Structurally diverse chaetophenol productions induced by chemically mediated epigenetic manipulation of fungal gene expression

Teigo Asai, Takashi Yamamoto, Naoki Shirata, Tohru Taniguchi, Kenji Monde, Isao Fujii, Katsuya Gomi, Yoshiteru Oshima

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Abstract

Epigenetic manipulation of gene expression in Chaetomium indicum using a HDAC inhibitor led to the isolation of structurally diverse chaetophenols, and 3, 4 and 5 bear unprecedented polycyclic skeletons. The expression of two silent genes (pksCH-1 and pksCH-2) for nonreducing PKSs involved in chaetophenol biosynthesis was associated with an increase of histone acetylation level. The heterologous gene expression study in Aspergillus oryzae revealed pksCH-2 to be the NR-PKS gene for 8.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3346-3349
Number of pages4
JournalOrganic letters
Volume15
Issue number13
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013 Jul 5

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Biochemistry
  • Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
  • Organic Chemistry

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