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MICROBIOLOGY-SGM
Volume 151, Issue -, Pages 2515-2528Publisher
MICROBIOLOGY SOC
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.28138-0
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- NIAID NIH HHS [AI 20264] Funding Source: Medline
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Rifamycin B biosynthesis by Amycolatopsis mediterranei S699 involves a number of unusual modification reactions in the formation of the unique polyketide backbone and decoration of the molecule. A number of genes believed to be involved in the tailoring of rifamycin B were investigated and the results confirmed that the formation of the naphthalene ring moiety of rifamycin takes place during the polyketide chain extension and is catalysed by Rif-Orf19, a 3-(3-hydroxyphenyl)propionate hydroxylase-like protein. The cytochrome P450-dependent monooxygenase encoded by rif-orf5 is required for the conversion of the Delta 12, 29 olefinic bond in the polyketide backbone of rifamycin W into the ketal moiety of rifamycin B. Furthermore, Rif-Orf3 may be involved in the regulation of rifamycin B production, as its knock-out mutant produced about 40 % more rifamycin B than the wild-type. The work also revealed that many of the genes located in the cluster are not involved in rifamycin biosynthesis, but might be evolutionary remnants carried over from an ancestral lineage.
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