Abstract
Lidamycin with high antitumor activity is a novel enediyne antitumor antibiotic produced by Streptomyces globisporus C1027. The 75 kb biosynthesis gene cluster of lidamycin containing 33 open reading frames has been cloned from S. globisporus C1027. In this paper, the function of sgcD (ORF24) is investigated. Gene disruption experiment proved that sgcD is involved in lidamycin biosynthesis. With homologous comparing analysis, we deduce that sgcD codes aminomutase catalyzing a-tyrosine to beta-tyrosine which is one motif for lidamycin. To identify the function of enzyme coded by sgcD, sgcD is cloned into vector pET30a for inducing expression and the activity of expression product is analyzed. The result showed that the expression product of sgcD has the activity of aminomutase. Aminomutase coded by sgcD is the first characterized enzyme involved in the biosynthesis of enediyne antitumor antibiotics. Our research will be helpful to clarifying the biosynthesis mechanism of such kind of antibiotic and to producing new antitumor compounds.
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