Engineering of an unnatural natural product by swapping polyketide synthase domains in Aspergillus nidulans

摘要

A StcA-AfoE hybrid PKS, generated from swapping the AfoE (asperfuranone biosynthesis) SAT domain with the StcA (sterigmatocystin biosynthesis) SAT domian, produced a major new metabolite with the same chain length as the native AfoE product. Structure elucidation allowed us to propose a likely pathway and feeding studies supported the hypothesis that the chain length of PKS metabolites may be under precise control of KS and PT domains.