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SUBMITTER: Lu J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4335000 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lü Jin J He Qiang Q Huang Luyao L Cai Xiaofeng X Guo Wenwen W He Jing J Zhang Lili L Li Aiying A
PloS one 20150219 2
Medermycin and kalafungin, two antibacterial and antitumor antibiotics isolated from different streptomycetes, share an identical polyketide skeleton core. The present study reported the discovery of kalafungin in a medermycin-producing streptomycete strain for the first time. A mutant strain obtained through UV mutagenesis showed a 3-fold increase in the production of this antibiotic, compared to the wild type strain. Heterologous expression experiments suggested that its production was severel ...[more]