Molecular cloning of streptomyces genes encoding vanillate demethylase
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Motohiro Nishimura1, Daisuke Ishiyama, Julian Davies
1Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Ube National College of Technology, Ube, Yamaguchi, Japan. nisimura@ube-k.ac.jp
Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry
|September 9, 2006
Abstract:
The vanillate demethylase genes from Streptomyces sp. NL15-2K were cloned and sequenced. The vanA and vanB gene homologs, which encode the terminal oxygenase subunit (VanA) and the ferredoxin-type reductase subunit (VanB) of the enzyme respectively, were found in the sequenced 7.5-kb DNA region. Expression of the vanAB genes in Streptomyces lividans 1326 resulted in in vivo demethylation of veratric acid to vanillic acid.
