title: Prepeptide sequence of cinnamycin (Ro 09-0198): the first structural gene of a duramycin-type lantibiotic.
abstract: The tetracyclic polypeptide antibiotic cinnamycin (Ro 90-0198) belongs to the duramycin-type lantibiotics and contains the unusual amino acids threo-3-methyl-lanthionine, meso-lanthionine, lysinoalanine and 3-hydroxyaspartic acid. Its structural gene, referred to as cinA, has been identified on isolated chromosomal DNA of the Ro 09-0198-producing strain Streptoverticillium griseoverticillatum via a 39-residue oligonucleotide probe derived from fragment 7-19 of the hypothetical prolantibiotic sequence CRQSCSFGPFTFVCDGNTK. This propeptide part was then found within an open reading frame of 77 amino acids. In contrast to the nisin-type prelantibiotics, this first duramycin-type prelantibiotic has an unusually long leader sequence of 58 amino acids. it also differs in the processing site and the direction of the formation of the threo-3-methyl-lanthionine bridges is from N-terminal cysteine to C-terminal dehydrated threonine residues, whereas the meso-lanthionine and lysinoalanine bridges are formed by addition reactions from C-terminal cysteine or lysine to N-terminal dehyrated serine residues.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Mikrobiologie, Universität Frankfurt, Federal Republic of Germany.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kaletta
authors.forename: K D
authors.initials: KD
authors.lastname: Entian
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Jung
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D001430:Bacteriocins; D001483:Base Sequence; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D015345:Oligonucleotide Probes; D010456:Peptides, Cyclic; D010957:Plasmids; D011487:Protein Conformation; D011498:Protein Precursors / Q000235:genetics*; D015183:Restriction Mapping; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D013306:Streptomycetaceae / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D001430:Bacteriocins; D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D015345:Oligonucleotide Probes; D010456:Peptides, Cyclic; D011498:Protein Precursors; C000485:cinnamycin