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Acting as competitive inhibitors of chitin synthase, nikkomycins and polyoxins are potent antibiotics against pathogenic fungi. Taking advantage of the structural similarities between these two peptidyl nucleoside antibiotics, genes required for the biosynthesis of the dipeptidyl moiety of polyoxin from Streptomyces cacaoi were introduced into a Streptomyces ansochromogenes mutant producing the nucleoside moiety of nikkomycin X. Two hybrid antibiotics were generated. One of them was identified as polyoxin N, and the other, a novel compound, was named polynik A. The hybrid antibiotics exhibited merits from both parents: they had better inhibitory activity against phytopathogenic fungi than polyoxin B, and were more stable under different pH and temperature conditions than nikkomycin X. This study demonstrates the use of the combinatorial biosynthetic approach to produce valuable and novel hybrid antibiotics with improved properties. Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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Jine Li, Lei Li, Yuqing Tian, Guoqing Niu, Huarong Tan. Hybrid antibiotics with the nikkomycin nucleoside and polyoxin peptidyl moieties. Metabolic engineering. 2011 May;13(3):336-44

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PMID: 21292022

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