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ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2015

Genetic engineering activates biosynthesis of aromatic fumaric acid amides in the human pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus.

Daniel Kalb, Thorsten Heinekamp, Gerald Lackner, Daniel H Scharf, Hans-Martin Dahse, Axel A Brakhage, Dirk Hoffmeister

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Article in Applied and environmental microbiology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Daniel KalbDepartment of Pharmaceutical Microbiology, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena, Germany.
Thorsten HeinekampDepartment of Molecular and Applied Microbiology, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, Jena, Germany.
Gerald LacknerDepartment of Pharmaceutical Microbiology, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena, Germany.
Daniel H ScharfDepartment of Molecular and Applied Microbiology, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, Jena, Germany.
Hans-Martin DahseDepartment of Infection Biology, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, Jena, Germany.
Axel A BrakhageDepartment of Molecular and Applied Microbiology, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, Jena, Germany.
Dirk HoffmeisterDepartment of Pharmaceutical Microbiology, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena, Germany dirk.hoffmeister@hki-jena.de.
Leibniz-Institut für Naturstoff-Forschung und Infektionsbiologie e. V. - Hans-Knöll-Institut (HKI) · DEFriedrich Schiller University Jena · DE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Aspergillus fumigatus nonribosomal peptide synthetase FtpA is among the few of this species whose natural product has remained unknown. Both FtpA adenylation domains were characterized in vitro. Fumaric acid was identified as preferred substrate of the first and both l-tyrosine and l-phenylalanine as preferred substrates of the second adenylation domain. Genetically engineered A. fumigatus strains expressed either ftpA or the regulator gene ftpR, encoded in the same cluster of genes, under the control of the doxycycline-inducible tetracycline-induced transcriptional activation (tet-on) cassette. These strains produced fumaryl-l-tyrosine and fumaryl-l-phenylalanine which were identified by liquid chromatography and high-resolution mass spectrometry. Modeling of the first adenylation domain in silico provided insight into the structural requirements to bind fumaric acid as peptide synthetase substrate. This work adds aromatic fumaric acid amides to the secondary metabolome of the important human pathogen A. fumigatus which was previously not known as a producer of these compounds.

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Metabolic EngineeringAmidesAspergillus fumigatusChromatography, LiquidFumaratesGene ExpressionMass SpectrometryMetabolic Networks and PathwaysMultigene FamilyPromoter Regions, GeneticRecombinant ProteinsTranscription, GeneticAmidesFumaratesfumaric acidRecombinant Proteins

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PMID25527545
PMCPMC4325157
OpenAlexW2109379713

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