• Polyketide synthases (PKSs) are a family of multi-domain enzymes or enzyme complexes that produce polyketides, a large class of secondary metabolites...
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  • genome close to the polyketide synthase genes. Polyketides are a structurally diverse family. There are various subclasses of polyketides including: aromatics...
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    use an anerobic polyketide synthase (PKS) pathway to synthesize DHA. The PKS pathway includes six enzymes namely, 3-ketoacyl synthase (KS), 2 ketoacyl-ACP-reductase...
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    Chalcone synthase or naringenin-chalcone synthase (CHS) is an enzyme ubiquitous to higher plants and belongs to a family of polyketide synthase enzymes...
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    The biosynthesis of phoslactomycin belongs to type I polyketide synthase (PKS). A polyketide is are characterized by a macrocyclic lactone and is produced...
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  • Tylactone synthase or TYLS is a Type 1 polyketide synthase. TYLS is found in strains of Streptomyces fradiae and responsible for the synthesis of the macrolide...
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    type II polyketide synthesis, or as domains in large multidomain enzymes, such as type I fatty acid synthases (FASs) and polyketide synthases (PKSs)....
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  • contains a pseudopeptide backbone and is synthesized through the polyketide synthase (PKS) and nonribosomal peptide synthetase (NRPS) pathways. Amino...
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    acid and protoilludane sesquiterpene alcohols via esterification. A polyketide synthase gene, termed ArmB, was identified in the genome of the fungus, which...
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    Dihydromaltophilin (category Polyketides)
    containing one nonribosomal peptide synthase (NRPS) module and one polyketide synthase (PKS) module. The single PKS module functions in a non-canonical...
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    the a linear polyketide by use of seven modules and incorporation of six methylmalonyl CoAs and one malonyl CoA by polyketide synthases (type I PKSs)...
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    formation of an amidated polyketide backbone with minimal polyketide synthases (PKSs), second is the cyclization of the polyketide backbone, and finally...
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    fatty acid synthases and to Type I polyketide synthesis. But, in contrast to fatty acid synthesis, the keto groups of the growing polyketide chain are...
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    Avermectin (category Polyketides)
    differences. The avermectin initial aglycon is synthesized by the polyketide synthase activity of four proteins (AVES 1, AVES 2, AVES 3, and AVES 4). The...
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  • There have been three categories of polyketide synthases identified to date, type 1, 2 and 3. Type one synthases involve large multidomain proteins containing...
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  • evolutionary history of fatty acid synthases are very much intertwined with that of polyketide synthases (PKS). Polyketide synthases use a similar mechanism and...
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    watched precursor.[unreliable source?] Olivetol is biosynthesized by a polyketide synthase (PKS)-type reaction from hexanoyl-CoA and three molecules of malonyl-CoA...
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    synthesis consists of ten modules of type 1 polyketide synthase and one module of nonribosomal peptide synthase. The synthetic enzymes for tacrolimus are...
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    The formation of butenyl-methyl-L-threonine is performed by a Bmt polyketide synthase that uses acetate/malonate as its starting material. Tolypocladium...
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  • mechanistic similarities, some nonribosomal peptide synthetases contain polyketide synthase modules for the insertion of acetate or propionate-derived subunits...
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    twenty-six other peptides (Table 1). Four large multi-domain type I polyketide synthase (PKS) proteins are encoded, as well as several single function enzymes...
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  • Colibactin (category Polyketides)
    a polyketide peptide that can form interstrand crosslinks in DNA. Colibactin is only produced by bacterial strains containing a polyketide synthase genomic...
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  • from cultures of S. rimosus. Streptomyces rimosus's oxytetracycline polyketide synthase acyl carrier protein differs from most ACPs by having a C-terminus...
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    Xanthohumol is a prenylated chalconoid, biosynthesized by a type III polyketide synthase (PKS) and subsequent modifying enzymes. Xanthohumol is a prenylated...
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    including the acyl carrier proteins (ACP) of fatty acid synthases, ACPs of polyketide synthases, the peptidyl carrier proteins (PCP), as well as aryl carrier...
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    other related compounds. DHPG is enzymatically derived from the polyketide synthase pathway. When synthesized in bacteria, DHPG requires 5 enzymes, DpgA-D...
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    The biosynthesis of the rapamycin core is accomplished by a type I polyketide synthase (PKS) in conjunction with a nonribosomal peptide synthetase (NRPS)...
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    Bovenberg RA, Vreeken RJ, Driessen AJ (July 2016). "Identification of a Polyketide Synthase Involved in Sorbicillin Biosynthesis by Penicillium chrysogenum"...
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    formation of the core aglycone, tiacumicinone, done by a type I polyketide synthase (PKS) coded for by the tiaA1-tiaA4 genes. The PKS is composed of...
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  • {\displaystyle \rightleftharpoons } 2 CoA + 4-hydroxycoumarin + CO2 This polyketide synthase can also accept benzoyl-CoA as substrate. Liu B, Raeth T, Beuerle...
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