β-Ketoacyl Acyl Carrier Protein Synthase III (FabH) Is Essential for Fatty Acid Biosynthesis in Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2)

Abstract
The Streptomyces coelicolor fab (fatty acid biosynthesis) gene cluster ( fabD-fabH-acpP-fabF ) is cotranscribed to produce a leaderless mRNA transcript. One of these genes, fabH , encodes a ketoacyl synthase III that is essential to and is proposed to be responsible for initiation of fatty acid biosynthesis in S. coelicolor .