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Comparative Study
. 1994 Aug;26(2):120-5.
doi: 10.1007/BF00313798.

The peptide synthetase catalyzing cyclosporine production in Tolypocladium niveum is encoded by a giant 45.8-kilobase open reading frame

G Weber  1 , K Schörgendorfer, E Schneider-Scherzer, E Leitner
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Comparative Study

The peptide synthetase catalyzing cyclosporine production in Tolypocladium niveum is encoded by a giant 45.8-kilobase open reading frame

G Weber et al. Curr Genet. 1994 Aug.

Abstract

Cyclosporin A, a potent and clinically-important immunosuppressive drug (SandimmunR), is synthesized from its precursor amino acids by cyclosporin synthetase, a single multi-functional enzyme. In this study we report the cloning of the corresponding coding region of this synthetase. It contains an open reading frame of 45.8 kb which encodes a peptide with a calculated M(r) of 1,689,243. The predicted gene product contains 11 amino-acid-activating domains that are very similar to one another and to the domains of other peptide synthetases. Seven of these domains harbour N-methyltransferase functions. This is the largest genomic ORF described so far.

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