Journal
MEDCHEMCOMM
Volume 8, Issue 4, Pages 780-788Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c6md00637j
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- Princeton Environmental Institute Innovative Research Award
- Edward C. Taylor 3rd year Fellowship
- Eli Lily-Edward C. Taylor Fellowship in Chemistry
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Glycopeptide antibiotics (GPAs) have served as potent clinical drugs and as an inspiration to chemists in various disciplines. Among known GPAs, complestatin, chloropeptin, and kistamicin are unique in that they contain an unusual indole-phenol crosslink. The mechanism of formation of this linkage is unknown, and to date, the biosynthetic gene cluster of only one GPA with an indole-phenol crosslink, that of complestatin, has been identified. Here, we report the genome sequence of the kistamicin producer Nonomuraea sp. ATCC 55076. We find that this strain harbours the largest actinobacterial chromosome to date, consisting of a single linear chromosome of similar to 13.1 Mbp. AntiSMASH analysis shows that similar to 32 biosynthetic gene clusters and similar to 10% of the genome are devoted to production of secondary metabolites, which include 1,6-dihydroxyphenazine and nomuricin, a new anthraquinone-type pentacyclic compound that we report herein. The kistamicin gene cluster (kis) was identified bioinformatically. A unique feature of kis is that it contains two cytochrome P450 enzymes, which likely catalyze three crosslinking reactions. These findings set the stage for examining the biosynthesis of kistamicin and its unusual indole-phenol crosslink in the future.
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