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CRISPR/Cas9-Mediated Multi-Locus Promoter Engineering in ery Cluster to Improve Erythromycin Production in Saccharopolyspora erythraea. Microorganisms 2023; 11:microorganisms11030623. [PMID: 36985197 PMCID: PMC10059589 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms11030623] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2023] [Revised: 02/10/2023] [Accepted: 02/22/2023] [Indexed: 03/05/2023] Open
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Erythromycins are a group of macrolide antibiotics produced by Saccharopolyspora erythraea. Erythromycin biosynthesis, which is a long pathway composed of a series of biochemical reactions, is precisely controlled by the type I polyketide synthases and accessary tailoring enzymes encoded by ery cluster. In the previous work, we have characterized that six genes representing extremely low transcription levels, SACE_0716-SACE_0720 and SACE_0731, played important roles in limiting erythromycin biosynthesis in the wild-type strain S. erythraea NRRL 23338. In this study, to relieve the potential bottlenecks of erythromycin biosynthesis, we fine-tuned the expression of each key limiting ery gene by CRISPR/Cas9-mediated multi-locus promoter engineering. The native promoters were replaced with different heterologous ones of various strengths, generating ten engineered strains, whose erythromycin productions were 2.8- to 6.0-fold improved compared with that of the wild-type strain. Additionally, the optimal expression pattern of multiple rate-limiting genes and preferred engineering strategies of each locus for maximizing erythromycin yield were also summarized. Collectively, our work lays a foundation for the overall engineering of ery cluster to further improve erythromycin production. The experience of balancing multiple rate-limiting factors within a cluster is also promising to be applied in other actinomycetes to efficiently produce value-added natural products.
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Guo S, Sun X, Li R, Zhang T, Hu F, Liu F, Hua Q. Two strategies to improve the supply of PKS extender units for ansamitocin P-3 biosynthesis by CRISPR-Cas9. BIORESOUR BIOPROCESS 2022; 9:90. [PMID: 38647752 PMCID: PMC10991131 DOI: 10.1186/s40643-022-00583-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2022] [Accepted: 08/15/2022] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Ansamitocin P-3 (AP-3) produced by Actinosynnema pretiosum is a potent antitumor agent. However, lack of efficient genome editing tools greatly hinders the AP-3 overproduction in A. pretiosum. To solve this problem, a tailor-made pCRISPR-Cas9apre system was developed from pCRISPR-Cas9 for increasing the accessibility of A. pretiosum to genetic engineering, by optimizing cas9 for the host codon preference and replacing pSG5 with pIJ101 replicon. Using pCRISPR-Cas9apre, five large-size gene clusters for putative competition pathway were individually deleted with homology-directed repair (HDR) and their effects on AP-3 yield were investigated. Especially, inactivation of T1PKS-15 increased AP-3 production by 27%, which was most likely due to the improved intracellular triacylglycerol (TAG) pool for essential precursor supply of AP-3 biosynthesis. To enhance a "glycolate" extender unit, two combined bidirectional promoters (BDPs) ermEp-kasOp and j23119p-kasOp were knocked into asm12-asm13 spacer in the center region of gene cluster, respectively, by pCRISPR-Cas9apre. It is shown that in the two engineered strains BDP-ek and BDP-jk, the gene transcription levels of asm13-17 were significantly upregulated to improve the methoxymalonyl-acyl carrier protein (MM-ACP) biosynthetic pathway and part of the post-PKS pathway. The AP-3 yields of BDP-ek and BDP-jk were finally increased by 30% and 50% compared to the parent strain L40. Both CRISPR-Cas9-mediated engineering strategies employed in this study contributed to the availability of AP-3 PKS extender units and paved the way for further metabolic engineering of ansamitocin overproduction.
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- Siyu Guo
- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai, 200237, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai, 200237, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai, 200237, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai, 200237, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai, 200237, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai, 200237, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai, 200237, China.
- Shanghai Collaborative Innovation Center for Biomanufacturing Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai, 200237, China.
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Gan Y, Bai M, Lin X, Liu K, Huang B, Jiang X, Liu Y, Gao C. Improvement of macrolactins production by the genetic adaptation of Bacillus siamensis A72 to saline stress via adaptive laboratory evolution. Microb Cell Fact 2022; 21:147. [PMID: 35854349 PMCID: PMC9294813 DOI: 10.1186/s12934-022-01871-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2022] [Accepted: 07/07/2022] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Macrolactins, a type of macrolide antibiotic, are toxic to the producer strains. As such, its level is usually maintained below the lethal concentration during the fermentation process. To improve the production of macrolactins, we applied adaptive laboratory evolution technology to engineer a saline-resistant mutant strain. The hypothesis that strains with saline resistance show improved macrolactins production was investigated. RESULTS Using saline stress as a selective pressure, we engineered a mutant strain with saline resistance coupled with enhanced macrolactins production within 60 days using a self-made device. As compared with the parental strain, the evolved strain produced macrolactins with 11.93% improvement in non-saline stress fermentation medium containing 50 g/L glucose, when the glucose concentration increased to 70 g/L, the evolved strain produced macrolactins with 71.04% improvement. RNA sequencing and metabolomics results revealed that amino acid metabolism was involved in the production of macrolactins in the evolved strain. Furthermore, genome sequencing of the evolved strain revealed a candidate mutation, hisDD41Y, that was causal for the improved MLNs production, it was 3.42 times higher than the control in the overexpression hisDD41Y strain. Results revealed that saline resistance protected the producer strain from feedback inhibition of end-product (macrolide antibiotic), resulting in enhanced MLNs production. CONCLUSIONS In the present work, we successfully engineered a mutant strain with enhanced macrolactins production by adaptive laboratory evolution using saline stress as a selective pressure. Based on physiological, transcriptomic and genetic analysis, amino acid metabolism was found to benefit macrolactins production improvement. Our strategy might be applicable to improve the production of other kinds of macrolide antibiotics and other toxic compounds. The identification of the hisD mutation will allow for the deduction of metabolic engineering strategies in future research.
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- Yuman Gan
- Institute of Marine Drugs, Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine, Guangxi, 530001, People's Republic of China.
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- Institute of Marine Drugs, Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine, Guangxi, 530001, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Marine Drugs, Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine, Guangxi, 530001, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Marine Drugs, Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine, Guangxi, 530001, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Marine Drugs, Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine, Guangxi, 530001, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Marine Drugs, Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine, Guangxi, 530001, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Marine Drugs, Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine, Guangxi, 530001, People's Republic of China.
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- Institute of Marine Drugs, Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine, Guangxi, 530001, People's Republic of China.
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Engineering of succinyl-CoA metabolism in view of succinylation regulation to improve the erythromycin production. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2022; 106:5153-5165. [PMID: 35821431 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-022-12060-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2022] [Revised: 06/24/2022] [Accepted: 06/26/2022] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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As a novel protein post-translational modification (PTM), lysine succinylation is widely involved in metabolism regulation by altering the activity of catalytic enzymes. Inactivating succinyl-CoA synthetase in Saccharopolyspora erythraea HL3168 E3 was proved significantly inducing the global protein hypersuccinylation. To investigate the effects, succinylome of the mutant strain E3ΔsucC was identified by using a high-resolution mass spectrometry-based proteomics approach. PTMomics analyses suggested the important roles of succinylation on protein biosynthesis, carbon metabolism, and antibiotics biosynthesis in S. erythraea. Enzymatic experiments in vivo and in vitro were further conducted to determine the succinylation regulation in the TCA cycle. We found out that the activity of aconitase (SACE_3811) was significantly inhibited by succinylation in E3ΔsucC, which probably led to the extracellular accumulation of pyruvate and citrate during the fermentation. Enzyme structural analyses indicated that the succinylation of K278 and K373, conservative lysine residues locating around the protein binding pocket, possibly affects the activity of aconitase. To alleviate the metabolism changes caused by succinyl-CoA synthetase inactivation and protein hypersuccinylation, CRISPR interference (CRISPRi) was applied to mildly downregulate the transcription level of gene sucC in E3. The erythromycin titer of the CRISPRi mutant E3-sucC-sg1 was increased by 54.7% compared with E3, which was 1200.5 mg/L. Taken together, this work not only expands our knowledge of succinylation regulation in the TCA cycle, but also validates that CRISPRi is an efficient strategy on the metabolic engineering of S. erythraea. KEY POINTS: • We reported the first systematic profiling of the S. erythraea succinylome. • We found that the succinylation regulation on the activity of aconitase. • We enhanced the production of erythromycin by using CRISPRi to regulate the transcription of gene sucC.
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Li X, Ke X, Qiao L, Sui Y, Chu J. Comparative genomic and transcriptomic analysis guides to further enhance the biosynthesis of erythromycin by an overproducer. Biotechnol Bioeng 2022; 119:1624-1640. [PMID: 35150130 DOI: 10.1002/bit.28059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2021] [Revised: 01/18/2022] [Accepted: 01/28/2022] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Omics approaches have been applied to understand the boosted productivity of natural products by industrial high-producing microorganisms. Here, with the updated genome sequence and transcriptomic profiles derived from high-throughput sequencing, we exploited comparative omics analysis to further enhance the biosynthesis of erythromycin in an industrial overproducer, Saccharopolyspora erythraea HL3168 E3. By comparing the genome of E3 with the wild type NRRL23338, we identified fragment deletions inside 56 coding sequences and 255 single nucleotide polymorphisms over the genome of E3. A substantial number of genomic variations were observed in genes responsible for pathways which were interconnected to the biosynthesis of erythromycin by supplying precursors/cofactors or by signal transduction. Furthermore, the transcriptomic data suggested that genes involved in the biosynthesis of erythromycin were significantly up-regulated constantly, whereas some genes in biosynthesis clusters of other secondary metabolites contained nonsense mutations and were expressed at extremely low levels. Through comparative transcriptomic analysis, L-glutamine/L-glutamate and 2-oxoglutarate were identified as reporter metabolites. Around the node of 2-oxoglutarate, genomic mutations were also observed. Based on the omics association analysis, readily available strategies were proposed to engineer E3 by simultaneously overexpressing sucB (coding for 2-oxoglutarate dehydrogenase E2 component) and sucA (coding for 2-oxoglutarate dehydrogenase E1 component), which increased the erythromycin titer by 71% compared to E3 in batch culture. This work provides more promising molecular targets to engineer for enhanced production of erythromycin by the overproducer. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
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- Xiaobo Li
- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, China
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Engineering the precursor pool to modulate the production of pamamycins in the heterologous host S. albus J1074. Metab Eng 2021; 67:11-18. [PMID: 34051369 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2021.05.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2021] [Revised: 04/30/2021] [Accepted: 05/09/2021] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Pamamycins, a group of polyketides originally discovered in Streptomyces alboniger, induce sporulation in Streptomyces and inhibit the growth of Gram-positive bacteria, Mycobacterium tuberculosis and fungi. The pamamycin biosynthetic gene cluster encodes 6 ketosynthases that utilize a variety of three-carbon to five-carbon CoA thioesters as starter and extender units. This promiscuity in production results in an up to 18 different derivatives during fermentation. For more-selective production and simplified purification, we aimed to modify the precursor supply to narrow the spectrum of the produced derivatives. Eight genes potentially responsible for the supply of two major precursors, 2-S-methylmalonyl-CoA and 2-S-ethylmalonyl-CoA, were identified using the NCBI Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) against the genome of the heterologous host S. albus J1074. Knockout mutants of the identified genes were constructed and their impact on intracellular CoA ester concentrations and on the production of pamamycins was determined. The created mutants enabled us to conclusively identify the ethylmalonyl-CoA supplying routes and their impact on the production of pamamycin. Furthermore, we gained significant information on the origin of the methylmalonyl-CoA supply in Streptomyces albus.
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Xu F, Ke X, Hong M, Huang M, Chen C, Tian X, Hang H, Chu J. Exploring the metabolic fate of propanol in industrial erythromycin-producing strain via 13C labeling experiments and enhancement of erythromycin production by rational metabolic engineering of Saccharopolyspora erythraea. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2021; 542:73-79. [PMID: 33497965 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2021.01.024] [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: 01/07/2021] [Accepted: 01/09/2021] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Propanol had been widely used as a precursor for erythromycin synthesis in industrial production. However, the knowledge on the exact metabolic fate of propanol was still unclear. In the present study, the metabolic fate of propanol in industrial erythromycin-producing strain Saccharopolyspora erythraea E3 was explored via 13C labeling experiments. An unexpected pathway in which propanol was channeled into tricarboxylic acid cycle was uncovered, resulting in uneconomic catabolism of propanol. By deleting the sucC gene, which encodes succinyl-CoA synthetase that catalyse a reaction in the unexpected propanol utilization pathway, a novel strain E3-ΔsucC was constructed. The strain E3-ΔsucC showed a significant enhancement in erythromycin production in the chemically defined medium compared to E3 (786.61 vs 392.94 mg/L). Isotopically nonstationary 13C metabolic flux analysis were employed to characterize the metabolic differences between Saccharopolyspora erythraea E3 and E3-ΔsucC. The results showed that compared with the starting strain E3, the fluxes of pentose phosphate pathway in E3-△sucC increased by almost 200%. The flux of the metabolic reaction catalyzed by succinyl-CoA synthetase in E3-ΔsucC was almost zero, while the glyoxylate bypass flux significantly increased. These new insights into the precursor utilization of antibiotic biosynthesis by rational metabolic engineering in Saccharopolyspora erythraea provided the new vision in increasing industrial production of secondary metabolites.
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- Feng Xu
- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai, 200237, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai, 200237, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai, 200237, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai, 200237, People's Republic of China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai, 200237, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai, 200237, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai, 200237, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai, 200237, People's Republic of China.
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Combined available nitrogen resources enhanced erythromycin production and preliminary exploration of metabolic flux analysis under nitrogen perturbations. Bioprocess Biosyst Eng 2019; 42:1747-1756. [DOI: 10.1007/s00449-019-02171-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2019] [Accepted: 07/07/2019] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Liu Y, Ren CY, Wei WP, You D, Yin BC, Ye BC. A CRISPR-Cas9 Strategy for Activating the Saccharopolyspora erythraea Erythromycin Biosynthetic Gene Cluster with Knock-in Bidirectional Promoters. ACS Synth Biol 2019; 8:1134-1143. [PMID: 30951293 DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.9b00024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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The regulation of biosynthetic pathways is a universal strategy for industrial strains that overproduce metabolites. Erythromycin produced by Saccharopolyspora erythraea has extensive clinical applications. In this study, promoters of the erythromycin biosynthesis gene cluster were tested by reporter mCherry. The SACE_0720 ( eryBIV)-SACE_0721 ( eryAI) spacer was selected as a target regulatory region, and bidirectional promoters with dual single guide RNAs (sgRNAs) were knocked-in using the clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-Cas9 method. qPCR results indicated that knock-in of Pj23119-PkasO, which replaced the native promoter, enabled biosynthetic gene cluster activation, with eryBIV and eryAI expression increased 32 and 79 times, respectively. High performance liquid chromatography results showed that, compared with the wild-type strain, the yield of erythromycin was increased (58.3%) in bidirectional promoter knock-in recombinant strains. On the basis of the activated strain Ab::Pj23119-PkasO, further investigation showed that CRISPR-based interference of sdhA gene affected erythromycin biosynthesis and cell growth. Finally, regulating the culture temperature to optimize the inhibition intensity of sdhA further increased the yield by 15.1%. In summary, this study showed that bidirectional promoter knock-in and CRISPR interference could regulate gene expression in S. erythraea. This strategy has potential application for biosynthetic gene cluster activation and gene regulation in Actinobacteria.
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- Yong Liu
- Laboratory of Biosystems and Microanalysis, State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering , East China University of Science and Technology , Shanghai 200237 , China
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- Institute of Engineering Biology and Health, Collaborative Innovation Center of Yangtze River Delta Region Green Pharmaceuticals, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences , Zhejiang University of Technology , Hangzhou 310014 , Zhejiang , China
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- Laboratory of Biosystems and Microanalysis, State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering , East China University of Science and Technology , Shanghai 200237 , China
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- Laboratory of Biosystems and Microanalysis, State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering , East China University of Science and Technology , Shanghai 200237 , China
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- Laboratory of Biosystems and Microanalysis, State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering , East China University of Science and Technology , Shanghai 200237 , China
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- Laboratory of Biosystems and Microanalysis, State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering , East China University of Science and Technology , Shanghai 200237 , China
- Institute of Engineering Biology and Health, Collaborative Innovation Center of Yangtze River Delta Region Green Pharmaceuticals, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences , Zhejiang University of Technology , Hangzhou 310014 , Zhejiang , China
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering , Shihezi University , Xinjiang 832000 , China
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Li L, Gong L, He H, Liu Z, Rang J, Tang J, Peng S, Yuan S, Ding X, Yu Z, Xia L, Sun Y. AfsR is an important regulatory factor for growth and butenyl-spinosyn biosynthesis of Saccharopolyspora pogona. ANN MICROBIOL 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s13213-019-01473-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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Liu Y, Wei WP, Ye BC. High GC Content Cas9-Mediated Genome-Editing and Biosynthetic Gene Cluster Activation in Saccharopolyspora erythraea. ACS Synth Biol 2018; 7:1338-1348. [PMID: 29634237 DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.7b00448] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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The overexpression of bacterial secondary metabolite biosynthetic enzymes is the basis for industrial overproducing strains. Genome editing tools can be used to further improve gene expression and yield. Saccharopolyspora erythraea produces erythromycin, which has extensive clinical applications. In this study, the CRISPR-Cas9 system was used to edit genes in the S. erythraea genome. A temperature-sensitive plasmid containing the PermE promoter, to drive Cas9 expression, and the Pj23119 and PkasO promoters, to drive sgRNAs, was designed. Erythromycin esterase, encoded by S. erythraea SACE_1765, inactivates erythromycin by hydrolyzing the macrolactone ring. Sequencing and qRT-PCR confirmed that reporter genes were successfully inserted into the SACE_1765 gene. Deletion of SACE_1765 in a high-producing strain resulted in a 12.7% increase in erythromycin levels. Subsequent PermE- egfp knock-in at the SACE_0712 locus resulted in an 80.3% increase in erythromycin production compared with that of wild type. Further investigation showed that PermE promoter knock-in activated the erythromycin biosynthetic gene clusters at the SACE_0712 locus. Additionally, deletion of indA (SACE_1229) using dual sgRNA targeting without markers increased the editing efficiency to 65%. In summary, we have successfully applied Cas9-based genome editing to a bacterial strain, S. erythraea, with a high GC content. This system has potential application for both genome-editing and biosynthetic gene cluster activation in Actinobacteria.
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- Yong Liu
- Laboratory of Biosystems and Microanalysis, State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering , East China University of Science and Technology , Shanghai 200237 , China
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- Laboratory of Biosystems and Microanalysis, State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering , East China University of Science and Technology , Shanghai 200237 , China
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- Laboratory of Biosystems and Microanalysis, State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering , East China University of Science and Technology , Shanghai 200237 , China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Yangtze River Delta Region Green Pharmaceuticals, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences , Zhejiang University of Technology , Hangzhou 310014 , Zhejiang , China
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PccD Regulates Branched-Chain Amino Acid Degradation and Exerts a Negative Effect on Erythromycin Production in Saccharopolyspora erythraea. Appl Environ Microbiol 2018; 84:AEM.00049-18. [PMID: 29439982 DOI: 10.1128/aem.00049-18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2018] [Accepted: 01/31/2018] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Branched-chain amino acid (BCAA) degradation is a major source of propionyl coenzyme A (propionyl-CoA), a key precursor of erythromycin biosynthesis in Saccharopolyspora erythraea In this study, we found that the bkd operon, responsible for BCAA degradation, was regulated directly by PccD, a transcriptional regulator of propionyl-CoA carboxylase genes. The transcriptional level of the bkd operon was upregulated 5-fold in a pccD gene deletion strain (ΔpccD strain) and decreased 3-fold in a pccD overexpression strain (WT/pIB-pccD), demonstrating that PccD was a negative transcriptional regulator of the operon. The deletion of pccD significantly improved the ΔpccD strain's growth rate, whereas pccD overexpression repressed WT/pIB-pccD growth rate, in basic Evans medium with 30 mM valine as the sole carbon and nitrogen source. The deletion of gdhA1 and the BcdhE1 gene (genes in the bkd operon) resulted in lower growth rates of ΔgdhA1 and ΔBcdhE1 strains, respectively, on 30 mM valine, further suggesting that the bkd operon is involved in BCAA degradation. Both bkd overexpression (WT/pIB-bkd) and pccD inactivation (ΔpccD strain) improve erythromycin production (38% and 64%, respectively), whereas the erythromycin production of strain WT/pIB-pccD was decreased by 48%. Lastly, we explored the applications of engineering pccD and bkd in an industrial high-erythromycin-producing strain. pccD deletion in industrial strain S. erythraea E3 (E3pccD) improved erythromycin production by 20%, and the overexpression of bkd in E3ΔpccD (E3ΔpccD/pIB-bkd) increased erythromycin production by 39% compared with S. erythraea E3 in an industrial fermentation medium. Addition of 30 mM valine to industrial fermentation medium further improved the erythromycin production by 23%, a 72% increase from the initial strain S. erythraea E3.IMPORTANCE We describe a bkd operon involved in BCAA degradation in S. erythraea The genes of the operon are repressed by a TetR regulator, PccD. The results demonstrated that PccD controlled the supply of precursors for biosynthesis of erythromycin via regulating the BCAA degradation and propionyl-CoA assimilation and exerted a negative effect on erythromycin production. The findings reveal a regulatory mechanism in feeder pathways and provide new strategies for designing metabolic engineering to increase erythromycin yield.
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Liu J, Chen Y, Wang W, Ren M, Wu P, Wang Y, Li C, Zhang L, Wu H, Weaver DT, Zhang B. Engineering of an Lrp family regulator SACE_Lrp improves erythromycin production in Saccharopolyspora erythraea. Metab Eng 2017; 39:29-37. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2016.10.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2016] [Revised: 10/05/2016] [Accepted: 10/25/2016] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Bilyk O, Luzhetskyy A. Metabolic engineering of natural product biosynthesis in actinobacteria. Curr Opin Biotechnol 2016; 42:98-107. [DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2016.03.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2016] [Revised: 03/03/2016] [Accepted: 03/11/2016] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Zhao M, Fan Y, Wei L, Hu F, Hua Q. Effects of the Methylmalonyl-CoA Metabolic Pathway on Ansamitocin Production in Actinosynnema pretiosum. Appl Biochem Biotechnol 2016; 181:1167-1178. [PMID: 27787765 DOI: 10.1007/s12010-016-2276-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2016] [Accepted: 10/02/2016] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Ansamitocins, which may have antitumor activity, are important secondary metabolites produced by Actinosynnema pretiosum sp. auranticum ATCC 31565. As one of the precursors for ansamitocin biosynthesis, methylmalonyl-CoA may be a critical metabolic node for secondary metabolism in A. pretiosum. In this study, we investigated two key enzymes related to the methylmalonyl-CoA metabolic pathway: methylmalonyl-CoA mutase (MCM) and propionyl-CoA carboxylase (PCC). For MCM, inactivation of the asm2277 gene (encoding the large subunit of MCM) resulted in 3-fold increase in ansamitocin P-3 (AP-3) production (reaching 70 mg/L) compared with that in wild-type A. pretiosum. The three genes responsible for PCC were asm6390, encoding propionyl-CoA carboxylase beta chain, and asm6229 and asm6396, which encoded biotin carboxylases, respectively. Heterogeneous overexpression of the amir6390 gene alone and concurrent overexpression of amir6390 with both amir6396 and amir6229 were carried out, and the resulting engineered strains could produce AP-3 at levels that were 1.6-fold and 3-fold (28.3 and 51.5 mg/L in flask culture, respectively) higher than that in the wild-type strain. These results suggested that eliminating the bypass pathways and favoring the precursor synthetic pathway could effectively increase ansamitocin production in A. pretiosum.
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- Mengjiang Zhao
- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai, 200237, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai, 200237, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai, 200237, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai, 200237, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai, 200237, China.
- Shanghai Collaborative Innovation Center for Biomanufacturing Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai, 200237, China.
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Chen C, Hong M, Chu J, Huang M, Ouyang L, Tian X, Zhuang Y. Blocking the flow of propionate into TCA cycle through a mutB knockout leads to a significant increase of erythromycin production by an industrial strain of Saccharopolyspora erythraea. Bioprocess Biosyst Eng 2016; 40:201-209. [DOI: 10.1007/s00449-016-1687-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2016] [Accepted: 09/23/2016] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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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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Karničar K, Drobnak I, Petek M, Magdevska V, Horvat J, Vidmar R, Baebler Š, Rotter A, Jamnik P, Fujs Š, Turk B, Fonovič M, Gruden K, Kosec G, Petković H. Integrated omics approaches provide strategies for rapid erythromycin yield increase in Saccharopolyspora erythraea. Microb Cell Fact 2016; 15:93. [PMID: 27255285 PMCID: PMC4891893 DOI: 10.1186/s12934-016-0496-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2016] [Accepted: 05/25/2016] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Background Omics approaches have significantly increased our understanding of biological systems. However, they have had limited success in explaining the dramatically increased productivity of commercially important natural products by industrial high-producing strains, such as the erythromycin-producing actinomycete Saccharopolyspora erythraea. Further yield increase is of great importance but requires a better understanding of the underlying physiological processes. Results To reveal the mechanisms related to erythromycin yield increase, we have undertaken an integrated study of the genomic, transcriptomic, and proteomic differences between the wild type strain NRRL2338 (WT) and the industrial high-producing strain ABE1441 (HP) of S. erythraea at multiple time points of a simulated industrial bioprocess. 165 observed mutations lead to differences in gene expression profiles and protein abundance between the two strains, which were most prominent in the initial stages of erythromycin production. Enzymes involved in erythromycin biosynthesis, metabolism of branched chain amino acids and proteolysis were most strongly upregulated in the HP strain. Interestingly, genes related to TCA cycle and DNA-repair were downregulated. Additionally, comprehensive data analysis uncovered significant correlations in expression profiles of the erythromycin-biosynthetic genes, other biosynthetic gene clusters and previously unidentified putative regulatory genes. Based on this information, we demonstrated that overexpression of several genes involved in amino acid metabolism can contribute to increased yield of erythromycin, confirming the validity of our systems biology approach. Conclusions Our comprehensive omics approach, carried out in industrially relevant conditions, enabled the identification of key pathways affecting erythromycin yield and suggests strategies for rapid increase in the production of secondary metabolites in industrial environment. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12934-016-0496-5) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Acies Bio, d.o.o., Tehnološki park 21, SI-1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia.,Department of Synthetic Biology and Immunology, National Institute of Chemistry, Hajdrihova 19, SI-1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Department of Biotechnology and Systems Biology, National Institute of Biology, Večna pot 111, SI-1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Acies Bio, d.o.o., Tehnološki park 21, SI-1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Department of Biochemistry, Molecular and Structural Biology, Jožef Stefan Institute, Jamova cesta 39, SI-1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia.,International Postgraduate School Jožef Stefan, Jamova cesta 39, SI-1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Department of Biotechnology and Systems Biology, National Institute of Biology, Večna pot 111, SI-1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Department of Biotechnology and Systems Biology, National Institute of Biology, Večna pot 111, SI-1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Department of Food Science and Technology, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Jamnikarjeva 101, SI-1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Acies Bio, d.o.o., Tehnološki park 21, SI-1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Department of Biochemistry, Molecular and Structural Biology, Jožef Stefan Institute, Jamova cesta 39, SI-1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia.,Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, University of Ljubljana, Aškerčeva cesta 5, SI-1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia.,Centre of Excellence for Integrated Approaches in Chemistry and Biology of Proteins, Jamova cesta 39, SI-1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Department of Biochemistry, Molecular and Structural Biology, Jožef Stefan Institute, Jamova cesta 39, SI-1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia.,Centre of Excellence for Integrated Approaches in Chemistry and Biology of Proteins, Jamova cesta 39, SI-1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Department of Biotechnology and Systems Biology, National Institute of Biology, Večna pot 111, SI-1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Acies Bio, d.o.o., Tehnološki park 21, SI-1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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- Acies Bio, d.o.o., Tehnološki park 21, SI-1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia. .,Department of Food Science and Technology, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Jamnikarjeva 101, SI-1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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Lu C, Zhang X, Jiang M, Bai L. Enhanced salinomycin production by adjusting the supply of polyketide extender units in Streptomyces albus. Metab Eng 2016; 35:129-137. [PMID: 26969249 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2016.02.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2015] [Revised: 01/28/2016] [Accepted: 02/23/2016] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The anticoccidial salinomycin is a polyketide produced by Streptomyces albus and requires malonyl-CoAs, methylmalonyl-CoAs, and ethylmalonyl-CoAs for the backbone assembly. Genome sequencing of S. albus DSM 41398 revealed a high percentage of genes involved in lipid metabolism, supporting the high salinomycin yield in oil-rich media. Seven PKS/PKS-NRPS gene clusters in the genome were found to be actively transcribed and had been individually deleted, which resulted in significantly improved salinomycin production. However, a combined deletion of PKS-NRPS-2 and PKS-6 showed no further improvement. Whereas the concentrations of malonyl-CoA and methylmalonyl-CoA were increased, the concentration of ethylmalonyl-CoA remained low in the mutants. An endogenous crotonyl-CoA reductase gene (ccr) was overexpressed in the ΔPKS-NRPS-2/ΔPKS-6 mutant, resulting in improved production. Combination of cluster deletions and over-expression of ccr gene led to an overall titer improvement of salinomycin from 0.60 to 6.60g/L. This engineering strategy can be implemented for various natural polyketides production.
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- Chenyang Lu
- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism and School of Life Sciences & Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 200240, China; Joint International Research Laboratory of Metabolic & Developmental Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism and School of Life Sciences & Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 200240, China; Joint International Research Laboratory of Metabolic & Developmental Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism and School of Life Sciences & Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 200240, China; Joint International Research Laboratory of Metabolic & Developmental Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism and School of Life Sciences & Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 200240, China; Joint International Research Laboratory of Metabolic & Developmental Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China.
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Licona-Cassani C, Cruz-Morales P, Manteca A, Barona-Gomez F, Nielsen LK, Marcellin E. Systems Biology Approaches to Understand Natural Products Biosynthesis. Front Bioeng Biotechnol 2015; 3:199. [PMID: 26697425 PMCID: PMC4673338 DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2015.00199] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2015] [Accepted: 11/24/2015] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Actinomycetes populate soils and aquatic sediments that impose biotic and abiotic challenges for their survival. As a result, actinomycetes metabolism and genomes have evolved to produce an overwhelming diversity of specialized molecules. Polyketides, non-ribosomal peptides, post-translationally modified peptides, lactams, and terpenes are well-known bioactive natural products with enormous industrial potential. Accessing such biological diversity has proven difficult due to the complex regulation of cellular metabolism in actinomycetes and to the sparse knowledge of their physiology. The past decade, however, has seen the development of omics technologies that have significantly contributed to our better understanding of their biology. Key observations have contributed toward a shift in the exploitation of actinomycete’s biology, such as using their full genomic potential, activating entire pathways through key metabolic elicitors and pathway engineering to improve biosynthesis. Here, we review recent efforts devoted to achieving enhanced discovery, activation, and manipulation of natural product biosynthetic pathways in model actinomycetes using genome-scale biological datasets.
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- Cuauhtemoc Licona-Cassani
- Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN), The University of Queensland , Brisbane, QLD , Australia ; National Laboratory of Genomics for Biodiversity (LANGEBIO), Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (Cinvestav-IPN) , Irapuato , México
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- National Laboratory of Genomics for Biodiversity (LANGEBIO), Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (Cinvestav-IPN) , Irapuato , México
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- Departamento de Biología Funcional and Instituto Universitario de Oncología del Principado de Asturias (IUOPA), Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Oviedo , Oviedo , Spain
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- National Laboratory of Genomics for Biodiversity (LANGEBIO), Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (Cinvestav-IPN) , Irapuato , México
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- Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN), The University of Queensland , Brisbane, QLD , Australia
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- Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN), The University of Queensland , Brisbane, QLD , Australia
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Controlling the feed rate of propanol to optimize erythromycin fermentation by on-line capacitance and oxygen uptake rate measurement. Bioprocess Biosyst Eng 2015; 39:255-65. [PMID: 26615414 DOI: 10.1007/s00449-015-1509-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2015] [Accepted: 11/18/2015] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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The aim of the present study was to optimize the feeding proportion of glucose and propanol for erythromycin biosynthesis by real-time monitoring and exploring its limited ratio by the on-line multi-frequency permittivity measurement. It was found that the capacitance values were sensitive to the variation of biomass concentration and microbial morphology as well as the true state of cell growth. It was most favorable to both cell growth and secondary metabolism to keep the ratio of glucose to propanol at 4.3 (g/g). The specific growth rate calculated by the capacitance measurement correctly and accurately reflected the cell physiological state. An appropriate feed rate of propanol was crucial for cell growth and secondary metabolism, as well as to improve the quality of erythromycin-A. In addition, the erythromycin production titer (10,950 U/mL) was further enhanced by 4 % when the propanol feed was regulated by step-down strategy based on both OUR (oxygen uptake rate) and the on-line monitoring capacitance.
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Fedashchin A, Cernota WH, Gonzalez MC, Leach BI, Kwan N, Wesley RK, Weber JM. Random transposon mutagenesis of the Saccharopolyspora erythraea genome reveals additional genes influencing erythromycin biosynthesis. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2015; 362:fnv180. [PMID: 26468041 DOI: 10.1093/femsle/fnv180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 09/25/2015] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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A single cycle of strain improvement was performed in Saccharopolyspora erythraea mutB and 15 genotypes influencing erythromycin production were found. Genotypes generated by transposon mutagenesis appeared in the screen at a frequency of ~3%. Mutations affecting central metabolism and regulatory genes were found, as well as hydrolases, peptidases, glycosyl transferases and unknown genes. Only one mutant retained high erythromycin production when scaled-up from micro-agar plug fermentations to shake flasks. This mutant had a knockout of the cwh1 gene (SACE_1598), encoding a cell-wall-associated hydrolase. The cwh1 knockout produced visible growth and morphological defects on solid medium. This study demonstrated that random transposon mutagenesis uncovers strain improvement-related genes potentially useful for strain engineering.
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- Andrij Fedashchin
- Fermalogic, Research and Development, 4222 N. Ravenswood Avenue, Chicago, IL 60613, USA
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- Fermalogic, Research and Development, 4222 N. Ravenswood Avenue, Chicago, IL 60613, USA
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- Fermalogic, Research and Development, 4222 N. Ravenswood Avenue, Chicago, IL 60613, USA
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- Fermalogic, Research and Development, 4222 N. Ravenswood Avenue, Chicago, IL 60613, USA
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- Fermalogic, Research and Development, 4222 N. Ravenswood Avenue, Chicago, IL 60613, USA
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- Fermalogic, Research and Development, 4222 N. Ravenswood Avenue, Chicago, IL 60613, USA
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- Fermalogic, Research and Development, 4222 N. Ravenswood Avenue, Chicago, IL 60613, USA
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Shao ZH, Ren SX, Liu XQ, Xu J, Yan H, Zhao GP, Wang J. A preliminary study of the mechanism of nitrate-stimulated remarkable increase of rifamycin production in Amycolatopsis mediterranei U32 by RNA-seq. Microb Cell Fact 2015; 14:75. [PMID: 26041361 PMCID: PMC4453227 DOI: 10.1186/s12934-015-0264-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2015] [Accepted: 05/11/2015] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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Background Rifamycin is an important antibiotic for the treatment of infectious disease caused by Mycobacteria tuberculosis. It was found that in Amycolatopsis mediterranei U32, an industrial producer for rifamycin SV, supplementation of nitrate into the medium remarkably stimulated the yield of rifamycin SV. However, the molecular mechanism of this nitrate-mediated stimulation remains unknown. Results In this study, RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) technology was employed for investigation of the genome-wide differential gene expression in U32 cultured with or without nitrate supplementation. In the presence of nitrate, U32 maintained a high transcriptional level of genes both located in the rifamycin biosynthetic cluster and involved in the biosynthesis of rifamycin precursors, including 3-amino-5-dihydroxybenzoic acid, malonyl-CoA and (S)-methylmalonyl-CoA. However, when nitrate was omitted from the medium, the transcription of these genes declined sharply during the transition from the mid-logarithmic phase to the early stationary phase. With these understandings, one may easily propose that nitrate stimulates the rifamycin SV production through increasing both the precursors supply and the enzymes for rifamycin biosynthesis. Conclusion It is the first time to thoroughly illustrate the mechanism of the nitrate-mediated stimulation of rifamycin production at the transcriptional level, which may facilitate improvement of the industrial production of rifamycin SV, e.g. through optimizing the global rifamycin biosynthetic pathways on the basis of RNA-seq data. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12934-015-0264-y) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Zhi Hui Shao
- CAS Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 20032, China.
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 20032, China.
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 20032, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, New World Institute of Biotechnology, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200237, China.
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 20032, China.
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 20032, China. .,State Key Lab of Genetic Engineering and Center for Synthetic Biology, Department of Microbiology and Microbial Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200032, China. .,Shanghai-MOST Key Laboratory of Disease and Health Genomics, Chinese National Human Genome Center at Shanghai, Shanghai, 201203, China. .,Department of Microbiology and Li KaShing Institute of Health Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong Sar, China.
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 20032, China.
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Peano C, Damiano F, Forcato M, Pietrelli A, Palumbo C, Corti G, Siculella L, Fuligni F, Tagliazucchi GM, De Benedetto GE, Bicciato S, De Bellis G, Alifano P. Comparative genomics revealed key molecular targets to rapidly convert a reference rifamycin-producing bacterial strain into an overproducer by genetic engineering. Metab Eng 2014; 26:1-16. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2014.08.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2014] [Revised: 08/08/2014] [Accepted: 08/10/2014] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Kirm B, Magdevska V, Tome M, Horvat M, Karničar K, Petek M, Vidmar R, Baebler S, Jamnik P, Fujs Š, Horvat J, Fonovič M, Turk B, Gruden K, Petković H, Kosec G. SACE_5599, a putative regulatory protein, is involved in morphological differentiation and erythromycin production in Saccharopolyspora erythraea. Microb Cell Fact 2013; 12:126. [PMID: 24341557 PMCID: PMC3878487 DOI: 10.1186/1475-2859-12-126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2013] [Accepted: 12/10/2013] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Erythromycin is a medically important antibiotic, biosynthesized by the actinomycete Saccharopolyspora erythraea. Genes encoding erythromycin biosynthesis are organized in a gene cluster, spanning over 60 kbp of DNA. Most often, gene clusters encoding biosynthesis of secondary metabolites contain regulatory genes. In contrast, the erythromycin gene cluster does not contain regulatory genes and regulation of its biosynthesis has therefore remained poorly understood, which has for a long time limited genetic engineering approaches for erythromycin yield improvement. RESULTS We used a comparative proteomic approach to screen for potential regulatory proteins involved in erythromycin biosynthesis. We have identified a putative regulatory protein SACE_5599 which shows significantly higher levels of expression in an erythromycin high-producing strain, compared to the wild type S. erythraea strain. SACE_5599 is a member of an uncharacterized family of putative regulatory genes, located in several actinomycete biosynthetic gene clusters. Importantly, increased expression of SACE_5599 was observed in the complex fermentation medium and at controlled bioprocess conditions, simulating a high-yield industrial fermentation process in the bioreactor. Inactivation of SACE_5599 in the high-producing strain significantly reduced erythromycin yield, in addition to drastically decreasing sporulation intensity of the SACE_5599-inactivated strains when cultivated on ABSM4 agar medium. In contrast, constitutive overexpression of SACE_5599 in the wild type NRRL23338 strain resulted in an increase of erythromycin yield by 32%. Similar yield increase was also observed when we overexpressed the bldD gene, a previously identified regulator of erythromycin biosynthesis, thereby for the first time revealing its potential for improving erythromycin biosynthesis. CONCLUSIONS SACE_5599 is the second putative regulatory gene to be identified in S. erythraea which has positive influence on erythromycin yield. Like bldD, SACE_5599 is involved in morphological development of S. erythraea, suggesting a very close relationship between secondary metabolite biosynthesis and morphological differentiation in this organism. While the mode of action of SACE_5599 remains to be elucidated, the manipulation of this gene clearly shows potential for improvement of erythromycin production in S. erythraea in industrial setting. We have also demonstrated the applicability of the comparative proteomics approach for identifying new regulatory elements involved in biosynthesis of secondary metabolites in industrial conditions.
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- Acies Bio, d,o,o, Tehnološki park 21, SI-1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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Li YY, Chang X, Yu WB, Li H, Ye ZQ, Yu H, Liu BH, Zhang Y, Zhang SL, Ye BC, Li YX. Systems perspectives on erythromycin biosynthesis by comparative genomic and transcriptomic analyses of S. erythraea E3 and NRRL23338 strains. BMC Genomics 2013; 14:523. [PMID: 23902230 PMCID: PMC3733707 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-523] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2013] [Accepted: 07/26/2013] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Background S. erythraea is a Gram-positive filamentous bacterium used for the industrial-scale production of erythromycin A which is of high clinical importance. In this work, we sequenced the whole genome of a high-producing strain (E3) obtained by random mutagenesis and screening from the wild-type strain NRRL23338, and examined time-series expression profiles of both E3 and NRRL23338. Based on the genomic data and transcriptpmic data of these two strains, we carried out comparative analysis of high-producing strain and wild-type strain at both the genomic level and the transcriptomic level. Results We observed a large number of genetic variants including 60 insertions, 46 deletions and 584 single nucleotide variations (SNV) in E3 in comparison with NRRL23338, and the analysis of time series transcriptomic data indicated that the genes involved in erythromycin biosynthesis and feeder pathways were significantly up-regulated during the 60 hours time-course. According to our data, BldD, a previously identified ery cluster regulator, did not show any positive correlations with the expression of ery cluster, suggesting the existence of alternative regulation mechanisms of erythromycin synthesis in S. erythraea. Several potential regulators were then proposed by integration analysis of genomic and transcriptomic data. Conclusion This is a demonstration of the functional comparative genomics between an industrial S. erythraea strain and the wild-type strain. These findings help to understand the global regulation mechanisms of erythromycin biosynthesis in S. erythraea, providing useful clues for genetic and metabolic engineering in the future.
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Enhancement of FK506 production by engineering secondary pathways of Streptomyces tsukubaensis and exogenous feeding strategies. J Ind Microbiol Biotechnol 2013; 40:1023-37. [PMID: 23779221 DOI: 10.1007/s10295-013-1301-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2013] [Accepted: 05/29/2013] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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FK506 is a clinically important macrocyclic polyketide with immunosuppressive activity produced by Streptomyces tsukubaensis. However, the low titer at which it is produced is a bottleneck to its application and use in industrial processes. We have overexpressed five potential targets associated with FK506 production (fkbO, fkbL, fkbP, fkbM, fkbD) which were identified in our previous study, with the aim to improve FK506 production. The results of the analysis showed that the constructed strains with an additional copy of each gene increased FK506 production by approximately 10-40 % compared with the wild-type strain D852. The results of the gene expression analysis indicated that each gene was upregulated. Combinatorial overexpression of the five genes resulted in a 146 % increase in the FK506 titer to 353.2 mg/L, in comparison with the titer produced by D852. To further improve the production of FK506 by the engineered strain HT-FKBOPLMD, we supplemented the medium with various nutrients, including soybean oil, lactate, succinate, shikimate, chorismate, lysine, pipecolate, isoleucine and valine. Optimization of feeding concentrations and times resulted in HT-FKBOPLMD being able to produce approximately 70 % more FK506, thereby reaching the maximal titer of 457.5 mg/L, with lower amounts of by-products (FK520 and 37,38-dihydro-FK506). These results demonstrate that the combination of the metabolically engineered secondary pathways and the exogenous feeding strategies developed here was able to be successfully applied to improve the production of industrially and clinically important compounds.
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Zhao S, Huang D, Qi H, Wen J, Jia X. Comparative metabolic profiling-based improvement of rapamycin production by Streptomyces hygroscopicus. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2013; 97:5329-41. [PMID: 23604534 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-013-4852-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2012] [Revised: 03/07/2013] [Accepted: 03/11/2013] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Rapamycin is a clinically important macrocyclic polyketide with immunosuppressive activity produced by Streptomyces hygroscopicus. To rationally guide the improvement of rapamycin production, comparative metabolic profiling analysis was performed in this work to investigate the intracellular metabolic changes in S. hygroscopicus U1-6E7 fermentation in medium M1 and derived medium M2. A correlation between the metabolic profiles and rapamycin accumulation was revealed by partial least-squares to latent structures analysis, and 16 key metabolites that most contributed to the metabolism differences and rapamycin production were identified. Most of these metabolites were involved in tricarboxylic acid cycle, fatty acids, and shikimic acid and amino acids metabolism. Based on the analysis of key metabolites changes in the above pathways, corresponding exogenous addition strategies were proposed as follows: 1.0 g/L methyl oleate was added at 0 h; 1.0 g/L lysine was added at 12 h; 0.5 g/L shikimic acid was added at 24 h; 0.5 g/L sodium succinate, 0.1 g/L phenylalanine, 0.1 g/L tryptophan, and 0.1 g/L tyrosine were added at 36 h, successively, and a redesigned fermentation medium (M3) was obtained finally on the basis of M2. The production of rapamycin in M3 was increased by 56.6 % compared with it in M2, reaching 307 mg/L at the end of fermentation (120 h). These results demonstrated that metabolic profiling analysis was a successful method applied in the rational guidance of the production improvement of rapamycin, as well as other industrially or clinically important compounds.
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- Sumin Zhao
- Department of Biochemical Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, People's Republic of China
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Biotransformation and recovery of the isoflavones genistein and daidzein from industrial antibiotic fermentations. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2013; 97:6427-37. [PMID: 23604533 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-013-4839-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2012] [Revised: 03/06/2013] [Accepted: 03/07/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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The objective of this study was to follow the metabolic fate of isoflavone glucosides from the soybean meal in a model industrial fermentation to determine if commercially useful isoflavones could be harvested as coproducts from the spent broth at the end of the fermentation. The isoflavone aglycones, genistein, and daidzein together make up 0.1-0.2 % of the soybean meal by weight but serve no known function in the manufacturing process. After feeding genistein to washed cells of the erythromycin-producing organism, Saccharopolyspora erythraea, the first biotransformation product (Gbp1) was determined by X-ray crystallography to be genistein-7-O-α-rhamnoside (rhamnosylgenistein). Subsequent feeding of rhamnosylgenistein to growing cells of Saccharopolyspora erythraea led to the production of a second biotransformation product, Gbp2. Chromatographic evidence suggested that Gbp2 accumulated in the spent broth of the erythromycin fermentation. When the spent broth was hydrolyzed with acid or industrial enzyme preparations, the isoflavone biotransformation products were returned back to their parental forms, genistein and daidzein, which were then recovered as coproducts. Desirable features of this method are that it does not require modification of the erythromycin manufacturing process or genetic engineering of the producing organism to be put into practice. A preliminary investigation of five additional antibiotic fermentations of industrial importance also found isoflavone coproduct potential.
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Chen Y, Wang Z, Chu J, Zhuang Y, Zhang S, Yu X. Significant decrease of broth viscosity and glucose consumption in erythromycin fermentation by dynamic regulation of ammonium sulfate and phosphate. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2013; 134:173-9. [PMID: 23500575 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2013.02.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/01/2013] [Revised: 02/08/2013] [Accepted: 02/09/2013] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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In this study, the effects of nitrogen sources on broth viscosity and glucose consumption in erythromycin fermentation were investigated. By controlling ammonium sulfate concentration, broth viscosity and glucose consumption were decreased by 18.2% and 61.6%, respectively, whereas erythromycin biosynthesis was little affected. Furthermore, erythromycin A production was increased by 8.7% still with characteristics of low broth viscosity and glucose consumption through the rational regulations of phosphate salt, soybean meal and ammonium sulfate. It was found that ammonium sulfate could effectively control proteinase activity, which was correlated with the utilization of soybean meal as well as cell growth. The pollets formation contributed much to the decrease of broth viscosity. The accumulation of extracellular propionate and succinate under the new regulation strategy indicated that higher propanol consumption might increase the concentration of methylmalonyl-CoA and propionyl-CoA and thus could increase the flux leading to erythromycin A.
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- Yong Chen
- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, PR China
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Controlling the feed rate of glucose and propanol for the enhancement of erythromycin production and exploration of propanol metabolism fate by quantitative metabolic flux analysis. Bioprocess Biosyst Eng 2013; 36:1445-53. [PMID: 23361182 DOI: 10.1007/s00449-013-0883-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2012] [Accepted: 01/04/2013] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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In this paper, several different fermentation experiments were designed to address whether modulating glucose and propanol feeds could benefit the production level of erythromycin during pilot plant (30 L) fermentation. Results showed that glucose feed rate (determined by a set high or low culture pH) had no effect on erythromycin production, indicating that glucose was not the limiting factor for erythromycin biosynthesis under these conditions. It was found that decreasing glucose feed could stimulate the consumption of propanol, and the high erythromycin production (12.49 ± 0.50 mg ml⁻¹) was achieved by controlling the feed rates of glucose and propanol. The quantitative metabolic flux analysis disclosed that high propanol consumption increased the pool size of propionyl-CoA (~2.147 mmol g⁻¹ day⁻¹) and methylmalonyl-CoA (~1.708 mmol g⁻¹ day⁻¹). It was also found that 45-77 % of the propanol went into the TCA cycle which strengthened the conclusion that blocking the propionate pathway to TCA cycle could lead to a significant increase in erythromycin production in carbohydrate-based media (Reeves et al. Ind Microbiol Biotechnol 7:600-609, 2006). In addition, the results also suggested that a relative low intracellular ATP level resulting from low glucose feed did not limit the erythromycin biosynthesis, and a relatively high NADPH should be beneficial for erythromycin biosynthesis.
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Takahashi-Iñiguez T, García-Hernandez E, Arreguín-Espinosa R, Flores ME. Role of vitamin B12 on methylmalonyl-CoA mutase activity. J Zhejiang Univ Sci B 2012; 13:423-37. [PMID: 22661206 DOI: 10.1631/jzus.b1100329] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Vitamin B(12) is an organometallic compound with important metabolic derivatives that act as cofactors of certain enzymes, which have been grouped into three subfamilies depending on their cofactors. Among them, methylmalonyl-CoA mutase (MCM) has been extensively studied. This enzyme catalyzes the reversible isomerization of L-methylmalonyl-CoA to succinyl-CoA using adenosylcobalamin (AdoCbl) as a cofactor participating in the generation of radicals that allow isomerization of the substrate. The crystal structure of MCM determined in Propionibacterium freudenreichii var. shermanii has helped to elucidate the role of this cofactor AdoCbl in the reaction to specify the mechanism by which radicals are generated from the coenzyme and to clarify the interactions between the enzyme, coenzyme, and substrate. The existence of human methylmalonic acidemia (MMA) due to the presence of mutations in MCM shows the importance of its role in metabolism. The recent crystallization of the human MCM has shown that despite being similar to the bacterial protein, there are significant differences in the structural organization of the two proteins. Recent studies have identified the involvement of an accessory protein called MMAA, which interacts with MCM to prevent MCM's inactivation or acts as a chaperone to promote regeneration of inactivated enzyme. The interdisciplinary studies using this protein as a model in different organisms have helped to elucidate the mechanism of action of this isomerase, the impact of mutations at a functional level and their repercussion in the development and progression of MMA in humans. It is still necessary to study the mechanisms involved in more detail using new methods.
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- Tóshiko Takahashi-Iñiguez
- Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Institute of Biomedical Research, National Autonomous University of Mexico, D.F. 04510, Mexico.
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Application of a combined approach involving classical random mutagenesis and metabolic engineering to enhance FK506 production in Streptomyces sp. RM7011. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2012; 97:3053-62. [PMID: 23053074 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-012-4413-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2012] [Revised: 08/30/2012] [Accepted: 09/04/2012] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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FK506 production by a mutant strain (Streptomyces sp. RM7011) induced by N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine and ultraviolet mutagenesis was improved by 11.63-fold (94.24 mg/l) compared to that of the wild-type strain. Among three different metabolic pathways involved in the biosynthesis of methylmalonyl-CoA, only expression of propionyl-CoA carboxylase (PCC) pathway led to a 1.75-fold and 2.5-fold increase in FK506 production and the methylmalonyl-CoA pool, respectively, compared to those of the RM7011 strain. Lipase activity of the high FK506 producer mutant increased in direct proportion to the increase in FK506 yield, from low detection level up to 43.1 U/ml (12.6-fold). The level of specific FK506 production and lipase activity was improved by enhancing the supply of lipase inducers. This improvement was approximately 1.88-fold (71.5 mg/g) with the supplementation of 5 mM Tween 80, which is the probable effective stimulator in lipase production, to the R2YE medium. When 5 mM vinyl propionate was added as a precursor for PCC pathway to R2YE medium, the specific production of FK506 increased approximately 1.9-fold (71.61 mg/g) compared to that under the non-supplemented condition. Moreover, in the presence of 5 mM Tween 80, the specific FK506 production was approximately 2.2-fold (157.44 mg/g) higher than that when only vinyl propionate was added to the R2YE medium. In particular, PCC expression in Streptomyces sp. RM7011 (RM7011/pSJ1003) together with vinyl propionate feeding resulted in an increase in the FK506 titer to as much as 1.6-fold (251.9 mg/g) compared with that in RM7011/pSE34 in R2YE medium with 5 mM Tween 80 supplementation, indicating that the vinyl propionate is more catabolized to propionate by stimulated lipase activity on Tween 80, that propionyl-CoA yielded from propionate generates methylmalonyl-CoA, and that the PCC pathway plays a key role in increasing the methylmalonyl-CoA pool for FK506 biosynthesis in RM7011 strain. Overall, these results show that a combined approach involving classical random mutation and metabolic engineering can be applied to supply the limiting factor for FK506 biosynthesis, and vinyl propionate could be successfully used as a precursor of important methylmalonyl-CoA building blocks.
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Reconstruction of the Saccharopolyspora erythraea genome-scale model and its use for enhancing erythromycin production. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 2012; 102:493-502. [DOI: 10.1007/s10482-012-9783-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2012] [Accepted: 07/21/2012] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Cracan V, Banerjee R. Novel B(12)-dependent acyl-CoA mutases and their biotechnological potential. Biochemistry 2012; 51:6039-46. [PMID: 22803641 DOI: 10.1021/bi300827v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The recent spate of discoveries of novel acyl-CoA mutases has engendered a growing appreciation for the diversity of 5'-deoxyadenosylcobalamin-dependent rearrangement reactions. The prototype of the reaction catalyzed by these enzymes is the 1,2 interchange of a hydrogen atom with a thioester group leading to a change in the degree of carbon skeleton branching. These enzymes are predicted to share common architectural elements: a Rossman fold and a triose phosphate isomerase (TIM)-barrel domain for binding cofactor and substrate, respectively. Within this family, methylmalonyl-CoA mutase (MCM) is the best studied and is the only member found in organisms ranging from bacteria to man. MCM interconverts (2R)-methylmalonyl-CoA and succinyl-CoA. The more recently discovered family members include isobutyryl-CoA mutase (ICM), which interconverts isobutyryl-CoA and n-butyryl-CoA; ethylmalonyl-CoA mutase, which interconverts (2R)-ethylmalonyl-CoA and (2S)-methylsuccinyl-CoA; and 2-hydroxyisobutyryl-CoA mutase, which interconverts 2-hydroxyisobutyryl-CoA and (3S)-hydroxybutyryl-CoA. A variant in which the two subunits of ICM are fused to a G-protein chaperone, IcmF, has been described recently. In addition to its ICM activity, IcmF also catalyzes the interconversion of isovaleryl-CoA and pivalyl-CoA. This review focuses on the involvement of acyl-CoA mutases in central carbon and secondary bacterial metabolism and on their biotechnological potential for applications ranging from bioremediation to stereospecific synthesis of C2-C5 carboxylic acids and alcohols, and for production of potential commodity and specialty chemicals.
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- Valentin Cracan
- Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0600, USA
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Reeves AR, Weber JM. Metabolic engineering of antibiotic-producing actinomycetes using in vitro transposon mutagenesis. Methods Mol Biol 2012; 834:153-75. [PMID: 22144359 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-483-4_11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/09/2023]
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A program of mutation and screening, with stepwise reverse engineering or "decoding" of the improved strain, is a way to better understand the genetics and physiology of the strain improvement process. As more is learned about the genetics of strain improvement, it is hoped that more fundamental principles will emerge about the types of mutations and genetic manipulations that reliably lead to higher producing strains. This will accelerate the construction of higher producing strains by metabolic engineering in the future. In this chapter, a detailed tagged mutagenesis approach is described using in vitro transposon mutagenesis which allowed the successful identification of key genes involved in macrolide (erythromycin) antibiotic biosynthesis.
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Comparative genomics and transcriptional profiles of Saccharopolyspora erythraea NRRL 2338 and a classically improved erythromycin over-producing strain. Microb Cell Fact 2012; 11:32. [PMID: 22401291 PMCID: PMC3359211 DOI: 10.1186/1475-2859-11-32] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2011] [Accepted: 03/08/2012] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Background The molecular mechanisms altered by the traditional mutation and screening approach during the improvement of antibiotic-producing microorganisms are still poorly understood although this information is essential to design rational strategies for industrial strain improvement. In this study, we applied comparative genomics to identify all genetic changes occurring during the development of an erythromycin overproducer obtained using the traditional mutate-and- screen method. Results Compared with the parental Saccharopolyspora erythraea NRRL 2338, the genome of the overproducing strain presents 117 deletion, 78 insertion and 12 transposition sites, with 71 insertion/deletion sites mapping within coding sequences (CDSs) and generating frame-shift mutations. Single nucleotide variations are present in 144 CDSs. Overall, the genomic variations affect 227 proteins of the overproducing strain and a considerable number of mutations alter genes of key enzymes in the central carbon and nitrogen metabolism and in the biosynthesis of secondary metabolites, resulting in the redirection of common precursors toward erythromycin biosynthesis. Interestingly, several mutations inactivate genes coding for proteins that play fundamental roles in basic transcription and translation machineries including the transcription anti-termination factor NusB and the transcription elongation factor Efp. These mutations, along with those affecting genes coding for pleiotropic or pathway-specific regulators, affect global expression profile as demonstrated by a comparative analysis of the parental and overproducer expression profiles. Genomic data, finally, suggest that the mutate-and-screen process might have been accelerated by mutations in DNA repair genes. Conclusions This study helps to clarify the mechanisms underlying antibiotic overproduction providing valuable information about new possible molecular targets for rationale strain improvement.
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Weber JM, Cernota WH, Gonzalez MC, Leach BI, Reeves AR, Wesley RK. An erythromycin process improvement using the diethyl methylmalonate-responsive (Dmr) phenotype of the Saccharopolyspora erythraea mutB strain. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2011; 93:1575-83. [PMID: 22048617 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-011-3650-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2011] [Revised: 09/27/2011] [Accepted: 10/17/2011] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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The Saccharopolyspora erythraea mutB knockout strain, FL2281, having a block in the methylmalonyl-CoA mutase reaction, was found to carry a diethyl methylmalonate-responsive (Dmr) phenotype in an oil-based fermentation medium. The Dmr phenotype confers the ability to increase erythromycin A (erythromycin) production from 250-300% when the oil-based medium is supplemented with 15 mM levels of this solvent. Lower concentrations of the solvent stimulated proportionately less erythromycin production, while higher concentrations had no additional benefit. Although the mutB strain is phenotypically a low-level erythromycin producer, diethyl methylmalonate supplementation allowed it to produce up to 30% more erythromycin than the wild-type (control) strain-a strain that does not show the Dmr phenotype. The Dmr phenotype represents a new class of strain improvement phenotype. A theory to explain the biochemical mechanism for the Dmr phenotype is proposed. Other phenotypes found to be associated with the mutB knockout were a growth defect and hyper-pigmentation, both of which were restored to normal by exposure to diethyl methylmalonate. Furthermore, mutB fermentations did not significantly metabolize soybean oil in the presence of diethyl methylmalonate. Finally, a novel method is proposed for the isolation of additional mutants with the Dmr phenotype.
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- Fermalogic, Inc, 920 North Franklin Street, Chicago, IL 60610, USA.
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Toward improvement of erythromycin A production in an industrial Saccharopolyspora erythraea strain via facilitation of genetic manipulation with an artificial attB site for specific recombination. Appl Environ Microbiol 2011; 77:7508-16. [PMID: 21841022 DOI: 10.1128/aem.06034-11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Large-scale production of erythromycin A (Er-A) relies on the organism Saccharopolyspora erythraea, in which lack of a typical attB site largely impedes the application of phage ΦC31 integrase-mediated recombination into site-specific engineering. We herein report construction of an artificial attB site in an industrial S. erythraea strain, HL3168 E3, in an effort to break the bottleneck previously encountered during genetic manipulation mainly from homologous or unpredictable nonspecific integration. Replacement of a cryptic gene, nrps1-1, with a cassette containing eight attB DNA sequences did not affect the high Er-producing ability, setting the stage for precisely engineering the industrial Er-producing strain for foreign DNA introduction with a reliable conjugation frequency. Transfer of either exogenous or endogenous genes of importance to Er-A biosynthesis, including the S-adenosylmethionine synthetase gene for positive regulation, vhb for increasing the oxygen supply, and two tailoring genes, eryK and eryG, for optimizing the biotransformation at the late stage, was achieved by taking advantage of this facility, allowing systematic improvement of Er-A production as well as elimination of the by-products Er-B and Er-C in fermentation. The strategy developed here can generally be applicable to other strains that lack the attB site.
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A combined approach of classical mutagenesis and rational metabolic engineering improves rapamycin biosynthesis and provides insights into methylmalonyl-CoA precursor supply pathway in Streptomyces hygroscopicus ATCC 29253. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2011; 91:1389-97. [PMID: 21655985 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-011-3348-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2011] [Revised: 04/18/2011] [Accepted: 04/20/2011] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Rapamycin is a macrocyclic polyketide with immunosuppressive, antifungal, and anticancer activity produced by Streptomyces hygroscopicus ATCC 29253. Rapamycin production by a mutant strain (UV2-2) induced by ultraviolet mutagenesis was improved by approximately 3.2-fold (23.6 mg/l) compared to that of the wild-type strain. The comparative analyses of gene expression and intracellular acyl-CoA pools between wild-type and the UV2-2 strains revealed that the increased production of rapamycin in UV2-2 was due to the prolonged expression of rapamycin biosynthetic genes, but a depletion of intracellular methylmalonyl-CoA limited the rapamycin biosynthesis of the UV2-2 strain. Therefore, three different metabolic pathways involved in the biosynthesis of methylmalonyl-CoA were evaluated to identify the effective precursor supply pathway that can support the high production of rapamycin: propionyl-CoA carboxylase (PCC), methylmalonyl-CoA mutase, and methylmalonyl-CoA ligase. Among them, only the PCC pathway along with supplementation of propionate was found to be effective for an increase in intracellular pool of methylmalonyl-CoA and rapamycin titers in UV2-2 strain (42.8 mg/l), indicating that the PCC pathway is a major methylmalonyl-CoA supply pathway in the rapamycin producer. These results demonstrated that the combined approach involving traditional mutagenesis and metabolic engineering could be successfully applied to the diagnosis of yield-limiting factors and the enhanced production of industrially and clinically important polyketide compounds.
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Fermentation optimization and industrialization of recombinant Saccharopolyspora erythraea strains for improved erythromycin a production. BIOTECHNOL BIOPROC E 2011. [DOI: 10.1007/s12257-010-0020-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Zhang Q, Wu J, Qian J, Chu J, Zhuang Y, Zhang S, Liu W. Knocking out of tailoring genes eryK and eryG in an industrial erythromycin-producing strain of Saccharopolyspora erythraea leading to overproduction of erythromycin B, C and D at different conversion ratios. Lett Appl Microbiol 2010; 52:129-37. [PMID: 21175699 DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-765x.2010.02973.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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AIMS To overproduce erythromycin C, B or D and evaluate the effect of disruption of tailoring genes eryK and eryG in an industrial erythromycin producer. METHODS AND RESULTS The tailoring genes eryG and eryK were inactivated individually or simultaneously by targeted gene disruption in an industrial strain Saccharopolyspora erythraea HL3168 E3, resulting in the overproduction of erythromycin C (2·48 g l(-1) ), B (1·70 g l(-1) ) or D (2·15 g l(-1) ) in the mutant strain QL-G, QL-K or QL-KG, respectively. Analysis of the erythromycin congeners throughout the fermentation indicated that, at the end of fermentation, comparatively large amount of erythromycin D (0·67 g l(-1) ) was accumulated in QL-G, whereas only small amount of erythromycin D (0·10 g l(-1) ) was produced in QL-K. CONCLUSIONS Inactivation of tailoring genes eryG and eryK in the high producer did not affect the biosynthesis of erythromycin. However, erythromycin D could be more efficiently methylated by EryG than be hydroxylated by EryK. SIGNIFICANCE AND IMPACT OF THE STUDY Development of the mutant strains provides a method for the economical large-scale production of potent lead compounds. The information about the accumulation and conversion of erythromycins in the industrial strains may contribute to further improving erythromycin production.
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- Q Zhang
- East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
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Enhanced FK506 production in Streptomyces clavuligerus CKD1119 by engineering the supply of methylmalonyl-CoA precursor. J Ind Microbiol Biotechnol 2009; 36:1473-82. [PMID: 19756799 DOI: 10.1007/s10295-009-0635-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2009] [Accepted: 08/21/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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FK506 is a 23-membered polyketide macrolide with immunosuppressant activity produced by Streptomyces species. The production of FK506 in S. clavuligerus CKD1119 (KCTC 10561BP) was improved by enhancing the supply of biosynthetic precursors. This improvement was approximately 2.5-fold (15 mg/l) with the supplementation of 10 mM methyl oleate, which is the probable source of acyl-CoAs, to R2YE medium. When the level of FK506 production reached its maximum, the intracellular concentration of methylmalonyl-CoA in S. clavuligerus CKD1119 supplemented with methyl oleate was 12.5-fold higher than that of the unsupplemented strain, suggesting that an increased methylmalonyl-CoA level caused the high-level production of FK506. The following three pathways for the production of (2S)-methylmalonyl-CoA were evaluated to identify the effective precursor supply pathway that can support the high production of FK506 in S. clavuligerus CKD1119: propionyl-CoA carboxylase, methylmalonyl-CoA mutase (MCM), and malonyl/methylmalonyl-CoA ligase. Of the three pathways examined, the MCM pathway supported the highest levels of FK506 production. The expression of MCM in S. clavuligerus CKD1119 led to a threefold and 1.5-fold increase in the methylmalonyl-CoA pool and FK506 production, respectively. Supplementing the culture broth of S. clavuligerus CKD1119 expressing MCM with methyl oleate resulted in an additional twofold increase in the FK506 titer (17.8 mg/l). Overall, these results show that the methylmalonyl-CoA supply is a limiting factor for FK506 biosynthesis and that among the three pathways analyzed, the MCM pathway is the most effective precursor supply pathway supporting the highest titer of FK506 in S. clavuligerus CKD1119.
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Zou X, Hang HF, Chu J, Zhuang YP, Zhang SL. Enhancement of erythromycin A production with feeding available nitrogen sources in erythromycin biosynthesis phase. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2009; 100:3358-3365. [PMID: 19268575 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2009.01.064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2008] [Revised: 01/29/2009] [Accepted: 01/31/2009] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Effects of feeding different available nitrogen sources from 80 h in erythromycin biosynthesis phase on the erythromycin A (Er-A) production were investigated in 50 l fermenter. Feeding corn steep liquor and yeast extract, the Er-A production was enhanced, while the biotransformation from erythromycin C (Er-C) to Er-A had no increase. When ammonium sulphate was fed at high feeding rate, the maximal Er-A production and ratio of Er-A to Er-C were 7953 U/ml and 98.18:1 at 184 h, respectively, which were higher than that of the control (6742 U/ml and 5.47:1). The feeding ammonium sulphate process was successfully scaled up from 50 l to 25 m(3) fermenter. The maximal Er-A production reached 7938 U/ml at 203 h, which was enhanced by 22.1% compared with the control (6501 U/ml at 192 h). The ratio of Er-A to Er-C was 24.05:1, which was higher than that of the control (4.77:1).
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- Xiang Zou
- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, PR China
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Antibiotic overproduction by rpsL and rsmG mutants of various actinomycetes. Appl Environ Microbiol 2009; 75:4919-22. [PMID: 19447953 DOI: 10.1128/aem.00681-09] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Certain streptomycin resistance mutations (i.e., rpsL and rsmG) result in the overproduction of antibiotics in various actinomycetes. Moreover, rpsL rsmG double-mutant strains show a further increase in antibiotic production. rpsL but not rsmG mutations result in a marked enhancement of oligomycin production in Streptomyces avermitilis and erythromycin production in Saccharopolyspora erythraea, accompanied by increased transcription of a key developmental regulator gene, bldD, in the latter organism.
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Carata E, Peano C, Tredici SM, Ferrari F, Talà A, Corti G, Bicciato S, De Bellis G, Alifano P. Phenotypes and gene expression profiles of Saccharopolyspora erythraea rifampicin-resistant (rif) mutants affected in erythromycin production. Microb Cell Fact 2009; 8:18. [PMID: 19331655 PMCID: PMC2667423 DOI: 10.1186/1475-2859-8-18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2009] [Accepted: 03/30/2009] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND There is evidence from previous works that bacterial secondary metabolism may be stimulated by genetic manipulation of RNA polymerase (RNAP). In this study we have used rifampicin selection as a strategy to genetically improve the erythromycin producer Saccharopolyspora erythraea. RESULTS Spontaneous rifampicin-resistant (rif) mutants were isolated from the parental strain NRRL2338 and two rif mutations mapping within rpoB, S444F and Q426R, were characterized. With respect to the parental strain, S444F mutants exhibited higher respiratory performance and up to four-fold higher final erythromycin yields; in contrast, Q426R mutants were slow-growing, developmental-defective and severely impaired in erythromycin production. DNA microarray analysis demonstrated that these rif mutations deeply changed the transcriptional profile of S. erythraea. The expression of genes coding for key enzymes of carbon (and energy) and nitrogen central metabolism was dramatically altered in turn affecting the flux of metabolites through erythromycin feeder pathways. In particular, the valine catabolic pathway that supplies propionyl-CoA for biosynthesis of the erythromycin precursor 6-deoxyerythronolide B was strongly up-regulated in the S444F mutants, while the expression of the biosynthetic gene cluster of erythromycin (ery) was not significantly affected. In contrast, the ery cluster was down-regulated (<2-fold) in the Q426R mutants. These strains also exhibited an impressive stimulation of the nitrogen regulon, which may contribute to lower erythromycin yields as erythromycin production was strongly inhibited by ammonium. CONCLUSION Rifampicin selection is a simple and reliable tool to investigate novel links between primary and secondary metabolism and morphological differentiation in S. erythraea and to improve erythromycin production. At the same time genome-wide analysis of expression profiles using DNA microarrays allowed information to be gained about the mechanisms underlying the stimulatory/inhibitory effects of the rif mutations on erythromycin production.
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- Elisabetta Carata
- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies, University of Salento, 73100 Lecce, Italy.
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This review covers the biosynthesis of extender units that are utilized for the assembly of polyketides by polyketide synthases. The metabolic origins of each of the currently known polyketide synthase extender units are covered.
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- Yolande A. Chan
- Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
- Microbiology Doctoral Training Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI 53706, USA
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- Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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- Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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- Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
- Microbiology Doctoral Training Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI 53706, USA
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Polyketide natural products are among the most important microbial metabolites in human medicine and are widely used to treat both acute and degenerative diseases. The need to develop new drugs has prompted the idea of using heterologous systems for the expression of polyketide biosynthetic pathways. The basic idea behind this approach is to use heterologous bacterial systems with better growth and genetic characteristics that could support better production of a certain compound than the original host or that could allow the generation of novel analogues through combinatorial biosynthesis. Moreover, these hosts could be used to express "cryptic" secondary metabolic pathways or serve as surrogate hosts in metagenomics experiments in order to find potential new bioactive compounds. In this chapter we discuss recent advances in the heterologous production of polyketides in bacteria and describe some methodological improvements of the systems.
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- Eduardo Rodriguez
- Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Rosario (CONICET), Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Rosario, Argentina
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Knockout of the erythromycin biosynthetic cluster gene, eryBI, blocks isoflavone glucoside bioconversion during erythromycin fermentations in Aeromicrobium erythreum but not in Saccharopolyspora erythraea. Appl Environ Microbiol 2008; 74:7383-90. [PMID: 18836015 DOI: 10.1128/aem.01759-08] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Isoflavone glucosides are valuable nutraceutical compounds and are present in commercial fermentations, such as the erythromycin fermentation, as constituents of the soy flour in the growth medium. The purpose of this study was to develop a method for recovery of the isoflavone glucosides as value-added coproducts at the end of either Saccharopolyspora erythraea or Aeromicrobium erythreum fermentation. Because the first step in isoflavone metabolism was known to be the conversion of isoflavone glucosides to aglycones by a beta-glucosidase, we chose to knock out the only beta-glucosidase gene known at the start of the study, eryBI, to see what effect this had on metabolism of isoflavone glucosides in each organism. In the unicellular erythromycin producer A. erythreum, knockout of eryBI was sufficient to block the conversion of isoflavone glucosides to aglycones. In S. erythraea, knockout of eryBI had no effect on this reaction, suggesting that other beta-glucosidases are present. Erythromycin production was not significantly affected in either strain as a result of the eryBI knockout. This study showed that isoflavone metabolism could be blocked in A. erythreum by eryBI knockout but that eryBI knockout was not sufficient to block isoflavone metabolism in S. erythraea.
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Liu W, Zhang S, Chen Y, Deng W, Wu J. Improvement of Erythromycin a purity and production at the fermentation stage of Saccharopolyspora erytharea by metabolic engineering. J Biotechnol 2008. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2008.07.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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