A Gene Cluster for the Mevalonate Pathway from Streptomyces sp. Strain CL190

AUTOR(ES)

Takagi, Motoki

FONTE

American Society for Microbiology

RESUMO

A biosynthetic 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase (EC 1.1.1.34), the rate-limiting enzyme of the mevalonate pathway for isopentenyl diphosphate biosynthesis, had previously been purified from Streptomyces sp. strain CL190 and its corresponding gene (hmgr) had been cloned (S. Takahashi, T. Kuzuyama, and H. Seto, J. Bacteriol. 181:1256–1263, 1999). Sequence analysis of the flanking regions of the hmgr gene revealed five new open reading frames, orfA to -E, which showed similarity to those encoding eucaryotic and archaebacterial enzymes for the mevalonate pathway. Feeding experiments with [1-13C]acetate demonstrated that Escherichia coli JM109 harboring the hmgr gene and these open reading frames used the mevalonate pathway under induction with isopropyl β-d-thiogalactopyranoside. This transformant could grow in the presence of fosmidomycin, a potent and specific inhibitor of the nonmevalonate pathway, indicating that the mevalonate pathway, intrinsically absent in E. coli, is operating in the E. coli transformant. The hmgr gene and orfABCDE are thus unambiguously shown to be responsible for the mevalonate pathway and to form a gene cluster in the genome of Streptomyces sp. strain CL190.

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