Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology – Enzyme – proenzyme; compositions thereof; process for... – Transferase other than ribonuclease
Patent
1998-07-21
2000-07-11
Hobbs, Lisa J.
Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology
Enzyme , proenzyme; compositions thereof; process for...
Transferase other than ribonuclease
435 97, 435911, C12N 910, C12N 100, C12N 114, C12P 1918
Patent
active
060871431
ABSTRACT:
The invention provides isolated nucleic acid compounds encoding the glycosyltransferase protein GtfA of Amycolatopsis orientalis. Also provided are vectors carrying the gtfA gene, transformed heterologous host cells for expressing the GtfA protein, and methods for producing glycopeptide compounds using the cloned gtfA gene.
REFERENCES:
S. K. Chung, et al. "Biosynthetic Studies of Aridicin Antibiotics: Microbial Transformations and Glycosylations by Protoplasts." Journal of Antibiotics 39(5):652-659 (May 1986).
M. J. Zmijewski, Jr., and B. Briggs. "Biosynthesis of vancomycin: identification of TDP-glucose: aglycosyl-vancomycin glucosyltransferase from Amycolatopsis orientalis." FEMS Microbiology Letters 5:129-134 (1989).
M. J. Zmijewski, Jr., and J. T. Fayerman. Genetic and Biochemistry of Antibiotic Production Ed. L.C. Vining and C. Stuttard. Butterworth Heinemann, Boston. Chapter 18: "Glycopeptide Antibiotics." pp. 71-83 (1995).
Baltz Richard H.
Solenberg Patricia J.
Eli Lilly and Company
Hobbs Lisa J.
Parker III Raymond S.
Webster Thomas D.
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