Mingxuan Wu

Publications (2)9.55 Total impact

• Article: Characterization of the Polyoxin Biosynthetic Gene Cluster from Streptomyces cacaoi and Engineered Production of Polyoxin H

  Wenqing Chen, Tingting Huang, Xinyi He, Qingqing Meng, Delin You, Linquan Bai, Jialiang Li, Mingxuan Wu, Rui Li, Zhoujie Xie, Huchen Zhou, Xiufen Zhou, Huarong Tan, Zixin Deng
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  ABSTRACT: A gene cluster (pol) essential for the biosynthesis of polyoxin, a nucleoside antibiotic widely used for the control of phytopathogenic fungi, was cloned from Streptomyces cacaoi. A 46,066-bp region was sequenced, and 20 of 39 of the putative open reading frames were defined as necessary for polyoxin biosynthesis as evidenced by its production in a heterologous host, Streptomyces lividans TK24. The role of PolO and PolA in polyoxin synthesis was demonstrated by in vivo experiments, and their functions were unambiguously characterized as O-carbamoyltransferase and UMP-enolpyruvyltransferase, respectively, by in vitro experiments, which enabled the production of a modified compound differing slightly from that proposed earlier. These studies should provide a solid foundation for the elucidation of the molecular mechanisms for polyoxin biosynthesis, and set the stage for combinatorial biosynthesis using genes encoding different pathways for nucleoside antibiotics.
  Journal of Biological Chemistry 04/2009; 284(16):10627-10638. · 4.77 Impact Factor
• Article: Characterization of the polyoxin biosynthetic gene cluster from Streptomyces cacaoi and engineered production of polyoxin H.

  Wenqing Chen, Tingting Huang, Xinyi He, Qingqing Meng, Delin You, Linquan Bai, Jialiang Li, Mingxuan Wu, Rui Li, Zhoujie Xie, Huchen Zhou, Xiufen Zhou, Huarong Tan, Zixin Deng
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  ABSTRACT: A gene cluster (pol) essential for the biosynthesis of polyoxin, a nucleoside antibiotic widely used for the control of phytopathogenic fungi, was cloned from Streptomyces cacaoi. A 46,066-bp region was sequenced, and 20 of 39 of the putative open reading frames were defined as necessary for polyoxin biosynthesis as evidenced by its production in a heterologous host, Streptomyces lividans TK24. The role of PolO and PolA in polyoxin synthesis was demonstrated by in vivo experiments, and their functions were unambiguously characterized as O-carbamoyltransferase and UMP-enolpyruvyltransferase, respectively, by in vitro experiments, which enabled the production of a modified compound differing slightly from that proposed earlier. These studies should provide a solid foundation for the elucidation of the molecular mechanisms for polyoxin biosynthesis, and set the stage for combinatorial biosynthesis using genes encoding different pathways for nucleoside antibiotics.
  Journal of Biological Chemistry 03/2009; 284(16):10627-38. · 4.77 Impact Factor