nucleic acid sequences encoding methylation and carbamoylation enzymes involved in mitomycin biosynthesis

摘要

The invention provides a biosynthetic gene cluster for mitomycin, for example, a mitomycin biosynthetic cluster from organisms such as Streptomyces, for instance, S. lavendulae, as well as methods of using gene(s) within the cluster to alter antibiotic biosynthesis and to prepare a polyketide synthase.