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The mithramycin gene cluster of Streptomyces argillaceus has been cloned and characterized, and its biosynthesis pathway has been established. The aglycone is produced through the condensation of nine malonyl Cilengitide CoA units and one acetyl CoA to give a carbon chain, which will be then aromatized, cyclized, oxygenated, and methylated. Then, the resultant tetracyclic intermediate is sequentially glycosylated, accompanied by the oxidative cleavage of the fourth ring, and the reduction of the carbon side chain connected at 3 position, to make the final substance 1. We have used different techniques of combinatorial biosynthesis in order to make novel derivatives of 1 with antitumor activity. A few of these compounds showed high antitumor activity, and either exhibited new glycosylation profiles, or contained structural changes affecting the pentyl side chain attached at 3 position. Curiously, analogues with modifications Eumycetoma at the 3 carbon side chain delayed development of ovarian cancer xenografts, and showed higher antitumor activity compared to the parental substance. Here we further investigated the generation of new mithramycin analogues by applying combinatorial biosynthesis ways of S. argillaceus, striving on new substances that either differ from the parental compound within the sugar profile or in both the sugar profile and the 3 side chain. From these studies three novel types emerged, named demycarosyl 3D B Ddigitoxosyl mithramycin SK, demycarosyl mithramycin SDK and demycarosyl 3D B Ddigitoxosyl mithramycin SDK, which show high anti-tumor activity. The initial one, which combines two structural 2-ME2 features previously found to enhance mithramycin pharmacological behavior, was less toxic than the parental substance, and was assessed on cyst development in hollow fiber assays, and for treatment of colon and melanoma cancers using human tumors xenografts in murine models in nude mice. Generation of new mithramycin analogues Two types of mithramycin analogues were generated: mithramycins with altered glycosylation page, and materials with both specific changes within the glycosylation pattern and in the 3 carbon side chain. It's been proven that sugars in 1 be involved in the binding means of this compound to DNA, and that changes in the profile of 1 can affect its activity. Modifications in the glycosylation pattern of a particle by combinatorial biosynthesis is possible using different approaches, such as for instance showing plasmids leading the biosynthesis of a different sugar into the producer organism. 36 More over, the utilization of a mutant affected in the bio-synthesis of a regular aspect sugar of the compound as host, can raise the chances to create compounds with new glycosylation profiles. So that you can facilitate the creation of mithramycins with different glycosylated profiles, we used as a host the S. argillaceus mutant M7C1 when the gene have been inactivated.