosynthesis, from Streptomyces ablus revealed three more complete open reading frames additional to the already found two genes, plausibly encoding ${\beta}-ketoacyl$ synthase/acyl transferase (KS/AT) and chain length determining factor (ClF). The open reading frames (ORFs) were named salA, salD, and salE, from the upstream. In the homology analysis of the deduced amino acid sequences, SalA resembles the Streptomyces glaucescens Tcml, decaketide cyclase, SalD resembles acyl carrier protein in type II PKS, and SalE resembles the Actlll ketoreductase, The whole 4.4 kb of DNA sequence obeys the same conservation pattern as other type II PKSs. Therefore, we suggest that the 4.4 kb DNA from Streptomyces albus encompasses genes encoding enzymes for polyketide biogenesis in the organism and its organization is type II. The exsitence of SaIA, an analogue of the aromatic cyclase, revealed a relatedness of the 4.4 kb DNA with the aromatic PKS.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.1101-1108
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• 2008

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. The 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 is 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 gel8 double-gene-inactivated mutant.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제37권4호
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• pp.316-321
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• 2009

국내 토양으로부터 Chondromyces crocatus KYC2823을 순수 분리하고, 또 다른 5균주를 동반 세균이 함께 존재하는 상태로 분리하였다. 균주 KYC2823은 경북 청도군에서 채취한 토양시료에서 분리하였으며, 자실체 형태와 특이한 향의 발산을 포함한 여러 특성이 전형적인 C. crocatus임을 보였다. 이에 더해, 16S rDNA 염기서열이 C. crocatus의 새 표준균주로 제안된 Cm c5과 99.8% 유사하였다. 한편, PCR을 이용한 polyketide 생합성 유전자 조각의 클로닝 및 분석은 균주 KYC2823이 전자전달계 저해물질인 ajudazol과 actin cytoskeleton의 기능에 영향을 미치는 물질인 chondramide의 생합성 유전자, 그리고 아직까지 클로닝되지 않은 polyketide 계열 물질의 생합성 유전자를 가지고 있음을 보여주었다.

• 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국생물공학회 2000년도 추계학술발표대회 및 bio-venture fair
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• pp.660-664
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• 2000

UK-58,852의 생합성에 관여하는 유전자를 분리하기 위해 Actinomadura roseorufa의 genomic DNA와 E. coli-Streptomyces shuttle cosmid vector인 pOJ446이 genomic library를 만들었다. Genomic library는 dehydratase PCR product와 eryA 유전자를 probe로 하여 sugar 생합성 유전자와 polyketide typel 유전자가 집단으로 존재하는 cosmid pHD54를 분리하였고, 이를 제한 효소인 BamHI, SmaI와 Sonicater를 이용해서 subcloning 하였다. 이들의 염기서열을 부분 분석한 결과, polyketide 생합성에 관여하는 ketoacyl synthase, methylmalonyl acyltransferase, ketoreductase, enolreductase 그리고 PKS loading domain 등 polyketide synthase type I 임을 보여주고 있고, BLAST 분석된 결과를 보면 polyketide synthase 유전자는 rifamycin 생합성 유전자와 유사성이 높다. 그리고 sugar 생합성에 관여하는 유전자로는 oxidoreductase, dTDP-D-glucose 4,6 dehydratase, dTDP-D-glucose synthase 그리고 dTDP-4-keto-6-deoxy-D-glycose 3,5-epimerase으로 구성된 gene cluster를 확인하였다. 그리고 염기서열 분석된 유전자중 dTDP-D-glucose synthase를 발현하여 유전자의 기능을 확인하였다.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제40권1호
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• pp.10-16
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• 2012

방선균 Streptomyces peucetius OIM ($\underline{O}$verproducing $\underline{I}$ndustrial $\underline{M}$utant)은 반복적인 돌연변이를 통하여 폴리케타이드 항생제인 독소루비신(DXR)의 생산성이 최적화 된 고생산성 산업균주이다. 이 S. peucetius OIM 변이종을 대리의 숙주로 이용하여, 생합경로 크기가 작은 모델 폴리케타이드인 알로에사포나린 II(액티노로딘의 합성경로 유도체)의 생합성 유전자군을 고복제수 플라스미드에 클로닝하여 알로에사포나린 II의 기능적 발현을 확인하여 정량분석을 수행하였다. OIM 균주의 알로에사포나린 II의 생산량은 조절 네트워크가 극대화된 S. coelicolor 변이종 뿐만 아니라 야생형S. peucetius 보다 매우 높은 수준으로 생산되는 것으로 확인되었다. 또한 알로에사포나린 II의 생산 수준은 다운-조절자 $wblA_{spe}$가 제거된 S. peucetius OIM 균주에서 가장 높은것으로 측정되었으며, 이는 합리적으로 유전체를 재설계한 S. peucetius OIM 변이종 균주가 이종의 폴리케타이드 생합성을 높은 수준으로 발현할 수 있는 대리의 숙주로서 충분히 활용 가능함을 보여준다.