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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2010

Identification of the biosynthetic gene cluster for the pacidamycin group of peptidyl nucleoside antibiotics.

Wenjun Zhang, Bohdan Ostash, Christopher T Walsh

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 51 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Wenjun ZhangDepartment of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Bohdan Ostash
Christopher T Walsh
Harvard University · USUniversity of California, Berkeley · US

Funding

The Vancomycin Biosynthetic Assembly lineR01GM049338 · NIGMS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MEDICAL SCHOOL) · PI WALSH, CHRISTOPHER T · 1993 to 2012
$6.2M
NIGMS NIH HHS GM49338NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM049338
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pacidamycins are a family of uridyl tetra/pentapeptide antibiotics that act on the translocase MraY to block bacterial cell wall assembly. To elucidate the biosynthetic logic of pacidamcyins, a putative gene cluster was identified by 454 shotgun genome sequencing of the producer Streptomyces coeruleorubidus NRRL 18370. The 31-kb gene cluster encodes 22 proteins (PacA-V), including highly dissociated nonribosomal peptide synthetase (NRPS) modules and a variety of tailoring enzymes. Gene deletions confirmed that two NRPSs, PacP and PacO, are required for the biosynthesis of pacidamycins. Heterologous expression and in vitro assays of PacL, PacO, and PacP established reversible formation of m-Tyr-AMP, l-Ala-AMP, and diaminopropionyl-AMP, respectively, consistent with the amino acids found in pacidamycin scaffolds. The unusual Ala(4)-Phe(5) dipeptidyl ureido linkage was formed during in vitro assays containing purified PacL, PacJ, PacN, and PacO. Both the genetic and enzymatic studies validate identification of the biosynthetic genes for this subclass of uridyl peptide antibiotics and provide the basis for future mechanistic study of their biosynthesis.

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Multigene FamilyAmino Acid SequenceAnti-Bacterial AgentsBase SequenceGene DeletionGenome, BacterialMolecular Sequence DataPeptidesProtein Structure, TertiaryPyrimidine NucleosidesStreptomycesAnti-Bacterial Agentspacidamycin 1PeptidesPyrimidine Nucleosides

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PMID20826445
PMCPMC2947877
OpenAlexW2070068833

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