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SUBMITTER: Mantovani SM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3887146 | biostudies-other | 2013 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Mantovani Simone M SM Moore Bradley S BS
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20131121 48
The marine alkaloid chlorizidine A contains chlorinated pyrroloisoindolone and pyrrolizine rings that are rare chemical features in bacterial natural products. Herein, we report the biosynthetic logic of their construction in Streptomyces sp. CNH-287 based on the identification of the chlorizidine A biosynthetic gene cluster. Using whole pathway heterologous expression and genetic manipulations, we show that chlorizidine A is assembled by a polyketide synthase that uniquely incorporates a fatty ...[more]