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Analysis of the loading and hydroxylation steps in lankamycin biosynthesis in Streptomyces rochei.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 1 Jun 2006
Arakawa Kenji, Kodama Kazuya, Tatsuno Satoshi, Ide Sayoko, Kinashi Haruyasu
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The biosynthetic gene cluster of lankamycin (LM), a 14-member macrolide antibiotic, is encoded on the 210-kb linear plasmid pSLA2-L in Streptomyces rochei 7434AN4. LM contains a 3-hydroxy-2-butyl group at the C-13 position, which is different from an ethyl group in erythromycin. The following two possibilities could be considered for the origin of this starter moiety of LM biosynthesis: (i) an extra module exists...
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