title: Compartmentalization in penicillin G biosynthesis by Penicillium chrysogenum PQ-96.
abstract: The arrangement of organelles in the sub-apical productive non-growing vacuolated hyphal cells of the high- and the low-penicillin-pro- ducing strains Penicillium chrysogenum was compared using transmission electron microscopy. In the productive cells of the high-yielding strain the endoplasmic reticulum and the polyribosomes with associated peroxisomes are frequently arranged at the periphery of the cytoplasm and around the vacuoles. At the high activity of penicillin G biosynthesis the immuno-label of the cytosolic isopenicillin N synthase is concentrated at the polyribosomes arranged in the peripheral cytoplasm and along the tonoplast as well as around the peroxisomes. On the basis of the obtained results the compartmentalization of the pathway of penicillin G biosymthesis is discussed. The obtained results support the phenylacetic acid detoxification hypothesis of penicillin G biosynthesis.
authors: Wiesław
authors: W
authors: Kurzątkowski
authors: Monika
authors: M
authors: Staniszewska
authors: Małgorzata
authors: M
authors: Bondaryk
authors: Anita
authors: A
authors: Gębska-Kuczerowska
mesh_terms: D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D001692:Biological Transport; D053898:Biosynthetic Pathways; D010088:Oxidoreductases / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D010400:Penicillin G / Q000378:metabolism*; D010408:Penicillium chrysogenum / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D010648:Phenylacetates / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D010648:Phenylacetates; D010088:Oxidoreductases; C038370:isopenicillin N synthetase; C025136:phenylacetic acid; D010400:Penicillin G