title: Cloning and nucleotide sequence of a region of the Kibdelosporangium aridum genome homologous to polyketide biosynthetic genes.
abstract: The actinomycete Kibdelosporangium aridum naturally produces ardacin, a new glycopeptide antibiotic, the biosynthetic pathway of which should involve the participation of a polyketide synthase (PKS). A K. aridum 2.9 kb BamHI genomic fragment homologous to actI (a locus of the PKS cluster catalyzing polyketide chain assembly for actinorhodin biosynthesis in Streptomyces coelicolor) was isolated by shotgun cloning. This DNA fragment, called ardI, was sequenced and the deduced protein products were compared with those of other polyketide synthase genes, revealing similarities ranging from 50 to 80%. ardI was further used to probe a cosmid library of the K. aridum genome. Three hybridizing cosmids were obtained which contain overlapping inserts, together covering a 50 kb region, and including, 15 kb away from ardI, a fragment homologous to actIII, which codes for the ketoreductase of the actinorhodin PKS of S. coelicolor. All these findings indicate that at least part of a polyketide biosynthetic gene cluster has been isolated from the genome of the ardacin producer K. aridum.
authors.affiliation: Centre d'Ingénierie des Protéines, Université de Liège, Belgium.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Piecq
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Dehottay
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Biot
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dusart
mesh_terms: D000192:Actinomycetales / Q000235:genetics*; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000617:Aminoglycosides; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000096:biosynthesis* / Q000737:chemistry; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D001483:Base Sequence; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009097:Multienzyme Complexes / Q000235:genetics*; D016366:Open Reading Frames; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D013045:Species Specificity; D013302:Streptomyces / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D000617:Aminoglycosides; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D009097:Multienzyme Complexes; C069893:ardacin