Determination of the gene sequence and the molecular structure of the enterococcal peptide antibiotic AS-48.
AUTOR(ES)
Martínez-Bueno, M
RESUMO
The structural gene of the enterococcal peptide antibiotic AS-48 (as-48) has been identified and cloned by using two degenerate 17-mer DNA oligonucleotides on the basis of the amino acid sequences of two peptides obtained by digestion of the antibiotic with Glu-C endoproteinase. That as-48 gene codes for a 105-amino-acid prepeptide, giving rise to a 70-amino-acid mature protein. Comparative analysis demonstrated that the 16-amino-acid sequence of one of the AS-48 Glu-C peptides, designated V8-5, was composed of a 12-amino-acid sequence corresponding to the C-terminal end sequence (from isoleucine +59 to tryptophan +70 [I+59 to W+70]) of the prepeptide and terminated in four residues forming the N terminus (M+1 to E+4) of a putative AS-48 propeptide. These data, combined with the characteristics of the gene sequence, strongly suggested that the antibiotic peptide was a 70-residue cyclic molecule. We propose that the AS-48 translated primary product is very likely submitted to a posttranslational modification during secretion (i) by an atypical or a typical signal peptidase that cleaves off a 35-residue or shorter signal peptide, respectively, from the prepeptide molecule and (ii) by the linkage of the methionine residue (M+1) to the C-terminal tryptophan residue (W+70) to obtain the cyclic peptide (a tail-head linkage).
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