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Heterologous production of the antifungal polyketide antibiotic soraphen A of So ce26 in Free

Abstract

The antifungal polyketide soraphen A is produced by the myxobacterium So ce26. The slow growth, swarming motility and general intransigence of the strain for genetic manipulations make industrial strain development, large-scale fermentation and combinatorial biosynthetic manipulation of the soraphen producer very challenging. To provide a better host for soraphen A production and molecular engineering, the biosynthetic gene cluster for this secondary metabolite was integrated into the chromosome of ZX7. The upstream border of the gene cluster in was defined by disrupting , which is proposed to take part in the biosynthesis of methoxymalonyl-coenzyme A, to yield a strain with abolished soraphen A production. Insertional inactivation of further upstream of had no effect on soraphen A production. The genes , , , and thus implicated in soraphen biosynthesis were then introduced into an engineered strain that carried the polyketide synthase genes and , and the methyltransferase gene integrated into its chromosome. A benzoate-coenzyme A ligase from was also included in some constructs. Fermentations with the engineered strains in the presence of benzoate and/or cinnamate yielded soraphen A. Further feeding experiments were used to delineate the biosynthesis of the benzoyl-coenzyme A starter unit of soraphen A in the heterologous host.

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Keyword(s): 6-dEB, 6-deoxyerythronolide B , ACP, acyl carrier protein , AT, acyl transferase , PAL, phenylalanine ammonia lyase and PKS, polyketide synthase
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Heterologous production of the antifungal polyketide antibiotic soraphen A of Sorangium cellulosum So ce26 in Streptomyces lividans
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