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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, December 2004, p. 7093-7102, Vol. 70, No. 12
0099-2240/04/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.12.7093-7102.2004
Copyright © 2004, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Biosynthetic Gene Cluster of the Herbicide Phosphinothricin Tripeptide from Streptomyces viridochromogenes Tü494

Dirk Schwartz,1 Susanne Berger,1 Eva Heinzelmann,2 Konstanze Muschko,2 Kathrin Welzel,3 and Wolfgang Wohlleben2*

Hans-Knöll-Institut für Naturstoff-Forschung, Jena,1 Fakultät Biologie, Mikrobiologisches Insitut, Mikrobiologie/Biotechnologie, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen,2 Combinature Biopharm AG, Berlin, Germany3

Received 6 May 2004/ Accepted 14 August 2004

The antibiotic phosphinothricin tripeptide (PTT) consists of two molecules of L-alanine and one molecule of the unusual amino acid phosphinothricin (PT) which are nonribosomally combined. The bioactive compound PT has bactericidal, fungicidal, and herbicidal properties and possesses a C{cjs0807}P{cjs0807}C bond, which is very rare in natural compounds. Previously uncharacterized flanking and middle regions of the PTT biosynthetic gene cluster from Streptomyces viridochromogenes Tü494 were isolated and sequenced. The boundaries of the gene cluster were identified by gene inactivation studies. Sequence analysis and homology searches led to the completion of the gene cluster, which consists of 24 genes. Four of these were identified as undescribed genes coding for proteins that are probably involved in uncharacterized early steps of antibiotic biosynthesis or in providing precursors of PTT biosynthesis (phosphoenolpyruvate, acetyl-coenzyme A, or L-alanine). The involvement of the genes orfM and trs and of the regulatory gene prpA in PTT biosynthesis was analyzed by gene inactivation and overexpression, respectively. Insight into the regulation of PTT was gained by determining the transcriptional start sites of the pmi and prpA genes. A previously undescribed regulatory gene involved in morphological differentiation in streptomycetes was identified outside of the left boundary of the PTT biosynthetic gene cluster.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Mikrobiologie/Biotechnologie, Auf der Morgenstelle 28, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany. Phone: 49 7071 29-76944. Fax: 49 7071 29-5979. E-mail: wolfgang.wohlleben{at}biotech.uni-tuebingen.de.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, December 2004, p. 7093-7102, Vol. 70, No. 12
0099-2240/04/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.12.7093-7102.2004
Copyright © 2004, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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