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Willms IM, Kamran A, Aßmann NF, Krone D, Bolz SH, Fiedler F, Nacke H. Discovery of Novel Antibiotic Resistance Determinants in Forest and Grassland Soil Metagenomes. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:460. [PMID: 30899254 PMCID: PMC6416219 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.00460] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2018] [Accepted: 02/21/2019] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Soil represents a significant reservoir of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs), which can potentially spread across distinct ecosystems and be acquired by pathogens threatening human as well as animal health. Currently, information on the identity and diversity of these genes, enabling anticipation of possible future resistance development in clinical environments and the livestock sector, is lacking. In this study, we applied functional metagenomics to discover novel sulfonamide as well as tetracycline resistance genes in soils derived from forest and grassland. Screening of soil metagenomic libraries revealed a total of eight so far unknown ARGs. The recovered genes originate from phylogenetically diverse soil bacteria (e.g., Actinobacteria, Chloroflexi, or Proteobacteria) and encode proteins with a minimum identity of 46% to other antibiotic resistance determinants. In particular forest soil ecosystems have so far been neglected in studies focusing on antibiotic resistance. Here, we detected for the first time non-mobile dihydropteroate synthase (DHPS) genes conferring resistance to sulfonamides in forest soil with no history of exposure to these synthetic drugs. In total, three sulfonamide resistant DHPSs, differing in taxonomic origin, were discovered in beech or pine forest soil. This indicates that sulfonamide resistance naturally occurs in forest-resident soil bacterial communities. Besides forest soil-derived sulfonamide resistance proteins, we also identified a DHPS affiliated to Chloroflexi in grassland soil. This enzyme and the other recovered DHPSs confer reduced susceptibility toward sulfamethazine, which is widely used in food animal production. With respect to tetracycline resistance, four efflux proteins affiliated to the major facilitator superfamily (MFS) were identified. Noteworthy, one of these proteins also conferred reduced susceptibility toward lincomycin.
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- Inka Marie Willms
- Department of Genomic and Applied Microbiology and Göttingen Genomics Laboratory, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of General Microbiology, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Genomic and Applied Microbiology and Göttingen Genomics Laboratory, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Genomic and Applied Microbiology and Göttingen Genomics Laboratory, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Genomic and Applied Microbiology and Göttingen Genomics Laboratory, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Genomic and Applied Microbiology and Göttingen Genomics Laboratory, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Genomic and Applied Microbiology and Göttingen Genomics Laboratory, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany
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Darnell RL, Nakatani Y, Knottenbelt MK, Gebhard S, Cook GM. Functional characterization of BcrR: a one-component transmembrane signal transduction system for bacitracin resistance. MICROBIOLOGY-SGM 2019; 165:475-487. [PMID: 30777814 DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.000781] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Bacitracin is a cell wall targeting antimicrobial with clinical and agricultural applications. With the growing mismatch between antimicrobial resistance and development, it is essential we understand the molecular mechanisms of resistance in order to prioritize and generate new effective antimicrobials. BcrR is a unique membrane-bound one-component system that regulates high-level bacitracin resistance in Enterococcus faecalis. In the presence of bacitracin, BcrR activates transcription of the bcrABD operon conferring resistance through a putative ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter (BcrAB). BcrR has three putative functional domains, an N-terminal helix-turn-helix DNA-binding domain, an intermediate oligomerization domain and a C-terminal transmembrane domain. However, the molecular mechanisms of signal transduction remain unknown. Random mutagenesis of bcrR was performed to generate loss- and gain-of-function mutants using transcriptional reporters fused to the target promoter PbcrA. Fifteen unique mutants were isolated across all three proposed functional domains, comprising 14 loss-of-function and one gain-of-function mutant. The gain-of-function variant (G64D) mapped to the putative dimerization domain of BcrR, and functional analyses indicated that the G64D mutant constitutively expresses the PbcrA-luxABCDE reporter. DNA-binding and membrane insertion were not affected in the five mutants chosen for further characterization. Homology modelling revealed putative roles for two key residues (R11 and S33) in BcrR activation. Here we present a new model of BcrR activation and signal transduction, providing valuable insight into the functional characterization of membrane-bound one-component systems and how they can coordinate critical bacterial responses, such as antimicrobial resistance.
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- Rachel L Darnell
- 1Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New zealand.,2Maurice Wilkins Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery, The University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1042, New Zealand
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- 1Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New zealand.,2Maurice Wilkins Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery, The University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1042, New Zealand
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- 1Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New zealand
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- 3Milner Centre for Evolution, Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, Bath, UK
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- 2Maurice Wilkins Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery, The University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1042, New Zealand.,1Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New zealand
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Occurrence, function, and biosynthesis of mycofactocin. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2019; 103:2903-2912. [PMID: 30778644 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-019-09684-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2018] [Revised: 02/04/2019] [Accepted: 02/05/2019] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Mycofactocin is a member of the rapidly growing class of ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptide (RiPP) natural products. Although the mycofactocin biosynthetic pathway is widely distributed among Mycobacterial species, the structure, function, and biosynthesis of the pathway product remain unknown. This mini-review will discuss the current state of knowledge regarding the mycofactocin biosynthetic pathway. In particular, we focus on the architecture and distribution of the mycofactocin biosynthetic cluster, mftABCDEF, among the Actinobacteria phylum. We discuss the potential molecular and physiological role of mycofactocin. We review known biosynthetic steps involving MftA, MftB, MftC, and MftE and relate them to pyrroloquinoline quinone biosynthesis. Lastly, we propose the function of the remaining putative biosynthetic enzymes, MftD and MftF.
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Aswani V, Najar F, Pantrangi M, Mau B, Schwan WR, Shukla SK. Virulence factor landscape of a Staphylococcus aureus sequence type 45 strain, MCRF184. BMC Genomics 2019; 20:123. [PMID: 30736742 PMCID: PMC6368776 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-018-5394-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2018] [Accepted: 12/18/2018] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Background We describe the virulence factors of a methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus sequence type (ST) 45 strain, MCRF184, (spa type t917), that caused severe necrotizing fasciitis in a 72-year-old diabetic male. The genome of MCRF184 possesses three genomic islands: a relatively large type III νSaα with 42 open reading frames (ORFs) that includes superantigen- and lipoprotein-like genes, a truncated νSaβ that consists mostly of the enterotoxin gene cluster (egc), and a νSaγ island with 18 ORFs including α-toxin. Additionally, the genome has two phage-related regions: phage φSa3 with three genes of the immune evasion cluster (IEC), and an incomplete phage that is distinct from other S. aureus phages. Finally, the region between orfX and orfY harbors a putative efflux pump, acetyltransferase, regulators, and mobilization genes instead of genes of SCCmec. Results Virulence factors included phenol soluble modulins (PSMs) α1 through α4 and PSMs β1 and β2. Ten ORFs identified in MCRF184 had not been reported in previously sequenced S. aureus strains. Conclusion The dire clinical outcome in the patient and the described virulence factors all suggest that MCRF184, a ST45 strain is a highly virulent strain of S. aureus. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s12864-018-5394-2) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Vijay Aswani
- Department of Internal Medicine & Pediatrics, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
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- Center for Human Genetics, 1000 North Oak Avenue # MLR, Marshfield, WI, 54449, USA
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- Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Wisconsin -La Crosse, La Crosse, WI, USA
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- Center for Human Genetics, 1000 North Oak Avenue # MLR, Marshfield, WI, 54449, USA.
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AcrR and Rex Control Mannitol and Sorbitol Utilization through Their Cross-Regulation of Aldehyde-Alcohol Dehydrogenase (AdhE) in Lactobacillus plantarum. Appl Environ Microbiol 2019; 85:AEM.02035-18. [PMID: 30530710 DOI: 10.1128/aem.02035-18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2018] [Accepted: 11/28/2018] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Lactobacillus plantarum is a versatile bacterium that occupies a wide range of environmental niches. In this study, we found that a bifunctional aldehyde-alcohol dehydrogenase-encoding gene, adhE, was responsible for L. plantarum being able to utilize mannitol and sorbitol through cross-regulation by two DNA-binding regulators. In L. plantarum NF92, adhE was greatly induced, and the growth of an adhE-disrupted (ΔadhE) strain was repressed when sorbitol or mannitol instead of glucose was used as a carbon source. The results of enzyme activity and metabolite assays demonstrated that AdhE could catalyze the synthesis of ethanol in L. plantarum NF92 when sorbitol or mannitol was used as the carbon source. AcrR and Rex were two transcriptional factors screened by an affinity isolation method and verified to regulate the expression of adhE DNase I footprinting assay results showed that they shared a binding site (GTTCATTAATGAAC) in the adhE promoter. Overexpression and knockout of AcrR showed that AcrR was a novel regulator to promote the transcription of adhE The activator AcrR and repressor Rex may cross-regulate adhE when L. plantarum NF92 utilizes sorbitol or mannitol. Thus, a model of the control of adhE by AcrR and Rex during L. plantarum NF92 utilization of mannitol or sorbitol was proposed.IMPORTANCE The function and regulation of AdhE in the important probiotic genus Lactobacillus are rarely reported. Here we demonstrated that AdhE is responsible for sorbitol and mannitol utilization and is cross-regulated by two transcriptional regulators in L. plantarum NF92, which had not been reported previously. This is important for L. plantarum to compete and survive in some harsh environments in which sorbitol or mannitol could be used as carbon source. A novel transcriptional regulator AcrR was identified to be important to promote the expression of adhE, which was unknown before. The cross-regulation of adhE by AcrR and Rex is important to balance the level of NADH in the cell during sorbitol or mannitol utilization.
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Wand ME, Jamshidi S, Bock LJ, Rahman KM, Sutton JM. SmvA is an important efflux pump for cationic biocides in Klebsiella pneumoniae and other Enterobacteriaceae. Sci Rep 2019; 9:1344. [PMID: 30718598 PMCID: PMC6362122 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-37730-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2018] [Accepted: 12/04/2018] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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The multidrug resistant (MDR) opportunistic pathogen Klebsiella pneumoniae has previously been shown to adapt to chlorhexidine by increasing expression of the MFS efflux pump smvA. Here we show that loss of the regulator SmvR, through adaptation to chlorhexidine, results in increased resistance to a number of cationic biocides in K. pneumoniae and other members of the Enterobacteriaceae. Clinical Enterobacteriaceae isolates which lack smvA and smvR also have an increased susceptibility to chlorhexidine. When smvA from Salmonella and K. pneumoniae are expressed in Escherichia coli, which lacks a homologue to SmvAR, resistance to chlorhexidine increased (4-fold) but plasmid carriage of smvA alone was detrimental to the cell. Challenge of K. pneumoniae with chlorhexidine and another cationic biocide, octenidine, resulted in increased expression of smvA (approx. 70 fold). Adaptation to octenidine was achieved through mutating key residues in SmvA (A363V; Y391N) rather than abolishing the function of SmvR, as with chlorhexidine adaptation. Molecular modelling was able to predict that octenidine interacted more strongly with these mutated SmvA forms. These results show that SmvA is a major efflux pump for cationic biocides in several bacterial species and that increased efflux through SmvA can lead to increased chlorhexidine and octenidine tolerance.
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- Matthew E Wand
- Public Health England, National Infection Service, Porton Down, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP4 0JG, UK.
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- School of Cancer and Pharmaceutical Science, King's College London, London, SE1 9NH, UK
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- Public Health England, National Infection Service, Porton Down, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP4 0JG, UK
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- Public Health England, National Infection Service, Porton Down, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP4 0JG, UK
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Wu H, Chu Z, Zhang W, Zhang C, Ni J, Fang H, Chen Y, Wang Y, Zhang L, Zhang B. Transcriptome-guided target identification of the TetR-like regulator SACE_5754 and engineered overproduction of erythromycin in Saccharopolyspora erythraea. J Biol Eng 2019; 13:11. [PMID: 30697347 PMCID: PMC6346578 DOI: 10.1186/s13036-018-0135-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2018] [Accepted: 12/17/2018] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Background Erythromycin A (Er-A) produced by the actinomycete Saccharopolyspora erythraea is an important antibiotic extensively used in human medicine. Dissecting of transcriptional regulators and their target genes associated with erythromycin biosynthesis is crucial to obtain erythromycin overproducer strains through engineering of relevant regulatory elements in S. erythraea. Results Here, we identified a TetR family transcriptional regulator (TFR), SACE_5754, negatively controlling erythromycin production. SACE_5754 indirectly repressed the transcription of ery cluster and cannot regulate itself and its adjacent gene SACE_5753. RNA-seq coupled with EMSAs and qRT-PCR was performed to identify the targets of SACE_5754, and confirmed that transcription of SACE_0388 (encoding a pyruvate, water diknase), SACE_3599 (encoding an antibiotic resistance macrolide glycosyltransferase) and SACE_6149 (encoding a FAD-binding monooxygenase) were directly repressed by SACE_5754. A consensus palindromic sequence TYMAGG-n2/n4/n11-KKTKRA (Y: C/T, M: A/C, K: T/G, R: A/G) was proved to be essential for SACE_5754 binding using DNase I footprinting and EMSAs. During the three target genes of SACE_5754, SACE_0388 and SACE_6149 exhibited the positive effect on erythromycin production. Overexpression of either SACE_0388 or SACE_6149 in ∆SACE_5754 further increased the Er-A production. By engineering the industrial strain S. erythraea WB with deletion of SACE_5754 combined with overexpression of either SACE_0388 or SACE_6149, Er-A production in WB∆SACE_5754/pIB139–0388 and WB∆SACE_5754/pIB139–6149 was successively increased by 42 and 30% compared to WB. Co-overexpression of SACE_0388 and SACE_6149 in WB∆SACE_5754 resulted in enhanced Er-A production by 64% relative to WB. In a 5-L fermenter, WB∆SACE_5754/pIB139–0388-6149 produced 4998 mg/L Er-A, a 48% increase over WB. Conclusion We have identified a TFR, SACE_5754, as a negative regulator of erythromycin biosynthesis, and engineering of SACE_5754 and its target genes, SACE_0388 and SACE_6149, resulted in enhanced erythromycin production in both wild-type and industrial S. erythraea strains. The strategy demonstrated here may be valuable to facilitate the manipulation of transcriptional regulators and their targets for production improvement of antibiotics in industrial actinomycetes. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s13036-018-0135-2) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Hang Wu
- 1School of Life Sciences, Institute of Physical Science and Information Technology, Anhui University, Hefei, 230601 China
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- 1School of Life Sciences, Institute of Physical Science and Information Technology, Anhui University, Hefei, 230601 China
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- 1School of Life Sciences, Institute of Physical Science and Information Technology, Anhui University, Hefei, 230601 China
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- 1School of Life Sciences, Institute of Physical Science and Information Technology, Anhui University, Hefei, 230601 China
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- 1School of Life Sciences, Institute of Physical Science and Information Technology, Anhui University, Hefei, 230601 China
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- 1School of Life Sciences, Institute of Physical Science and Information Technology, Anhui University, Hefei, 230601 China
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- 1School of Life Sciences, Institute of Physical Science and Information Technology, Anhui University, Hefei, 230601 China
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- 1School of Life Sciences, Institute of Physical Science and Information Technology, Anhui University, Hefei, 230601 China
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- 1School of Life Sciences, Institute of Physical Science and Information Technology, Anhui University, Hefei, 230601 China.,2State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200237 China
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- 1School of Life Sciences, Institute of Physical Science and Information Technology, Anhui University, Hefei, 230601 China
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An Isoprene Lipid-Binding Protein Promotes Eukaryotic Coenzyme Q Biosynthesis. Mol Cell 2019; 73:763-774.e10. [PMID: 30661980 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2018.11.033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2018] [Revised: 10/16/2018] [Accepted: 11/27/2018] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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The biosynthesis of coenzyme Q presents a paradigm for how cells surmount hydrophobic barriers in lipid biology. In eukaryotes, CoQ precursors-among nature's most hydrophobic molecules-must somehow be presented to a series of enzymes peripherally associated with the mitochondrial inner membrane. Here, we reveal that this process relies on custom lipid-binding properties of COQ9. We show that COQ9 repurposes the bacterial TetR fold to bind aromatic isoprenes with high specificity, including CoQ intermediates that likely reside entirely within the bilayer. We reveal a process by which COQ9 associates with cardiolipin-rich membranes and warps the membrane surface to access this cargo. Finally, we identify a molecular interface between COQ9 and the hydroxylase COQ7, motivating a model whereby COQ9 presents intermediates directly to CoQ enzymes. Overall, our results provide a mechanism for how a lipid-binding protein might access, select, and deliver specific cargo from a membrane to promote biosynthesis.
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DNA Binding and Sensor Specificity of FarR, a Novel TetR Family Regulator Required for Induction of the Fatty Acid Efflux Pump FarE in Staphylococcus aureus. J Bacteriol 2019; 201:JB.00602-18. [PMID: 30455282 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00602-18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2018] [Accepted: 11/12/2018] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Divergent genes in Staphylococcus aureus USA300 encode the efflux pump FarE and TetR family regulator FarR, which confer resistance to antimicrobial unsaturated fatty acids. To study their regulation, we constructed USA300 ΔfarER, which exhibited a 2-fold reduction in MIC of linoleic acid. farE expressed from its native promoter on pLIfarE conferred increased resistance to USA300 but not USA300 ΔfarER Complementation of USA300 ΔfarER with pLIfarR also had no effect, whereas resistance was restored with pLIfarER or through ectopic expression of farE In electrophoretic mobility shift assays, FarR bound to three different oligonucleotide probes that each contained a TAGWTTA motif, occurring as (i) a singular motif overlapping the -10 element of the P farR promoter, (ii) in palindrome PAL1 immediately in the 3' direction of P farR , or (iii) within PAL2 upstream of the predicted P farE promoter. FarR autorepressed its expression through cooperative binding to PAL1 and the adjacent TAGWTTA motif in P farR Consistent with reports that S. aureus does not metabolize fatty acids through acyl coenzyme A (acyl-CoA) intermediates, DNA binding activity of FarR was not affected by linoleoyl-CoA. Conversely, induction of farE required fatty acid kinase FakA, which catalyzes the first metabolic step in the incorporation of unsaturated fatty acids into phospholipid. We conclude that FarR is needed to promote the expression of farE while strongly autorepressing its own expression, and our data are consistent with a model whereby FarR interacts with a FakA-dependent product of exogenous fatty acid metabolism to ensure that efflux only occurs when the metabolic capacity for incorporation of fatty acid into phospholipid is exceeded.IMPORTANCE Here, we describe the DNA binding and sensor specificity of FarR, a novel TetR family regulator (TFR) in Staphylococcus aureus Unlike the majority of TFRs that have been characterized, which function to repress a divergently transcribed gene, we find that FarR is needed to promote expression of the divergently transcribed farE gene, encoding a resistance-nodulation-division (RND) family efflux pump that is induced in response to antimicrobial unsaturated fatty acids. Induction of farE was dependent on the function of the fatty acid kinase FakA, which catalyzes the first metabolic step in the incorporation of exogenous unsaturated fatty acids into phospholipid. This represents a novel example of TFR function.
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Oetermann S, Jongsma R, Coenen A, Keller J, Steinbüchel A. LcpRVH2 - regulating the expression of latex-clearing proteins in Gordonia polyisoprenivorans VH2. MICROBIOLOGY-SGM 2019; 165:343-354. [PMID: 30628882 DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.000755] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Gordonia polyisoprenivorans VH2 harbours two latex clearing proteins, which are responsible for the cleavage of poly(cis-1,4-isoprene) into oligoisoprenes, thereby allowing growth in presence of, e.g. natural rubber. A gene coding for a putative regulator of the TetR-family (lcpRVH2) is located 131 bp upstream of lcp1VH2. We heterologously expressed lcpRVH2 in Escherichia coli, and purified and characterized the protein with respect to its ability to bind to the operator region of lcp1VH2. LcpRVH2 forms a dimer in its native state. The size of the dimer was determined to be 52.7 kDa by size exclusion chromatography, whereas the calculated size of a monomer was 24.1 kDa. Electrophoretic mobility shift assays (EMSAs) with the purified protein revealed a shift upon binding to the intergenic region between lcpRVH2 and lcp1VH2. Within this region, an inverted repeat was identified in silico, probably being the binding site of LcpRVH2. This binding sequence was confirmed by a DNase I footprinting assay. A shift also occurred in EMSAs with this 44 bp sequence only. Interestingly, no regulator was detected upstream of the second lcp (lcp2VH2). Therefore, we performed EMSA studies with LcpRVH2 and the putative operator region upstream of lcp2VH2, and discovered by DNase I footprinting another binding sequence upstream of lcp2VH2. Hence, we concluded that LcpRVH2 binds the operator region of both lcps and, most likely, regulates their expression in G. polyisoprenivorans VH2.
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- Sylvia Oetermann
- 1Institut für Molekulare Mikrobiologie und Biotechnologie, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
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- 1Institut für Molekulare Mikrobiologie und Biotechnologie, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
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- 1Institut für Molekulare Mikrobiologie und Biotechnologie, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
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- 1Institut für Molekulare Mikrobiologie und Biotechnologie, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
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- 2Department of Environmental Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.,1Institut für Molekulare Mikrobiologie und Biotechnologie, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
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Mutations in the MAB_2299c TetR Regulator Confer Cross-Resistance to Clofazimine and Bedaquiline in Mycobacterium abscessus. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2018; 63:AAC.01316-18. [PMID: 30323043 DOI: 10.1128/aac.01316-18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2018] [Accepted: 10/09/2018] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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New therapeutic approaches are needed against Mycobacterium abscessus, a respiratory mycobacterial pathogen that evades efforts to successfully treat infected patients. Clofazimine and bedaquiline, two drugs used for the treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, are being considered as alternatives for the treatment of lung diseases caused by M. abscessus With the aim to understand the mechanism of action of these agents in M. abscessus, we sought herein to determine the means by which M. abscessus can develop resistance. Spontaneous resistant strains selected on clofazimine, followed by whole-genome sequencing, identified mutations in MAB_2299c, encoding a putative TetR transcriptional regulator. Unexpectedly, mutants with these mutations were also cross-resistant to bedaquiline. MAB_2299c was found to bind to its target DNA, located upstream of the divergently oriented MAB_2300-MAB_2301 gene cluster, encoding MmpS/MmpL membrane proteins. Point mutations or deletion of MAB_2299c was associated with the concomitant upregulation of the mmpS and mmpL transcripts and accounted for this cross-resistance. Strikingly, deletion of MAB_2300 and MAB_2301 in the MAB_2299c mutant strain restored susceptibility to bedaquiline and clofazimine. Overall, these results expand our knowledge with respect to the regulatory mechanisms of the MmpL family of proteins and a novel mechanism of drug resistance in this difficult-to-treat respiratory mycobacterial pathogen. Therefore, MAB_2299c may represent an important marker of resistance to be considered in the treatment of M. abscessus diseases with clofazimine and bedaquiline in clinical settings.
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TetR-Type Regulator SLCG_2919 Is a Negative Regulator of Lincomycin Biosynthesis in Streptomyces lincolnensis. Appl Environ Microbiol 2018; 85:AEM.02091-18. [PMID: 30341075 DOI: 10.1128/aem.02091-18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2018] [Accepted: 10/01/2018] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Lincomycin A (Lin-A) is a widely used antibacterial antibiotic fermented by Streptomyces lincolnensis However, the transcriptional regulatory mechanisms underlying lincomycin biosynthesis have seldom been investigated. Here, we first identified a TetR family transcriptional regulator (TFR), SLCG_2919, which negatively modulates lincomycin biosynthesis in S. lincolnensis LCGL. SLCG_2919 was found to specifically bind to promoter regions of the lincomycin biosynthetic gene cluster (lin cluster), including 25 structural genes, three resistance genes, and one regulatory gene, and to inhibit the transcription of these genes, demonstrating a directly regulatory role in lincomycin biosynthesis. Furthermore, we found that SLCG_2919 was not autoregulated, but directly repressed its adjacent gene, SLCG_2920, which encodes an ATP/GTP binding protein whose overexpression increased resistance against lincomycin and Lin-A yields in S. lincolnensis The precise SLCG_2919 binding site within the promoter region of SLCG_2920 was determined by a DNase I footprinting assay and by electrophoretic mobility shift assays (EMSAs) based on base substitution mutagenesis, with the internal 10-nucleotide (nt) AT-rich sequence (AAATTATTTA) shown to be essential for SLCG_2919 binding. Our findings indicate that SLCG_2919 is a negative regulator for controlling lincomycin biosynthesis in S. lincolnensis The present study improves our understanding of molecular regulation for lincomycin biosynthesis.IMPORTANCE TetR family transcriptional regulators (TFRs) are generally found to regulate diverse cellular processes in bacteria, especially antibiotic biosynthesis in Streptomyces species. However, knowledge of their function in lincomycin biosynthesis in S. lincolnensis remains unknown. The present study provides a new insight into the regulation of lincomycin biosynthesis through a TFR, SLCG_2919, that directly modulates lincomycin production and resistance. Intriguingly, SLCG_2919 and its adjoining gene, SLCG_2920, which encodes an ATP/GTP binding protein, were extensively distributed in diverse Streptomyces species. In addition, we revealed a new TFR binding motif, in which SLCG_2919 binds to the promoter region of SLCG_2920, dependent on the intervening AT-rich sequence rather than on the flanking inverted repeats found in the binding sites of other TFRs. These insights into transcriptional regulation of lincomycin biosynthesis by SLCG_2919 will be valuable in paving the way for genetic engineering of regulatory elements in Streptomyces species to improve antibiotic production.
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Tanina A, Wohlkönig A, Soror SH, Flipo M, Villemagne B, Prevet H, Déprez B, Moune M, Perée H, Meyer F, Baulard AR, Willand N, Wintjens R. A comprehensive analysis of the protein-ligand interactions in crystal structures of Mycobacterium tuberculosis EthR. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-PROTEINS AND PROTEOMICS 2018; 1867:248-258. [PMID: 30553830 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2018.12.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2018] [Revised: 11/05/2018] [Accepted: 12/10/2018] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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The Mycobacterium tuberculosis EthR is a member of the TetR family of repressors, controlling the expression of EthA, a mono-oxygenase responsible for the bioactivation of the prodrug ethionamide. This protein was established as a promising therapeutic target against tuberculosis, allowing, when inhibited by a drug-like molecule, to boost the action of ethionamide. Dozens of EthR crystal structures have been solved in complex with ligands. Herein, we disclose EthR structures in complex with 18 different small molecules and then performed in-depth analysis on the complete set of EthR structures that provides insights on EthR-ligand interactions. The 81 molecules solved in complex with EthR show a large diversity of chemical structures that were split up into several chemical clusters. Two of the most striking common points of EthR-ligand interactions are the quasi-omnipresence of a hydrogen bond bridging compounds with Asn179 and the high occurrence of π-π interactions involving Phe110. A systematic analysis of the protein-ligand contacts identified eight hot spot residues that defined the basic structural features governing the binding mode of small molecules to EthR. Implications for the design of new potent inhibitors are discussed.
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- Abdalkarim Tanina
- Unité Microbiologie, Bioorganique et Macromoléculaire (CP206/04), département R3D, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université Libre de Bruxelles, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
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- Center for Structural Biology, Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnology (VIB), B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
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- Center of scientific excellence, Helwan Structural Biology Research, Faculty of Pharmacy, Helwan University, Ain helwan, 11792 Helwan, Cairo, Egypt
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- Univ. Lille, Inserm, Institut Pasteur de Lille, U1177 - Drugs and Molecules for living Systems, F-59000 Lille, France
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- Univ. Lille, Inserm, Institut Pasteur de Lille, U1177 - Drugs and Molecules for living Systems, F-59000 Lille, France
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- Univ. Lille, Inserm, Institut Pasteur de Lille, U1177 - Drugs and Molecules for living Systems, F-59000 Lille, France
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- Univ. Lille, Inserm, Institut Pasteur de Lille, U1177 - Drugs and Molecules for living Systems, F-59000 Lille, France
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- Univ. Lille, CNRS, Inserm, CHU Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, U1019-UMR 8204-CIIL- Center for Infection and Immunity of Lille, F-59000 Lille, France
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- Unité Microbiologie, Bioorganique et Macromoléculaire (CP206/04), département R3D, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université Libre de Bruxelles, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
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- Unité Microbiologie, Bioorganique et Macromoléculaire (CP206/04), département R3D, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université Libre de Bruxelles, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
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- Univ. Lille, CNRS, Inserm, CHU Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, U1019-UMR 8204-CIIL- Center for Infection and Immunity of Lille, F-59000 Lille, France
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- Univ. Lille, Inserm, Institut Pasteur de Lille, U1177 - Drugs and Molecules for living Systems, F-59000 Lille, France.
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- Unité Microbiologie, Bioorganique et Macromoléculaire (CP206/04), département R3D, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université Libre de Bruxelles, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium.
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Barbey C, Chane A, Burini JF, Maillot O, Merieau A, Gallique M, Beury-Cirou A, Konto-Ghiorghi Y, Feuilloley M, Gobert V, Latour X. A Rhodococcal Transcriptional Regulatory Mechanism Detects the Common Lactone Ring of AHL Quorum-Sensing Signals and Triggers the Quorum-Quenching Response. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:2800. [PMID: 30524404 PMCID: PMC6262395 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.02800] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2018] [Accepted: 10/31/2018] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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The biocontrol agent Rhodococcus erythropolis disrupts virulence of plant and human Gram-negative pathogens by catabolizing their N-acyl-homoserine lactones. This quorum-quenching activity requires the expression of the qsd (quorum-sensing signal degradation) operon, which encodes the lactonase QsdA and the fatty acyl-CoA ligase QsdC, involved in the catabolism of lactone ring and acyl chain moieties of signaling molecules, respectively. Here, we demonstrate the regulation of qsd operon expression by a TetR-like family repressor, QsdR. This repression was lifted by adding the pathogen quorum signal or by deleting the qsdR gene, resulting in enhanced lactone degrading activity. Using interactomic approaches and transcriptional fusion strategy, the qsd operon derepression was elucidated: it is operated by the binding of the common part of signaling molecules, the homoserine lactone ring, to the effector-receiving domain of QsdR, preventing a physical binding of QsdR to the qsd promoter region. To our knowledge, this is the first evidence revealing quorum signals as inducers of the suitable quorum-quenching pathway, confirming this TetR-like protein as a lactone sensor. This regulatory mechanism designates the qsd operon as encoding a global disrupting pathway for degrading a wide range of signal substrates, allowing a broad spectrum anti-virulence activity mediated by the rhodococcal biocontrol agent. Understanding the regulation mechanisms of qsd operon expression led also to the development of biosensors useful to monitor in situ the presence of exogenous signals and quorum-quenching activity.
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- Corinne Barbey
- Laboratoire de Microbiologie Signaux et Microenvironnement (LMSM EA 4312) - Normandie Université - LMSM, Évreux, France.,Structure Fédérative de Recherche Normandie Végétal 4277 (NORVEGE), Mont-Saint-Aignan, France.,Seeds Innovation Protection Research and Environment, Achicourt, France.,Seeds Innovation Protection Research and Environment, Bretteville du Grand-Caux, France
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- Laboratoire de Microbiologie Signaux et Microenvironnement (LMSM EA 4312) - Normandie Université - LMSM, Évreux, France.,Structure Fédérative de Recherche Normandie Végétal 4277 (NORVEGE), Mont-Saint-Aignan, France
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- Laboratoire de Microbiologie Signaux et Microenvironnement (LMSM EA 4312) - Normandie Université - LMSM, Évreux, France.,Structure Fédérative de Recherche Normandie Végétal 4277 (NORVEGE), Mont-Saint-Aignan, France
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- Laboratoire de Microbiologie Signaux et Microenvironnement (LMSM EA 4312) - Normandie Université - LMSM, Évreux, France.,Structure Fédérative de Recherche Normandie Végétal 4277 (NORVEGE), Mont-Saint-Aignan, France
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- Laboratoire de Microbiologie Signaux et Microenvironnement (LMSM EA 4312) - Normandie Université - LMSM, Évreux, France.,Structure Fédérative de Recherche Normandie Végétal 4277 (NORVEGE), Mont-Saint-Aignan, France
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- Laboratoire de Microbiologie Signaux et Microenvironnement (LMSM EA 4312) - Normandie Université - LMSM, Évreux, France.,Structure Fédérative de Recherche Normandie Végétal 4277 (NORVEGE), Mont-Saint-Aignan, France
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- Seeds Innovation Protection Research and Environment, Achicourt, France.,Seeds Innovation Protection Research and Environment, Bretteville du Grand-Caux, France.,French Federation of Seed Potato Growers (FN3PT/RD3PT), Paris, France
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- Laboratoire de Microbiologie Signaux et Microenvironnement (LMSM EA 4312) - Normandie Université - LMSM, Évreux, France.,Structure Fédérative de Recherche Normandie Végétal 4277 (NORVEGE), Mont-Saint-Aignan, France
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- Laboratoire de Microbiologie Signaux et Microenvironnement (LMSM EA 4312) - Normandie Université - LMSM, Évreux, France.,Structure Fédérative de Recherche Normandie Végétal 4277 (NORVEGE), Mont-Saint-Aignan, France
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- Seeds Innovation Protection Research and Environment, Achicourt, France.,Seeds Innovation Protection Research and Environment, Bretteville du Grand-Caux, France.,French Federation of Seed Potato Growers (FN3PT/RD3PT), Paris, France
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- Laboratoire de Microbiologie Signaux et Microenvironnement (LMSM EA 4312) - Normandie Université - LMSM, Évreux, France.,Structure Fédérative de Recherche Normandie Végétal 4277 (NORVEGE), Mont-Saint-Aignan, France
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Cao ZL, Tan TT, Zhang YL, Han L, Hou XY, Ma HY, Cai J. NagR Bt Is a Pleiotropic and Dual Transcriptional Regulator in Bacillus thuringiensis. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:1899. [PMID: 30254611 PMCID: PMC6141813 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.01899] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2018] [Accepted: 07/27/2018] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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NagR, belonging to the GntR/HutC family, is a negative regulator that directly represses the nagP and nagAB genes, which are involved in GlcNAc transport and utilization in Bacillus subtilis. Our previous work confirmed that the chitinase B gene (chiB) of Bacillus thuringiensis strain Bti75 is also negatively controlled by YvoABt, the ortholog of NagR from B. subtilis. In this work, we investigated its regulatory network in Bti75 and found that YvoABt is an N-acetylglucosamine utilization regulator primarily involved in GlcNAc catabolism; therefore YvoABt is renamed as NagRBt. The RNA-seq data revealed that 27 genes were upregulated and 14 genes were downregulated in the ΔnagR mutant compared with the wild-type strain. The regulon (exponential phase) was characterized by RNA-seq, bioinformatics software, electrophoretic mobility shift assays, and quantitative real-time reverse transcription PCR. In the Bti75 genome, 19 genes that were directly regulated and 30 genes that were indirectly regulated by NagRBt were identified. We compiled in silico, in vitro, and in vivo evidence that NagRBt behaves as a repressor and activator to directly or indirectly influence major biological processes involved in amino sugar metabolism, nucleotide metabolism, fatty acid metabolism, phosphotransferase system, and the Embden-Meyerhof-Parnas pathway.
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- Zhang-Lei Cao
- Department of Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, China
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- Department of Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, China
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- Department of Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, China
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- Department of Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, China
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- Department of Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, China
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- Department of Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, China
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- Department of Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, China.,Key Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Technology, Ministry of Education, Tianjin, China.,Tianjin Key Laboratory of Microbial Functional Genomics, Tianjin, China
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Ma X, Wang G, Zhai Z, Zhou P, Hao Y. Global Transcriptomic Analysis and Function Identification of Malolactic Enzyme Pathway of Lactobacillus paracasei L9 in Response to Bile Stress. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:1978. [PMID: 30210466 PMCID: PMC6119781 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.01978] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2018] [Accepted: 08/06/2018] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Tolerance to bile stress is crucial for Lactobacillus paracasei to survive in the intestinal tract and exert beneficial actions. In this work, global transcriptomic analysis revealed that 104 genes were significantly changed (log2FoldChange > 1.5, P < 0.05) in detected transcripts of L. paracasei L9 when exposed to 0.13% Ox-bile. The different expressed genes involved in various biological processes, including carbon source utilization, amino acids and peptide metabolism processes, transmembrane transport, transcription factors, and membrane proteins. It is noteworthy that gene mleS encoding malolactic enzyme (MLE) was 2.60-fold up-regulated. Meanwhile, L-malic acid was proved to enhance bile tolerance, which could be attributed to the intracellular alkalinization caused by MLE pathway. In addition, membrane vesicles were observed under bile stress, suggesting a disturbance in membrane charge without L-malic acid. Then, genetic and physiological experiments revealed that MLE pathway enhanced the bile tolerance by maintaining a membrane balance in L. paracasei L9, which will provide new insight into the molecular basis of MLE pathway involved in bile stress response in Lactic acid bacteria.
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- Xiayin Ma
- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Food Nutrition and Human Health, College of Food Science and Nutritional Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China.,Key Laboratory of Functional Dairy, Co-constructed by the Ministry of Education and Beijing Municipality, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Food Nutrition and Human Health, College of Food Science and Nutritional Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China.,Key Laboratory of Functional Dairy, Co-constructed by the Ministry of Education and Beijing Municipality, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Food Nutrition and Human Health, College of Food Science and Nutritional Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China.,Key Laboratory of Functional Dairy, Co-constructed by the Ministry of Education and Beijing Municipality, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Functional Dairy, Co-constructed by the Ministry of Education and Beijing Municipality, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Food Nutrition and Human Health, College of Food Science and Nutritional Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China.,Key Laboratory of Functional Dairy, Co-constructed by the Ministry of Education and Beijing Municipality, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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Novel T7 Phage Display Library Detects Classifiers for Active Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Infection. Viruses 2018; 10:v10070375. [PMID: 30029479 PMCID: PMC6070804 DOI: 10.3390/v10070375] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2018] [Revised: 07/09/2018] [Accepted: 07/17/2018] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Tuberculosis (TB) is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) and transmitted through inhalation of aerosolized droplets. Eighty-five percent of new TB cases occur in resource-limited countries in Asia and Africa and fewer than 40% of TB cases are diagnosed due to the lack of accurate and easy-to-use diagnostic assays. Currently, diagnosis relies on the demonstration of the bacterium in clinical specimens by serial sputum smear microscopy and culture. These methods lack sensitivity, are time consuming, expensive, and require trained personnel. An alternative approach is to develop an efficient immunoassay to detect antibodies reactive to MTB antigens in bodily fluids, such as serum. Sarcoidosis and TB have clinical and pathological similarities and sarcoidosis tissue has yielded MTB components. Using sarcoidosis tissue, we developed a T7 phage cDNA library and constructed a microarray platform. We immunoscreened our microarray platform with sera from healthy (n = 45), smear positive TB (n = 24), and sarcoidosis (n = 107) subjects. Using a student t-test, we identified 192 clones significantly differentially expressed between the three groups at a False Discovery Rate (FDR) <0.01. Among those clones, we selected the top ten most significant clones and validated them on independent test set. The area under receiver operating characteristics (ROC) for the top 10 significant clones was 1 with a sensitivity of 1 and a specificity of 1. Sequence analyses of informative phage inserts recognized as antigens by active TB sera may identify immunogenic antigens that could be used to develop therapeutic or prophylactic vaccines, as well as identify molecular targets for therapy.
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Housseini B Issa K, Phan G, Broutin I. Functional Mechanism of the Efflux Pumps Transcription Regulators From Pseudomonas aeruginosa Based on 3D Structures. Front Mol Biosci 2018; 5:57. [PMID: 29971236 PMCID: PMC6018408 DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2018.00057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2018] [Accepted: 05/31/2018] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Bacterial antibiotic resistance is a worldwide health problem that deserves important research attention in order to develop new therapeutic strategies. Recently, the World Health Organization (WHO) classified Pseudomonas aeruginosa as one of the priority bacteria for which new antibiotics are urgently needed. In this opportunistic pathogen, antibiotics efflux is one of the most prevalent mechanisms where the drug is efficiently expulsed through the cell-wall. This resistance mechanism is highly correlated to the expression level of efflux pumps of the resistance-nodulation-cell division (RND) family, which is finely tuned by gene regulators. Thus, it is worthwhile considering the efflux pump regulators of P. aeruginosa as promising therapeutical targets alternative. Several families of regulators have been identified, including activators and repressors that control the genetic expression of the pumps in response to an extracellular signal, such as the presence of the antibiotic or other environmental modifications. In this review, based on different crystallographic structures solved from archetypal bacteria, we will first focus on the molecular mechanism of the regulator families involved in the RND efflux pump expression in P. aeruginosa, which are TetR, LysR, MarR, AraC, and the two-components system (TCS). Finally, the regulators of known structure from P. aeruginosa will be presented.
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- Karim Housseini B Issa
- Laboratoire de Cristallographie et RMN Biologiques (UMR 8015), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université Paris Descartes, Université Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France
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- Laboratoire de Cristallographie et RMN Biologiques (UMR 8015), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université Paris Descartes, Université Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France
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- Laboratoire de Cristallographie et RMN Biologiques (UMR 8015), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université Paris Descartes, Université Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France
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Tyurin AP, Alferova VA, Korshun VA. Chemical Elicitors of Antibiotic Biosynthesis in Actinomycetes. Microorganisms 2018; 6:microorganisms6020052. [PMID: 29890642 PMCID: PMC6027282 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms6020052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2018] [Revised: 06/04/2018] [Accepted: 06/06/2018] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Whole genome sequencing of actinomycetes has uncovered a new immense realm of microbial chemistry and biology. Most biosynthetic gene clusters present in genomes were found to remain “silent” under standard cultivation conditions. Some small molecules—chemical elicitors—can be used to induce the biosynthesis of antibiotics in actinobacteria and to expand the chemical diversity of secondary metabolites. Here, we outline a brief account of the basic principles of the search for regulators of this type and their application.
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- Anton P Tyurin
- Gause Institute of New Antibiotics, Bolshaya Pirogovskaya 11, 119021 Moscow, Russia.
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- Gause Institute of New Antibiotics, Bolshaya Pirogovskaya 11, 119021 Moscow, Russia.
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- Gause Institute of New Antibiotics, Bolshaya Pirogovskaya 11, 119021 Moscow, Russia.
- Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Miklukho-Maklaya 16/10, 117997 Moscow, Russia.
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Yan L, Tang Q, Guan Z, Pei K, Zou T, He J. Structural insights into operator recognition by BioQ in the Mycobacterium smegmatis biotin synthesis pathway. Biochim Biophys Acta Gen Subj 2018; 1862:1843-1851. [PMID: 29852200 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2018.05.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2017] [Revised: 04/18/2018] [Accepted: 05/19/2018] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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BACKGROUND Biotin is an essential cofactor in living organisms. The TetR family transcriptional regulator (TFTR) BioQ is the main regulator of biotin synthesis in Mycobacterium smegmatis. BioQ represses the expression of its target genes by binding to a conserved palindromic DNA sequence (the BioQ operator). However, the mechanism by which BioQ recognizes this DNA element has not yet been fully elucidated. METHODS/RESULTS We solved the crystal structures of the BioQ homodimer in its apo-form and in complex with its specific operator at 2.26 Å and 2.69 Å resolution, respectively. BioQ inserts the N-terminal recognition helix of each protomer into the corresponding major grooves of its operator and stabilizes the formation of the complex via electrostatic interactions and hydrogen bonding to induce conformational changes in both the DNA and BioQ. The DNA interface of BioQ is rich in positively charged residues, which help BioQ stabilize DNA binding. We elucidated the structural basis of DNA recognition by BioQ for the first time and identified the amino acid residues responsible for DNA binding via further site-directed mutagenesis. GENERAL SIGNIFICANCE Our findings clearly elucidate the mechanism by which BioQ recognizes its operator in the biotin synthesis pathway and reveal the unique structural characteristics of BioQ that are distinct from other TFTR members.
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- Ling Yan
- College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, China
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- College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, China; State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, China
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- College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, China; National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement and National Centre of Plant Gene Research, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, China
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- College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, China
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- College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, China.
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- College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, China; State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, China.
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High Levels of Intrinsic Tetracycline Resistance in Mycobacterium abscessus Are Conferred by a Tetracycline-Modifying Monooxygenase. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2018; 62:AAC.00119-18. [PMID: 29632012 DOI: 10.1128/aac.00119-18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2018] [Accepted: 03/27/2018] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Tetracyclines have been one of the most successful classes of antibiotics. However, its extensive use has led to the emergence of widespread drug resistance, resulting in discontinuation of use against several bacterial infections. Prominent resistance mechanisms include drug efflux and the use of ribosome protection proteins. Infrequently, tetracyclines can be inactivated by the TetX class of enzymes, also referred to as tetracycline destructases. Low levels of tolerance to tetracycline in Mycobacterium smegmatis and Mycobacterium tuberculosis have been previously attributed to the WhiB7-dependent TetV/Tap efflux pump. However, Mycobacterium abscessus is ∼500-fold more resistant to tetracycline than M. smegmatis and M. tuberculosis In this report, we show that this high level of resistance to tetracycline and doxycycline in M. abscessus is conferred by a WhiB7-independent tetracycline-inactivating monooxygenase, MabTetX (MAB_1496c). The presence of sublethal doses of tetracycline and doxycycline results in a >200-fold induction of MabTetX, and an isogenic deletion strain is highly sensitive to both antibiotics. Further, purified MabTetX can rapidly monooxygenate both antibiotics. We also demonstrate that expression of MabTetX is repressed by MabTetRx, by binding to an inverted repeat sequence upstream of MabTetRx; the presence of either antibiotic relieves this repression. Moreover, anhydrotetracycline (ATc) can effectively inhibit MabTetX activity in vitro and decreases the MICs of both tetracycline and doxycycline in vivo Finally, we show that tigecycline, a glycylcycline tetracycline, not only is a poor substrate of MabTetX but also is incapable of inducing the expression of MabTetX. This is therefore the first demonstration of a tetracycline-inactivating enzyme in mycobacteria. It (i) elucidates the mechanism of tetracycline resistance in M. abscessus, (ii) demonstrates the use of an inhibitor that can potentially reclaim the use of tetracycline and doxycycline, and (iii) identifies two sequential bottlenecks-MabTetX and MabTetRx-for acquiring resistance to tigecycline, thereby reiterating its use against M. abscessus.
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Daniel-Ivad M, Pimentel-Elardo S, Nodwell JR. Control of Specialized Metabolism by Signaling and Transcriptional Regulation: Opportunities for New Platforms for Drug Discovery? Annu Rev Microbiol 2018; 72:25-48. [PMID: 29799791 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-micro-022618-042458] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Specialized metabolites are bacterially produced small molecules that have an extraordinary diversity of important biological activities. They are useful as biochemical probes of living systems, and they have been adapted for use as drugs for human afflictions ranging from infectious diseases to cancer. The biosynthetic genes for these molecules are controlled by a dense network of regulatory mechanisms: Cell-cell signaling and nutrient sensing are conspicuous features of this network. While many components of these mechanisms have been identified, important questions about their biological roles remain shrouded in mystery. In addition to identifying new molecules and solving their mechanisms of action (a central preoccupation in this field), we suggest that addressing questions of quorum sensing versus diffusion sensing and identifying the dominant nutritional and environmental cues for specialized metabolism are important directions for research.
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- M Daniel-Ivad
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Ontario M5G 1M1, Canada;
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Ontario M5G 1M1, Canada;
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Ontario M5G 1M1, Canada;
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He H, Ye L, Li C, Wang H, Guo X, Wang X, Zhang Y, Xiang W. SbbR/SbbA, an Important ArpA/AfsA-Like System, Regulates Milbemycin Production in Streptomyces bingchenggensis. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:1064. [PMID: 29875761 PMCID: PMC5974925 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.01064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2018] [Accepted: 05/04/2018] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Milbemycins, a group of 16-membered macrolide antibiotics, are used widely as insecticides and anthelmintics. Previously, a limited understanding of the transcriptional regulation of milbemycin biosynthesis has hampered efforts to enhance antibiotic production by engineering of regulatory genes. Here, a novel ArpA/AfsA-type system, SbbR/SbbA (SBI_08928/SBI_08929), has been identified to be involved in regulating milbemycin biosynthesis in the industrial strain S. bingchenggensis BC04. Inactivation of sbbR in BC04 resulted in markedly decreased production of milbemycin, while deletion of sbbA enhanced milbemycin production. Electrophoresis mobility shift assays (EMSAs) and DNase I footprinting studies showed that SbbR has a specific DNA-binding activity for the promoters of milR (the cluster-situated activator gene for milbemycin production) and the bidirectionally organized genes sbbR and sbbA. Transcriptional analysis suggested that SbbR directly activates the transcription of milR, while represses its own transcription and that of sbbA. Moreover, 11 novel targets of SbbR were additionally found, including seven regulatory genes located in secondary metabolite biosynthetic gene clusters (e.g., sbi_08420, sbi_08432, sbi_09158, sbi_00827, sbi_01376, sbi_09325, and sig24sbh) and four well-known global regulatory genes (e.g., glnRsbh, wblAsbh, atrAsbh, and mtrA/Bsbh). These data suggest that SbbR is not only a direct activator of milbemycin production, but also a pleiotropic regulator that controls the expression of other cluster-situated regulatory genes and global regulatory genes. Overall, this study reveals the upper-layer regulatory system that controls milbemycin biosynthesis, which will not only expand our understanding of the complex regulation in milbemycin biosynthesis, but also provide a basis for an approach to improve milbemycin production via genetic manipulation of SbbR/SbbA system.
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- Hairong He
- State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China.,School of Life Sciences, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China.,School of Life Sciences, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China.,School of Life Sciences, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China.,School of Life Sciences, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China
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De Paepe B, Maertens J, Vanholme B, De Mey M. Modularization and Response Curve Engineering of a Naringenin-Responsive Transcriptional Biosensor. ACS Synth Biol 2018; 7:1303-1314. [PMID: 29688705 DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.7b00419] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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To monitor the intra- and extracellular environment of micro-organisms and to adapt their metabolic processes accordingly, scientists are reprogramming nature's myriad of transcriptional regulatory systems into transcriptional biosensors, which are able to detect small molecules and, in response, express specific output signals of choice. However, the naturally occurring response curve, the key characteristic of biosensor circuits, is typically not in line with the requirements for real-life biosensor applications. In this contribution, a natural LysR-type naringenin-responsive biosensor circuit is developed and characterized with Escherichia coli as host organism. Subsequently, this biosensor is dissected into a clearly defined detector and effector module without loss of functionality, and the influence of the expression levels of both modules on the biosensor response characteristics is investigated. Two collections of ten unique synthetic biosensors each are generated. Each collection demonstrates a unique diversity of response curve characteristics spanning a 128-fold change in dynamic and 2.5-fold change in operational ranges and 3-fold change in levels of Noise, fit for a wide range of applications, such as adaptive laboratory evolution, dynamic pathway control and high-throughput screening methods. The established biosensor engineering concepts, and the developed biosensor collections themselves, are of use for the future development and customization of biosensors in general, for the multitude of biosensor applications and as a compelling alternative for the commonly used LacI-, TetR- and AraC-based inducible circuits.
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- Brecht De Paepe
- Centre for Synthetic Biology, Ghent University, Coupure Links 653, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
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- Centre for Synthetic Biology, Ghent University, Coupure Links 653, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
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- Ghent University, Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Technologiepark 927, B-9052 Ghent, Belgium
- VIB Center for Plant
Systems Biology, Technologiepark 927, B-9052 Ghent, Belgium
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- Centre for Synthetic Biology, Ghent University, Coupure Links 653, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
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Hou J, Zeng W, Zong Y, Chen Z, Miao C, Wang B, Lou C. Engineering the Ultrasensitive Transcription Factors by Fusing a Modular Oligomerization Domain. ACS Synth Biol 2018; 7:1188-1194. [PMID: 29733626 DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.7b00414] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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The dimerization and high-order oligomerization of transcription factors has endowed them with cooperative regulatory capabilities that play important roles in many cellular functions. However, such advanced regulatory capabilities have not been fully exploited in synthetic biology and genetic engineering. Here, we engineered a C-terminally fused oligomerization domain to improve the cooperativity of transcription factors. First, we found that two of three designed oligomerization domains significantly increased the cooperativity and ultrasensitivity of a transcription factor for the regulated promoter. Then, seven additional transcription factors were used to assess the modularity of the oligomerization domains, and their ultrasensitivity was generally improved, as assessed by their Hill coefficients. Moreover, we also demonstrated that the allosteric capability of the ligand-responsive domain remained intact when fusing with the designed oligomerization domain. As an example application, we showed that the engineered ultrasensitive transcription factor could be used to significantly improve the performance of a "stripe-forming" gene circuit. We envision that the oligomerization modules engineered in this study could act as a powerful tool to rapidly tune the underlying response profiles of synthetic gene circuits and metabolic pathway controllers.
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- Junran Hou
- CAS Key Laboratory of Microbial Physiological and Metabolic Engineering and Institute of Microbiology, State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources, Institute of Microbiology Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China
- College of Life Science, University of Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, 100149, China
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- Institute of Molecular Precision Medicine, The Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410008, P. R. China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Microbial Physiological and Metabolic Engineering and Institute of Microbiology, State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources, Institute of Microbiology Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China
- College of Life Science, University of Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, 100149, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Microbial Physiological and Metabolic Engineering and Institute of Microbiology, State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources, Institute of Microbiology Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China
- College of Life Science, University of Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, 100149, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Microbial Physiological and Metabolic Engineering and Institute of Microbiology, State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources, Institute of Microbiology Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China
- College of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230027, China
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9 3FF, U.K
- Centre for Synthetic and System Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9 3FF, U.K
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Microbial Physiological and Metabolic Engineering and Institute of Microbiology, State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources, Institute of Microbiology Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China
- College of Life Science, University of Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, 100149, China
- College of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230027, China
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Rebets Y, Schmelz S, Gromyko O, Tistechok S, Petzke L, Scrima A, Luzhetskyy A. Design, development and application of whole-cell based antibiotic-specific biosensor. Metab Eng 2018; 47:263-270. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2018.03.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2018] [Revised: 03/16/2018] [Accepted: 03/29/2018] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Richard M, Gutiérrez AV, Viljoen AJ, Ghigo E, Blaise M, Kremer L. Mechanistic and Structural Insights Into the Unique TetR-Dependent Regulation of a Drug Efflux Pump in Mycobacterium abscessus. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:649. [PMID: 29675007 PMCID: PMC5895659 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.00649] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2018] [Accepted: 03/20/2018] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Mycobacterium abscessus is an emerging human pathogen causing severe pulmonary infections and is refractory to standard antibiotherapy, yet few drug resistance mechanisms have been reported in this organism. Recently, mutations in MAB_4384 leading to up-regulation of the MmpS5/MmpL5 efflux pump were linked to increased resistance to thiacetazone derivatives. Herein, the DNA-binding activity of MAB_4384 was investigated by electrophoretic mobility shift assays using the palindromic sequence IRS5/L5 located upstream of mmpS5/mmpL5. Introduction of point mutations within IRS5/L5 identified the sequence requirements for optimal binding of the regulator. Moreover, formation of the protein/IRS5/L5 complex was severely impaired for MAB_4384 harboring D14N or F57L substitutions. IRS5/L5/lacZ reporter fusions in M. abscessus demonstrated increased β-galactosidase activity either in strains lacking a functional MAB_4384 or in cultures treated with the TAC analogs. In addition, X-ray crystallography confirmed a typical TetR homodimeric structure of MAB_4384 and unraveled a putative ligand binding site in which the analogs could be docked. Overall, these results support drug recognition of the MAB_4384 TetR regulator, alleviating its binding to IRS5/L5 and steering up-regulation of MmpS5/MmpL5. This study provides new mechanistic and structural details of TetR-dependent regulatory mechanisms of efflux pumps and drug resistance in mycobacteria.
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- Matthias Richard
- CNRS UMR 9004, Institut de Recherche en Infectiologie de Montpellier, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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- CNRS UMR 9004, Institut de Recherche en Infectiologie de Montpellier, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France.,Unité de Recherche, Microbes, Evolution, Phylogeny and Infection, Institut Hospitalier Universitaire Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France
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- CNRS UMR 9004, Institut de Recherche en Infectiologie de Montpellier, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Campus Joseph Aiguier, Marseille, France
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- CNRS UMR 9004, Institut de Recherche en Infectiologie de Montpellier, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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- CNRS UMR 9004, Institut de Recherche en Infectiologie de Montpellier, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France.,Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Institut de Recherche en Infectiologie de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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Antibiotics have saved millions of lives over the past decades. However, the accumulation of so many antibiotic resistance genes by some clinically relevant pathogens has begun to lead to untreatable infections worldwide. The current antibiotic resistance crisis will require greater efforts by governments and the scientific community to increase the research and development of new antibacterial drugs with new mechanisms of action. A major challenge is the identification of novel microbial targets, essential for in vivo growth or pathogenicity, whose inhibitors can overcome the currently circulating resistome of human pathogens. In this article, we focus on the potential high value of bacterial transcriptional regulators as targets for the development of new antibiotics, discussing in depth the molecular role of these regulatory proteins in bacterial physiology and pathogenesis. Recent advances in the search for novel compounds that inhibit the biological activity of relevant transcriptional regulators in pathogenic bacteria are reviewed.
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Tu J, Li S, Chen J, Song Y, Fu S, Ju J, Li Q. Characterization and heterologous expression of the neoabyssomicin/abyssomicin biosynthetic gene cluster from Streptomyces koyangensis SCSIO 5802. Microb Cell Fact 2018; 17:28. [PMID: 29463238 PMCID: PMC5819245 DOI: 10.1186/s12934-018-0875-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2017] [Accepted: 02/09/2018] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Background The deep-sea-derived microbe Streptomyces koyangensis SCSIO 5802 produces neoabyssomicins A–B (1–2) and abyssomicins 2 (3) and 4 (4). Neoabyssomicin A (1) augments human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) replication whereas abyssomicin 2 (3) selectively reactivates latent HIV and is also active against Gram-positive pathogens including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Structurally, neoabyssomicins A–B constitute a new subtype within the abyssomicin family and feature unique structural traits characteristic of extremely interesting biosynthetic transformations. Results In this work, the biosynthetic gene cluster (BGC) for the neoabyssomicins and abyssomicins, composed of 28 opening reading frames, was identified in S. koyangensis SCSIO 5802, and its role in neoabyssomicin/abyssomicin biosynthesis was confirmed via gene inactivation and heterologous expression experiments. Bioinformatics and genomics analyses enabled us to propose a biosynthetic pathway for neoabyssomicin/abyssomicin biosynthesis. Similarly, a protective export system by which both types of compounds are secreted from the S. koyangensis producer was identified, as was a four-component ABC transporter-based import system central to neoabyssomicin/abyssomicin biosynthesis. Furthermore, two regulatory genes, abmI and abmH, were unambiguously shown to be positive regulators of neoabyssomicin/abyssomicin biosynthesis. Consistent with their roles as positive regulatory genes, the overexpression of abmI and abmH (independent of each other) was shown to improve neoabyssomicin/abyssomicin titers. Conclusions These studies provide new insight into the biosynthesis of the abyssomicin class of natural products, and highlight important exploitable features of its BGC for future efforts. Elucidation of the neoabyssomicin/abyssomicin BGC now enables combinatorial biosynthetic initiatives aimed at improving both the titers and pharmaceutical properties of these important natural products-based drug leads. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s12934-018-0875-1) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Jiajia Tu
- CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Marine Materia Medica, RNAM Center for Marine Microbiology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 164 West Xingang Road, Guangzhou, 510301, China.,School of Pharmacy, Zunyi Medical University, 201 Dalian Road, Zunyi, 563000, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Marine Materia Medica, RNAM Center for Marine Microbiology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 164 West Xingang Road, Guangzhou, 510301, China.,College of Bio and Marine Sciences, Shenzhen University, 3688 Nanhai Ave, Shenzhen, 518060, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Marine Materia Medica, RNAM Center for Marine Microbiology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 164 West Xingang Road, Guangzhou, 510301, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19 Yuquan Road, Beijing, 110039, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Marine Materia Medica, RNAM Center for Marine Microbiology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 164 West Xingang Road, Guangzhou, 510301, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Zunyi Medical University, 201 Dalian Road, Zunyi, 563000, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Marine Materia Medica, RNAM Center for Marine Microbiology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 164 West Xingang Road, Guangzhou, 510301, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19 Yuquan Road, Beijing, 110039, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Marine Materia Medica, RNAM Center for Marine Microbiology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 164 West Xingang Road, Guangzhou, 510301, China.
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Pathogenic Vibrio species cause diseases in diverse marine animals reared in aquaculture. Since their pathogenesis, persistence, and survival in marine environments are regulated by quorum sensing (QS), QS interference has attracted attention as a means to control these bacteria in aquatic settings. A few QS inhibitors of Vibrio species have been reported, but detailed molecular mechanisms are lacking. Here, we identified a novel, potent, and selective Vibrio QS inhibitor, named QStatin [1-(5-bromothiophene-2-sulfonyl)-1H-pyrazole], which affects Vibrio harveyi LuxR homologues, the well-conserved master transcriptional regulators for QS in Vibrio species. Crystallographic and biochemical analyses showed that QStatin binds tightly to a putative ligand-binding pocket in SmcR, the LuxR homologue in V. vulnificus, and changes the flexibility of the protein, thereby altering its transcription regulatory activity. Transcriptome analysis revealed that QStatin results in SmcR dysfunction, affecting the expression of SmcR regulon required for virulence, motility/chemotaxis, and biofilm dynamics. Notably, QStatin attenuated representative QS-regulated phenotypes in various Vibrio species, including virulence against the brine shrimp (Artemia franciscana). Together, these results provide molecular insights into the mechanism of action of an effective, sustainable QS inhibitor that is less susceptible to resistance than other antimicrobial agents and useful in controlling the virulence of Vibrio species in aquacultures.IMPORTANCE Yields of aquaculture, such as penaeid shrimp hatcheries, are greatly affected by vibriosis, a disease caused by pathogenic Vibrio infections. Since bacterial cell-to-cell communication, known as quorum sensing (QS), regulates pathogenesis of Vibrio species in marine environments, QS inhibitors have attracted attention as alternatives to conventional antibiotics in aquatic settings. Here, we used target-based high-throughput screening to identify QStatin, a potent and selective inhibitor of V. harveyi LuxR homologues, which are well-conserved master QS regulators in Vibrio species. Structural and biochemical analyses revealed that QStatin binds tightly to a putative ligand-binding pocket on SmcR, the LuxR homologue in V. vulnificus, and affects expression of QS-regulated genes. Remarkably, QStatin attenuated diverse QS-regulated phenotypes in various Vibrio species, including pathogenesis against brine shrimp, with no impact on bacterial viability. Taken together, the results suggest that QStatin may be a sustainable antivibriosis agent useful in aquacultures.
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Lei C, Wang J, Liu Y, Liu X, Zhao G, Wang J. A feedback regulatory model for RifQ-mediated repression of rifamycin export in Amycolatopsis mediterranei. Microb Cell Fact 2018; 17:14. [PMID: 29375035 PMCID: PMC5787919 DOI: 10.1186/s12934-018-0863-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2017] [Accepted: 01/19/2018] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Due to the important role of rifamycin in curing tuberculosis infection, the study on rifamycin has never been stopped. Although RifZ, which locates within the rifamycin biosynthetic cluster, has recently been characterized as a pathway-specific regulator for rifamycin biosynthesis, little is known about the regulation of rifamycin export. RESULTS In this work, we proved that the expression of the rifamycin efflux pump (RifP) was regulated by RifQ, a TetR-family transcriptional regulator. Deletion of rifQ had little impact on bacterial growth, but resulted in improved rifamycin production, which was consistent with the reverse transcription PCR results that RifQ negatively regulated rifP's transcription. With electrophoretic mobility shift assay and DNase I Footprinting assay, RifQ was found to directly bind to the promoter region of rifP, and a typical inverted repeat was identified within the RifQ-protected sequences. The transcription initiation site of rifP was further characterized and found to be upstream of the RifQ binding sites, well explaining the RifQ-mediated repression of rifP's transcription in vivo. Moreover, rifamycin B (the end product of rifamycin biosynthesis) remarkably decreased the DNA binding affinity of RifQ, which led to derepression of rifamycin export, reducing the intracellular concentration of rifamycin B as well as its toxicity against the host. CONCLUSIONS Here, we proved that the export of rifamycin B was repressed by RifQ in Amycolatopsis mediterranei, and the RifQ-mediated repression could be specifically relieved by rifamycin B, the end product of rifamycin biosynthesis, based on which a feedback model was proposed for regulation of rifamycin export. With the findings here, one could improve the antibiotic yield by simply inactivating the negative regulator of the antibiotic transporter.
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- Chao Lei
- CAS Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 500 Caobao Road, Shanghai, 200233, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 500 Caobao Road, Shanghai, 200233, China
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- Shanghai Tolo Biotechnology Company Limited, Shanghai, 200233, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 500 Caobao Road, Shanghai, 200233, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 500 Caobao Road, Shanghai, 200233, China.,Department of Microbiology and Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 500 Caobao Road, Shanghai, 200233, China.
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Kasey CM, Zerrad M, Li Y, Cropp TA, Williams GJ. Development of Transcription Factor-Based Designer Macrolide Biosensors for Metabolic Engineering and Synthetic Biology. ACS Synth Biol 2018; 7:227-239. [PMID: 28950701 DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.7b00287] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Macrolides are a large group of natural products that display broad and potent biological activities and are biosynthesized by type I polyketide synthases (PKSs) and associated enzymatic machinery. There is an urgent need to access macrolides and unnatural macrolide derivatives for drug discovery, drug manufacture, and probe development. Typically, efforts to engineer the biosynthesis of macrolides and macrolide analogues in various microbial hosts are hampered by the complexity of macrolide biosynthetic pathways and our limited ability to rationally reprogram type I PKSs and post-PKS machinery. High-throughput approaches based on synthetic biology and directed evolution could overcome this problem by testing the function of large libraries of variants. Yet, methods that can identify mutant enzymes, pathways, and strains that produce the desired macrolide target are not generally available. Here we show that the promiscuous macrolide sensing transcription factor MphR is a powerful platform for engineering variants with tailored properties. We identified variants that displayed improved sensitivity toward erythromycin, tailored the inducer specificity, and significantly improved sensitivity to macrolides that were very poor inducers of the wild-type MphR biosensor. Designer macrolide biosensors should find broad utility and enable applications related to high-throughput synthetic biology and directed evolution of macrolide biosynthesis.
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- Christian M. Kasey
- Department of Chemistry, NC State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, NC State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, NC State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia 23284, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, NC State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, United States
- Comparative Medicine Institute, NC State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, United States
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SawR a new regulator controlling pyomelanin synthesis in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Microbiol Res 2018; 206:91-98. [DOI: 10.1016/j.micres.2017.10.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2017] [Revised: 09/26/2017] [Accepted: 10/08/2017] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Buttner MJ, Schäfer M, Lawson DM, Maxwell A. Structural insights into simocyclinone as an antibiotic, effector ligand and substrate. FEMS Microbiol Rev 2018; 42:4604775. [PMID: 29126195 PMCID: PMC5812520 DOI: 10.1093/femsre/fux055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2017] [Accepted: 11/07/2017] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Simocyclinones are antibiotics produced by Streptomyces and Kitasatospora species that inhibit the validated drug target DNA gyrase in a unique way, and they are thus of therapeutic interest. Structural approaches have revealed their mode of action, the inducible-efflux mechanism in the producing organism, and given insight into one step in their biosynthesis. The crystal structures of simocyclinones bound to their target (gyrase), the transcriptional repressor SimR and the biosynthetic enzyme SimC7 reveal fascinating insight into how molecular recognition is achieved with these three unrelated proteins.
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- Mark J Buttner
- Department of Molecular Microbiology, John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK
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New Kid on the Block: LmbU Expands the Repertoire of Specialized Metabolic Regulators in Streptomyces. J Bacteriol 2017; 200:JB.00559-17. [PMID: 29084856 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00559-17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Streptomyces has an extensive natural product repertoire, including most of the naturally derived antibiotics. Understanding the control of natural product biosynthesis is central to antibiotic discovery and production optimization. Here, Hou et al. (J. Bacteriol. 200:00447-17, 2018, https://doi.org/10.1128/JB.00447-17) report the identification and characterization of a novel regulator-LmbU-that functions primarily as an activator of lincomycin production in Streptomyces lincolnensis Importantly, members of this new regulator family are associated with natural product biosynthetic clusters throughout the streptomycetes and their actinomycete relatives.
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Talwar H, Hanoudi SN, Geamanu A, Kissner D, Draghici S, Samavati L. Detection of Cystic Fibrosis Serological Biomarkers Using a T7 Phage Display Library. Sci Rep 2017; 7:17745. [PMID: 29255267 PMCID: PMC5735098 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-18041-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2017] [Accepted: 11/19/2017] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Cystic fibrosis (CF) is an autosomal recessive disorder affecting the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR). CF is characterized by repeated lung infections leading to respiratory failure. Using a high-throughput method, we developed a T7 phage display cDNA library derived from mRNA isolated from bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) cells and leukocytes of sarcoidosis patients. This library was biopanned to obtain 1070 potential antigens. A microarray platform was constructed and immunoscreened with sera from healthy (n = 49), lung cancer (LC) (n = 31) and CF (n = 31) subjects. We built 1,000 naïve Bayes models on the training sets. We selected the top 20 frequently significant clones ranked with student t-test discriminating CF antigens from healthy controls and LC at a False Discovery Rate (FDR) < 0.01. The performances of the models were validated on an independent validation set. The mean of the area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve for the classifiers was 0.973 with a sensitivity of 0.999 and specificity of 0.959. Finally, we identified CF specific clones that correlate highly with sweat chloride test, BMI, and FEV1% predicted values. For the first time, we show that CF specific serological biomarkers can be identified through immunocreenings of a T7 phage display library with high accuracy, which may have utility in development of molecular therapy.
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- Harvinder Talwar
- Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Wayne State University School of Medicine and Detroit Medical Center, Detroit, MI, 48201, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, Wayne State University, 540 E, Canfield, Detroit, MI, 48201, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Wayne State University School of Medicine and Detroit Medical Center, Detroit, MI, 48201, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Wayne State University School of Medicine and Detroit Medical Center, Detroit, MI, 48201, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, Wayne State University, 540 E, Canfield, Detroit, MI, 48201, USA.,Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wayne State University, 540 E, Canfield, Detroit, MI, 48201, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Wayne State University School of Medicine and Detroit Medical Center, Detroit, MI, 48201, USA. .,Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Wayne State University School of Medicine, 540 E, Canfield, Detroit, MI, 48201, USA.
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Zhang X, Wang MS, Liu MF, Zhu DK, Biville F, Jia RY, Chen S, Sun KF, Yang Q, Wu Y, Zhao XX, Chen XY, Cheng AC. Contribution of RaeB, a Putative RND-Type Transporter to Aminoglycoside and Detergent Resistance in Riemerella anatipestifer. Front Microbiol 2017; 8:2435. [PMID: 29276505 PMCID: PMC5727081 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.02435] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2017] [Accepted: 11/23/2017] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Riemerella anatipestifer is an important pathogenic bacterium that infects ducks. It exhibits resistance to multiple classes of antibiotics. Multidrug efflux pumps play a major role as a mechanism of antimicrobial resistance in Gram-negative pathogens and they are poorly understood in R. anatipestifer. In this study, a gene encoding the B739_0873 protein in R. anatipestifer CH-1, which belongs to the resistance-nodulation-cell division (RND) efflux pump family, was identified. With respect to the substrate specificity of B739_0873, the antibiotic susceptibility testing showed that the B739_0873 knockout strain was more sensitive to aminoglycosides and detergents than the wild-type strain. The transcription of B739_0873 was up-regulated when R. anatipestifer CH-1 was exposed to sub-inhibitory levels of these substrates. From the gentamicin accumulation assay, we concluded that B739_0873 was coupled to the proton motive force to pump out gentamicin. Furthermore, site-directed mutagenesis demonstrated that Asp 400, Asp 401, Lys 929, Arg 959, and Thr 966 were the crucial function sites of B739_0873 in terms of its ability to extrude aminoglycosides and detergents. Finally, we provided evidence that B739_0873 is co-transcribed with B739_0872, and that both B739_0872 and B739_0873 are required for aminoglycoside and detergent resistance. In view of these results, we designate B739_0873 as RaeB (Riemerella anatipestifer efflux).
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- Xin Zhang
- Institute of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China.,Avian Disease Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine of Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China.,Key Laboratory of Animal Disease and Human Health of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
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- Institute of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China.,Avian Disease Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine of Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China.,Key Laboratory of Animal Disease and Human Health of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
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- Institute of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China.,Avian Disease Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine of Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China.,Key Laboratory of Animal Disease and Human Health of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
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- Institute of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China.,Avian Disease Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine of Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China.,Key Laboratory of Animal Disease and Human Health of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
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- Unité des Infections Bactériennes Invasives, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
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- Institute of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China.,Avian Disease Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine of Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China.,Key Laboratory of Animal Disease and Human Health of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
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- Institute of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China.,Avian Disease Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine of Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China.,Key Laboratory of Animal Disease and Human Health of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
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- Institute of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China.,Avian Disease Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine of Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China.,Key Laboratory of Animal Disease and Human Health of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
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- Institute of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China.,Avian Disease Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine of Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China.,Key Laboratory of Animal Disease and Human Health of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
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- Institute of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China.,Avian Disease Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine of Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China.,Key Laboratory of Animal Disease and Human Health of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
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- Institute of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China.,Avian Disease Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine of Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China.,Key Laboratory of Animal Disease and Human Health of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
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- Avian Disease Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine of Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
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- Institute of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China.,Avian Disease Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine of Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China.,Key Laboratory of Animal Disease and Human Health of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China
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Gou L, Han T, Wang X, Ge J, Liu W, Hu F, Wang Z. A Novel TetR Family Transcriptional Regulator, CalR3, Negatively Controls Calcimycin Biosynthesis in Streptomyces chartreusis NRRL 3882. Front Microbiol 2017; 8:2371. [PMID: 29238338 PMCID: PMC5712553 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.02371] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2017] [Accepted: 11/16/2017] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Calcimycin is a unique ionophoric antibiotic that is widely used in biochemical and pharmaceutical applications, but the genetic basis underlying the regulatory mechanisms of calcimycin biosynthesis are unclear. Here, we identified the calR3 gene, which encodes a novel TetR family transcriptional regulator and exerts a negative effect on calcimycin biosynthesis. Disruption of calR3 in Streptomyces chartreusis NRRL 3882 led to significantly increased calcimycin and its intermediate cezomycin. Gene expression analysis showed that the transcription of calR3 and its adjacent calT gene were dramatically enhanced (30- and 171-fold, respectively) in GLX26 (ΔcalR3) mutants compared with the wild-type strains. Two CalR3-binding sites within the bidirectional calR3-calT promoter region were identified using a DNase I footprinting assay, indicating that CalR3 directly repressed the transcription of its own gene and the calT gene. In vitro electrophoretic mobility shift assays suggested that both calcimycin and cezomycin can act as CalR3 ligands to induce CalR3 to dissociate from its binding sites. These findings indicate negative feedback for the regulation of CalR3 in calcimycin biosynthesis and suggest that calcimycin production can be improved by manipulating its biosynthetic machinery.
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- Lixia Gou
- School of Life Sciences, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan, China.,Hebei Province Key Laboratory of Occupational Health and Safety for Coal Industry, School of Public Health, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan, China.,School of Pharmacy, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan, China
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- School of Life Sciences, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan, China.,Hebei Province Key Laboratory of Occupational Health and Safety for Coal Industry, School of Public Health, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan, China.,School of Pharmacy, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan, China
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- School of Life Sciences, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan, China.,Hebei Province Key Laboratory of Occupational Health and Safety for Coal Industry, School of Public Health, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan, China.,School of Pharmacy, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan, China
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- School of Life Sciences, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan, China.,Hebei Province Key Laboratory of Occupational Health and Safety for Coal Industry, School of Public Health, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan, China.,School of Pharmacy, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan, China
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- School of Life Sciences, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan, China.,Hebei Province Key Laboratory of Occupational Health and Safety for Coal Industry, School of Public Health, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan, China.,School of Pharmacy, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan, China
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- School of Life Sciences, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan, China.,Hebei Province Key Laboratory of Occupational Health and Safety for Coal Industry, School of Public Health, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan, China.,School of Pharmacy, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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Mingyar E, Novakova R, Knirschova R, Feckova L, Bekeova C, Kormanec J. Unusual features of the large linear plasmid pSA3239 from Streptomyces aureofaciens CCM 3239. Gene 2017; 642:313-323. [PMID: 29155332 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2017.11.046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2017] [Revised: 11/13/2017] [Accepted: 11/15/2017] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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We previously identified the aur1 gene cluster, responsible for the production of the angucycline antibiotic auricin in Streptomyces aureofaciens CCM 3239. Pulse-field gel electrophoresis showed a single, 241kb linear plasmid, pSA3239, in this strain, and several approaches confirmed the presence of the aur1 cluster in this plasmid. We report here the nucleotide sequence of this 241,076-bp plasmid. pSA3239 contains an unprecedentedly small (13bp) telomeric sequence CCCGCGGAGCGGG, which is identical to the conserved Palindrome I sequence involved in the priming of end-patching replication. A bioinformatics analysis revealed 234 open reading frames with high number (28) of regulatory genes from various families. In contrast to most other linear plasmids, pSA3239 contains a pair of replication initiation genes (sa76 and sa75) located at its extreme left end, adjacent to the telomere. Together with similar proteins from several other linear plasmids (pFRL2, pSLA2-M, pSV2, pSDA1, and SAP1), they constitute a new family of replication initiation proteins. This left end also contains two genes, tpgSa and tapSa, encoding the terminal protein and the telomere associated-protein involved in telomere end-patching replication. pSA3239 also contains two genes homologous to the parAB partitioning system, and deletion of the parA homologue (sa43) affects structural stability of the plasmid. pSA3239 carries five potential secondary metabolite gene clusters. In addition to aur1 and a non-ribosomal peptide synthase (NRPS) gene cluster for the blue pigment indigoidine, it also contains a partial type II polyketide synthase (PKS) gene cluster, a partial type I PKS gene cluster, and a NRPS/PKSI gene cluster for unknown secondary metabolites. The last gene cluster contains a subcluster of seven genes (sa91-sa97), highly similar to part of the valanimycin biosynthetic cluster vlm. A S. aureofaciens strain lacking pSA3239 was prepared. This deletion did not substantially affect growth and differentiation. A comparative analysis of secondary metabolites between both strains did not identify any product, except auricin and indigoidine, which is dependent upon pSA3239. Thus, the other three identified gene clusters are likely silent under these conditions.
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- Erik Mingyar
- Institute of Molecular Biology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 845 51 Bratislava, Slovak Republic
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- Institute of Molecular Biology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 845 51 Bratislava, Slovak Republic
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- Institute of Molecular Biology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 845 51 Bratislava, Slovak Republic
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- Institute of Molecular Biology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 845 51 Bratislava, Slovak Republic
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- Institute of Molecular Biology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 845 51 Bratislava, Slovak Republic
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- Institute of Molecular Biology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 845 51 Bratislava, Slovak Republic.
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Perrone F, De Siena B, Muscariello L, Kendall SL, Waddell SJ, Sacco M. A Novel TetR-Like Transcriptional Regulator Is Induced in Acid-Nitrosative Stress and Controls Expression of an Efflux Pump in Mycobacteria. Front Microbiol 2017; 8:2039. [PMID: 29109706 PMCID: PMC5660060 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.02039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2017] [Accepted: 10/05/2017] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis has the ability to survive inside macrophages under acid-nitrosative stress. M. tuberculosis Rv1685c and its ortholog in M. smegmatis, MSMEG_3765, are induced on exposure to acid-nitrosative stress. Both genes are annotated as TetR transcriptional regulators, a family of proteins that regulate a wide range of cellular activities, including multidrug resistance, carbon catabolism and virulence. Here, we demonstrate that MSMEG_3765 is co-transcribed with the upstream genes MSMEG_3762 and MSMEG_3763, encoding efflux pump components. RTq-PCR and GFP-reporter assays showed that the MSMEG_3762/63/65 gene cluster, and the orthologous region in M. tuberculosis (Rv1687c/86c/85c), was up-regulated in a MSMEG_3765 null mutant, suggesting that MSMEG_3765 acts as a repressor, typical of this family of regulators. We further defined the MSMEG_3765 regulon using genome-wide transcriptional profiling and used reporter assays to confirm that the MSMEG_3762/63/65 promoter was induced under acid-nitrosative stress. A putative 36 bp regulatory motif was identified upstream of the gene clusters in both M. smegmatis and M. tuberculosis and purified recombinant MSMEG_3765 protein was found to bind to DNA fragments containing this motif from both M. smegmatis and M. tuberculosis upstream regulatory regions. These results suggest that the TetR repressor MSMEG_3765/Rv1685c controls expression of an efflux pump with an, as yet, undefined role in the mycobacterial response to acid-nitrosative stress.
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- Filomena Perrone
- Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Ambientali Biologiche e Farmaceutiche, Università della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Caserta, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Ambientali Biologiche e Farmaceutiche, Università della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Caserta, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Ambientali Biologiche e Farmaceutiche, Università della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Caserta, Italy
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- Department of Pathobiology and Population Science, Royal Veterinary College, London, United Kingdom
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- Wellcome Trust Brighton and Sussex Centre for Global Health Research, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
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- Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Ambientali Biologiche e Farmaceutiche, Università della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Caserta, Italy
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Sivapragasam S, Deochand DK, Meariman JK, Grove A. The Stringent Response Induced by Phosphate Limitation Promotes Purine Salvage in Agrobacterium fabrum. Biochemistry 2017; 56:5831-5843. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.7b00844] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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- Smitha Sivapragasam
- Department of Biological
Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, United States
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- Department of Biological
Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, United States
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- Department of Biological
Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, United States
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- Department of Biological
Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, United States
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Crystal Structure of TetR Family Repressor AlkX from Dietzia sp. Strain DQ12-45-1b Implicated in Biodegradation of n-Alkanes. Appl Environ Microbiol 2017; 83:AEM.01447-17. [PMID: 28821550 DOI: 10.1128/aem.01447-17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2017] [Accepted: 08/16/2017] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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n-Alkanes are ubiquitous in nature and are widely used by microorganisms as carbon sources. Alkane hydroxylation by alkane monooxygenases is a critical step in the aerobic biodegradation of n-alkanes, which plays important roles in natural alkane attenuation and is used in industrial and environmental applications. The alkane oxidation operon, alkW1-alkX, in the alkane-degrading strain Dietzia sp. strain DQ12-45-1b is negatively autoregulated by the TetR family repressor AlkX via a product positive feedback mechanism. To predict the gene regulation mechanism, we determined the 3.1-Å crystal structure of an AlkX homodimer in a non-DNA-bound state. The structure showed traceable long electron density deep inside a hydrophobic cavity of each monomer along the long axis of the helix bundle, and further gas chromatography-mass spectrometry analysis of AlkX revealed that it contained the Escherichia coli-derived long-chain fatty acid molecules as a ligand. Moreover, an unusual structural feature of AlkX is an extra helix, α6', forming a lid-like structure with α6 covering the inducer-binding pocket and occupying the space between the two symmetrical DNA-binding motifs in one dimer, indicating a distinct conformational transition mode in modulating DNA binding. Sequence alignment of AlkX homologs from Dietzia strains showed that the residues involved in DNA and inducer binding are highly conserved, suggesting that the regulation mechanisms of n-alkane hydroxylation are possibly a common characteristic of Dietzia strains.IMPORTANCE With n-alkanes being ubiquitous in nature, many bacteria from terrestrial and aquatic environments have evolved n-alkane oxidation functions. Alkane hydroxylation by alkane monooxygenases is a critical step in the aerobic biodegradation of n-alkanes, which plays important roles in natural alkane attenuation and petroleum-contaminating environment bioremediation. The gene regulation of the most common alkane hydroxylase, AlkB, has been studied widely in Gram-negative bacteria but has been less explored in Gram-positive bacteria. Our previous study showed that the TetR family regulator (TFR) AlkX negatively autoregulated the alkane oxidation operon, alkW1-alkX, in the Gram-positive strain Dietzia sp. strain DQ12-45-1b. Although TFRs are one of the most common transcriptional regulator families in bacteria, the TFR involved in n-alkane metabolism has been reported only recently. In this study, we determined the crystal structure of AlkX, which implies a distinct DNA/ligand binding mode. Our results shed light upon the regulation mechanism of the common alkane degradation process in nature.
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Chen R, Zhang Q, Tan B, Zheng L, Li H, Zhu Y, Zhang C. Genome Mining and Activation of a Silent PKS/NRPS Gene Cluster Direct the Production of Totopotensamides. Org Lett 2017; 19:5697-5700. [PMID: 29019409 DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.7b02878] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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A 92 kb silent hybrid polyketide and nonribosomal peptide gene cluster in marine-derived Streptomyces pactum SCSIO 02999 was activated by genetically manipulating the regulatory genes, including the knockout of two negative regulators (totR5 and totR3) and overexpression of a positive regulator totR1, to direct the production of the known totopotensamides (TPMs) A (1) and B (3) and a novel sulfonate-containing analogue TPM C (2). Inactivation of totG led to accumulation of TPM B (3) lacking the glycosyl moiety, which indicated TotG as a dedicated glycosyltransferase in the biosynthesis of 1 and 2.
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- Ruidong Chen
- Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Marine Materia Medica, RNAM Center for Marine Microbiology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences , 164 West Xingang Road, Guangzhou 510301, China
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- Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Marine Materia Medica, RNAM Center for Marine Microbiology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences , 164 West Xingang Road, Guangzhou 510301, China
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- Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Marine Materia Medica, RNAM Center for Marine Microbiology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences , 164 West Xingang Road, Guangzhou 510301, China
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- Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Marine Materia Medica, RNAM Center for Marine Microbiology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences , 164 West Xingang Road, Guangzhou 510301, China
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- Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Marine Materia Medica, RNAM Center for Marine Microbiology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences , 164 West Xingang Road, Guangzhou 510301, China
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- Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Marine Materia Medica, RNAM Center for Marine Microbiology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences , 164 West Xingang Road, Guangzhou 510301, China
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- Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Marine Materia Medica, RNAM Center for Marine Microbiology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences , 164 West Xingang Road, Guangzhou 510301, China
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Oh MH, Choi CH, Lee JC. The effect of ISAba1-mediated adeN gene disruption on Acinetobacter baumannii pathogenesis. Virulence 2017; 8:1088-1090. [PMID: 28598246 DOI: 10.1080/21505594.2017.1339859] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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- Man Hwan Oh
- a Department of Nanobiomedical Science , Dankook University , Cheonan , South Korea
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- b Department of Microbiology and Medical Sciences , Chungnam National University, School of Medicine , Daejeon , South Korea
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- c Department of Microbiology , Kyungpook National University School of Medicine , Daegu , South Korea
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Bock T, Volz C, Hering V, Scrima A, Müller R, Blankenfeldt W. The AibR-isovaleryl coenzyme A regulator and its DNA binding site - a model for the regulation of alternative de novo isovaleryl coenzyme A biosynthesis in Myxococcus xanthus. Nucleic Acids Res 2017; 45:2166-2178. [PMID: 27940564 PMCID: PMC5389471 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkw1238] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2016] [Accepted: 11/29/2016] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Isovaleryl coenzyme A (IV-CoA) is an important building block of iso-fatty acids. In myxobacteria, IV-CoA is essential for the formation of signaling molecules involved in fruiting body formation. Leucine degradation is the common source of IV-CoA, but a second, de novo biosynthetic route to IV-CoA termed AIB (alternative IV-CoA biosynthesis) was recently discovered in M. xanthus. The AIB-operon contains the TetR-like transcriptional regulator AibR, which we characterize in this study. We demonstrate that IV-CoA binds AibR with micromolar affinity and show by gelshift experiments that AibR interacts with the promoter region of the AIB-operon once IV-CoA is present. We identify an 18-bp near-perfect palindromic repeat as containing the AibR operator and provide evidence that AibR also controls an additional genomic locus coding for a putative acetyl-CoA acetyltransferase. To elucidate atomic details, we determined crystal structures of AibR in the apo, the IV-CoA- and the IV-CoA-DNA-bound state to 1.7 Å, 2.35 Å and 2.92 Å, respectively. IV-CoA induces partial unfolding of an α-helix, which allows sequence-specific interactions between AibR and its operator. This study provides insights into AibR-mediated regulation and shows that AibR functions in an unusual TetR-like manner by blocking transcription not in the ligand-free but in the effector-bound state.
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- Tobias Bock
- Structure and Function of Proteins, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Inhoffenstr. 7, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany
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- Structural Biology of Autophagy, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Inhoffenstr. 7, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany
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- Structure and Function of Proteins, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Inhoffenstr. 7, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany
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- Department of Microbial Natural Products, Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Saarland University, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
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- Structural Biology of Autophagy, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Inhoffenstr. 7, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany
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- Structure and Function of Proteins, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Inhoffenstr. 7, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany.,Institute for Biochemistry, Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Spielmannstr. 7, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany
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Steward KF, Robinson C, Maskell DJ, Nenci C, Waller AS. Investigation of the Fim1 putative pilus locus of Streptococcus equi subspecies equi. MICROBIOLOGY-SGM 2017; 163:1217-1228. [PMID: 28749324 DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.000506] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The Gram-positive bacterium Streptococcus equi subspecies equi (S. equi) is the causative agent of strangles, among the most frequently diagnosed infectious diseases of horses worldwide. Genome analysis of S. equi strain 4047 (Se4047) identified a putative operon, Fim1, with similarity to the pilus loci of other Gram-positive bacteria. The Fim1 locus was present in all strains of S. equi and its close relative S. equi subspecies zooepidemicus (S. zooepidemicus) that have been studied to date. In this study we provide evidence that the putative structural pilus proteins, SEQ_0936 and CNE, are produced on the cell surface during in vitro growth and in vivo infection. Although the proteins encoded within the Fim1 locus are not essential for attachment or biofilm formation, over-transcription of SEQ_0936 and CNE enhanced attachment to equine tissue in vitro. Our data suggest that whilst the Fim1 locus does not produce a polymerized pilus structure, the products of the Fim1 locus may fulfil an adhesive function. The putative pilus-associated regulator, tetR, which contains a nonsense mutation in S. equi, was able to regulate transcription of the Fim1 locus following repair and over-transcription, confirming its predicted role in the operon.
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- Karen Frances Steward
- Centre of Preventative Medicine, Animal Health Trust, Lanwades Park, Kentford, Newmarket, Suffolk, UK
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- Centre of Preventative Medicine, Animal Health Trust, Lanwades Park, Kentford, Newmarket, Suffolk, UK
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Elanco Animal Health, c/o Novartis Animal Health, Inc., Schwarzwaldallee 215, 4058 Basel, Swizerland
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- Centre of Preventative Medicine, Animal Health Trust, Lanwades Park, Kentford, Newmarket, Suffolk, UK
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Kumru S, Tekedar HC, Gulsoy N, Waldbieser GC, Lawrence ML, Karsi A. Comparative Analysis of the Flavobacterium columnare Genomovar I and II Genomes. Front Microbiol 2017; 8:1375. [PMID: 28790987 PMCID: PMC5524665 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.01375] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2017] [Accepted: 07/06/2017] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Columnaris disease caused by Gram-negative rod Flavobacterium columnare is one of the most common diseases of catfish. F. columnare is also a common problem in other cultured fish species worldwide. F. columnare has three major genomovars; we have sequenced a representative strain from genomovar I (ATCC 49512, which is avirulent in catfish) and genomovar II (94-081, which is highly pathogenic in catfish). Here, we present a comparative analysis of the two genomes. Interestingly, F. columnare ATCC 49512 and 94-081 meet criteria to be considered different species based on the Average Nucleotide Identity (90.71% similar) and DNA–DNA Hybridization (42.6% similar). Genome alignment indicated the two genomes have a large number of rearrangements. However, function-based comparative genomics analysis indicated that the two strains have similar functional capabilities with 2,263 conserved orthologous clusters; strain ATCC 49512 has 290 unique orthologous clusters while strain 94-081 has 391. Both strains carry type I secretion system, type VI secretion system, and type IX secretion system. The two genomes also have similar CRISPR capacities. The F. columnare strain ATCC 49512 genome contains a higher number of insertion sequence families and phage regions, while the F. columnare strain 94-081 genome has more genomic islands and more regulatory gene capacity. Transposon mutagenesis using Tn4351 in pathogenic strain 94-081 yielded six mutants, and experimental infections of fish showed hemolysin and glycine cleavage protein mutants had 15 and 10% mortalities, respectively, while the wild-type strain caused 100% mortalities. Our comparative and mutational analysis yielded important information on classification of genomovars I and II F. columnare as well as potential virulence genes in F. columnare strain 94-081.
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- Salih Kumru
- Department of Basic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Mississippi State UniversityMississippi State, MS, United States
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- Department of Basic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Mississippi State UniversityMississippi State, MS, United States
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Art and Sciences, Marmara UniversityIstanbul, Turkey
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- Warmwater Aquaculture Research Unit, United States Agricultural Research Service, StonevilleMS, United States
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- Department of Basic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Mississippi State UniversityMississippi State, MS, United States
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- Department of Basic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Mississippi State UniversityMississippi State, MS, United States
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Ray S, Maitra A, Biswas A, Panjikar S, Mondal J, Anand R. Functional insights into the mode of DNA and ligand binding of the TetR family regulator TylP from Streptomyces fradiae. J Biol Chem 2017; 292:15301-15311. [PMID: 28739805 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m117.788000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2017] [Revised: 07/21/2017] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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Tetracycline repressors (TetRs) modulate multidrug efflux pathways in several pathogenic bacteria. In Streptomyces, they additionally regulate secondary metabolic pathways like antibiotic production. For instance, in the antibiotic producer Streptomyces fradiae, a layered network of TetRs regulates the levels of the commercially important antibiotic tylosin, with TylP occupying the top of this cascading network. TetRs exist in two functional states, the DNA-bound and the ligand-bound form, which are allosterically regulated. Here, to develop deeper insights into the factors that govern allostery, the crystal structure of TylP was solved to a resolution of 2.3 Å. The structure revealed that TylP possesses several unique features; notably, it harbors a unique C-terminal helix-loop extension that spans the entire length of the structure. This anchor connects the DNA-binding domain (DBD) with the ligand-binding domain (LBD) via a mix of positively charged and hydrogen-bonding interactions. Supporting EMSA studies with a series of ΔC truncated versions show that a systematic deletion of this region results in complete loss of DNA binding. The structure additionally revealed that TylP is markedly different in the orientation of its DBD and LBD architecture and the dimeric geometry from its hypothesized Streptomyces homologue CprB, which is a γ-butyrolactone regulator. Rather, TylP is closer in structural design to macrolide-binding TetRs found in pathogens. Supporting molecular dynamic studies suggested that TylP binds a macrolide intermediate in the tylosin pathway. Collectively, the structure along with corroborating biochemical studies provided insights into the novel mode of regulation of TetRs in antibiotic-producing organisms.
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- Shamayeeta Ray
- From the Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai-400076, India.,the IITB-Monash Research Academy, Mumbai-400076, India
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- From the Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai-400076, India
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- From the Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai-400076, India
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- the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Victoria 3800, Australia.,the Australian Synchrotron, Victoria 3168, Australia, and
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- the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Hyderabad-500075, India
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- From the Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai-400076, India,
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Cyclic di-GMP regulates Mycobacterium tuberculosis resistance to ethionamide. Sci Rep 2017; 7:5860. [PMID: 28725053 PMCID: PMC5517500 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-06289-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2017] [Accepted: 06/12/2017] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Tuberculosis is still on the top of infectious diseases list on both mobility and mortality, especially due to drug-resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tb). Ethionamide (ETH) is one of effective second line anti-TB drugs, a synthetic compound similar to isoniazid (INH) structurally, with existing severe problem of ETH resistance. ETH is a prodrug, which is activated by Etha inside M.tb, and etha is transcriptionally repressed by Ethr. We found that c-di-GMP could bind Ethr, enhanced the binding of Ethr to the promoter of etha, and then repressed the transcription of etha, thus caused resistance of M.tb to ETH. Through docking analysis and in vitro validation, we identified that c-di-GMP binds 3 amino acids of Ethr, i.e., Q125, R181 and E190, while the first 2 were the major binding sites. Homology analysis showed that Ethr was highly conservative among mycobacteria. Further docking analysis showed that c-di-GMP preferentially bound proteins of TetR family at the junction hole of symmetric dimer or tetramer proteins. Our results suggest a possible drug-resistance mechanism of ETH through the regulation of Ethr by c-di-GMP.
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Enabling tools for high-throughput detection of metabolites: Metabolic engineering and directed evolution applications. Biotechnol Adv 2017; 35:950-970. [PMID: 28723577 DOI: 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2017.07.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2017] [Revised: 06/07/2017] [Accepted: 07/11/2017] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Within the Design-Build-Test Cycle for strain engineering, rapid product detection and selection strategies remain challenging and limit overall throughput. Here we summarize a wide variety of modalities that transduce chemical concentrations into easily measured absorbance, luminescence, and fluorescence signals. Specifically, we cover protein-based biosensors (including transcription factors), nucleic acid-based biosensors, coupled enzyme reactions, bioorthogonal chemistry, and fluorescent and chromogenic dyes and substrates as modalities for detection. We focus on the use of these methods for strain engineering and enzyme discovery and conclude with remarks on the current and future state of biosensor development for application in the metabolic engineering field.
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