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  • Title: 5-ketoreductase from Streptomyces bingchengensis: overexpression and preliminary characterization.
    Author: Wang XJ, Wang CQ, Sun XL, Xiang WS.
    Journal: Biotechnol Lett; 2010 Oct; 32(10):1497-502. PubMed ID: 20563624.
    Abstract:
    To elucidate the biotransformation from 5-oxomilbemycins A(3) and A(4) to milbemycins A(3) and A(4) in Streptomyces bingchengensis, the C5-ketoreductase gene (milF) was cloned using PCR with the specific primer designed from homologous nucleotide sequences. The C5-ketoreductase (MilF) was heterologously expressed in E. coli BL21 (DE3) as a His-tagged fusion protein. The characterization and biotransformation function of purified MilF was verified by in vitro enzyme assay. MilF is an NADPH-dependent reductase. The biotransformation products, analyzed by LC-APCI/MS, were identified as milbemycin A(3) and milbemycin A(4). MilF is thus present in Streptomyces bingchengensis and can transform 5-oxomilbemycins A(3) and A(4) to milbemycins A(3) and A(4). These findings are significant for understanding the biosynthetic pathway of milbemycins in Streptomyces bingchengensis and pave the way to obtain a producer strain of 5-oxomilbemycins directly by targeted milF disruption.
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