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Molecular cloning and heterologous expression of the dehydrophos biosynthetic gene cluster.
Chemistry & biology - 23 Apr 2010
Circello Benjamin T, Eliot Andrew C, Lee Jin-Hee, van der Donk Wilfred A, Metcalf William W
Abstract excerpt
Dehydrophos is a vinyl phosphonate tripeptide produced by Streptomyces luridus with demonstrated broad-spectrum antibiotic activity. To identify genes necessary for biosynthesis of this unusual compound we screened a fosmid library of S. luridus for the presence of the phosphoenolpyruvate mutase gene, which is required for biosynthesis of most phosphonates. Integration of one such fosmid clone into the chromosome...
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