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Aspergillus nidulans stcP encodes an O-methyltransferase that is required for sterigmatocystin biosynthesis
H S Kelkar1, N P Keller, T H Adams
1Department of Plant Pathology, Texas A&M University, College Station 77843, USA.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
|November 1, 1996
Abstract:
The Aspergillus nidulans stcP gene was previously identified as a transcribed region associated with a cluster of genes proposed to be involved in sterigmatocystin biosynthesis (D. W. Brown, J.-H. Yu, H. S. Kelkar, M. Fernandes, T. C. Nesbitt, N. P. Keller, T. H. Adams, and T. J. Leonard, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 93:1418-1422, 1996). stcP was predicted to encode a methyltransferase responsible for conversion of demethylsterig-matocystin to sterigmatocystin. Here we demonstrate that disruption of stcP in A. nidulans results in strains that accumulate demethylsterigmatocystin.