Decker H, Rohr J, Motamedi H, Zähner H, Hutchinson C R
Biologisches Institut, Universität Tübingen, Germany.
Gene. 1995 Dec 1;166(1):121-6. doi: 10.1016/0378-1119(95)00573-7.
The genes for the production of elloramycin (ELM) from Streptomyces olivaceus (So) Tü2353 were cloned using a polyketide synthase gene probe from the tetracenomycin pathway. A cosmid clone (16F4) isolated from a gene library of So Tü2353 conferred tetracenomycin C and ELM resistance to S. lividans TK64 and complemented a mutation in So Tü2353R. Introduction of cosmid 16F4 into S. lividans TK64 resulted in the production of 8-demethyl-tetracenomycin C, an intermediate of ELM biosynthesis.