Biosynthesis of the Pseudomonas polyketide coronafacic acid requires monofunctional and multifunctional polyketide synthase proteins

AUTOR(ES)

Rangaswamy, Vidhya

FONTE

The National Academy of Sciences

RESUMO

Coronafacic acid (CFA) is the polyketide component of the phytotoxin coronatine, a virulence factor of the plant pathogen Pseudomonas syringae. Our current knowledge of polyketide biosynthesis largely is based on the analysis of polyketide synthases (PKSs) in actinomycetes and other Gram-positive bacteria. Consequently, the cloning and characterization of the CFA biosynthetic gene cluster will contribute significantly to our knowledge of polyketide synthesis in Pseudomonas. In this report, we describe two genes in the CFA biosynthetic gene cluster that encode PKSs that are structurally and functionally similar to the multifunctional modular PKSs, which catalyze the synthesis of macrolide antibiotics. The CFA PKS genes were overproduced in Escherichia coli and shown to cross-react with antisera made to a modular PKS involved in erythromycin synthesis. A scheme for CFA biosynthesis is presented that incorporates the activities of all proteins in the CFA PKS. In this report a gene cluster encoding a pseudomonad polyketide has been completely sequenced and the deduced gene functions have been used to develop a biosynthetic scheme.

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