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The ABC transporter Tba of Amycolatopsis balhimycina is required for efficient export of the glycopeptide antibiotic balhimycin

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All known gene clusters for glycopeptide antibiotic biosynthesis contain a conserved gene supposed to encode an ABC-transporter. In the balhimycin-producer Amycolatopsis balhimycina this gene (tba) is localised between the prephenate dehydrogenase gene pdh and the peptide synthetase gene bpsA. Inactivation of tba in A. balhimycina by gene replacement did not interfere with growth and did not affect balhimycin resistance. However, in the supernatant of the tba mutant RM43 less balhimycin was accumulated compared to the wild type; and the intra-cellular balhimycin concentration was ten times higher in the tba mutant RM43 than in the wild type. These data suggest that the ABC transporter encoded in the balhimycin biosynthesis gene cluster is not involved in resistance but is required for the efficient export of the antibiotic. To elucidate the activity of Tba it was heterologously expressed in Escherichia coli with an N-terminal His-tag and purified by nickel chromatography. A photometric assay revealed that His6-Tba solubilised in dodecylmaltoside possesses ATPase activity, characteristic for ABC-transporters.

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This research was supported by a grant of the Landesstiftung Baden-Württemberg (Resistenz Kompetenz-Netzwerk) and the EU (COMBIG-TOP, LSHG-CT-2003-503491) to WW. We would like to thank Dr. L. Vértesy and Prof. G. Seibert (Aventis, Frankfurt) for the gift of balhimycin and Dr. S. Pelzer (Combinature Biopharm, Berlin) for providing the expression vector (pSETermEp*) and Diane Butz and Roderich D. Suessmuth (Organic chemistry, TU Berlin) for analysing intra-cellularly accumulated balhimycin concentration.

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Menges, R., Muth, G., Wohlleben, W. et al. The ABC transporter Tba of Amycolatopsis balhimycina is required for efficient export of the glycopeptide antibiotic balhimycin. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 77, 125–134 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00253-007-1139-x

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