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Ji CH, Je HW, Kim H, Kang HS. Promoter engineering of natural product biosynthetic gene clusters in actinomycetes: concepts and applications. Nat Prod Rep 2024; 41:672-699. [PMID: 38259139 DOI: 10.1039/d3np00049d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2024]
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Covering 2011 to 2022Low titers of natural products in laboratory culture or fermentation conditions have been one of the challenging issues in natural products research. Many natural product biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) are also transcriptionally silent in laboratory culture conditions, making it challenging to characterize the structures and activities of their metabolites. Promoter engineering offers a potential solution to this problem by providing tools for transcriptional activation or optimization of biosynthetic genes. In this review, we summarize the 10 years of progress in promoter engineering approaches in natural products research focusing on the most metabolically talented group of bacteria actinomycetes.
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- Chang-Hun Ji
- Department of Biomedical Science and Engineering, Konkuk University, Seoul 05029, Korea.
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- Department of Biomedical Science and Engineering, Konkuk University, Seoul 05029, Korea.
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- Department of Biomedical Science and Engineering, Konkuk University, Seoul 05029, Korea.
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- Department of Biomedical Science and Engineering, Konkuk University, Seoul 05029, Korea.
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Zhao M, Yang Z, Li X, Liu Y, Zhang Y, Zhang M, Li Y, Wang X, Deng Z, Hong K, Zhu D. Development of Integrated Vectors with Strong Constitutive Promoters for High-Yield Antibiotic Production in Mangrove-Derived Streptomyces. Mar Drugs 2024; 22:94. [PMID: 38393065 PMCID: PMC10890193 DOI: 10.3390/md22020094] [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: 01/31/2024] [Revised: 02/15/2024] [Accepted: 02/16/2024] [Indexed: 02/25/2024] Open
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It is important to improve the production of bioactive secondary products for drug development. The Escherichia coli-Streptomyces shuttle vector pSET152 and its derived vector pIB139 containing a strong constitutive promoter ermEp* are commonly used as integrative vectors in actinomycetes. Four new integrative vectors carrying the strong constitutive promoter kasOp*, hrdBp, SCO5768p, and SP44, respectively, were constructed and proven to be functional in different mangrove-derived Streptomyces host strains by using kanamycin resistance gene neo as a reporter. Some biosynthetic genes of elaiophylins, azalomycin Fs, and armeniaspirols were selected and inserted into these vectors to overexpress in their producers including Streptomyces sp. 219807, Streptomyces sp. 211726, and S. armeniacus DSM 43125, resulting in an approximately 1.1-1.4-fold enhancement of the antibiotic yields.
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- Key Laboratory of Combinatorial Biosynthesis and Drug Discovery, Ministry of Education, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, China; (M.Z.); (Z.Y.); (X.L.); (Y.L.); (Y.Z.); (M.Z.); (Y.L.); (X.W.); (Z.D.)
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- Key Laboratory of Combinatorial Biosynthesis and Drug Discovery, Ministry of Education, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, China; (M.Z.); (Z.Y.); (X.L.); (Y.L.); (Y.Z.); (M.Z.); (Y.L.); (X.W.); (Z.D.)
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Rebets Y, Kormanec J, Lutzhetskyy A, Bernaerts K, Anné J. Cloning and Expression of Metagenomic DNA in Streptomyces lividans and Its Subsequent Fermentation for Optimized Production. Methods Mol Biol 2023; 2555:213-260. [PMID: 36306090 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2795-2_16] [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] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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The choice of an expression system for the metagenomic DNA of interest is of vital importance for the detection of any particular gene or gene cluster. Most of the screens to date have used the Gram-negative bacterium Escherichia coli as a host for metagenomic gene libraries. However, the use of E. coli introduces a potential host bias since only 40% of the enzymatic activities may be readily recovered by random cloning in E. coli. To recover some of the remaining 60%, alternative cloning hosts such as Streptomyces spp. have been used. Streptomycetes are high-GC Gram-positive bacteria belonging to the Actinomycetales and they have been studied extensively for more than 25 years as an alternative expression system. They are extremely well suited for the expression of DNA from other actinomycetes and genomes of high GC content. Furthermore, due to its high innate, extracellular secretion capacity, Streptomyces can be a better system than E. coli for the production of many extracellular proteins. In this article, an overview is given about the materials and methods for growth and successful expression and secretion of heterologous proteins from diverse origin using Streptomyces lividans as a host. More in detail, an overview is given about the protocols of transformation, type of plasmids used and of vectors useful for integration of DNA into the host chromosome, and accompanying cloning strategies. In addition, various control elements for gene expression including synthetic promoters are discussed, and methods to compare their strength are described. Stable and efficient marker-less integration of the gene of interest under the control of the promoter of choice into S. lividans chromosome via homologous recombination using pAMR23A-based system will be explained. Finally, a basic protocol for bench-top bioreactor experiments which can form the start in the production process optimization and up-scaling will be provided.
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- Institute of Molecular Biology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany
- Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Chemical and Biochemical Reactor Engineering and Safety Division, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, lab. Molecular Bacteriology, Rega Institute, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
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Wang J, Zhu H, Shang H, Guo B, Zhang M, Wang F, Zhang L, Xu J, Wang H. Development of a thiostrepton-free system for stable production of PLD in Streptomyces lividans SBT5. Microb Cell Fact 2022; 21:263. [PMID: 36529749 PMCID: PMC9761944 DOI: 10.1186/s12934-022-01992-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2022] [Accepted: 12/13/2022] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Phospholipase D (PLD) is highly valuable in the food and medicine industries, where it is used to convert low-cost phosphatidylcholine into high-value phospholipids (PLs). Despite being overexpressed in Streptomyces, PLD production requires expensive thiostrepton feeding during fermentation, limiting its industrialization. To address this issue, we propose a new thiostrepton-free system. RESULTS We developed a system using a combinatorial strategy containing the constitutive promoter kasOp* and PLD G215S mutation fused to a signal peptide sigcin of Streptoverticillium cinnamoneum pld. To find a candidate vector, we first expressed PLD using the integrative vector pSET152 and then built three autonomously replicating vectors by substituting Streptomyces replicons to increase PLD expression. According to our findings, replicon 3 with stability gene (sta) inserted had an ideal result. The retention rate of the plasmid pOJ260-rep3-pld* was 99% after five passages under non-resistance conditions. In addition, the strain SK-3 harboring plasmid pOJ260-rep3-pld* produced 62 U/mL (3.48 mg/g) of PLD, which further improved to 86.8 U/mL (7.51 mg/g) at 32 °C in the optimized medium, which is the highest activity achieved in the PLD secretory expression to date. CONCLUSIONS This is the first time that a thiostrepton-free PLD production system has been reported in Streptomyces. The new system produced stable PLD secretion and lays the groundwork for the production of PLs from fermentation stock. Meanwhile, in the Streptomyces expression system, we present a highly promising solution for producing other complex proteins.
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- Juntan Wang
- grid.418515.cInstitute of Business Scientific, Henan Academy of Sciences, 87 Wenhua Road, Zhengzhou, 450002 Henan China
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- grid.418515.cInstitute of Business Scientific, Henan Academy of Sciences, 87 Wenhua Road, Zhengzhou, 450002 Henan China
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- grid.418515.cInstitute of Business Scientific, Henan Academy of Sciences, 87 Wenhua Road, Zhengzhou, 450002 Henan China
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- grid.418515.cInstitute of Business Scientific, Henan Academy of Sciences, 87 Wenhua Road, Zhengzhou, 450002 Henan China
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- grid.418515.cInstitute of Business Scientific, Henan Academy of Sciences, 87 Wenhua Road, Zhengzhou, 450002 Henan China
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- grid.418515.cInstitute of Business Scientific, Henan Academy of Sciences, 87 Wenhua Road, Zhengzhou, 450002 Henan China
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- grid.418515.cInstitute of Business Scientific, Henan Academy of Sciences, 87 Wenhua Road, Zhengzhou, 450002 Henan China
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- grid.108266.b0000 0004 1803 0494College of Life Sciences, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, 450002 Henan China
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- grid.16821.3c0000 0004 0368 8293School of Public Health, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200025 China
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MilR3, a unique SARP family pleiotropic regulator in Streptomyces bingchenggensis. Arch Microbiol 2022; 204:631. [PMID: 36121479 DOI: 10.1007/s00203-022-03240-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2022] [Revised: 08/30/2022] [Accepted: 09/02/2022] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Streptomyces bingchenggensis is the main industrial producer of milbemycins, which are a group of 16-membered macrocylic lactones with excellent insecticidal activities. In the past several decades, scientists have made great efforts to solve its low productivity. However, a lack of understanding of the regulatory network of milbemycin biosynthesis limited the development of high-producing strains using a regulatory rewiring strategy. SARPs (Streptomyces Antibiotic Regulatory Proteins) family regulators are widely distributed and play key roles in regulating antibiotics production in actinobacteria. In this paper, MilR3 (encoded by sbi_06842) has been screened out for significantly affecting milbemycin production from all the 19 putative SARP family regulators in S. bingchenggensis with the DNase-deactivated Cpf1-based integrative CRISPRi system. Interestingly, milR3 is about 7 Mb away from milbemycin biosynthetic gene cluster and adjacent to a putative type II PKS (the core minimal PKS encoding genes are sbi_06843, sbi_06844, sbi_06845 and sbi_06846) gene cluster, which was proved to be responsible for producing a yellow pigment. The quantitative real-time PCR analysis proved that MilR3 positively affected the transcription of specific genes within milbemycin BGC and those from the type II PKS gene cluster. Unlike previous "small" SARP family regulators that played pathway-specific roles, MilR3 was probably a unique SARP family regulator and played a pleotropic role. MilR3 was an upper level regulator in the MilR3-MilR regulatory cascade. This study first illustrated the co-regulatory role of this unique SARP regulator. This greatly enriches our understanding of SARPs and lay a solid foundation for milbemycin yield enhancement in the near future.
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Liu X, Li J, Li Y, Li J, Sun H, Zheng J, Zhang J, Tan H. A visualization reporter system for characterizing antibiotic biosynthetic gene clusters expression with high-sensitivity. Commun Biol 2022; 5:901. [PMID: 36056143 PMCID: PMC9440138 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-022-03832-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2022] [Accepted: 08/11/2022] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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The crisis of antibiotic resistance has become an impending global problem. Genome sequencing reveals that streptomycetes have the potential to produce many more bioactive compounds that may combat the emerging pathogens. The existing challenge is to devise sensitive reporter systems for mining valuable antibiotics. Here, we report a visualization reporter system based on Gram-negative bacterial acyl-homoserine lactone quorum-sensing (VRS-bAHL). AHL synthase gene (cviI) of Chromobacterium violaceum as reporter gene is expressed in Gram-positive Streptomyces to synthesize AHL, which is detected with CV026, an AHL deficient mutant of C. violaceum, via its violacein production upon AHL induction. Validation assays prove that VRS-bAHL can be widely used for characterizing gene expression in Streptomyces. With the guidance of VRS-bAHL, a novel oxazolomycin derivative is discovered to the best of our knowledge. The results demonstrate that VRS-bAHL is a powerful tool for advancing genetic regulation studies and discovering valuable active metabolites in microorganisms. A quorum sensing based visualization reporter system is presented for the characterization of promoters in Gram-positive bacteria, utilizing violacein production, especially for use in the identification of secondary metabolites.
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- Xiang Liu
- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.,College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.,College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.,College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.,College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. .,College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
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Characterization of Pathway-Specific Regulator NigR for High Yield Production of Nigericin in Streptomyces malaysiensis F913. Antibiotics (Basel) 2022; 11:antibiotics11070938. [PMID: 35884192 PMCID: PMC9312159 DOI: 10.3390/antibiotics11070938] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2022] [Revised: 07/12/2022] [Accepted: 07/12/2022] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Nigericin is a polyether antibiotic with potent antibacterial, antifungal, antimalarial and anticancer activity. NigR, the only regulator in the nigericin biosynthetic gene cluster in Streptomyces malaysiensis F913, was identified as a SARP family regulator. Disruption of nigR abolished nigericin biosynthesis, while complementation of nigR restored nigericin production, suggesting that NigR is an essential positive regulator for nigericin biosynthesis. Overexpression of nigR in Streptomyces malaysiensis led to significant increase in nigericin production compared to the wild-type strain. Nigericin production in the overexpression strain was found to reach 0.56 g/L, which may be the highest nigericin titer reported to date. Transcriptional analysis suggested that nigR is required for the transcription of structural genes in the nig gene cluster; quantitative RT-PCR analysis revealed that the expression of structural genes was upregulated in the nigR overexpression strain. Our study suggested that NigR acts in a positive manner to modulate nigericin production by activating transcription of structural genes and provides an effective strategy for scaling up nigericin production.
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Comparative Transcriptome-Based Mining of Genes Involved in the Export of Polyether Antibiotics for Titer Improvement. Antibiotics (Basel) 2022; 11:antibiotics11050600. [PMID: 35625244 PMCID: PMC9138065 DOI: 10.3390/antibiotics11050600] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2022] [Revised: 04/27/2022] [Accepted: 04/28/2022] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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The anti-coccidiosis agent salinomycin is a polyether antibiotic produced by Streptomyces albus BK3-25 with a remarkable titer of 18 g/L at flask scale, suggesting a highly efficient export system. It is worth identifying the involved exporter genes for further titer improvement. In this study, a titer gradient was achieved by varying soybean oil concentrations in a fermentation medium, and the corresponding transcriptomes were studied. Comparative transcriptomic analysis identified eight putative transporter genes, whose transcription increased when the oil content was increased and ranked top among up-regulated genes at higher oil concentrations. All eight genes were proved to be positively involved in salinomycin export through gene deletion and trans-complementation in the mutants, and they showed constitutive expression in the early growth stage, whose overexpression in BK3-25 led to a 7.20–69.75% titer increase in salinomycin. Furthermore, the heterologous expression of SLNHY_0929 or SLNHY_1893 rendered the host Streptomyces lividans with improved resistance to salinomycin. Interestingly, SLNHY_0929 was found to be a polyether-specific transporter because the titers of monensin, lasalocid, and nigericin were also increased by 124.6%, 60.4%, and 77.5%, respectively, through its overexpression in the corresponding producing strains. In conclusion, a transcriptome-based strategy was developed to mine genes involved in salinomycin export, which may pave the way for further salinomycin titer improvement and the identification of transporter genes involved in the biosynthesis of other antibiotics.
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Li D, Tian Y, Liu X, Wang W, Li Y, Tan H, Zhang J. Reconstitution of a mini-gene cluster combined with ribosome engineering led to effective enhancement of salinomycin production in Streptomyces albus. Microb Biotechnol 2021; 14:2356-2368. [PMID: 33270372 PMCID: PMC8601195 DOI: 10.1111/1751-7915.13686] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2020] [Accepted: 10/06/2020] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Salinomycin, an FDA-approved polyketide drug, was recently identified as a promising anti-tumour and anti-viral lead compound. It is produced by Streptomyces albus, and the biosynthetic gene cluster (sal) spans over 100 kb. The genetic manipulation of large polyketide gene clusters is challenging, and approaches delivering reliable efficiency and accuracy are desired. Herein, a delicate strategy to enhance salinomycin production was devised and evaluated. We reconstructed a minimized sal gene cluster (mini-cluster) on pSET152 including key genes responsible for tailoring modification, antibiotic resistance, positive regulation and precursor supply. These genes were overexpressed under the control of constitutive promoter PkasO* or Pneo . The pks operon was not included in the mini-cluster, but it was upregulated by SalJ activation. After the plasmid pSET152::mini-cluster was introduced into the wild-type strain and a chassis host strain obtained by ribosome engineering, salinomycin production was increased to 2.3-fold and 5.1-fold compared with that of the wild-type strain respectively. Intriguingly, mini-cluster introduction resulted in much higher production than overexpression of the whole sal gene cluster. The findings demonstrated that reconstitution of sal mini-cluster combined with ribosome engineering is an efficient novel approach and may be extended to other large polyketide biosynthesis.
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- Dong Li
- State Key Laboratory of Microbial ResourcesInstitute of MicrobiologyChinese Academy of SciencesBeijing100101China
- College of Life SciencesUniversity of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing100049China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial ResourcesInstitute of MicrobiologyChinese Academy of SciencesBeijing100101China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial ResourcesInstitute of MicrobiologyChinese Academy of SciencesBeijing100101China
- College of Life SciencesUniversity of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing100049China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial ResourcesInstitute of MicrobiologyChinese Academy of SciencesBeijing100101China
- College of Life SciencesUniversity of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing100049China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial ResourcesInstitute of MicrobiologyChinese Academy of SciencesBeijing100101China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial ResourcesInstitute of MicrobiologyChinese Academy of SciencesBeijing100101China
- College of Life SciencesUniversity of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing100049China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial ResourcesInstitute of MicrobiologyChinese Academy of SciencesBeijing100101China
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Li Z, Huang P, Wang M, Wang X, Wang L, Kong D, Niu G. Stepwise increase of thaxtomins production in Streptomyces albidoflavus J1074 through combinatorial metabolic engineering. Metab Eng 2021; 68:187-198. [PMID: 34673237 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2021.10.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2021] [Revised: 09/23/2021] [Accepted: 10/16/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Herbicide-resistance in weeds has become a serious threat to agriculture across the world. Thus, there is an urgent need for the discovery and development of herbicides with new modes of action. Thaxtomin phytotoxins are a group of nitrated diketopiperazines produced by potato common scab-causing phytopathogen Streptomyces scabies and other actinobacterial pathogens. They are generally considered to function as inhibitors of cellulose synthesis in plants, and thus have great potential to be used as natural herbicides. Generation of an overproducing strain is crucial for the scale-up production of thaxtomins and their wide use in agriculture. In the present study, we employed a stepwise strategy by combining heterologous expression, repressor deletion, activator overexpression, and optimization of fermentation media for high-level production of thaxtomins. The maximum yield of 728 mg/L thaxtomins was achieved with engineered Streptomyces albidoflavus J1074 strains in shake-flask cultures, and it was approximately 36-fold higher than S. albidoflavus J1074 carrying the unmodified cluster. Moreover, the yield of thaxtomins could reach 1973 mg/L when the engineered strain was cultivated in a small-scale stirred-tank bioreactor. This is the highest titer reported to date, representing a significant leap forward for the scale-up production of thaxtomins. Our study presents a robust, easy-to-use system that will be broadly useful for improving titers of bioactive compounds in many Streptomyces species.
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- Zhilei Li
- Biotechnology Research Center, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China; Chongqing Key Laboratory of Plant Resource Conservation and Germplasm Innovation, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China; State Cultivation Base of Crop Stress Biology for Southern Mountainous Land, Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China
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- Biotechnology Research Center, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China; State Cultivation Base of Crop Stress Biology for Southern Mountainous Land, Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China
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- Biotechnology Research Center, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China; Chongqing Key Laboratory of Plant Resource Conservation and Germplasm Innovation, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China; State Cultivation Base of Crop Stress Biology for Southern Mountainous Land, Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China
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- Biotechnology Research Center, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China; State Cultivation Base of Crop Stress Biology for Southern Mountainous Land, Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China
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- Biotechnology Research Center, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China; State Cultivation Base of Crop Stress Biology for Southern Mountainous Land, Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China
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- Biotechnology Research Center, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China; State Cultivation Base of Crop Stress Biology for Southern Mountainous Land, Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China
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- Biotechnology Research Center, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China; Chongqing Key Laboratory of Plant Resource Conservation and Germplasm Innovation, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China; State Cultivation Base of Crop Stress Biology for Southern Mountainous Land, Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China.
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Seong J, Shin J, Kim K, Cho BK. Microbial production of nematicidal agents for controlling plant-parasitic nematodes. Process Biochem 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.procbio.2021.06.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Wang X, Fu Y, Wang M, Niu G. Synthetic Cellobiose-Inducible Regulatory Systems Allow Tight and Dynamic Controls of Gene Expression in Streptomyces. ACS Synth Biol 2021; 10:1956-1965. [PMID: 34347449 DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.1c00152] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Precise control of microbial gene expression is crucial for synthetic biotechnological applications. This is particularly true for the bacterial genus Streptomyces, major producers of diverse natural products including many antibiotics. Although a plethora of genetic tools have been developed for Streptomyces, there is still an urgent need for effective gene induction systems. We herein created two novel cellobiose-inducible regulatory systems referred to as Cel-RS1 and Cel-RS2. The regulatory systems are based upon the well-characterized repressor/operator pair CebR/cebO from Streptomyces scabies and the well-defined constitutive kasO* promoter. Both Cel-RS1 and Cel-RS2 exhibit a high level of induced reporter activity and virtually no leaky expression in three model Streptomyces species, which are commonly used as surrogate hosts for expression of natural product biosynthetic gene clusters. Cel-RS2 has been proven successful for programmable control of gene expression and controllable production of specialized metabolites in multiple Streptomyces species. The strategy can be used to expand the toolkit of inducible regulatory systems that will be broadly applicable to various Streptomyces.
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- Xia Wang
- Biotechnology Research Center, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China
- State Cultivation Base of Crop Stress Biology for Southern Mountainous Land, Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China
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- Biotechnology Research Center, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China
- State Cultivation Base of Crop Stress Biology for Southern Mountainous Land, Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China
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- Biotechnology Research Center, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China
- State Cultivation Base of Crop Stress Biology for Southern Mountainous Land, Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China
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- Biotechnology Research Center, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China
- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Plant Resource Conservation and Germplasm Innovation, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China
- State Cultivation Base of Crop Stress Biology for Southern Mountainous Land, Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China
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Gong R, Yu L, Qin Y, Price NPJ, He X, Deng Z, Chen W. Harnessing synthetic biology-based strategies for engineered biosynthesis of nucleoside natural products in actinobacteria. Biotechnol Adv 2020; 46:107673. [PMID: 33276073 DOI: 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2020.107673] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2020] [Revised: 10/29/2020] [Accepted: 11/25/2020] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
Abstract
Antibiotic resistance poses an increasing threat to global health, and it is urgent to reverse the present trend by accelerating development of new natural product derived drugs. Nucleoside antibiotics, a valuable family of promising natural products with remarkable structural features and diverse biological activities, have played significant roles in healthcare and for plant protection. Understanding the biosynthesis of these intricate molecules has provided a foundation for bioengineering the microbial cell factory towards yield enhancement and structural diversification. In this review, we summarize the recent progresses in employing synthetic biology-based strategies to improve the production of target nucleoside antibiotics. Moreover, we delineate the advances on rationally accessing the chemical diversities of natural nucleoside antibiotics.
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- Rong Gong
- Key Laboratory of Combinatorial Biosynthesis and Drug Discovery, Ministry of Education, and School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, China
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- Key Laboratory of Combinatorial Biosynthesis and Drug Discovery, Ministry of Education, and School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, China
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- Key Laboratory of Combinatorial Biosynthesis and Drug Discovery, Ministry of Education, and School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, China
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- US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, Peoria, IL, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, and School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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- Key Laboratory of Combinatorial Biosynthesis and Drug Discovery, Ministry of Education, and School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, China; State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, and School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Combinatorial Biosynthesis and Drug Discovery, Ministry of Education, and School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, China.
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Ma Z, Hu Y, Liao Z, Xu J, Xu X, Bechthold A, Yu X. Cloning and Overexpression of the Toy Cluster for Titer Improvement of Toyocamycin in Streptomyces diastatochromogenes. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:2074. [PMID: 32983052 PMCID: PMC7492574 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.02074] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2020] [Accepted: 08/06/2020] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
Abstract
The nucleoside antibiotic toyocamycin (TM) is a potential fungicide that can control plant diseases, and it has become an attractive target for research. Streptomyces diastatochromogenes 1628, a TM-producing strain, was isolated by our laboratory and was considered to be a potent industrial producer of TM. Recently, the putative TM biosynthetic gene cluster (toy cluster) in S. diastatochromogenes 1628 was found by genome sequencing. In this study, the role of toy cluster for TM biosynthesis in S. diastatochromogenes 1628 was investigated by heterologous expression, deletion, and complementation. The extract of the recombinant strain S. albusJ1074-TC harboring a copy of toy cluster produced TM as shown by HPLC analysis. The Δcluster mutant completely lost its ability to produce TM. TM production in the complemented strain was restored to a level comparable to that of the wild-type strain. These results confirmed that the toy cluster is responsible for TM biosynthesis. Moreover, the introduction of an extra copy of the toy cluster into S. diastatochromogenes 1628 led to onefold increase in TM production (312.9 mg/l vs. 152.1 mg/l) as well as the transcription of all toy genes. The toy gene cluster was engineered in which the native promoter of toyA gene, toyM gene, toyBD operon, and toyEI operon was, respectively, replaced by permE∗ or SPL57. To further improve TM production, the engineered toy gene cluster was, respectively, introduced and overexpressed in S. diastatochromogenes 1628 to generate recombinant strains S. diastatochromogenes 1628-EC and 1628-SC. After 84 h, S. diastatochromogenes 1628-EC and 1628-SC produced 456.5 mg/l and 638.9 mg/l TM, respectively, which is an increase of 2- and 3.2-fold compared with the wild-type strain.
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- Zheng Ma
- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Biometrology and Inspection & Quarantine, College of Life Sciences, China Jiliang University, Hangzhou, China
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- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Biometrology and Inspection & Quarantine, College of Life Sciences, China Jiliang University, Hangzhou, China
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- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Biometrology and Inspection & Quarantine, College of Life Sciences, China Jiliang University, Hangzhou, China
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- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Biometrology and Inspection & Quarantine, College of Life Sciences, China Jiliang University, Hangzhou, China
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- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Biometrology and Inspection & Quarantine, College of Life Sciences, China Jiliang University, Hangzhou, China
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- Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Pharmaceutical Biology and Biotechnology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Biometrology and Inspection & Quarantine, College of Life Sciences, China Jiliang University, Hangzhou, China
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Ahmed Y, Rebets Y, Estévez MR, Zapp J, Myronovskyi M, Luzhetskyy A. Engineering of Streptomyces lividans for heterologous expression of secondary metabolite gene clusters. Microb Cell Fact 2020; 19:5. [PMID: 31918711 PMCID: PMC6950998 DOI: 10.1186/s12934-020-1277-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2019] [Accepted: 01/02/2020] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
Abstract
Background Heterologous expression of secondary metabolite gene clusters is used to achieve increased production of desired compounds, activate cryptic gene clusters, manipulate clusters from genetically unamenable strains, obtain natural products from uncultivable species, create new unnatural pathways, etc. Several Streptomyces species are genetically engineered for use as hosts for heterologous expression of gene clusters. S. lividans TK24 is one of the most studied and genetically tractable actinobacteria, which remain untapped. It was therefore important to generate S. lividans chassis strains with clean metabolic backgrounds. Results In this study, we generated a set of S. lividans chassis strains by deleting endogenous gene clusters and introducing additional φC31 attB loci for site-specific integration of foreign DNA. In addition to the simplified metabolic background, the engineered S. lividans strains had better growth characteristics than the parental strain in liquid production medium. The utility of the developed strains was validated by expressing four secondary metabolite gene clusters responsible for the production of different classes of natural products. Engineered strains were found to be superior to the parental strain in production of heterologous natural products. Furthermore, S. lividans-based strains were better producers of amino acid-based natural products than other tested common hosts. Expression of a Streptomyces albus subsp. chlorinus NRRL B-24108 genomic library in the modified S. lividans ΔYA9 and S. albus Del14 strains resulted in the production of 7 potentially new compounds, only one of which was produced in both strains. Conclusion The constructed S. lividans-based strains are a great complement to the panel of heterologous hosts for actinobacterial secondary metabolite gene expression. The expansion of the number of such engineered strains will contribute to an increased success rate in isolation of new natural products originating from the expression of genomic and metagenomic libraries, thus raising the chance to obtain novel biologically active compounds.
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- Yousra Ahmed
- Pharmazeutische Biotechnologie, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany
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- Pharmazeutische Biotechnologie, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany
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- Pharmazeutische Biologie, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany
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- Pharmazeutische Biotechnologie, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany
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- Pharmazeutische Biotechnologie, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany. .,Helmholtz-Institut für Pharmazeutische Forschung Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany.
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Ji Z, Nie Q, Yin Y, Zhang M, Pan H, Hou X, Tang G. Activation and Characterization of Cryptic Gene Cluster: Two Series of Aromatic Polyketides Biosynthesized by Divergent Pathways. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2019. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201910882] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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- Zhen‐Yu Ji
- State Key Laboratory of Bioorganic and Natural Products ChemistryCenter for Excellence in Molecular SynthesisShanghai Institute of Organic ChemistryUniversity of Chinese Academy of SciencesChinese Academy of Sciences 345 Lingling Road Shanghai 200032 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioorganic and Natural Products ChemistryCenter for Excellence in Molecular SynthesisShanghai Institute of Organic ChemistryUniversity of Chinese Academy of SciencesChinese Academy of Sciences 345 Lingling Road Shanghai 200032 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioorganic and Natural Products ChemistryCenter for Excellence in Molecular SynthesisShanghai Institute of Organic ChemistryUniversity of Chinese Academy of SciencesChinese Academy of Sciences 345 Lingling Road Shanghai 200032 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioorganic and Natural Products ChemistryCenter for Excellence in Molecular SynthesisShanghai Institute of Organic ChemistryUniversity of Chinese Academy of SciencesChinese Academy of Sciences 345 Lingling Road Shanghai 200032 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioorganic and Natural Products ChemistryCenter for Excellence in Molecular SynthesisShanghai Institute of Organic ChemistryUniversity of Chinese Academy of SciencesChinese Academy of Sciences 345 Lingling Road Shanghai 200032 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioorganic and Natural Products ChemistryCenter for Excellence in Molecular SynthesisShanghai Institute of Organic ChemistryUniversity of Chinese Academy of SciencesChinese Academy of Sciences 345 Lingling Road Shanghai 200032 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioorganic and Natural Products ChemistryCenter for Excellence in Molecular SynthesisShanghai Institute of Organic ChemistryUniversity of Chinese Academy of SciencesChinese Academy of Sciences 345 Lingling Road Shanghai 200032 China
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Ji ZY, Nie QY, Yin Y, Zhang M, Pan HX, Hou XF, Tang GL. Activation and Characterization of Cryptic Gene Cluster: Two Series of Aromatic Polyketides Biosynthesized by Divergent Pathways. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2019; 58:18046-18054. [PMID: 31553109 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201910882] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2019] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
Abstract
One biosynthetic gene cluster (BGC) usually governs the biosynthesis of a series of compounds exhibiting either the same or similar molecular scaffolds. Reported here is a multiplex activation strategy to awaken a cryptic BGC associated with tetracycline polyketides, resulting in the discovery of compounds having different core structures. By constitutively expressing a positive regulator gene in tandem mode, a single BGC directed the biosynthesis of eight aromatic polyketides with two types of frameworks, two pentacyclic isomers and six glycosylated tetracyclines. The proposed biosynthetic pathway, based on systematic gene inactivation and identification of intermediates, employs two sets of tailoring enzymes with a branching point from the same intermediate. These findings not only provide new insights into the role of tailoring enzymes in the diversification of polyketides, but also highlight a reliable strategy for genome mining of natural products.
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- Zhen-Yu Ji
- State Key Laboratory of Bioorganic and Natural Products Chemistry, Center for Excellence in Molecular Synthesis, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 345 Lingling Road, Shanghai, 200032, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioorganic and Natural Products Chemistry, Center for Excellence in Molecular Synthesis, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 345 Lingling Road, Shanghai, 200032, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioorganic and Natural Products Chemistry, Center for Excellence in Molecular Synthesis, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 345 Lingling Road, Shanghai, 200032, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioorganic and Natural Products Chemistry, Center for Excellence in Molecular Synthesis, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 345 Lingling Road, Shanghai, 200032, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioorganic and Natural Products Chemistry, Center for Excellence in Molecular Synthesis, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 345 Lingling Road, Shanghai, 200032, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioorganic and Natural Products Chemistry, Center for Excellence in Molecular Synthesis, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 345 Lingling Road, Shanghai, 200032, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioorganic and Natural Products Chemistry, Center for Excellence in Molecular Synthesis, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 345 Lingling Road, Shanghai, 200032, China
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Severi E, Thomas GH. Antibiotic export: transporters involved in the final step of natural product production. Microbiology (Reading) 2019; 165:805-818. [DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.000794] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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- Emmanuele Severi
- Department of Biology, University of York, Wentworth Way, York, UK
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- Department of Biology, University of York, Wentworth Way, York, UK
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Nepal KK, Wang G. Streptomycetes: Surrogate hosts for the genetic manipulation of biosynthetic gene clusters and production of natural products. Biotechnol Adv 2019; 37:1-20. [PMID: 30312648 PMCID: PMC6343487 DOI: 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2018.10.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2018] [Revised: 09/04/2018] [Accepted: 10/05/2018] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
Abstract
Due to the worldwide prevalence of multidrug-resistant pathogens and high incidence of diseases such as cancer, there is an urgent need for the discovery and development of new drugs. Nearly half of the FDA-approved drugs are derived from natural products that are produced by living organisms, mainly bacteria, fungi, and plants. Commercial development is often limited by the low yield of the desired compounds expressed by the native producers. In addition, recent advances in whole genome sequencing and bioinformatics have revealed an abundance of cryptic biosynthetic gene clusters within microbial genomes. Genetic manipulation of clusters in the native host is commonly used to awaken poorly expressed or silent gene clusters, however, the lack of feasible genetic manipulation systems in many strains often hinders our ability to engineer the native producers. The transfer of gene clusters into heterologous hosts for expression of partial or entire biosynthetic pathways is an approach that can be used to overcome this limitation. Heterologous expression also facilitates the chimeric fusion of different biosynthetic pathways, leading to the generation of "unnatural" natural products. The genus Streptomyces is especially known to be a prolific source of drugs/antibiotics, its members are often used as heterologous expression hosts. In this review, we summarize recent applications of Streptomyces species, S. coelicolor, S. lividans, S. albus, S. venezuelae and S. avermitilis, as heterologous expression systems.
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- Keshav K Nepal
- Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, Florida Atlantic University, 5600 U.S. 1 North, Fort Pierce, FL 34946, USA
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- Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, Florida Atlantic University, 5600 U.S. 1 North, Fort Pierce, FL 34946, USA.
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Wei J, He L, Niu G. Regulation of antibiotic biosynthesis in actinomycetes: Perspectives and challenges. Synth Syst Biotechnol 2018; 3:229-235. [PMID: 30417136 PMCID: PMC6215055 DOI: 10.1016/j.synbio.2018.10.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2018] [Revised: 09/27/2018] [Accepted: 10/17/2018] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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Actinomycetes are the main sources of antibiotics. The onset and level of production of each antibiotic is subject to complex control by multi-level regulators. These regulators exert their functions at hierarchical levels. At the lower level, cluster-situated regulators (CSRs) directly control the transcription of neighboring genes within the gene cluster. Higher-level pleiotropic and global regulators exert their functions mainly through modulating the transcription of CSRs. Advances in understanding of the regulation of antibiotic biosynthesis in actinomycetes have inspired us to engineer these regulators for strain improvement and antibiotic discovery.
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- Junhong Wei
- State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China
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- Biotechnology Research Center, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China.,Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China
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- Biotechnology Research Center, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China.,Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China
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Tao W, Yang A, Deng Z, Sun Y. CRISPR/Cas9-Based Editing of Streptomyces for Discovery, Characterization, and Production of Natural Products. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:1660. [PMID: 30087666 PMCID: PMC6066502 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.01660] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2018] [Accepted: 07/04/2018] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Microbial natural products (NPs) especially of the Streptomyces genus have been regarded as an unparalleled resource for pharmaceutical drugs discovery. Moreover, recent progress in sequencing technologies and computational resources further reinforces to identify numerous NP biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) from the genomes of Streptomyces. However, the majority of these BGCs are silent or poorly expressed in native strains and remain to be activated and investigated, which relies heavily on efficient genome editing approaches. Accordingly, numerous strategies are developed, especially, the most recently developed, namely, clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR associated (Cas) system reveals remarkable higher accuracy and efficiency for genome editing in various model organisms including the Streptomyces. In this mini review, we highlight the application of CRISPR/Cas9-based approaches in Streptomyces, focus on the editing of BGCs either in vivo or in vitro, as well as target cloning of large-sized BGCs and heterologous expression in a genetically manipulatable host, for discovery, characterization, reengineering, and production of potential pharmaceutical drugs.
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- Weixin Tao
- Key Laboratory of Combinatorial Biosynthesis and Drug Discovery (Ministry of Education), Wuhan University School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Combinatorial Biosynthesis and Drug Discovery (Ministry of Education), Wuhan University School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Combinatorial Biosynthesis and Drug Discovery (Ministry of Education), Wuhan University School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Combinatorial Biosynthesis and Drug Discovery (Ministry of Education), Wuhan University School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wuhan, China
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Eyles TH, Vior NM, Truman AW. Rapid and Robust Yeast-Mediated Pathway Refactoring Generates Multiple New Bottromycin-Related Metabolites. ACS Synth Biol 2018; 7:1211-1218. [PMID: 29694038 DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.8b00038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Heterologous expression of biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) represents an attractive route to the production of new natural products, but is often hampered by poor yields. It is therefore important to develop tools that enable rapid refactoring, gene insertion/deletion, and targeted mutations in BGCs. Ideally, these tools should be highly efficient, affordable, accessible, marker free, and flexible for use with a wide range of BGCs. Here, we present a one-step yeast-based method that enables efficient, cheap, and flexible modifications to BGCs. Using the BGC for the antibiotic bottromycin, we showcase multiple modifications including refactoring, gene deletions and targeted mutations. This facilitated the construction of an inducible, riboswitch-controlled pathway that achieved a 120-fold increase in pathway productivity in a heterologous streptomycete host. Additionally, an unexpected biosynthetic bottleneck resulted in the production of a suite of new bottromycin-related metabolites.
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- Tom H. Eyles
- Department of Molecular Microbiology, John Innes Centre, Norwich, NR4 7UH, U.K
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology, John Innes Centre, Norwich, NR4 7UH, U.K
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology, John Innes Centre, Norwich, NR4 7UH, U.K
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Sun D, Liu C, Zhu J, Liu W. Connecting Metabolic Pathways: Sigma Factors in Streptomyces spp. Front Microbiol 2017; 8:2546. [PMID: 29312231 PMCID: PMC5742136 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.02546] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2017] [Accepted: 12/07/2017] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
The gram-positive filamentous bacterium Streptomyces is one of the largest resources for bioactive metabolites, particularly antibiotics. Antibiotic production and other metabolic processes are tightly regulated at the transcriptional level. Sigma (σ) factors are components of bacterial RNA polymerases that determine promoter specificity. In Streptomyces, σ factors also play essential roles in signal transduction and in regulatory networks, thereby assisting in their survival in complex environments. However, our current understanding of σ factors in Streptomyces is still limited. In this mini-review, we demonstrate the roles of Streptomyces σ factors, illustrating that these serve as linkers of different metabolic pathways. Further investigations on σ factors may improve our knowledge of Streptomyces physiology and benefit exploitation of Streptomyces resources.
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- Di Sun
- School of Life Sciences, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou, China
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Li J, Li Y, Niu G, Guo H, Qiu Y, Lin Z, Liu W, Tan H. NosP-Regulated Nosiheptide Production Responds to Both Peptidyl and Small-Molecule Ligands Derived from the Precursor Peptide. Cell Chem Biol 2017; 25:143-153.e4. [PMID: 29198568 DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2017.10.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2017] [Revised: 09/26/2017] [Accepted: 10/30/2017] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Nosiheptide, an archetypal member of thiopeptide antibiotics, arises from post-translational modifications of a ribosomally synthesized precursor peptide that contains an N-terminal leader peptide (LP) sequence and a C-terminal core peptide (CP) sequence. Despite extensive efforts concerning the biosynthesis of thiopeptide antibiotics, the regulatory mechanisms in this process remain poorly understood. Using the nosiheptide-producing Streptomyces actuosus strain as a model system, we report here that NosP, a Streptomyces antibiotic regulatory protein, serves as the only cluster-situated regulator and activates the transcription of all structural genes, which are organized into two divergently transcribed operons in the nos cluster, by binding to their intergenic region. NocP, the counterpart of NosP in Nocardia sp., regulates the production of structurally related nocathiacin I in a similar manner. NosP activity senses the nosiheptide biosynthetic process by interactions with both peptidyl and small-molecule ligands that result from the LP and CP parts of the precursor peptide, respectively.
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- Jingjing Li
- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; Biotechnology Research Center, Southwest University, No. 2 Tiansheng Road, Chongqing 400716, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioorganic and Natural Products Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioorganic and Natural Products Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioorganic and Natural Products Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioorganic and Natural Products Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China; Huzhou Center of Bio-Synthetic Innovation, 1366 Hongfeng Road, Huzhou 313000, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China.
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Xu J, Zhang J, Zhuo J, Li Y, Tian Y, Tan H. Activation and mechanism of a cryptic oviedomycin gene cluster via the disruption of a global regulatory gene, adpA, in Streptomyces ansochromogenes. J Biol Chem 2017; 292:19708-19720. [PMID: 28972184 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m117.809145] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2017] [Revised: 09/13/2017] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
Abstract
Genome sequencing analysis has revealed at least 35 clusters of likely biosynthetic genes for secondary metabolites in Streptomyces ansochromogenes. Disruption of adpA encoding a global regulator (AdpA) resulted in the failure of nikkomycin production, whereas other antibacterial activities against Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus cereus, and Bacillus subtilis were observed with the fermentation broth of ΔadpA but not with that of the wild-type strain. Transcriptional analysis showed that a cryptic gene cluster (pks7), which shows high identity with an oviedomycin biosynthetic gene cluster (ovm), was activated in ΔadpA. The corresponding product of pks7 was characterized as oviedomycin by MS and NMR spectroscopy. To understand the molecular mechanism of ovm activation, the roles of six regulatory genes situated in the ovm cluster were investigated. Among them, proteins encoded by co-transcribed genes ovmZ and ovmW are positive regulators of ovm AdpA directly represses the transcription of ovmZ and ovmW Co-overexpression of ovmZ and ovmW can relieve the repression of AdpA on ovm transcription and effectively activate oviedomycin biosynthesis. The promoter of ovmOI-ovmH is identified as the direct target of OvmZ and OvmW. This is the first report that AdpA can simultaneously activate nikkomycin biosynthesis but repress oviedomycin biosynthesis in one strain. Our findings provide an effective strategy that is able to activate cryptic secondary metabolite gene clusters by genetic manipulation of global regulatory genes.
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- Jingjing Xu
- From the State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China and.,the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China
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- From the State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China and
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- From the State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China and.,the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China
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- From the State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China and
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- From the State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China and .,the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China
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- From the State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China and .,the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China
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Niu G, Zheng J, Tan H. Biosynthesis and combinatorial biosynthesis of antifungal nucleoside antibiotics. SCIENCE CHINA-LIFE SCIENCES 2017; 60:939-947. [DOI: 10.1007/s11427-017-9116-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2017] [Accepted: 05/08/2017] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Gao W, Wu Z, Sun J, Ni X, Xia H. Modulation of kanamycin B and kanamycin A biosynthesis in Streptomyces kanamyceticus via metabolic engineering. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0181971. [PMID: 28753625 PMCID: PMC5533434 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0181971] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2017] [Accepted: 07/10/2017] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Both kanamycin A and kanamycin B, antibiotic components produced by Streptomyces kanamyceticus, have medical value. Two different pathways for kanamycin biosynthesis have been reported by two research groups. In this study, to obtain an optimal kanamycin A-producing strain and a kanamycin B-high-yield strain, we first examined the native kanamycin biosynthetic pathway in vivo. Based on the proposed parallel biosynthetic pathway, kanN disruption should lead to kanamycin A accumulation; however, the kanN-disruption strain produced neither kanamycin A nor kanamycin B. We then tested the function of kanJ and kanK. The main metabolite of the kanJ-disruption strain was identified as kanamycin B. These results clarified that kanamycin biosynthesis does not proceed through the parallel pathway and that synthesis of kanamycin A from kanamycin B is catalyzed by KanJ and KanK in S. kanamyceticus. As expected, the kanamycin B yield of the kanJ-disruption strain was 3268±255 μg/mL, 12-fold higher than that of the original strain. To improve the purity of kanamycin A and reduce the yield of kanamycin B in the fermentation broth, four different kanJ- and kanK-overexpressing strains were constructed through either homologous recombination or site-specific integration. The overexpressing strain containing three copies of kanJ and kanK in its genome exhibited the lowest kanamycin B yield (128±20 μg/mL), which was 54% lower than that of the original strain. Our experimental results demonstrate that kanamycin A is derived from KanJ-and-KanK-catalyzed conversion of kanamycin B in S. kanamyceticus. Moreover, based on the clarified biosynthetic pathway, we obtained a kanamycin B-high-yield strain and an optimized kanamycin A-producing strain with minimal byproduct.
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- Wenli Gao
- School of Life Science and Biopharmaceutics, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, No.103 Wenhua Road, Shenyang, Liaoning, China
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- School of Life Science and Biopharmaceutics, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, No.103 Wenhua Road, Shenyang, Liaoning, China
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- School of Life Science and Biopharmaceutics, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, No.103 Wenhua Road, Shenyang, Liaoning, China
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- School of Life Science and Biopharmaceutics, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, No.103 Wenhua Road, Shenyang, Liaoning, China
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- School of Life Science and Biopharmaceutics, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, No.103 Wenhua Road, Shenyang, Liaoning, China
- * E-mail: (HX); (XN)
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Nature's combinatorial biosynthesis and recently engineered production of nucleoside antibiotics in Streptomyces. World J Microbiol Biotechnol 2017; 33:66. [PMID: 28260195 DOI: 10.1007/s11274-017-2233-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2016] [Accepted: 02/22/2017] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Modified nucleosides produced by Streptomyces and related actinomycetes are widely used in agriculture and medicine as antibacterial, antifungal, anticancer and antiviral agents. These specialized small-molecule metabolites are biosynthesized by complex enzymatic machineries encoded within gene clusters in the genome. The past decade has witnessed a burst of reports defining the key metabolic processes involved in the biosynthesis of several distinct families of nucleoside antibiotics. Furthermore, genome sequencing of various Streptomyces species has dramatically increased over recent years. Potential biosynthetic gene clusters for novel nucleoside antibiotics are now apparent by analysis of these genomes. Here we revisit strategies for production improvement of nucleoside antibiotics that have defined mechanisms of action, and are in clinical or agricultural use. We summarize the progress for genetically manipulating biosynthetic pathways for structural diversification of nucleoside antibiotics. Microorganism-based biosynthetic examples are provided and organized under genetic principles and metabolic engineering guidelines. We show perspectives on the future of combinatorial biosynthesis, and present a working model for discovery of novel nucleoside natural products in Streptomyces.
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Wei J, Tian J, Pan G, Xie J, Bao J, Zhou Z. Development and application of a T7 RNA polymerase-dependent expression system for antibiotic production improvement in Streptomyces. Biotechnol Lett 2017; 39:857-864. [PMID: 28247198 DOI: 10.1007/s10529-017-2309-2] [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: 01/20/2017] [Accepted: 02/15/2017] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To develop a reliable and easy to use expression system for antibiotic production improvement of Streptomyces. RESULTS A two-compound T7 RNA polymerase-dependent gene expression system was developed to fulfill this demand. In this system, the T7 RNA polymerase coding sequence was optimized based on the codon usage of Streptomyces coelicolor. To evaluate the functionality of this system, we constructed an activator gene overexpression strain for enhancement of actinorhodin production. By overexpression of the positive regulator actII-ORF4 with this system, the maximum actinorhodin yield of engineered strain was 15-fold higher and the fermentation time was decreased by 48 h. CONCLUSION The modified two-compound T7 expression system improves both antibiotic production and accelerates the fermentation process in Streptomyces. This provides a general and useful strategy for strain improvement of important antibiotic producing Streptomyces strains.
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- Junhong Wei
- State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China.,School of Life Science, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China.,School of Life Science, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China.,School of Life Science, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China.,School of Life Science, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China.,School of Life Science, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China. .,School of Life Science, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China. .,Colleges of Life Science, Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing, 400047, China.
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Rebets Y, Kormanec J, Luzhetskyy A, Bernaerts K, Anné J. Cloning and Expression of Metagenomic DNA in Streptomyces lividans and Subsequent Fermentation for Optimized Production. Methods Mol Biol 2017; 1539:99-144. [PMID: 27900687 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-6691-2_8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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The choice of an expression system for the metagenomic DNA of interest is of vital importance for the detection of any particular gene or gene cluster. Most of the screens to date have used the gram-negative bacterium Escherichia coli as a host for metagenomic gene libraries. However, the use of E. coli introduces a potential host bias since only 40 % of the enzymatic activities may be readily recovered by random cloning in E. coli. To recover some of the remaining 60 %, alternative cloning hosts such as Streptomyces spp. have been used. Streptomycetes are high-GC gram-positive bacteria belonging to the Actinomycetales and they have been studied extensively for more than 15 years as an alternative expression system. They are extremely well suited for the expression of DNA from other actinomycetes and genomes of high GC content. Furthermore, due to its high innate, extracellular secretion capacity, Streptomyces can be a better system than E. coli for the production of many extracellular proteins. In this article an overview is given about the materials and methods for growth and successful expression and secretion of heterologous proteins from diverse origin using Streptomyces lividans has a host. More in detail, an overview is given about the protocols of transformation, type of plasmids used and of vectors useful for integration of DNA into the host chromosome, and accompanying cloning strategies. In addition, various control elements for gene expression including synthetic promoters are discussed, and methods to compare their strength are described. Integration of the gene of interest under the control of the promoter of choice into S. lividans chromosome via homologous recombination using pAMR4-based system is explained. Finally a basic protocol for benchtop bioreactor experiments which can form the start in the production process optimization and upscaling is provided.
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- Yuriy Rebets
- Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Biology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
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- Actinobacteria Metabolic Engineering Group, Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany
- Department of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, KU Leuven (University of Leuven), Leuven, Belgium
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- Lab. Molecular Bacteriology, Department Microbiology and Immunology, Rega Institute, KU Leuven (University of Leuven), Box 1037, Herestraat 49, B-3000, Leuven, Belgium.
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Li H, Ye R, Lin G, Zhu D, Mao Q. Protein expression analysis of a high-demeclocycline producing strain of Streptomyces aureofaciens and the roles of CtcH and CtcJ in demeclocycline biosynthesis. BIORESOUR BIOPROCESS 2016. [DOI: 10.1186/s40643-016-0123-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Zhang Y, He H, Liu H, Wang H, Wang X, Xiang W. Characterization of a pathway-specific activator of milbemycin biosynthesis and improved milbemycin production by its overexpression in Streptomyces bingchenggensis. Microb Cell Fact 2016; 15:152. [PMID: 27604457 PMCID: PMC5015266 DOI: 10.1186/s12934-016-0552-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2016] [Accepted: 08/31/2016] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Milbemycins, a group of 16-membered macrolides with potent anthelminthic and insecticidal activity, are produced by several Streptomyces and used widely in agricultural, medical and veterinary fields. Milbemycin A3 and A4, the main components produced by Streptomyces bingchenggensis, have been developed as an acaricide to control mites. The subsequent structural modification of milbemycin A3/A4 led to other commercial products, such as milbemycin oxime, lepimectin and latidectin. Despite its importance, little is known about the regulation of milbemycin biosynthesis, which has hampered efforts to enhance milbemycin production via engineering regulatory genes. RESULTS milR, a regulatory gene in the milbemycin (mil) biosynthetic gene cluster of S. bingchenggensis, encodes a large ATP-binding regulator of the LuxR family (LAL family), which contains an ATPase domain at its N-terminus and a LuxR-like DNA-binding domain at the C-terminus. Gene disruption and genetic complementation revealed that milR plays an important role in the biosynthesis of milbemycin. β-glucuronidase assays and transcriptional analysis showed that MilR activates the expression of the milA4-E operon and milF directly, and activates the other mil genes indirectly. Site-directed mutagenesis confirmed that the ATPase domain is indispensable for MilR's function, and particularly mutation of the conserved amino acids K37A, D122A and D123A, led to the loss of MilR function for milbemycin biosynthesis. Overexpression of an extra copy of milR under the control of its native promoter significantly increased production of milbemycin A3/A4 in a high-producing industrial strain S. bingchenggensis BC04. CONCLUSIONS A LAL regulator, MilR, was characterized in the mil gene cluster of S. bingchenggensis BC04. MilR could activate milbemycin biosynthesis through direct interaction with the promoter of the milA4-E operon and that of milF. Overexpression of milR increased milbemycin A3/A4 production by 38 % compared with the parental strain BC04, suggesting that genetic manipulation of this activator gene could enhance the yield of antibiotics.
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- Yanyan Zhang
- State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, No. 2 Yuanmingyuan West Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100193, 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, No. 2 Yuanmingyuan West Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100193, China.,School of Life Science, Northeast Agricultural University, No. 59 Mucai Street, Xiangfang District, Harbin, 150030, 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, No. 2 Yuanmingyuan West Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100193, China.,School of Life Science, Northeast Agricultural University, No. 59 Mucai Street, Xiangfang District, Harbin, 150030, 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, No. 2 Yuanmingyuan West Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100193, China
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- School of Life Science, Northeast Agricultural University, No. 59 Mucai Street, Xiangfang District, Harbin, 150030, 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, No. 2 Yuanmingyuan West Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100193, China. .,School of Life Science, Northeast Agricultural University, No. 59 Mucai Street, Xiangfang District, Harbin, 150030, China.
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Zhang MM, Wang Y, Ang EL, Zhao H. Engineering microbial hosts for production of bacterial natural products. Nat Prod Rep 2016; 33:963-87. [PMID: 27072804 PMCID: PMC4963277 DOI: 10.1039/c6np00017g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Covering up to end 2015Microbial fermentation provides an attractive alternative to chemical synthesis for the production of structurally complex natural products. In most cases, however, production titers are low and need to be improved for compound characterization and/or commercial production. Owing to advances in functional genomics and genetic engineering technologies, microbial hosts can be engineered to overproduce a desired natural product, greatly accelerating the traditionally time-consuming strain improvement process. This review covers recent developments and challenges in the engineering of native and heterologous microbial hosts for the production of bacterial natural products, focusing on the genetic tools and strategies for strain improvement. Special emphasis is placed on bioactive secondary metabolites from actinomycetes. The considerations for the choice of host systems will also be discussed in this review.
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- Mingzi M Zhang
- Metabolic Engineering Research Laboratory, Science and Engineering Institutes, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
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Lv H, Li J, Wu Y, Garyali S, Wang Y. Transporter and its engineering for secondary metabolites. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2016; 100:6119-6130. [PMID: 27209041 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-016-7605-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2016] [Revised: 04/28/2016] [Accepted: 05/02/2016] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Secondary metabolites possess a lot of biological activities, and to achieve their functions, transmembrane transportation is crucial. Elucidation of their transport mechanisms in the cell is critical for discovering ways to improve the production. Here, we have summarized the recent progresses for representative secondary metabolite transporters and also the strategies for uncovering the transporter systems in plants and microbes. We have also discussed the transporter engineering strategies being utilized for improving the heterologous natural product production, which exhibits promising future under the guide of synthetic biology.
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- Huajun Lv
- Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200032, China
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- Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200032, China
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- Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200032, China
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- Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200032, China
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- Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200032, China.
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Natural and engineered biosynthesis of nucleoside antibiotics in Actinomycetes. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2016; 43:401-17. [DOI: 10.1007/s10295-015-1636-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2015] [Accepted: 05/15/2015] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Nucleoside antibiotics constitute an important family of microbial natural products bearing diverse bioactivities and unusual structural features. Their biosynthetic logics are unique with involvement of complex multi-enzymatic reactions leading to the intricate molecules from simple building blocks. Understanding how nature builds this family of antibiotics in post-genomic era sets the stage for rational enhancement of their production, and also paves the way for targeted persuasion of the cell factories to make artificial designer nucleoside drugs and leads via synthetic biology approaches. In this review, we discuss the recent progress and perspectives on the natural and engineered biosynthesis of nucleoside antibiotics.
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Ni X, Sun Z, Gu Y, Cui H, Xia H. Assembly of a novel biosynthetic pathway for gentamicin B production in Micromonospora echinospora. Microb Cell Fact 2016; 15:1. [PMID: 26729212 PMCID: PMC4700567 DOI: 10.1186/s12934-015-0402-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2015] [Accepted: 12/22/2015] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Background Isepamicin is a weakly toxic but highly active aminoglycoside antibiotic derivative of gentamicin B. Gentamicin B is a naturally occurring minor component isolated from Micromonospora echinospora. 2ʹ-NH2-containing gentamicin C complex is a dominant compound produced by wild-type M. echinospora; by contrast, 2ʹ-OH-containing gentamicin B is produced as a minor component. However, the biosynthetic pathway of gentamicin B remains unclear. Considering that gentamicin B shares a unique C2ʹ hydroxyl group with kanamycin A, we aimed to design a new biosynthetic pathway of gentamicin B by combining twelve steps of gentamicin biosynthesis and two steps of kanamycin biosynthesis. Results We blocked the biosynthetic pathway of byproducts and generated a strain overproducing JI-20A, which was used as a precursor of gentamicin B biosynthesis, by disrupting genK and genP. The amount of JI-20A produced in M. echinospora ∆K∆P reached 911 μg/ml, which was 14-fold higher than that of M. echinospora ∆P. The enzymes KanJ and KanK necessary to convert 2ʹ-NH2 into 2ʹ-OH from the kanamycin biosynthetic pathway were heterologously expressed in M. echinospora ΔKΔP to transform JI-20A into gentamicin B. The strain with kanJK under PermE* could produce 80 μg/ml of gentamicin B, which was tenfold higher than that of the wild-type strain. To enhance gentamicin B production, we employed different promoters and gene integration combinations. When a PhrdB promoter was used and kanJ and kanK were integrated in the genome through gene replacement, gentamicin B was generated as the major product with a maximum yield of 880 μg/ml. Conclusion We constructed a new biosynthetic pathway of high-level gentamicin B production; in this pathway, most byproducts were removed. This method also provided novel insights into the biosynthesis of secondary metabolites via the combinatorial biosynthesis. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12934-015-0402-6) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Xianpu Ni
- School of Life Science and Biopharmaceutics, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, No.103 Wenhua Road, Shenyang, Liaoning, China.
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- School of Life Science and Biopharmaceutics, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, No.103 Wenhua Road, Shenyang, Liaoning, China.
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- School of Life Science and Biopharmaceutics, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, No.103 Wenhua Road, Shenyang, Liaoning, China.
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- School of Life Science and Biopharmaceutics, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, No.103 Wenhua Road, Shenyang, Liaoning, China.
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- School of Life Science and Biopharmaceutics, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, No.103 Wenhua Road, Shenyang, Liaoning, China.
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Identification of novel tylosin analogues generated by a wblA disruption mutant of Streptomyces ansochromogenes. Microb Cell Fact 2015; 14:173. [PMID: 26525981 PMCID: PMC4630966 DOI: 10.1186/s12934-015-0359-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2015] [Accepted: 10/08/2015] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Background Streptomyces, as the main source of antibiotics, has been intensively exploited for discovering new drug candidates to combat the evolving pathogens. Disruption of wblA, an actinobacteria-specific gene controlling major developmental transition, can cause the alteration of phenotype and morphology in many species of Streptomyces. One wblA homologue was found in Streptomyces ansochromogenes 7100 by using the Basic Local Alignment Search Tool. It is interesting to identify whether novel secondary metabolites could be produced by the wblA disruption mutant as evidenced in other Streptomyces. Results The wblA disruption mutant of S. ansochromogenes 7100 (ΔwblA) was constructed by homologous recombination. ΔwblA failed to produce spores and nikkomycin, the major product of S. ansochromogenes 7100 (wild-type strain) during fermentation. Antibacterial activity against Staphylococcus aureus and Bacillus cereus was observed with fermentation broth of ΔwblA but not with that of the wild-type strain. To identify the antibacterial compounds, the two compounds (compound 1 and compound 2) produced by ΔwblA were characterized as 16-membered macrolides by mass spectrometry and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. The chemical structure of these compounds shows similarity with tylosin, and the bioassays indicated that the two compounds inhibited the growth of a number of gram-positive bacteria. It is intriguing that they displayed much higher activity than tylosin against Streptococcus pneumoniae. Conclusions Two novel tylosin analogues (compound 1 and 2) were generated by ΔwblA. Bioassays showed that compound 1 and 2 displayed much higher activity than tylosin against Streptococcus pneumoniae, implying that these two compounds might be used to widen the application of tylosin. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12934-015-0359-5) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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A Branch Point of Streptomyces Sulfur Amino Acid Metabolism Controls the Production of Albomycin. Appl Environ Microbiol 2015; 82:467-77. [PMID: 26519385 DOI: 10.1128/aem.02517-15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2015] [Accepted: 10/25/2015] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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Albomycin (ABM), also known as grisein, is a sulfur-containing metabolite produced by Streptomyces griseus ATCC 700974. Genes predicted to be involved in the biosynthesis of ABM and ABM-like molecules are found in the genomes of other actinomycetes. ABM has potent antibacterial activity, and as a result, many attempts have been made to develop ABM into a drug since the last century. Although the productivity of S. griseus can be increased with random mutagenesis methods, understanding of Streptomyces sulfur amino acid (SAA) metabolism, which supplies a precursor for ABM biosynthesis, could lead to improved and stable production. We previously characterized the gene cluster (abm) in the genome-sequenced S. griseus strain and proposed that the sulfur atom of ABM is derived from either cysteine (Cys) or homocysteine (Hcy). The gene product, AbmD, appears to be an important link between primary and secondary sulfur metabolic pathways. Here, we show that propargylglycine or iron supplementation in growth media increased ABM production by significantly changing the relative concentrations of intracellular Cys and Hcy. An SAA metabolic network of S. griseus was constructed. Pathways toward increasing Hcy were shown to positively impact ABM production. The abmD gene and five genes that increased the Hcy/Cys ratio were assembled downstream of hrdBp promoter sequences and integrated into the chromosome for overexpression. The ABM titer of one engineered strain, SCAK3, in a chemically defined medium was consistently improved to levels ∼400% of the wild type. Finally, we analyzed the production and growth of SCAK3 in shake flasks for further process development.
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Identification of novel mureidomycin analogues via rational activation of a cryptic gene cluster in Streptomyces roseosporus NRRL 15998. Sci Rep 2015; 5:14111. [PMID: 26370924 PMCID: PMC4572928 DOI: 10.1038/srep14111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2015] [Accepted: 08/18/2015] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Antimicrobial agents are urgently needed to tackle the growing threat of antibiotic-resistant pathogens. An important source of new antimicrobials is the large repertoire of cryptic gene clusters embedded in microbial genomes. Genome mining revealed a napsamycin/mureidomycin biosynthetic gene cluster in the chromosome of Streptomyces roseosporus NRRL 15998. The cryptic gene cluster was activated by constitutive expression of a foreign activator gene ssaA from sansanmycin biosynthetic gene cluster of Streptomyces sp. strain SS. Expression of the gene cluster was verified by RT-PCR analysis of key biosynthetic genes. The activated metabolites demonstrated potent inhibitory activity against the highly refractory pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and characterization of the metabolites led to the discovery of eight acetylated mureidomycin analogues. To our surprise, constitutive expression of the native activator gene SSGG_02995, a ssaA homologue in S. roseosporus NRRL 15998, has no beneficial effect on mureidomycin stimulation. This study provides a new way to activate cryptic gene cluster for the acquisition of novel antibiotics and will accelerate the exploitation of prodigious natural products in Streptomyces.
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Tao L, Ma Z, Xu X, Bechthold A, Bian Y, Shentu X, Yu X. EngineeringStreptomyces diastatochromogenes1628 to increase the production of toyocamycin. Eng Life Sci 2015. [DOI: 10.1002/elsc.201400239] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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- Libin Tao
- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Biometrology and Inspection & Quarantine; College of Life Sciences; China Jiliang University; Hangzhou Zhejiang Province China
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- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Biometrology and Inspection & Quarantine; College of Life Sciences; China Jiliang University; Hangzhou Zhejiang Province China
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- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Biometrology and Inspection & Quarantine; College of Life Sciences; China Jiliang University; Hangzhou Zhejiang Province China
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- Pharmazeutische Biologie und Biotechnologie; Institut für Pharmazeutische Wissenschaften; Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau; Freiburg Germany
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- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Biometrology and Inspection & Quarantine; College of Life Sciences; China Jiliang University; Hangzhou Zhejiang Province China
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- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Biometrology and Inspection & Quarantine; College of Life Sciences; China Jiliang University; Hangzhou Zhejiang Province China
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- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Biometrology and Inspection & Quarantine; College of Life Sciences; China Jiliang University; Hangzhou Zhejiang Province China
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Liu F, Xu D, Zhang Y, Zhu Y, Ye J, Zhang H. Identification of BagI as a positive transcriptional regulator of bagremycin biosynthesis in engineered Streptomyces sp. Tü 4128. Microbiol Res 2015; 173:18-24. [DOI: 10.1016/j.micres.2015.01.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2015] [Revised: 01/26/2015] [Accepted: 01/31/2015] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Niu G, Tan H. Nucleoside antibiotics: biosynthesis, regulation, and biotechnology. Trends Microbiol 2015; 23:110-9. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2014.10.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2014] [Revised: 10/15/2014] [Accepted: 10/22/2014] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Ma Z, Tao L, Bechthold A, Shentu X, Bian Y, Yu X. Overexpression of ribosome recycling factor is responsible for improvement of nucleotide antibiotic-toyocamycin in Streptomyces diastatochromogenes 1628. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2014; 98:5051-8. [PMID: 24509772 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-014-5573-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2013] [Revised: 01/23/2014] [Accepted: 01/25/2014] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Ribosome recycling factor (RRF), a product of the frr gene, is responsible for the dissociation of ribosomes from messenger RNA after the termination of translation. In order to overexpress frr gene in the toyocamycin (TM) producer Streptomyces diastatochromogenes 1628, we cloned and placed the gene under the control of the constitutive promoter PermE(*). The resulting plasmid pIB139-frr was integrated into the chromosome of S. diastatochromogenes 1628 by conducting intergeneric conjugation. The strain S. diastatochromogenes 1628 containing pIB139-frr (1628-FRR) showed a 33.3 % increase in cell growth and a 46 % increase in TM production compared to wild-type strain 1628 when cultivated in a 7 l fermentor. In addition, it was possible to shorten the fermentation time from 84 to 72 h. Furthermore, by conducting reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) analysis, we discovered that the transcriptional levels of regulatory gene adpA-sd, toyF, and toyG involved in TM biosynthesis were enhanced in S. diastatochromogenes 1628-FRR compared to S. diastatochromogenes 1628. In addition, by using a fluorescent intensity reporter system, which is based on the green fluorescent protein (GFP), and by using Western blot analysis, we revealed that overexpression of frr also strongly promoted protein biosynthesis in late growth phase. These findings confirmed that by increasing copy number of frr gene, it is a useful approach to improve antibiotic production.
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- Zheng Ma
- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Biometrology and Inspection and Quarantine, College of Life Sciences, China Jiliang University, Xueyuan Street, Xiasha Higher Education District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, 310018, China
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Heterologous expression of natural product biosynthetic gene clusters in Streptomyces coelicolor: from genome mining to manipulation of biosynthetic pathways. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2014; 41:425-31. [DOI: 10.1007/s10295-013-1348-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2013] [Accepted: 09/12/2013] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Heterologous gene expression is one of the main strategies used to access the full biosynthetic potential of actinomycetes, as well as to study the metabolic pathways of natural product biosynthesis and to create unnatural pathways. Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) is the most studied member of the actinomycetes, bacteria renowned for their prolific capacity to synthesize a wide range of biologically active specialized metabolites. We review here the use of strains of this species for the heterologous production of structurally diverse actinomycete natural products.
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GouR, a TetR family transcriptional regulator, coordinates the biosynthesis and export of gougerotin in Streptomyces graminearus. Appl Environ Microbiol 2013; 80:714-22. [PMID: 24242236 DOI: 10.1128/aem.03003-13] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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Gougerotin is a peptidyl nucleoside antibiotic. It functions as a specific inhibitor of protein synthesis by binding ribosomal peptidyl transferase and exhibits a broad spectrum of biological activities. gouR, situated in the gougerotin biosynthetic gene cluster, encodes a TetR family transcriptional regulatory protein. Gene disruption and genetic complementation revealed that gouR plays an important role in the biosynthesis of gougerotin. Transcriptional analysis suggested that GouR represses the transcription of the gouL-to-gouB operon consisting of 11 structural genes and activates the transcription of the major facilitator superfamily (MFS) transporter gene (gouM). Electrophoresis mobility shift assays (EMSAs) and DNase I footprinting experiments showed that GouR has specific DNA-binding activity for the promoter regions of gouL, gouM, and gouR. Our data suggested that GouR modulates gougerotin production by coordinating its biosynthesis and export in Streptomyces graminearus.
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Rebets Y, Brötz E, Tokovenko B, Luzhetskyy A. Actinomycetes biosynthetic potential: how to bridge in silico and in vivo? J Ind Microbiol Biotechnol 2013; 41:387-402. [PMID: 24127068 DOI: 10.1007/s10295-013-1352-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2013] [Accepted: 09/18/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Actinomycetes genome sequencing and bioinformatic analyses revealed a large number of "cryptic" gene clusters coding for secondary metabolism. These gene clusters have the potential to increase the chemical diversity of natural products. Indeed, reexamination of well-characterized actinomycetes strains revealed a variety of hidden treasures. Growing information about this metabolic diversity has promoted further development of strategies to discover novel biologically active compounds produced by actinomycetes. This new task for actinomycetes genetics requires the development and use of new approaches and tools. Application of synthetic biology approaches led to the development of a set of strategies and tools to satisfy these new requirements. In this review, we discuss strategies and methods to discover small molecules produced by these fascinating bacteria and also discuss a variety of genetic instruments and regulatory elements used to activate secondary metabolism cryptic genes for the overproduction of these metabolites.
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- Yuriy Rebets
- Helmholtz-Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland, Campus, Building C2.3, Saarbrücken, 66123, Germany
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Combined gene cluster engineering and precursor feeding to improve gougerotin production in Streptomyces graminearus. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2013; 97:10469-77. [DOI: 10.1007/s00253-013-5270-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2013] [Revised: 09/12/2013] [Accepted: 09/16/2013] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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