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Query: DrugBank:EXPT01586 (
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Gentamicin C1a
is the precursor of the semi-synthetic antibiotic etimicin and has the highest antibacterial activity in the clinically important gentamicin C mixture. To obtain a gentamicin C1a-overproducing strain, we inactivated gacD gene in Micromonospora purpurea. The gacD was presumed to encode a C6' methyltransferase by sequence analysis, and plays a role in the conversion of the gentamicin intermediate X2 to
G418
. So the inactivation of gacD blocks the metabolic pathways from X2 to
G418
and leads to the accumulation of gentamicin C1a.The resulting recombination strain produced gentamicin C1a more than 10-fold compared to the wild type strain. Moreover, the wild-type strain produced 4 main production components, C1a, C2, C2a and C1, while the recombination strain produced only 2 components, C1a and C2b, making the purification of gentamicin C1a easier. The recombination strain was genetically stable and should be useful for the industrial production of gentamicin C1a.
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PMID:Construction of a gentamicin C1a-overproducing strain of Micromonospora purpurea by inactivation of the gacD gene. 2330 68
