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JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY & BIOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 30, Issue 8, Pages 510-515Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s10295-003-0075-8
Keywords
chalcone synthase; polyketide synthase; tetrahydroxynaphthalene
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- NIAID NIH HHS [AI 52443] Funding Source: Medline
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Sequence analysis of the metabolically rich 8.7-Mbp genome of the model actinomycete Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) revealed three genes encoding predicted type III polyketide synthases (PKSs). We report the inactivation, expression, and characterization of the type III PKS homologous SCO1206 gene product as 1,3,6,8-tetrahydroxynaphthalene synthase (THNS). Incubation of recombinant THNS with malonyl-CoA showed THN production, as demonstrated by UV and HPLC analyses. The K-m value for malonyl-CoA and the k(cat) value for THN synthesis were determined spectrophotometrically to be 3.58+/-0.85 muM and 0.48+/-0.03 min(-1), respectively. The C-terminal region of S. coelicolor THNS, which is longer than most other bacterial and plant type III PKSs, was shortened by 25 amino acid residues and the resulting mutant was shown to be slightly more active (K-m = 1.97+/-0.19 muM, k(cat) = 0.75+/-0.04 min(-1)) than the wild-type enzyme.
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