We thank the financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(22137009 and 21907067).
The anti-tuberculous rifamycins belong to naphthalenic ansamycin based on the structure of aromatic chromophore.Herein,we explored the post-polyketide synthase(PkS)modifications in the biosynthesis of 16-demethyl-rifa...
Drug sensitivity testing to establish resistance to TB drugs takes many months to arrive at. Public health physicians have difficulties with such an approach due to long wait periods and cannot use it to establish com...
Support from the U.S.National Institutes of Health's International Cooperative Biodiversity Groups Program(Grant NO.NIH ICBG U01-TW007401)
Objective:To isolate,purify,characterize,elucidate structure and evaluate bioactive compounds from the sponge-derived Salinispora sp.FS-0034.Methods:The symbiotic actinomycete strain FS-0034 with an interesting bioact...
Amycolatopsis mediterranei produces an important anti- biotic rifamycin, the biosynthesis of which involves many unusual modifications. Previous work suggested a puta- tive P450 enzyme encoded by rill6 within the rifa...
This paper is dedicated to the late Professor JS Chiao, who initiated the research in China for rifamycin production employing A. mediterranei more than 30 years ago and who continued the endeavor to resolve the mechanism of the 'nitrate stimulating effect' up to the last breath of his life. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30830002), the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (2007AA021301, 2007AA021503), and the Research Unit Fund of Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences (7103506).
Amycolatopsis mediterranei is used for industry-scale production of rifamycin, which plays a vital role in antimyco- bacterial therapy. As the first sequenced genome of the genus Amycolatopsis, the chromosome of strai...