Discovery, Biosynthesis, and Heterologous Production of Loonamycin, a Potent Anticancer Indolocarbazole Alkaloid.

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State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Chemistry and Biomedicine Innovation Center (ChemBIC), School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China.

Published: June 2020

Genome mining of an indolocarbazole-type gene cluster from a marine-derived NA01583 strain led to the discovery of three new indolocarbazole alkaloids (-). Heterologous expression of the intact gene cluster in a surrogate host K4-114 led to the successful production of . Notably, compound showed potent cytotoxic activities toward eight cancer cell lines with IC values ranging from 41 to 283 nM.

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