Genome Mining and Biosynthetic Reconstitution of Fungal Depsidone Mollicellins Reveal a Dual Functional Cytochrome P450 for Ether Formation.

Depsidones are significant in structural diversity and broad in biological activities; however, their biosynthetic pathways have not been well understood and have attracted considerable attention. Herein, we heterologously reconstituted a depsidone encoding gene cluster from Ovatospora sp. SCSIO SY280D in Aspergillus nidulans A1145, leading to production of mollicellins, a representative family of depsidones, and discovering a bifunctional P450 monooxygenase that catalyzes both ether formation and hydroxylation in the biosynthesis of the mollicellins. The functions of a decarboxylase and an aromatic prenyltransferase are also characterized to understand the tailoring modification steps. This work provides important insights into the biosynthesis of mollicellins.

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