Chen P, Qi F, Novak J, Caufield P W
Department of Oral Biology, School of Dentistry, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35294, USA.
Appl Environ Microbiol. 1999 Mar;65(3):1356-60. doi: 10.1128/AEM.65.3.1356-1360.1999.
Mutacin II is a ribosomally synthesized peptide lantibiotic produced by group II Streptococcus mutans. DNA sequencing has revealed that the mutacin II biosynthetic gene cluster consists of seven specific open reading frames: a regulator (mutR), the prepromutacin structural gene (mutA), a modifying protein (mutM), an ABC transporter (mutT), and an immunity cluster (mutFEG). Transformations of a non-mutacin-producing strain, S. mutans UA159, and a mutacin I-producing strain, S. mutans UA140, with chromosomal DNA from S. mutans T8 with an aphIII marker inserted upstream of the mutacin II structural gene yielded transformants producing mutacin II and mutacins I and II, respectively.
变链菌素II是由II组变形链球菌产生的一种核糖体合成的肽类羊毛硫抗生素。DNA测序表明,变链菌素II生物合成基因簇由七个特定的开放阅读框组成:一个调节基因(mutR)、前变链菌素结构基因(mutA)、一个修饰蛋白(mutM)、一个ABC转运蛋白(mutT)和一个免疫簇(mutFEG)。用来自变形链球菌T8的染色体DNA(在变链菌素II结构基因上游插入了aphIII标记)转化非产变链菌素菌株变形链球菌UA159和产变链菌素I菌株变形链球菌UA140,分别产生了产变链菌素II以及产变链菌素I和II的转化体。