1. Biosynthesis and Heterologous Production of Argyrins
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Gregor Zipf, Domen Pogorevc, Hubert S. Bernauer, Silke C. Wenzel, Michael G. Hoffmann, Heinrich Steinmetz, Ying Tang, and Alexander Popoff
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0106 biological sciences ,Myxococcus xanthus ,Biomedical Engineering ,Heterologous ,Peptides, Cyclic ,01 natural sciences ,Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous) ,03 medical and health sciences ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Bacterial Proteins ,Myxobacteria ,Biosynthesis ,Nonribosomal peptide ,010608 biotechnology ,Gene cluster ,Peptide Synthases ,030304 developmental biology ,chemistry.chemical_classification ,0303 health sciences ,biology ,Lipopeptide ,General Medicine ,biology.organism_classification ,Metabolic Engineering ,chemistry ,Biochemistry ,Multigene Family ,Heterologous expression - Abstract
Argyrins represent a family of cyclic octapeptides exhibiting promising antimicrobial, antitumorigenic and immunosuppressant activities. They derive from a nonribosomal peptide synthetase pathway, which was identified and characterized in this study from the myxobacterial producer strain Cystobacter sp. SBCb004. Using the native biosynthetic gene cluster (BGC) sequence as template synthetic BGC versions were designed and assembled from gene synthesis fragments. A heterologous expression system was established after chromosomal deletion of a well-expressed lipopeptide pathway from the host strain Myxococcus xanthus DK1622. Different approaches were applied to engineer and improve heterologous argyrin production, which was finally increased to 160 mg/L, around 20-fold higher yields compared to the native producer. Heterologous production platform also led to identification of several novel argyrin derivatives (A2, F3, G3, I, J, K, and L). The optimized production system provides a versatile platform for future supply of argyrins and novel derivatives thereof.
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- 2019
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