title: Detection of peptaibols and partial cloning of a putative peptaibol synthetase gene from T. harzianum CECT 2413.
abstract: The characterization of 11- and 18-residue peptaibols (peptides synthesized by peptide synthetases) at Trichoderma harzianum CECT 2413 (a filamentous fungus) was performed. Using a heterologous probe from tex1, the only peptaibol synthetase cloned and characterized so far in Trichoderma species, was cloned; a region that comprised 11676 bp of a second peptide synthetase gene detected in these strain (called salps2) and sequenced. The deduced sequence of Salps2 (3891 amino acids) contained three complete and a fourth incomplete module of a peptide synthetase, in which the typical adenylation, thiolation and condensation domains were found, but also an additional dehydrogenase/reductase domain in the C-terminus of the last module. Based on sequence similarity and analysis of its modular structure, it is proposed that Salps2 is a peptaibol synthetase. Additionally, analysis of =4.4-kb sequence downstream of salps2 was done and the signature sequences of Salps2 were identified and compared with those of available sequences of the other Trichoderma peptaibol synthetases.
authors.affiliation: Spanish-Portuguese Center of Agricultural Research (CIALE), Department de Microbiology and Genetics, University of Salamanca, 37007 Salamanca, Spain. emv@usal.es
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Vizcaíno
authors.forename: R E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Cardoza
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Dubost
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Bodo
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gutiérrez
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Monte
mesh_terms: D003001:Cloning, Molecular / Q000379:methods*; D005656:Fungal Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D010453:Peptide Synthases / Q000235:genetics*; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D019032:Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization; D014242:Trichoderma / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D005656:Fungal Proteins; D010453:Peptide Synthases