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A Abdelhakim I, Futamura Y, Asami Y, Hanaki H, Kito N, Masuda S, Shibata A, Muranaka A, Koshino H, Shirasu K, Osada H, Ishikawa J, Takahashi S. Expression of Syo_1.56 SARP Regulator Unveils Potent Elasnin Derivatives with Antibacterial Activity. JOURNAL OF NATURAL PRODUCTS 2024; 87:1459-1470. [PMID: 38652684 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.4c00259] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/25/2024]
Abstract
Actinomycetes are prolific producers of natural products, particularly antibiotics. However, a significant proportion of its biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) remain silent under typical laboratory conditions. This limits the effectiveness of conventional isolation methods for the discovery of novel natural products. Genetic interventions targeting the activation of silent gene clusters are necessary to address this challenge. Streptomyces antibiotic regulatory proteins (SARPs) act as cluster-specific activators and can be used to target silent BGCs for the discovery of new antibiotics. In this study, the expression of a previously uncharacterized SARP protein, Syo_1.56, in Streptomyces sp. RK18-A0406 significantly enhanced the production of known antimycins and led to the discovery of 12 elasnins (1-12), 10 of which were novel. The absolute stereochemistry of elasnin A1 was assigned for the first time to be 6S. Unexpectedly, Syo_1.56 seems to function as a pleiotropic rather than cluster-specific SARP regulator, with the capability of co-regulating two distinct biosynthetic pathways, simultaneously. All isolated elasnins were active against wild-type and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus with IC50 values of 0.5-20 μg/mL, some of which (elasnins A1, B2, and C1 and proelasnins A1, and C1) demonstrated moderate to strong antimalarial activities against Plasmodium falciparum 3D7. Elasnins A1, B3, and C1 also showed in vitro inhibition of the metallo-β-lactamase responsible for the development of highly antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains.
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- Islam A Abdelhakim
- Natural Product Biosynthesis Research Unit, RIKEN CSRS, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
- Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Assiut University, Assiut 71515, Egypt
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- Chemical Resource Development Research Unit and Drug Discovery Chemical Bank Unit, RIKEN CSRS, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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- O̅mura Satoshi Memorial Institute, Kitasato University, Tokyo 108-8641, Japan
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- O̅mura Satoshi Memorial Institute, Kitasato University, Tokyo 108-8641, Japan
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- Natural Product Biosynthesis Research Unit, RIKEN CSRS, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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- Plant Immunity Research Group, RIKEN CSRS, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan
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- Plant Immunity Research Group, RIKEN CSRS, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan
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- Molecular Structure Characterization Unit, RIKEN CSRS, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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- Molecular Structure Characterization Unit, RIKEN CSRS, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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- Plant Immunity Research Group, RIKEN CSRS, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan
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- Chemical Resource Development Research Unit and Drug Discovery Chemical Bank Unit, RIKEN CSRS, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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- National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, 162-8640, Japan
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- Natural Product Biosynthesis Research Unit, RIKEN CSRS, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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Wang Y, Yang X, Yu F, Deng Z, Lin S, Zheng J. Structural and functional characterization of AfsR, an SARP family transcriptional activator of antibiotic biosynthesis in Streptomyces. PLoS Biol 2024; 22:e3002528. [PMID: 38427710 PMCID: PMC10936776 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002528] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2023] [Revised: 03/13/2024] [Accepted: 01/29/2024] [Indexed: 03/03/2024] Open
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Streptomyces antibiotic regulatory proteins (SARPs) are widely distributed activators of antibiotic biosynthesis. Streptomyces coelicolor AfsR is an SARP regulator with an additional nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain (NOD) and a tetratricopeptide repeat (TPR) domain. Here, we present cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) structures and in vitro assays to demonstrate how the SARP domain activates transcription and how it is modulated by NOD and TPR domains. The structures of transcription initiation complexes (TICs) show that the SARP domain forms a side-by-side dimer to simultaneously engage the afs box overlapping the -35 element and the σHrdB region 4 (R4), resembling a sigma adaptation mechanism. The SARP extensively interacts with the subunits of the RNA polymerase (RNAP) core enzyme including the β-flap tip helix (FTH), the β' zinc-binding domain (ZBD), and the highly flexible C-terminal domain of the α subunit (αCTD). Transcription assays of full-length AfsR and truncated proteins reveal the inhibitory effect of NOD and TPR on SARP transcription activation, which can be eliminated by ATP binding. In vitro phosphorylation hardly affects transcription activation of AfsR, but counteracts the disinhibition of ATP binding. Overall, our results present a detailed molecular view of how AfsR serves to activate transcription.
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- Yiqun Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 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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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 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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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
- Joint International Research Laboratory of Metabolic & Developmental Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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Yan YS, Zou LS, Wei HG, Yang MY, Yang YQ, Li XF, Xia HY. An atypical two-component system, AtcR/AtcK, simultaneously regulates the biosynthesis of multiple secondary metabolites in Streptomyces bingchenggensis. Appl Environ Microbiol 2024; 90:e0130023. [PMID: 38112424 PMCID: PMC10807435 DOI: 10.1128/aem.01300-23] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2023] [Accepted: 11/10/2023] [Indexed: 12/21/2023] Open
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Streptomyces bingchenggensis is an industrial producer of milbemycins, which are important anthelmintic and insecticidal agents. Two-component systems (TCSs), which are typically situated in the same operon and are composed of a histidine kinase and a response regulator, are the predominant signal transduction pathways involved in the regulation of secondary metabolism in Streptomyces. Here, an atypical TCS, AtcR/AtcK, in which the encoding genes (sbi_06838/sbi_06839) are organized in a head-to-head pair, was demonstrated to be indispensable for the biosynthesis of multiple secondary metabolites in S. bingchenggensis. With the null TCS mutants, the production of milbemycin and yellow compound was abolished but nanchangmycin was overproduced. Transcriptional analysis and electrophoretic mobility shift assays showed that AtcR regulated the biosynthesis of these three secondary metabolites by a MilR3-mediated cascade. First, AtcR was activated by phosphorylation from signal-triggered AtcK. Second, the activated AtcR promoted the transcription of milR3. Third, MilR3 specifically activated the transcription of downstream genes from milbemycin and yellow compound biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) and nanR4 from the nanchangmycin BGC. Finally, because NanR4 is a specific repressor in the nanchangmycin BGC, activation of MilR3 downstream genes led to the production of yellow compound and milbemycin but inhibited nanchangmycin production. By rewiring the regulatory cascade, two strains were obtained, the yield of nanchangmycin was improved by 45-fold to 6.08 g/L and the production of milbemycin was increased twofold to 1.34 g/L. This work has broadened our knowledge on atypical TCSs and provided practical strategies to engineer strains for the production of secondary metabolites in Streptomyces.IMPORTANCEStreptomyces bingchenggensis is an important industrial strain that produces milbemycins. Two-component systems (TCSs), which consist of a histidine kinase and a response regulator, are the predominant signal transduction pathways involved in the regulation of secondary metabolism in Streptomyces. Coupled encoding genes of TCSs are typically situated in the same operon. Here, TCSs with encoding genes situated in separate head-to-head neighbor operons were labeled atypical TCSs. It was found that the atypical TCS AtcR/AtcK played an indispensable role in the biosynthesis of milbemycin, yellow compound, and nanchangmycin in S. bingchenggensis. This atypical TCS regulated the biosynthesis of specialized metabolites in a cascade mediated via a cluster-situated regulator, MilR3. Through rewiring the regulatory pathways, strains were successfully engineered to overproduce milbemycin and nanchangmycin. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report on atypical TCS, in which the encoding genes of RR and HK were situated in separate head-to-head neighbor operons, involved in secondary metabolism. In addition, data mining showed that atypical TCSs were widely distributed in actinobacteria.
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- Yu-Si Yan
- Institute of Biopharmaceuticals, Taizhou University, Taizhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Institute of Biopharmaceuticals, Taizhou University, Taizhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Zhejiang Yongtai Technology Co., LTD., Taizhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Institute of Biopharmaceuticals, Taizhou University, Taizhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Institute of Biopharmaceuticals, Taizhou University, Taizhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Institute of Biopharmaceuticals, Taizhou University, Taizhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Institute of Biopharmaceuticals, Taizhou University, Taizhou, Zhejiang, China
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Karimian S, Farahmandzad N, Mohammadipanah F. Manipulation and epigenetic control of silent biosynthetic pathways in actinobacteria. World J Microbiol Biotechnol 2024; 40:65. [PMID: 38191749 DOI: 10.1007/s11274-023-03861-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2023] [Accepted: 11/29/2023] [Indexed: 01/10/2024]
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Most biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) of Actinobacteria are either silent or expressed less than the detectable level. The non-genetic approaches including biological interactions, chemical agents, and physical stresses that can be used to awaken silenced pathways are compared in this paper. These non-genetic induction strategies often need screening approaches, including one strain many compounds (OSMAC), reporter-guided mutant selection, and high throughput elicitor screening (HiTES) have been developed. Different types of genetic manipulations applied in the induction of cryptic BGCs of Actinobacteria can be categorized as genome-wide pleiotropic and targeted approaches like manipulation of global regulatory systems, modulation of regulatory genes, ribosome and engineering of RNA polymerase or phosphopantheteine transferases. Targeted approaches including genome editing by CRISPR, mutation in transcription factors and modification of BGCs promoters, inactivation of the highly expressed biosynthetic pathways, deleting the suppressors or awakening the activators, heterologous expression, or refactoring of gene clusters can be applied for activation of pathways which are predicted to synthesize new bioactive structures in genome mining studies of Acinobacteria. In this review, the challenges and advantages of employing these approaches in induction of Actinobacteria BGCs are discussed. Further, novel natural products needed as drug for pharmaceutical industry or as biofertilizers in agricultural industry can be discovered even from known species of Actinobactera by the innovative approaches of metabolite biosynthesis elicitation.
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- Sanaz Karimian
- Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Biological Science, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Biosystems Engineering, Auburn university, Auburn, AL 36849, USA
- Pharmaceutical Biotechnology Lab, School of Biology and Center of Excellence in Phylogeny of Living Organisms, College of Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, 14155-6455, Iran
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- Pharmaceutical Biotechnology Lab, School of Biology and Center of Excellence in Phylogeny of Living Organisms, College of Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, 14155-6455, Iran.
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Li X, Yan Y, Xie S, Li Z, Xia H. Enhancement of milbemycins production by phosphopantetheinyl transferase and regulatory pathway engineering in Streptomyces bingchenggensis. World J Microbiol Biotechnol 2023; 39:278. [PMID: 37582899 DOI: 10.1007/s11274-023-03727-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2023] [Accepted: 08/09/2023] [Indexed: 08/17/2023]
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Milbemycins (MILs), a group of 16-membered insecticidal macrocylic lactones, are widely used as the biological pesticide and the precursors of semi-synthetic veterinary drugs. Polyketide synthases (PKSs), which require phosphopantetheinyl transferases (PPTases) to activate their ACP domains from apo forms to holo forms, catalyze the backbone biosynthesis of MILs. Here we found there was a complex phosphopantetheinylation network mediated by five putative PPTases in Streptomyces bingchenggensis. Repression mutants of PpA27 and PpA62 via CRISPRi both produced significantly lower yields of MILs than that of the control strain. Repression mutant of PpA68 led to abolishment of the pigment production. MILs production was significantly enhanced by PpA27 overexpression, while not by the overexpression of other PPTases. PpA27 was thus proved a dedicated post-translational enzyme to activate PKSs involved in the MILs biosynthesis. MILs titer was further enhanced by co-overexpression of PpA27 and MilR, the pathway‑specific transcriptional activator of MIL biosynthetic gene cluster. When PpA27 and MilR were co-overexpressed in the industrial S. bingchenggensis HMB, MILs production was increased by 40.5%. These results indicated that tuning the antibiotic biosynthetic pathway by co-engineering transcriptional regulation network and post-translational phosphopantetheinylation network is an effective strategy for antibiotic production improvement.
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- Xiaofang Li
- Institute of Biopharmaceuticals, Taizhou University, 1139 Shifu Avenue, Taizhou, 318000, China
- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Taizhou University, 1139 Shifu Avenue, Taizhou, 318000, China
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- Institute of Biopharmaceuticals, Taizhou University, 1139 Shifu Avenue, Taizhou, 318000, China
- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Taizhou University, 1139 Shifu Avenue, Taizhou, 318000, China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Taizhou University, 1139 Shifu Avenue, Taizhou, 318000, China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Taizhou University, 1139 Shifu Avenue, Taizhou, 318000, China
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- Institute of Biopharmaceuticals, Taizhou University, 1139 Shifu Avenue, Taizhou, 318000, China.
- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Taizhou University, 1139 Shifu Avenue, Taizhou, 318000, China.
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