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Abstract

Virginiae butanolide (VB) is a -butyrolactone autoregulator that triggers production of the streptogramin antibiotic virginiamycin in . Our previous studies suggested that the gene, an -family gene, is likely to participate in the regulatory pathway for the production of VB, rather than in the biosynthetic pathway of VB itself, in contrast to the function of other -family genes. Mutation analysis now shows that BarX at least plays an enzymic role in the VB biosynthetic pathway. Heterologous expression of the gene from into the mutant partially restored the deficiency of virginiamycin production, suggesting that -family genes have a common ability to synthesize the -butyrolactone autoregulators. Taken together with previous works relating to the function of an -family gene, these results support the idea that streptomycetes have two biosynthetic pathways for the -butyrolactone autoregulators.

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