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Bandeira L, Faria C, Cavalcante F, Mesquita A, Martins C, Martins S. Metabarcoding expands knowledge on diversity and ecology of rare actinobacteria in the Brazilian Cerrado. Folia Microbiol (Praha) 2024:10.1007/s12223-024-01184-x. [PMID: 38961050 DOI: 10.1007/s12223-024-01184-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2023] [Accepted: 06/17/2024] [Indexed: 07/05/2024]
Abstract
Rare and unknown actinobacteria from unexplored environments have the potential to produce new bioactive molecules. This study aimed to use 16 s rRNA metabarcoding to determine the composition of the actinobacterial community, particularly focusing on rare and undescribed species, in a nature reserve within the Brazilian Cerrado called Sete Cidades National Park. Since this is an inaccessible area without due legal authorization, it is understudied, and, therefore, its diversity and biotechnological potential are not yet fully understood, and it may harbor species with groundbreaking genetic potential. In total, 543 operational taxonomic units (OTUs) across 14 phyla were detected, with Actinobacteria (41.2%), Proteobacteria (26.5%), and Acidobacteria (14.3%) being the most abundant. Within Actinobacteria, 107 OTUs were found, primarily from the families Mycobacteriaceae, Pseudonocardiaceae, and Streptomycetaceae. Mycobacterium and Streptomyces were the predominant genera across all samples. Seventeen rare OTUs with relative abundance < 0.1% were identified, with 82.3% found in only one sample yet 25.5% detected in all units. Notable rare and transient genera included Salinibacterium, Nocardia, Actinomycetospora_01, Saccharopolyspora, Sporichthya, and Nonomuraea. The high diversity and distribution of Actinobacteria OTUs indicate the area's potential for discovering new rare species. Intensified prospection on underexplored environments and characterization of their actinobacterial diversity could lead to the discovery of new species capable of generating innovative natural products.
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- Leonardo Bandeira
- Ecology and Natural Resources, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil.
- Graduate Course of Ecology and Natural Resources, Department of Biology, Campus of Pici, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, 60440-900, Brazil.
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- Ecology and Natural Resources, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil
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- Biotechnology of Natural Resources, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil
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- Graduate Course of Ecology and Natural Resources, Department of Biology, Campus of Pici, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, 60440-900, Brazil
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- Graduate Course of Ecology and Natural Resources, Department of Biology, Campus of Pici, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, 60440-900, Brazil
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Clements-Decker T, Rautenbach M, Khan S, Khan W. Metabolomics and Genomics Approach for the Discovery of Serrawettin W2 Lipopeptides from Serratia marcescens NP2. JOURNAL OF NATURAL PRODUCTS 2022; 85:1256-1266. [PMID: 35438991 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.1c01186] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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A metabolomics/peptidomics and genomics approach, using UPLC-MSE, molecular networking, and genome mining, was used to describe the serrawettin W2 lipopeptide family produced by Serratia marcescens NP2. Seven known serrawettin W2 analogues were structurally elucidated along with 17 new analogues, which varied based on the first (fatty acyl length of C8, C10, C12, or C12:1), fifth (Phe, Tyr, Trp, or Leu/Ile), and sixth (Leu, Ile, or Val) residues. Tandem MS results suggested that the previously classified serrawettin W3 may be an analogue of serrawettin W2, with a putative structure of cyclo(C10H18O2-Leu-Ser-Thr-Leu/Ile-Val). Chiral phase amino acid analysis enabled the distinction between l/d-Leu and l-Ile residues within nine purified compounds. 1H and 13C NMR analyses confirmed the structures of four purified new analogues. Additionally, genome mining was conducted using Serratia genome sequences available on the NCBI database to identify the swrA gene using the antiSMASH software. NRPSpredictor2 predicted the specificity score of the adenylation-domain within swrA with 100% for the first, second, and third modules (Leu-Ser-Thr), 60-70% for the fourth module (Phe/Trp/Tyr/Val), and 70% for the fifth module (Val/Leu/Ile), confirming MSE data. Finally, antibacterial activity was observed for compounds 6 and 11 against a clinical Enterococcus faecium strain.
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- Tanya Clements-Decker
- Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Johannesburg, PO Box 17011, Doornfontein 2028, South Africa
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- BioPep Peptide Group, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X1, Stellenbosch 7602, South Africa
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- Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Johannesburg, PO Box 17011, Doornfontein 2028, South Africa
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X1, Stellenbosch 7602, South Africa
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Hu D, Lee SMY, Li K, Mok KM. Secondary Metabolite Production Potential of Mangrove-Derived Streptomyces olivaceus. Mar Drugs 2021; 19:332. [PMID: 34201365 PMCID: PMC8228178 DOI: 10.3390/md19060332] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2021] [Revised: 06/06/2021] [Accepted: 06/07/2021] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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Mangroves are intertidal extreme environments with rich microbial communities. Actinobacteria are well known for producing antibiotics. The search for biosynthetic potential of Actinobacteria from mangrove environments could provide more possibilities for useful secondary metabolites. In this study, whole genome sequencing and MS/MS analysis were used to explore the secondary metabolite production potential of one actinobacterial strain of Streptomyces olivaceus sp., isolated from a mangrove in Macau, China. The results showed that a total of 105 gene clusters were found in the genome of S. olivaceus sp., and 53 known secondary metabolites, including bioactive compounds, peptides, and other products, were predicted by genome mining. There were 28 secondary metabolites classified as antibiotics, which were not previously known from S. olivaceus. ISP medium 2 was then used to ferment the S. olivaceus sp. to determine which predicted secondary metabolite could be truly produced. The chemical analysis revealed that ectoine, melanin, and the antibiotic of validamycin A could be observed in the fermentation broth. This was the first observation that these three compounds can be produced by a strain of S. olivaceus. Therefore, it can be concluded that Actinobacteria isolated from the mangrove environment have unknown potential to produce bioactive secondary metabolites.
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- Dini Hu
- School of Ecology and Nature Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China;
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau, Macao, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine and Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences, University of Macau, Macao, China;
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- School of Ecology and Nature Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China;
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau, Macao, China
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Hu D, Sun C, Jin T, Fan G, Mok KM, Li K, Lee SMY. Exploring the Potential of Antibiotic Production From Rare Actinobacteria by Whole-Genome Sequencing and Guided MS/MS Analysis. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:1540. [PMID: 32922368 PMCID: PMC7375171 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.01540] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2020] [Accepted: 06/12/2020] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Actinobacteria are well recognized for their production of structurally diverse bioactive secondary metabolites, but the rare actinobacterial genera have been underexploited for such potential. To search for new sources of active compounds, an experiment combining genomic analysis and tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) screening was designed to isolate and characterize actinobacterial strains from a mangrove environment in Macau. Fourteen actinobacterial strains were isolated from the collected samples. Partial 16S sequences indicated that they were from six genera, including Brevibacterium, Curtobacterium, Kineococcus, Micromonospora, Mycobacterium, and Streptomyces. The isolate sp.01 showing 99.28% sequence similarity with a reference rare actinobacterial species Micromonospora aurantiaca ATCC 27029T was selected for whole genome sequencing. Organization of its gene clusters for secondary metabolite biosynthesis revealed 21 clusters encoded to antibiotic production, which is higher than other Micromonospora species. Of the genome-predicted antibiotics, kanamycin was found through guided MS/MS analysis producible by the M. aurantiaca strain for the first time. The present study highlighted that genomic analysis combined with MS/MS screening is a promising method to discover potential of antibiotic production from rare actinobacteria.
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- Dini Hu
- School of Ecology and Nature Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau, Macau, China
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- Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Genomics Institute, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau, Macau, China
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- School of Ecology and Nature Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences, University of Macau, Macau, China
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Vignolle GA, Mach RL, Mach-Aigner AR, Derntl C. Novel approach in whole genome mining and transcriptome analysis reveal conserved RiPPs in Trichoderma spp. BMC Genomics 2020; 21:258. [PMID: 32216757 PMCID: PMC7099791 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-020-6653-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2019] [Accepted: 03/04/2020] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides (RiPPs) are a highly diverse group of secondary metabolites (SM) of bacterial and fungal origin. While RiPPs have been intensively studied in bacteria, little is known about fungal RiPPs. In Fungi only six classes of RiPPs are described. Current strategies for genome mining are based on these six known classes. However, the genes involved in the biosynthesis of theses RiPPs are normally organized in biosynthetic gene clusters (BGC) in fungi. RESULTS Here we describe a comprehensive strategy to mine fungal genomes for RiPPs by combining and adapting existing tools (e.g. antiSMASH and RiPPMiner) followed by extensive manual curation based on conserved domain identification, (comparative) phylogenetic analysis, and RNASeq data. Deploying this strategy, we could successfully rediscover already known fungal RiPPs. Further, we analysed four fungal genomes from the Trichoderma genus. We were able to find novel potential RiPP BGCs in Trichoderma using our unconventional mining approach. CONCLUSION We demonstrate that the unusual mining approach using tools developed for bacteria can be used in fungi, when carefully curated. Our study is the first report of the potential of Trichoderma to produce RiPPs, the detected clusters encode novel uncharacterized RiPPs. The method described in our study will lead to further mining efforts in all subdivisions of the fungal kingdom.
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- Gabriel A. Vignolle
- Institute of Chemical, Environmental and Bioscience Engineering, TU Wien, Gumpendorfer Strasse 1a, 1060 Wien, Austria
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- Institute of Chemical, Environmental and Bioscience Engineering, TU Wien, Gumpendorfer Strasse 1a, 1060 Wien, Austria
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- Institute of Chemical, Environmental and Bioscience Engineering, TU Wien, Gumpendorfer Strasse 1a, 1060 Wien, Austria
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- Institute of Chemical, Environmental and Bioscience Engineering, TU Wien, Gumpendorfer Strasse 1a, 1060 Wien, Austria
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Streptomyces qinzhouensis sp. nov., a mangrove soil actinobacterium. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:1800-1804. [DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.003974] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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A novel
Streptomyces
strain (SSL-25T) was isolated from mangrove soil sampled at QinzhouBay, PR China. The isolate was observed to be Gram-stain-positive and to form greyish-white aerial mycelia that differentiated into straight spore chains with smooth-surfaced spores on International
Streptomyces
Project 2 medium. The cell-wall peptidoglycan was determined to contain ll-diaminopimelicacid. The cell-wall sugars were glucose and mannose. The predominant menaquinones were MK-9 (H6), MK-9 (H8) and MK-9 (H4). The major polar lipids contained diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylinositol, phosphatidylinositol mannoside and several unidentified phospholipids. The predominant cellular fatty acids were C16:0, iso-C16:0 and summed feature 3 (C16:1ω7c/C16:1ω6c). The genome size of strain SSL-25T was 8.1 Mbp with a G+C content of 71.5 mol%. Phylogenetic analysis indicated that strain SSL-25T is closely related to
Streptomyces tsukubensis
NRRL 18488T (99.4 % sequence similarity). However, the digital DNA–DNA hybridization (39.8 %) and average nucleotide identity (91.3 %) values between them showed that it represents a distinct species. Furthermore, the results of morphological, physiological and biochemical tests allowed further phenotypic differentiation of strain SSL-25T from
S. tsukubensis
NRRL 18488T. Therefore, based on these results, it is concluded that strain SSL-25T represents a novel
Streptomyces
species, for which the name Streptomyces qinzhouensis sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is SSL-25T (=CICC 11054T=JCM33585T).
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Studies on Antibacterial Activity and Diversity of Cultivable Actinobacteria Isolated from Mangrove Soil in Futian and Maoweihai of China. EVIDENCE-BASED COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE 2019; 2019:3476567. [PMID: 31281398 PMCID: PMC6590530 DOI: 10.1155/2019/3476567] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2019] [Accepted: 05/21/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Mangrove is a rich and underexploited ecosystem with great microbial diversity for discovery of novel and chemically diverse antimicrobial compounds. The goal of the study was to explore the pharmaceutical actinobacterial resources from mangrove soil and gain insight into the diversity and novelty of cultivable actinobacteria. Consequently, 10 mangrove soil samples were collected from Futian and Maoweihai of China, and the culture-dependent method was employed to obtain actinobacteria. A total of 539 cultivable actinobacteria were isolated and distributed in 39 genera affiliated to 18 families of 8 orders by comparison analysis of partial 16S rRNA gene sequences. The dominant genus was Streptomyces (16.0 %), followed by Microbacterium (14.5 %), Agromyces (14.3 %), and Rhodococcus (11.9 %). Other 35 rare actinobacterial genera accounted for minor proportions. Notably, 11 strains showed relatively low 16S rRNA gene sequence similarities (< 98.65 %) with validly described species. Based on genotypic analyses and phenotypic characteristics, 115 out of the 539 actinobacterial strains were chosen as representative strains to test their antibacterial activities against "ESKAPE" bacteria by agar well diffusion method and antibacterial mechanism by the double fluorescent protein reporter system. Fifty-four strains in 23 genera, including 2 potential new species, displayed antagonistic activity in antibacterial assay. Meanwhile, 5 strains in 3 genera exhibited inhibitory activity on protein biosynthesis due to ribosome stalling. These results demonstrate that cultivable actinobacteria from mangrove soil are potentially rich sources for discovery of new antibacterial metabolites and new actinobacterial taxa.
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