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P Liras

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PubMed1978

Characterization of a mutation in yeast causing nonrandom chromosome loss during mitosis.

Diploid strains of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae homozygous for a recessive chromosome loss mutation (chl) exhibit a high degree of mitotic instability. Cells become monosomic for chromosome III at a frequency of approximately one percent of all cell divisions. Chromosome loss at this high frequency is also found for chromosome I, and at lesser frequencies for chromosomes VIII and XVI. In contrast, little or no chromosome loss is found for six other linkage groups tested (II, V, VI, VII, XI and XVII). The chl mutation also induces a ten-fold increase in both intergenic and intragenic mitotic recombination on all ten linkage groups tested. The chl mutation does not cause an increase in spontaneous mutations, nor are mutant strains sensitive to UV or irradiation. The effects of chl during meiosis are observed primarily in reduced spore viability. A decrease in chromosome III linkage relationships is also found.

Chromosomal Instability↗
PubMed1977

Sequential expression of macromolecule biosynthesis and candicidin formation in Streptomyces griseus.

Streptomyces griseus did not produce the polyene macrolide antibiotic candicidin during the initial growth phase characterized by rapid RNA synthesis. the absence of candicidin production when RNA or protein synthesis was inhibited by rifampicin or chloramphenicol suggests a transcriptionally controlled late formation of the candicidin synthases. Phosphate levels in the medium control the rate of DNA, RNA and protein synthesis. Depletion of phosphate appears to trigger the onset of candicidin synthesis after a drastic reduction of the rate of RNA synthesis. Changes in the ATP pool during the fermentation suggest that ATP may be the intracellular effector controlling the onset of antibiotic synthesis.

Adenosine Triphosphate↗
PubMed1976

Rapid incorporation of precursors into candicidin by resting cells of Streptomyces griseus.

Labeled acetate, propionate and p-aminobenzoic acid were efficiently incorporated into candicidin by phosphate-limited resting cells of Streptomyces griseus. The efficiency of incorporation in short-term experiments using phosphate-limited resting cells was similar to that achieved previously in long-term experiments using growing cells. (2-14C)Propionate was more efficiently incorpoated than (1-14C)propionate, (U-14C)propionate, or (U-14C)-acetate. p-Aminobenzoic acid incorporation is linear over a 10-hour period while those of acetate or propionate reach a constant level after approximately 4 hours of incubation. Double-labeled candicidin of high specific activity was prepared by supplementing the resting cell system with (3H)acetate and (14C)p-aminobenzoic acid.

4-Aminobenzoic Acid↗
PubMed1975

Enzymatic transformation of morphine by hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase from Pseudomonas testosteroni.

Eznyme preparations from Pseudomonas testosteroni containing alpha- and beta- hydroxysteroid dehydrogenases catalyzed the oxidation of morphine and codeine by nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide. Morphine was converted in relatively low yield into 14-hydroxymorphinone probably via morphinone as an intermediate. Codeine was converted to codeinone and 14-hydroxycodeinone. Only the conversions at the 6-position were carred out by the hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase. Hydroxylation at the 14-position did occur spontaneously (or enzymatically with a contaminating enzyme) ater oxidation at the 6-position.

Androsterone↗
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Biosynthesis and molecular genetics of cephamycins. Cephamycins produced by actinomycetes.

Cephamycin C is produced in a nine steps pathway by the actinomycetes S. clavuligerus and N. lactamdurans. The genes encoding the biosynthesis enzymes are clustered in both microorganisms as well as in the cephabacin producer Lysobacter lactamgenus, a Gram negative bacterium. The clusters of genes include genes encoding enzymes common to the biosynthesis of penicillin and cephalosporin C by the eukaryotic producers Penicillium chrysogenum and Cephalosporium acremonium and genes for steps specific for the formation of the precursor alpha-aminoadipic acid as well as for the enzymes involved in the late modification of the cephalosporin intermediates of the pathway. Present are also genes for proteins involved in the export and/or resistance to cephamycin C. In S. clavuligerus a gene encoding a regulatory protein controlling the formation of cephamycin C and clavulanic acid is also present in the cluster.

Amino Acid Sequence↗
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[Grouping of the genes of biosynthesis and resistance to beta-lactam antibiotics in cephamycin-C producing actinomycetes].

Three genes related to beta-lactam resistance have been found in the cluster of genes for cephamycin C biosynthesis in Nocardia lactamdurans. The cmcT gene encodes a hydrophobic protein located in the cytoplasmic membrane. The sequence of CMCT has a 21-31% identity in amino acids to proteins involved in antibiotic export from other antibiotic producing microorganisms. The pbp gene encodes a penicillin binding protein. Nocardia lactamdurans is rather sensitive to penicillins, but no to cephalosporins or cephamycin C. A third gene, bla, encodes a type A beta-lactamase. Both the beta-lactamase and the PBP protein, might form a system for the sensing and hydrolysis of penicillin intermediates which are released into the medium during the lysis of antibiotic producing cells.

Amino Acid Sequence↗