Abstract:
:Type I polyketide synthase (PKS) genes consist of modules approximately 3-6 kb long, which encode the structures of 2-carbon units in polyketide products. Alteration or replacement of individual PKS modules can lead to the biosynthesis of 'unnatural' natural products but existing techniques for this are time consuming. Here we describe a generic approach to the design of synthetic PKS genes where facile cassette assembly and interchange of modules and domains are facilitated by a repeated set of flanking restriction sites. To test the feasibility of this approach, we synthesized 14 modules from eight PKS clusters and associated them in 154 bimodular combinations spanning over 1.5-million bp of novel PKS gene sequences. Nearly half the combinations successfully mediated the biosynthesis of a polyketide in Escherichia coli, and all individual modules participated in productive bimodular combinations. This work provides a truly combinatorial approach for the production of polyketides.
journal_name
Nat Biotechnoljournal_title
Nature biotechnologyauthors
Menzella HG,Reid R,Carney JR,Chandran SS,Reisinger SJ,Patel KG,Hopwood DA,Santi DVdoi
10.1038/nbt1128subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2005-09-01 00:00:00pages
1171-6issue
9eissn
1087-0156issn
1546-1696pii
nbt1128journal_volume
23pub_type
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