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Title:Roles of the crotonyl-CoA carboxylase/reductase homologues in acetate assimilation and biosynthesis of immunosuppressant FK506 in Streptomyces tsukubaensis
Authors:ID Kosec, Gregor (Author)
ID Petković, Hrvoje (Author)
ID Baebler, Špela (Author)
ID Gruden, Kristina (Author)
ID Blažič, Marko (Author)
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Language:English
Typology:1.01 - Original Scientific Article
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Abstract:Background In microorganisms lacking a functional glyoxylate cycle, acetate can be assimilated by alternative pathways of carbon metabolism such as the ethylmalonyl-CoA (EMC) pathway. Among the enzymes converting CoA-esters of the EMC pathway, there is a unique carboxylase that reductively carboxylates crotonyl-CoA, crotonyl-CoA carboxylase/reductase (Ccr). In addition to the EMC pathway, gene homologues of ccr can be found in secondary metabolite gene clusters that are involved in the provision of structurally diverse extender units used in the biosynthesis of polyketide natural products. The roles of multiple ccr homologues in the same genome and their potential interactions in primary and secondary metabolic pathways are poorly understood. Results In the genome of S. tsukubaensis we have identified two ccr homologues; ccr1 is located in the putative ethylmalonyl-CoA (emc) operon and allR is located on the left fringe of the FK506 cluster. AllR provides an unusual extender unit allylmalonyl-CoA (ALL) for the biosynthesis of FK506 and potentially also ethylmalonyl-CoA for the related compound FK520. We have demonstrated that in S. tsukubaensis the ccr1 gene does not have a significant role in the biosynthesis of FK506 or FK520 when cultivated on carbohydrate-based media. However, when overexpressed under the control of a strong constitutive promoter, ccr1 can take part in the biosynthesis of ethylmalonyl-CoA and thereby FK520, but not FK506. In contrast, if ccr1 is inactivated, allR is not able to sustain a functional ethylmalonyl-CoA pathway (EMC) and cannot support growth on acetate as the sole carbon source, even when constitutively expressed in the chimeric emc operon. This is somewhat surprising considering that the same chimeric emc operon results in production of FK506 as well as FK520, consistent with the previously proposed relaxed specificity of AllR for C4 and C5 substrates. Conclusions Different regulation of the expression of both ccr genes, ccr1 and allR, and their corresponding pathways EMC and ALL, respectively, in combination with the different enzymatic properties of the Ccr1 and AllR enzymes, determine an almost exclusive role of ccr1 in the EMC pathway in S. tsukubaensis, and an exclusive role of allR in the biosynthesis of FK506/FK520, thus separating the functional roles of these two genes between the primary and secondary metabolic pathways.
Keywords:streptomicete, Streptomyces tsukubaensis, sekundarni metaboliti, takrolimus, FK506, biosinteze poliketidov
Publication status:Published
Publication version:Version of Record
Publication date:14.10.2015
Year of publishing:2015
Number of pages:str. 1/12-12/12
Numbering:Vol. 14, no. 164
PID:20.500.12556/DiRROS-5792 New window
ISSN:1475-2859
UDC:604.4:615.332
COBISS.SI-ID:4572536 New window
Publication date in DiRROS:29.07.2024
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Document is financed by a project

Funder:ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
Project number:1000-08-310196
Name:PhD fellowship

Funder:ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
Project number:P4-0116
Name:Mikrobiologija in biotehnologija živil in okolja

Funder:Other - Other funder or multiple funders
Funding programme:Government of Slovenia, Ministry of Economy
Project number:3211 10 000466
Name:KC Brin competence centre

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