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Wang CY, Hu JQ, Wang DG, Li YZ, Wu C. Recent advances in discovery and biosynthesis of natural products from myxobacteria: an overview from 2017 to 2023. Nat Prod Rep 2024; 41:905-934. [PMID: 38390645 DOI: 10.1039/d3np00062a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/24/2024]
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Covering: 2017.01 to 2023.11Natural products biosynthesized by myxobacteria are appealing due to their sophisticated chemical skeletons, remarkable biological activities, and intriguing biosynthetic enzymology. This review aims to systematically summarize the advances in the discovery methods, new structures, and bioactivities of myxobacterial NPs reported in the period of 2017-2023. In addition, the peculiar biosynthetic pathways of several structural families are also highlighted.
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- Chao-Yi Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Institute of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, 266237 Qingdao, P.R. China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Institute of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, 266237 Qingdao, P.R. China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Institute of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, 266237 Qingdao, P.R. China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Institute of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, 266237 Qingdao, P.R. China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Institute of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, 266237 Qingdao, P.R. China.
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Bozhüyük KAJ, Präve L, Kegler C, Schenk L, Kaiser S, Schelhas C, Shi YN, Kuttenlochner W, Schreiber M, Kandler J, Alanjary M, Mohiuddin TM, Groll M, Hochberg GKA, Bode HB. Evolution-inspired engineering of nonribosomal peptide synthetases. Science 2024; 383:eadg4320. [PMID: 38513038 DOI: 10.1126/science.adg4320] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2022] [Accepted: 02/09/2024] [Indexed: 03/23/2024]
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Many clinically used drugs are derived from or inspired by bacterial natural products that often are produced through nonribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPSs), megasynthetases that activate and join individual amino acids in an assembly line fashion. In this work, we describe a detailed phylogenetic analysis of several bacterial NRPSs that led to the identification of yet undescribed recombination sites within the thiolation (T) domain that can be used for NRPS engineering. We then developed an evolution-inspired "eXchange Unit between T domains" (XUT) approach, which allows the assembly of NRPS fragments over a broad range of GC contents, protein similarities, and extender unit specificities, as demonstrated for the specific production of a proteasome inhibitor designed and assembled from five different NRPS fragments.
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- Kenan A J Bozhüyük
- Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Department of Natural Products in Organismic Interactions, 35043 Marburg, Germany
- Molecular Biotechnology, Department of Biosciences, Goethe-University Frankfurt, 60438 Frankfurt, Germany
- Myria Biosciences AG, Tech Park Basel, Hochbergstrasse 60C, 4057 Basel, Switzerland
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- Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Department of Natural Products in Organismic Interactions, 35043 Marburg, Germany
- Molecular Biotechnology, Department of Biosciences, Goethe-University Frankfurt, 60438 Frankfurt, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Department of Natural Products in Organismic Interactions, 35043 Marburg, Germany
- Molecular Biotechnology, Department of Biosciences, Goethe-University Frankfurt, 60438 Frankfurt, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Department of Natural Products in Organismic Interactions, 35043 Marburg, Germany
- Molecular Biotechnology, Department of Biosciences, Goethe-University Frankfurt, 60438 Frankfurt, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Department of Natural Products in Organismic Interactions, 35043 Marburg, Germany
- Evolutionary Biochemistry Group, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, 35043 Marburg, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Department of Natural Products in Organismic Interactions, 35043 Marburg, Germany
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- Molecular Biotechnology, Department of Biosciences, Goethe-University Frankfurt, 60438 Frankfurt, Germany
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- Chair of Biochemistry, Center for Protein Assemblies, Technical University of Munich, Ernst-Otto-Fischer-Straße 8, 85748 Garching, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Department of Natural Products in Organismic Interactions, 35043 Marburg, Germany
- Molecular Biotechnology, Department of Biosciences, Goethe-University Frankfurt, 60438 Frankfurt, Germany
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- Molecular Biotechnology, Department of Biosciences, Goethe-University Frankfurt, 60438 Frankfurt, Germany
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- Bioinformatics Group, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708PB Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Molecular Biotechnology, Department of Biosciences, Goethe-University Frankfurt, 60438 Frankfurt, Germany
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- Chair of Biochemistry, Center for Protein Assemblies, Technical University of Munich, Ernst-Otto-Fischer-Straße 8, 85748 Garching, Germany
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- Evolutionary Biochemistry Group, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, 35043 Marburg, Germany
- Center for Synthetic Microbiology (SYNMIKRO), Phillips University Marburg, 35043 Marburg, Germany
- Department of Chemistry, Phillips University Marburg, 35043 Marburg, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Department of Natural Products in Organismic Interactions, 35043 Marburg, Germany
- Molecular Biotechnology, Department of Biosciences, Goethe-University Frankfurt, 60438 Frankfurt, Germany
- Center for Synthetic Microbiology (SYNMIKRO), Phillips University Marburg, 35043 Marburg, Germany
- Department of Chemistry, Phillips University Marburg, 35043 Marburg, Germany
- LOEWE Centre for Translational Biodiversity Genomics (LOEWE-TBG) & Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, 60325 Frankfurt, Germany
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Sagova-Mareckova M, Omelka M, Kopecky J. The Golden Goal of Soil Management: Disease-Suppressive Soils. PHYTOPATHOLOGY 2023; 113:741-752. [PMID: 36510361 DOI: 10.1094/phyto-09-22-0324-kd] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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Disease-suppressive soils encompass specific plant-pathogen-microbial interactions and represent a rare example of an agroecosystem where soil conditions and microbiome together prevent the pathogen from causing disease. Such soils have the potential to serve as a model for characterizing soil pathogen-related aspects of soil health, but the mechanisms driving the establishment of suppressive soils vary and are often poorly characterized. Yet, they can serve as a resource for identifying markers for beneficial activities of soil microorganisms concerning pathogen prevention. Many recent studies have focused on the nature of disease-suppressive soils, but it has remained difficult to predict where and when they will occur. This review outlines current knowledge on the distribution of these soils, soil manipulations leading to pathogen suppression, and markers including bacterial and fungal diversity, enzymes, and secondary metabolites. The importance to consider soil legacy in research on the principles that define suppressive soils is also highlighted. The goal is to extend the context in which we understand, study, and use disease-suppressive soils by evaluating the relationships in which they occur and function. Finally, we suggest that disease-suppressive soils are critical not only for the development of indicators of soil health, but also for the exploration of general ecological principles about the surrounding landscape, effects of deeper layers of the soil profile, little studied soil organisms, and their interactions for future use in modern agriculture.
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- Marketa Sagova-Mareckova
- Group Epidemiology and Ecology of Microorganisms, Crop Research Institute, Drnovska 507, Prague 6-Ruzyne, 161 06, Czechia
- Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources, Department of Microbiology, Nutrition and Dietetics, Czech University of Life Sciences, Kamycka 129, 165 00, Prague-Suchdol, Czechia
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- Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Department of Probability and Mathematical Statistics, Charles University, Sokolovska 83, Prague 8, 186 75, Czechia
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- Group Epidemiology and Ecology of Microorganisms, Crop Research Institute, Drnovska 507, Prague 6-Ruzyne, 161 06, Czechia
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Ibrahimi M, Loqman S, Jemo M, Hafidi M, Lemee L, Ouhdouch Y. The potential of facultative predatory Actinomycetota spp. and prospects in agricultural sustainability. Front Microbiol 2023; 13:1081815. [PMID: 36762097 PMCID: PMC9905845 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.1081815] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2022] [Accepted: 12/28/2022] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Actinomycetota in the phylum of bacteria has been explored extensively as a source of antibiotics and secondary metabolites. In addition to acting as plant growth-promoting agents, they also possess the potential to control various plant pathogens; however, there are limited studies that report the facultative predatory ability of Actinomycetota spp. Furthermore, the mechanisms that underline predation are poorly understood. We assessed the diversity of strategies employed by predatory bacteria to attack and subsequently induce the cell lysing of their prey. We revisited the diversity and abundance of secondary metabolite molecules linked to the different predation strategies by bacteria species. We analyzed the pros and cons of the distinctive predation mechanisms and explored their potential for the development of new biocontrol agents. The facultative predatory behaviors diverge from group attack "wolfpack," cell-to-cell proximity "epibiotic," periplasmic penetration, and endobiotic invasion to degrade host-cellular content. The epibiotic represents the dominant facultative mode of predation, irrespective of the habitat origins. The wolfpack is the second-used approach among the Actinomycetota harboring predatory traits. The secondary molecules as chemical weapons engaged in the respective attacks were reviewed. We finally explored the use of predatory Actinomycetota as a new cost-effective and sustainable biocontrol agent against plant pathogens.
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- Manar Ibrahimi
- Laboratory of Molecular Chemistry, Materials and Catalysis, Faculty of Sciences and Technics, Sultan Moulay Slimane University, Beni-Mellal, Morocco,Higher School of Technology Fkih Ben Salah, Sultan Moulay Slimane University, Fkih Ben Salah, Morocco
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- Laboratory of Microbiology and Virology, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakesh, Morocco
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- AgroBiosciences Program, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P), Ben Guerir, Morocco
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- AgroBiosciences Program, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P), Ben Guerir, Morocco,Labelled Research Unit N°4 CNRST, Laboratory of Microbial Biotechnologies, Agrosciences and Environment (BioMAgE), Faculty of Sciences Semlalia, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakesh, Morocco
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- Institut de Chimie des Milieux et Matériaux de Poitiers (IC2MP–CNRS UMR 7285), Université de Poitiers, Poitiers, France
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- AgroBiosciences Program, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P), Ben Guerir, Morocco,Labelled Research Unit N°4 CNRST, Laboratory of Microbial Biotechnologies, Agrosciences and Environment (BioMAgE), Faculty of Sciences Semlalia, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakesh, Morocco,*Correspondence: Yedir Ouhdouch,
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A Disturbed Siderophore Transport Inhibits Myxobacterial Predation. Cells 2022; 11:cells11233718. [PMID: 36496980 PMCID: PMC9738627 DOI: 10.3390/cells11233718] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2022] [Revised: 11/11/2022] [Accepted: 11/15/2022] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Understanding the intrinsic mechanisms of bacterial competition is a fundamental question. Iron is an essential trace nutrient that bacteria compete for. The most prevalent manner for iron scavenging is through the secretion of siderophores. Although tremendous efforts have focused on elucidating the molecular mechanisms of siderophores biosynthesis, export, uptake, and regulation of siderophores, the ecological aspects of siderophore-mediated competition are not well understood. METHODS We performed predation and bacterial competition assays to investigate the function of siderophore transport on myxobacterial predation. RESULTS Deletion of msuB, which encodes an iron chelate uptake ABC transporter family permease subunit, led to a reduction in myxobacterial predation and intracellular iron, but iron deficiency was not the predominant reason for the decrease in the predation ability of the ∆msuB mutant. We further confirmed that obstruction of siderophore transport decreased myxobacterial predation by investigating the function of a non-ribosomal peptide synthetase for siderophore biosynthesis, a TonB-dependent receptor, and a siderophore binding protein in M. xanthus. Our results showed that the obstruction of siderophores transport decreased myxobacterial predation ability through the downregulation of lytic enzyme genes, especially outer membrane vesicle (OMV)-specific proteins. CONCLUSIONS This work provides insight into the mechanism of siderophore-mediated competition in myxobacteria.
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Okoth DA, Hug JJ, Garcia R, Müller R. Discovery, Biosynthesis and Biological Activity of a Succinylated Myxochelin from the Myxobacterial Strain MSr12020. Microorganisms 2022; 10:microorganisms10101959. [PMID: 36296235 PMCID: PMC9611931 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms10101959] [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: 09/08/2022] [Revised: 09/25/2022] [Accepted: 09/27/2022] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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Myxobacteria feature unique biological characteristics, including their capability to glide on the surface, undergo different multicellular developmental stages and produce structurally unique natural products such as the catecholate-type siderophores myxochelins A and B. Herein, we report the isolation, structure elucidation and a proposed biosynthesis of the new congener myxochelin B-succinate from the terrestrial myxobacterial strain MSr12020, featuring a succinyl decoration at its primary amine group. Myxochelin-B-succinate exhibited antibacterial growth inhibition and moderate cytotoxic activity against selected human cancer cell lines. This unique chemical modification of myxochelin B might provide interesting insights for future microbiological studies to understand the biological function and biosynthesis of secondary metabolite succinylation.
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- Dorothy A. Okoth
- Helmholtz-Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Department of Microbial Natural Products, Campus E8 1, Saarland University, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
- Department of Pharmacy, Saarland University, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
- German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Hannover-Braunschweig, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany
- Helmholtz International Labs, Department of Microbial Natural Products, Campus E8 1, Saarland University, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
- Department of Chemistry, School of Physical and Biological Sciences, Main campus, Maseno University, Maseno P.O. Box 333-40105, Kenya
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- Helmholtz-Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Department of Microbial Natural Products, Campus E8 1, Saarland University, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
- Department of Pharmacy, Saarland University, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
- German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Hannover-Braunschweig, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany
- Helmholtz International Labs, Department of Microbial Natural Products, Campus E8 1, Saarland University, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
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- Helmholtz-Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Department of Microbial Natural Products, Campus E8 1, Saarland University, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
- Department of Pharmacy, Saarland University, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
- German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Hannover-Braunschweig, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany
- Helmholtz International Labs, Department of Microbial Natural Products, Campus E8 1, Saarland University, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
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- Helmholtz-Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Department of Microbial Natural Products, Campus E8 1, Saarland University, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
- Department of Pharmacy, Saarland University, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
- German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Hannover-Braunschweig, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany
- Helmholtz International Labs, Department of Microbial Natural Products, Campus E8 1, Saarland University, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
- Correspondence:
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Phillips KE, Akbar S, Stevens DC. Concepts and conjectures concerning predatory performance of myxobacteria. Front Microbiol 2022; 13:1031346. [PMID: 36246230 PMCID: PMC9556981 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.1031346] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2022] [Accepted: 09/14/2022] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Myxobacteria are excellent model organisms for investigation of predator-prey interactions and predatory shaping of microbial communities. This review covers interdisciplinary topics related to myxobacterial predation and provides current concepts and challenges for determining predatory performance. Discussed topics include the role of specialized metabolites during predation, genetic determinants for predatory performance, challenges associated with methodological differences, discrepancies between sequenced and environmental myxobacteria, and factors that influence predation.
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- Kayleigh E. Phillips
- Department of BioMolecular Sciences, The University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, United States
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- Division of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States,Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States
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- Department of BioMolecular Sciences, The University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, United States,*Correspondence: D. Cole Stevens,
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Liu J, Wang X, Dai G, Zhang Y, Bian X. Microbial chassis engineering drives heterologous production of complex secondary metabolites. Biotechnol Adv 2022; 59:107966. [PMID: 35487394 DOI: 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2022.107966] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2022] [Revised: 04/20/2022] [Accepted: 04/21/2022] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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The cryptic secondary metabolite biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) far outnumber currently known secondary metabolites. Heterologous production of secondary metabolite BGCs in suitable chassis facilitates yield improvement and discovery of new-to-nature compounds. The two juxtaposed conventional model microorganisms, Escherichia coli, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, have been harnessed as microbial chassis to produce a bounty of secondary metabolites with the help of certain host engineering. In last decade, engineering non-model microbes to efficiently biosynthesize secondary metabolites has received increasing attention due to their peculiar advantages in metabolic networks and/or biosynthesis. The state-of-the-art synthetic biology tools lead the way in operating genetic manipulation in non-model microorganisms for phenotypic optimization or yields improvement of desired secondary metabolites. In this review, we firstly discuss the pros and cons of several model and non-model microbial chassis, as well as the importance of developing broader non-model microorganisms as alternative programmable heterologous hosts to satisfy the desperate needs of biosynthesis study and industrial production. Then we highlight the lately advances in the synthetic biology tools and engineering strategies for optimization of non-model microbial chassis, in particular, the successful applications for efficient heterologous production of multifarious complex secondary metabolites, e.g., polyketides, nonribosomal peptides, as well as ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides. Lastly, emphasis is on the perspectives of chassis cells development to access the ideal cell factory in the artificial intelligence-driven genome era.
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- Jiaqi Liu
- Helmholtz International Lab for Anti-Infectives, Shandong University-Helmholtz Institute of Biotechnology, State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237, PR China; Present address: Helmholtz-Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Saarland University, Campus E8 1, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
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- Helmholtz International Lab for Anti-Infectives, Shandong University-Helmholtz Institute of Biotechnology, State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237, PR China
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- Helmholtz International Lab for Anti-Infectives, Shandong University-Helmholtz Institute of Biotechnology, State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237, PR China
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- Helmholtz International Lab for Anti-Infectives, Shandong University-Helmholtz Institute of Biotechnology, State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237, PR China
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- Helmholtz International Lab for Anti-Infectives, Shandong University-Helmholtz Institute of Biotechnology, State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237, PR China.
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Do H, Madukoma CS, Sundaresan V, Shrout JD, Hoffman AJ, Bohn PW. Spatiotemporal distribution of chemical signatures exhibited by Myxococcus xanthus in response to metabolic conditions. Anal Bioanal Chem 2021; 414:1691-1698. [PMID: 34850244 DOI: 10.1007/s00216-021-03795-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2021] [Revised: 11/16/2021] [Accepted: 11/18/2021] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Myxococcus xanthus is a common soil bacterium with a complex life cycle, which is known for production of secondary metabolites. However, little is known about the effects of nutrient availability on M. xanthus metabolite production. In this study, we utilize confocal Raman microscopy (CRM) to examine the spatiotemporal distribution of chemical signatures secreted by M. xanthus and their response to varied nutrient availability. Ten distinct spectral features are observed by CRM from M. xanthus grown on nutrient-rich medium. However, when M. xanthus is constrained to grow under nutrient-limited conditions, by starving it of casitone, it develops fruiting bodies, and the accompanying Raman microspectra are dramatically altered. The reduced metabolic state engendered by the absence of casitone in the medium is associated with reduced, or completely eliminated, features at 1140 cm-1, 1560 cm-1, and 1648 cm-1. In their place, a feature at 1537 cm-1 is observed, this feature being tentatively assigned to a transitional phase important for cellular adaptation to varying environmental conditions. In addition, correlating principal component analysis heat maps with optical images illustrates how fruiting bodies in the center co-exist with motile cells at the colony edge. While the metabolites responsible for these Raman features are not completely identified, three M. xanthus peaks at 1004, 1151, and 1510 cm-1 are consistent with the production of lycopene. Thus, a combination of CRM imaging and PCA enables the spatial mapping of spectral signatures of secreted factors from M. xanthus and their correlation with metabolic conditions.
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- Hyein Do
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 46556, USA
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 46556, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 46556, USA
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 46556, USA.,Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 46556, USA
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 46556, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 46556, USA. .,Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 46556, USA.
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Biology and applications of co-produced, synergistic antimicrobials from environmental bacteria. Nat Microbiol 2021; 6:1118-1128. [PMID: 34446927 DOI: 10.1038/s41564-021-00952-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2020] [Accepted: 07/21/2021] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Environmental bacteria, such as Streptomyces spp., produce specialized metabolites that are potent antibiotics and therapeutics. Selected specialized antimicrobials are co-produced and function together synergistically. Co-produced antimicrobials comprise multiple chemical classes and are produced by a wide variety of bacteria in different environmental niches, suggesting that their combined functions are ecologically important. Here, we highlight the exquisite mechanisms that underlie the simultaneous production and functional synergy of 16 sets of co-produced antimicrobials. To date, antibiotic and antifungal discovery has focused mainly on single molecules, but we propose that methods to target co-produced antimicrobials could widen the scope and applications of discovery programs.
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LC-MS/MS-based profiling of bioactive metabolites of endophytic bacteria from Cannabis sativa and their anti-Phytophthora activity. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 2021; 114:1165-1179. [PMID: 33945066 DOI: 10.1007/s10482-021-01586-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2021] [Accepted: 04/20/2021] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Protection of crop plants from phytopathogens through endophytic bacteria is a newly emerged area of biocontrol. In this study, endophytic bacteria were isolated from the rhizosphere of Cannabis sativa. Based on initial antimicrobial screening, three (03) bacteria Serratia marcescens MOSEL-w2, Enterobacter cloacae MOSEL-w7, and Paenibacillus MOSEL-w13 were selected. Antimicrobial assays of these selected bacteria against Phytophthora parasitica revealed that E. cloacae MOSEL-w7 and Paenibacillus sp. MOSEL-w13 possessed strong activity against P. parasitica. All these bacterial extracts showed strong inhibition against P. parasitica at different concentrations (4-400 µg mL-1). P. parasitica hyphae treated with ethyl acetate extract of E. cloacae MOSEL-w7 resulted in severe growth abnormalities compared to control. The extracts were further evaluated for in vivo detached-leaf assay against P. parasitica on the wild type tobacco. Application of 1% ethyl acetate bacterial extract of S. marcescens MOSEL-w2, E. cloacae MOSEL-w7, and Paenibacillus sp. MOSEL-w13 reduced P. parasitica induced lesion sizes and lesion frequencies by 60-80%. HPLC based fractions of each extract also showed bioactivity against P. parasitica. A total of 24 compounds were found in the S. marcescens MOSEL-w2, 15 compounds in E. cloacae MOSEL-w7 and 20 compounds found in Paenibacillus sp. MOSEL-w13. LC-MS/MS analyses showed different bioactive compounds in the bacterial extracts such as Cotinine (alkylpyrrolidine), L-tryptophan, L-lysine, L-Dopa, and L-ornithine. These results suggest that S. marcescens MOSEL-w2, E. cloacae MOSEL-w7, and Paenibacillus MOSEL-w13 are a source of bioactive metabolites and could be used in combination with other biocontrol agents, with other modes of action for controlling diseases caused by Phytophthora in crops. They could be a clue for the broad-spectrum biopesticides for agriculturally significant crops.
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Vos M. Myxococcus xanthus. Trends Microbiol 2021; 29:562-563. [PMID: 33795155 DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2021.03.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2021] [Revised: 03/11/2021] [Accepted: 03/12/2021] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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- Michiel Vos
- European Centre for Environment and Human Health, University of Exeter Medical School, Environment and Sustainability Institute, Penryn Campus, Penryn TR10 9FE, UK.
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Bader CD, Haack PA, Panter F, Krug D, Müller R. Expanding the Scope of Detectable Microbial Natural Products by Complementary Analytical Methods and Cultivation Systems. JOURNAL OF NATURAL PRODUCTS 2021; 84:268-277. [PMID: 33449690 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.0c00942] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Recent advances in genome sequencing have unveiled a large discrepancy between the genome-encoded capacity of microorganisms to produce secondary metabolites and the number detected. In this work, a two-platform mass spectrometry analysis for the comprehensive secondary metabolomics characterization of nine myxobacterial strains, focusing on extending the range of detectable secondary metabolites by diversifying analytical methods and cultivation conditions, is presented. Direct infusion measurements of crude extracts on a Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometer are compared to a time-of-flight device coupled to liquid chromatography measurements. Both methods are successful in detecting known metabolites, whereas statistical analysis of unknowns highlights their complementarity: Strikingly, 82-99% of molecular features detected with one setup were not detectable with the other. Metabolite profile differences from our set of strains grown in liquid culture versus their swarming colonies on agar plates were evaluated. The detection of up to 96% more molecular features when both liquid and plate cultures were analyzed translates into increased chances to identify new secondary metabolites. Discrimination between primary and secondary metabolism in combination with GNPS molecular networking revealed strain Mx3 as particularly promising for the isolation of novel secondary metabolites among the nine strains investigated in this study.
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- Chantal D Bader
- Department Microbial Natural Products, Helmholtz-Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), German Center for Infection Research (DZIF, Partnersite Hannover-Braunschweig), and Department of Pharmacy, Saarland University, Campus E8.1, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
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- Department Microbial Natural Products, Helmholtz-Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), German Center for Infection Research (DZIF, Partnersite Hannover-Braunschweig), and Department of Pharmacy, Saarland University, Campus E8.1, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
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- Department Microbial Natural Products, Helmholtz-Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), German Center for Infection Research (DZIF, Partnersite Hannover-Braunschweig), and Department of Pharmacy, Saarland University, Campus E8.1, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
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- Department Microbial Natural Products, Helmholtz-Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), German Center for Infection Research (DZIF, Partnersite Hannover-Braunschweig), and Department of Pharmacy, Saarland University, Campus E8.1, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
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- Department Microbial Natural Products, Helmholtz-Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), German Center for Infection Research (DZIF, Partnersite Hannover-Braunschweig), and Department of Pharmacy, Saarland University, Campus E8.1, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
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Zdouc MM, Iorio M, Maffioli SI, Crüsemann M, Donadio S, Sosio M. Planomonospora: A Metabolomics Perspective on an Underexplored Actinobacteria Genus. JOURNAL OF NATURAL PRODUCTS 2021; 84:204-219. [PMID: 33496580 PMCID: PMC7922807 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.0c00807] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Despite an excellent track record, microbial drug discovery suffers from high rates of rediscovery. Better workflows for the rapid investigation of complex extracts are needed to increase throughput and to allow early prioritization of samples. In addition, systematic characterization of poorly explored strains is seldomly performed. Here, we report a metabolomic study of 72 isolates belonging to the rare actinomycete genus Planomonospora, using a workflow of commonly used open access tools to investigate its secondary metabolites. The results reveal a correlation of chemical diversity and strain phylogeny, with classes of metabolites exclusive to certain phylogroups. We were able to identify previously reported Planomonospora metabolites, including the ureylene-containing oligopeptide antipain, the thiopeptide siomycin including new congeners, and the ribosomally synthesized peptides sphaericin and lantibiotic 97518. In addition, we found that Planomonospora strains can produce the siderophore desferrioxamine or a salinichelin-like peptide. Analysis of the genomes of three newly sequenced strains led to the detection of 59 gene cluster families, of which three were connected to products found by LC-MS/MS profiling. This study demonstrates the value of metabolomic studies to investigate poorly explored taxa and provides a first picture of the biosynthetic capabilities of the genus Planomonospora.
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- Mitja M. Zdouc
- Naicons
Srl., Viale Ortles 22/4, 20139 Milano, Italy
- Swammerdam
Institute for Life Sciences, University
of Amsterdam, Science
Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Institut
für Pharmazeutische Biologie, Rheinische
Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Nußallee 6, 53115 Bonn, Germany
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Bader CD, Neuber M, Panter F, Krug D, Müller R. Supercritical Fluid Extraction Enhances Discovery of Secondary Metabolites from Myxobacteria. Anal Chem 2020; 92:15403-15411. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c02995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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- Chantal D. Bader
- Department Microbial Natural Products, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), German Center for Infection Research (DZIF, Partnersite Hannover-Braunschweig) and Department of Pharmacy, Helmholtz-Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Saarland University Campus E8.1, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
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- Department Microbial Natural Products, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), German Center for Infection Research (DZIF, Partnersite Hannover-Braunschweig) and Department of Pharmacy, Helmholtz-Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Saarland University Campus E8.1, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
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- Department Microbial Natural Products, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), German Center for Infection Research (DZIF, Partnersite Hannover-Braunschweig) and Department of Pharmacy, Helmholtz-Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Saarland University Campus E8.1, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
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- Department Microbial Natural Products, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), German Center for Infection Research (DZIF, Partnersite Hannover-Braunschweig) and Department of Pharmacy, Helmholtz-Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Saarland University Campus E8.1, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
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- Department Microbial Natural Products, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), German Center for Infection Research (DZIF, Partnersite Hannover-Braunschweig) and Department of Pharmacy, Helmholtz-Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Saarland University Campus E8.1, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
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Pérez J, Contreras-Moreno FJ, Marcos-Torres FJ, Moraleda-Muñoz A, Muñoz-Dorado J. The antibiotic crisis: How bacterial predators can help. Comput Struct Biotechnol J 2020; 18:2547-2555. [PMID: 33033577 PMCID: PMC7522538 DOI: 10.1016/j.csbj.2020.09.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2020] [Revised: 09/07/2020] [Accepted: 09/08/2020] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Discovery of antimicrobials in the past century represented one of the most important advances in public health. Unfortunately, the massive use of these compounds in medicine and other human activities has promoted the selection of pathogens that are resistant to one or several antibiotics. The current antibiotic crisis is creating an urgent need for research into new biological weapons with the ability to kill these superbugs. Although a proper solution requires this problem to be addressed in a variety of ways, the use of bacterial predators is emerging as an excellent strategy, especially when used as whole cell therapeutic agents, as a source of new antimicrobial agents by awakening silent metabolic pathways in axenic cultures, or as biocontrol agents. Moreover, studies on their prey are uncovering mechanisms of resistance that can be shared by pathogens, representing new targets for novel antimicrobial agents. In this review we discuss potential of the studies on predator-prey interaction to provide alternative solutions to the problem of antibiotic resistance.
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Key Words
- AR, antibiotic resistance
- ARB, antibiotic-resistant bacteria
- ARG, antibiotic-resistant gene
- Antibiotic crisis
- BALOs
- BALOs, Bdellovibrio and like organisms
- BGC, biosynthetic gene cluster
- Bacterial predators
- HGT, horizontal gene transfer
- MDRB, multi-drug resistant bacteria
- Myxobacteria
- NRPS, nonribosomal peptide synthetase
- OMV, outer membrane vesicle
- OSMAC, one strain many compounds
- PKS, polyketide synthase
- SM, secondary metabolite
- WHO, World Health Organization
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- Juana Pérez
- Departamento de Microbiología, Facultad de Ciencias, Avda. Fuentenueva s/n, Universidad de Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
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- Departamento de Microbiología, Facultad de Ciencias, Avda. Fuentenueva s/n, Universidad de Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
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- Departamento de Microbiología, Facultad de Ciencias, Avda. Fuentenueva s/n, Universidad de Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
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Hug JJ, Dastbaz J, Adam S, Revermann O, Koehnke J, Krug D, Müller R. Biosynthesis of Cittilins, Unusual Ribosomally Synthesized and Post-translationally Modified Peptides from Myxococcus xanthus. ACS Chem Biol 2020; 15:2221-2231. [PMID: 32639716 DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.0c00430] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Cittilins are secondary metabolites from myxobacteria comprised of three l-tyrosines and one l-isoleucine forming a bicyclic tetrapeptide scaffold with biaryl and aryl-oxygen-aryl ether bonds. Here we reveal that cittilins belong to the ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptide (RiPP) family of natural products, for which only the crocagins have been reported from myxobacteria. A 27 amino acid precursor peptide harbors a C-terminal four amino acid core peptide, which is enzymatically modified and finally exported to yield cittilins. The small biosynthetic gene cluster responsible for cittilin biosynthesis also encodes a cytochrome P450 enzyme and a methyltransferase, whereas a gene encoding a prolyl endopeptidase for the cleavage of the precursor peptide is located outside of the cittilin biosynthetic gene cluster. We confirm the roles of the biosynthetic genes responsible for the formation of cittilins using targeted gene inactivation and heterologous expression in Streptomyces ssp. We also report first steps toward the biochemical characterization of the proposed biosynthetic pathway in vitro. An investigation of the cellular uptake properties of cittilin A connected it to a potential biological function as an inhibitor of the prokaryotic carbon storage regulator A (CsrA).
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- Joachim J. Hug
- Department Microbial Natural Products, Helmholtz-Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) and Department of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Saarland University, Campus E8.1, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
- German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Hannover-Braunschweig, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany
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- Department Microbial Natural Products, Helmholtz-Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) and Department of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Saarland University, Campus E8.1, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
- German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Hannover-Braunschweig, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany
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- Department Structural Biology of Biosynthetic Enzymes, Helmholtz-Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) and Department of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Saarland University, Campus E8.1, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
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- Department Microbial Natural Products, Helmholtz-Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) and Department of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Saarland University, Campus E8.1, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
- German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Hannover-Braunschweig, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany
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- Department Structural Biology of Biosynthetic Enzymes, Helmholtz-Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) and Department of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Saarland University, Campus E8.1, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
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- Department Microbial Natural Products, Helmholtz-Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) and Department of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Saarland University, Campus E8.1, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
- German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Hannover-Braunschweig, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany
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- Department Microbial Natural Products, Helmholtz-Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) and Department of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Saarland University, Campus E8.1, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
- German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Hannover-Braunschweig, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany
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Chanana S, Thomas CS, Zhang F, Rajski SR, Bugni TS. hcapca: Automated Hierarchical Clustering and Principal Component Analysis of Large Metabolomic Datasets in R. Metabolites 2020; 10:E297. [PMID: 32708222 PMCID: PMC7407629 DOI: 10.3390/metabo10070297] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2020] [Revised: 07/13/2020] [Accepted: 07/18/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Microbial natural product discovery programs face two main challenges today: rapidly prioritizing strains for discovering new molecules and avoiding the rediscovery of already known molecules. Typically, these problems have been tackled using biological assays to identify promising strains and techniques that model variance in a dataset such as PCA to highlight novel chemistry. While these tools have shown successful outcomes in the past, datasets are becoming much larger and require a new approach. Since PCA models are dependent on the members of the group being modeled, large datasets with many members make it difficult to accurately model the variance in the data. Our tool, hcapca, first groups strains based on the similarity of their chemical composition, and then applies PCA to the smaller sub-groups yielding more robust PCA models. This allows for scalable chemical comparisons among hundreds of strains with thousands of molecular features. As a proof of concept, we applied our open-source tool to a dataset with 1046 LCMS profiles of marine invertebrate associated bacteria and discovered three new analogs of an established anticancer agent from one promising strain.
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- Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53705, USA; (S.C.); (C.S.T.); (F.Z.); (S.R.R.)
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Mazlan NW, Tate R, Yusoff YM, Clements C, Edrada-Ebel R. Metabolomics-Guided Isolation of Anti-Trypanosomal Compounds from Endophytic Fungi of the Mangrove plant Avicennia Lanata. Curr Med Chem 2020; 27:1815-1835. [PMID: 31272343 DOI: 10.2174/0929867326666190704130105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2018] [Revised: 11/29/2018] [Accepted: 04/30/2019] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Endophytic fungi have been explored not just for their ecological functions but also for their secondary metabolites as a new source of these pharmacologically active natural products. Accordingly, many structurally unique and biologically active compounds have been obtained from the cultures of endophytic fungi. Fusarium sp. and Lasiodiplodia theobromae were isolated from the root and stem of the mangrove plant Avicennia lanata, respectively, collected from Terengganu, Malaysia. High-resolution mass spectrometry and NMR spectroscopy were used as metabolomics profiling tools to identify and optimize the production of bioactive secondary metabolites in both strains at different growth stages and culture media. The spectral data was processed by utilizing Mzmine 2, a quantitative expression analysis software and an in house MS-Excel macro coupled with the Dictionary of Natural Products databases for dereplication studies. The investigation for the potential bioactive metabolites from a 15-day rice culture of Fusarium sp. yielded four 1,4- naphthoquinone with naphthazarin structures (1-4). On the other hand, the endophytic fungus L. theobromae grown on the 15-day solid rice culture produced dihydroisocoumarins (5-8). All the isolated compounds (1-8) showed significant activity against Trypanosoma brucei brucei with MIC values of 0.32-12.5 µM. Preliminary cytotoxicity screening against normal prostate cells (PNT2A) was also performed. All compounds exhibited low cytotoxicity, with compounds 3 and 4 showing the lowest cytotoxicity of only 22.3% and 38.6% of the control values at 100 µg/mL, respectively. Structure elucidation of the isolated secondary metabolites was achieved using 2D-NMR and HRESI-MS as well as comparison with literature data.
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- Noor Wini Mazlan
- Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde, The John Arbuthnott Building, 161 Cathedral Street, Glasgow G4 0RE, Scotland, United Kingdom.,Chemistry and Environmental Analysis, School of Marine and Environmental Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, 21030 Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu, Malaysia.,Institute of Marine Biotechnology, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, 21030 Kuala Nerus, Terengganu, Malaysia
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- Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde, The John Arbuthnott Building, 161 Cathedral Street, Glasgow G4 0RE, Scotland, United Kingdom
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- Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde, The John Arbuthnott Building, 161 Cathedral Street, Glasgow G4 0RE, Scotland, United Kingdom
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- Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde, The John Arbuthnott Building, 161 Cathedral Street, Glasgow G4 0RE, Scotland, United Kingdom
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- Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde, The John Arbuthnott Building, 161 Cathedral Street, Glasgow G4 0RE, Scotland, United Kingdom
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AbstractMyxococcus xanthus is a prime example of soil-living myxobacteria featuring a complex lifestyle, including coordinated movement through swarming, predatory feeding on other microorganisms, and the formation of multicellular fruiting bodies. Due to its biosynthetic capabilities for secondary metabolite production and its applicability as biotechno-logical chassis organism for heterologous expression, Myxococcus stands out as a biochemical factory for bioactive molecules with future applications, not only in human therapy.
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Dynamics of Solitary Predation by Myxococcus xanthus on Escherichia coli Observed at the Single-Cell Level. Appl Environ Microbiol 2020; 86:AEM.02286-19. [PMID: 31704687 DOI: 10.1128/aem.02286-19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2019] [Accepted: 11/07/2019] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The predatory behavior of Myxococcus xanthus has attracted extensive attention due to its unique social traits and inherent biological activities. In addition to group hunting, individual M. xanthus cells are able to kill and lyse prey cells; however, there is little understanding of the dynamics of solitary predation. In this study, by employing a bacterial tracking technique, we investigated M. xanthus predatory dynamics on Escherichia coli at the single-cell level. The killing and lysis of E. coli by a single M. xanthus cell was monitored in real time by microscopic observation, and the plasmolysis of prey cells was identified at a relatively early stage of solitary predation. After quantitative characterization of their solitary predatory behavior, M. xanthus cells were found to respond more dramatically to direct contact with live E. coli cells than heat-killed or UV-killed cells, showing slower predator motion and faster lysing of prey. Among the three contact-dependent killing modes classified according to the major subareas of M. xanthus cells in contact with prey, leading pole contact was observed most. After killing the prey, approximately 72% of M. xanthus cells were found to leave without thorough degradation of the lysed prey, and this postresidence behavior is described as a lysis-leave pattern, indicating that solitary predation has low efficiency in terms of prey-cell consumption. Our results provide a detailed description of the single-cell level dynamics of M. xanthus solitary predation from both prey and predator perspectives.IMPORTANCE Bacterial predation plays multiple essential roles in bacterial selection and mortality within microbial ecosystems. In addition to its ecological and evolutionary importance, many potential applications of bacterial predation have been proposed. The myxobacterium Myxococcus xanthus is a well-known predatory member of the soil microbial community. Its predation is commonly considered a collective behavior comparable to a wolf pack attack; however, individual M. xanthus cells are also able to competently lead to the lysis of a prey cell. Using a bacterial tracking technique, we are able to observe and analyze solitary predation by M. xanthus on Escherichia coli at the single-cell level and reveal the dynamics of both predator and prey during the process. The present study will not only provide a comprehensive understanding of M. xanthus solitary predation but also help to explain why M. xanthus often displays multicellular characteristic predatory behaviors in nature, while a single cell is capable of predation.
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Cossey SM, Yu YTN, Cossu L, Velicer GJ. Kin discrimination and outer membrane exchange in Myxococcus xanthus: Experimental analysis of a natural population. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0224817. [PMID: 31774841 PMCID: PMC6880969 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0224817] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2019] [Accepted: 10/22/2019] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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In some species of myxobacteria, adjacent cells sufficiently similar at the adhesin protein TraA can exchange components of their outer membranes. The primary benefits of such outer membrane exchange (OME) in natural populations are unclear, but in some OME interactions, transferred OM content can include SitA toxins that kill OME participants lacking an appropriate immunity gene. Such OME-dependent toxin transfer across Myxococcus xanthus strains that differ only in their sitBAI toxin/antitoxin cassette can mediate inter-strain killing and generate colony-merger incompatibilities (CMIs)-inter-colony border phenotypes between distinct genotypes that differ from respective self-self colony interfaces. Here we ask whether OME-dependent toxin transfer is a common cause of prevalent CMIs and antagonisms between M. xanthus natural isolates identical at TraA. We disrupted traA in eleven isolates from a cm-scale soil population and assayed whether traA disruption eliminated or reduced CMIs between swarming colonies or antagonisms between strains in mixed cultures. Among 33 isolate pairs identical at traA that form clear CMIs, in no case did functional disruption of traA in one partner detectably alter CMI phenotypes. Further, traA disruption did not alleviate strong antagonisms observed during starvation-induced fruiting-body development in seven pairs of strains identical at traA. Collectively, our results suggest that most mechanisms of interference competition and inter-colony kin discrimination in natural populations of myxobacteria do not require OME. Finally, our experiments also indicate that several closely related laboratory reference strains kill some natural isolates by toxins delivered by a shared, OME-independent type VI secretion system (T6SS), suggesting that some antagonisms between sympatric natural isolates may also involve T6SS toxins.
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- Sarah M. Cossey
- Institute for Integrative Biology, Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
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- Institute for Integrative Biology, Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Environmental Microbiology, Eawag, Switzerland
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- Institute for Integrative Biology, Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
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Bader CD, Panter F, Müller R. In depth natural product discovery - Myxobacterial strains that provided multiple secondary metabolites. Biotechnol Adv 2019; 39:107480. [PMID: 31707075 DOI: 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2019.107480] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2019] [Revised: 11/05/2019] [Accepted: 11/06/2019] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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In recognition of many microorganisms ability to produce a variety of secondary metabolites in parallel, Zeeck and coworkers introduced the term "OSMAC" (one strain many compounds) around the turn of the century. Since then, additional efforts focused on the systematic characterization of a single bacterial species ability to form multiple secondary metabolite scaffolds. With the beginning of the genomic era mainly initiated by a dramatic reduction of sequencing costs, investigations of the genome encoded biosynthetic potential and especially the exploitation of biosynthetic gene clusters of undefined function gained attention. This was seen as a novel means to extend range and diversity of bacterial secondary metabolites. Genome analyses showed that even for well-studied bacterial strains, like the myxobacterium Myxococcus xanthus DK1622, many biosynthetic gene clusters are not yet assigned to their corresponding hypothetical secondary metabolites. In contrast to the results from emerging genome and metabolome mining techniques that show the large untapped biosynthetic potential per strain, many newly isolated bacterial species are still used for the isolation of only one target compound class and successively abandoned in the sense that no follow up studies are published from the same species. This work provides an overview about myxobacterial bacterial strains, from which not just one but multiple different secondary metabolite classes were successfully isolated. The underlying methods used for strain prioritization and natural product discovery such as biological characterization of crude extracts against a panel of pathogens, in-silico prediction of secondary metabolite abundance from genome data and state of the art instrumental analytics required for new natural product scaffold discovery in comparative settings are summarized and classified according to their output. Furthermore, for each approach selected studies performed with actinobacteria are shown to underline especially innovative methods used for natural product discovery.
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- Chantal D Bader
- Department Microbial Natural Products, Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) and Department of Pharmacy, Saarland University, Campus E8.1, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany; German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Hannover-Braunschweig, Germany
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- Department Microbial Natural Products, Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) and Department of Pharmacy, Saarland University, Campus E8.1, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany; German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Hannover-Braunschweig, Germany
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- Department Microbial Natural Products, Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) and Department of Pharmacy, Saarland University, Campus E8.1, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany; German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Hannover-Braunschweig, Germany.
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Sinha R, Sharma B, Dangi AK, Shukla P. Recent metabolomics and gene editing approaches for synthesis of microbial secondary metabolites for drug discovery and development. World J Microbiol Biotechnol 2019; 35:166. [DOI: 10.1007/s11274-019-2746-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2019] [Accepted: 10/13/2019] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Sester A, Winand L, Pace S, Hiller W, Werz O, Nett M. Myxochelin- and Pseudochelin-Derived Lipoxygenase Inhibitors from a Genetically Engineered Myxococcus xanthus Strain. JOURNAL OF NATURAL PRODUCTS 2019; 82:2544-2549. [PMID: 31465225 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.9b00403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Precursor-directed biosynthesis was used to introduce selected aryl carboxylic acids into the pseudochelin pathway, which had recently been assembled in Myxococcus xanthus. Overall, 14 previously undescribed analogues of the natural products myxochelin B and pseudochelin A were generated and structurally characterized. A subset of 10 derivatives together with their parental molecules were evaluated for their activity toward human 5-lipoxygenase. This testing revealed pseudochelin A as the most potent 5-lipoxygenase inhibitor among the naturally occurring compounds, whereas myxochelin A is the least active. Replacement of the catechol moieties in myxochelin B and pseudochelin A affected the bioactivity to different degrees.
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- Angela Sester
- Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology e.V. , Hans-Knöll-Institute , Beutenbergstraße 11a , 07745 Jena , Germany
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- Chair of Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry, Institute of Pharmacy , Friedrich-Schiller-University , Philosophenweg 14 , 07743 Jena , Germany
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- Chair of Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry, Institute of Pharmacy , Friedrich-Schiller-University , Philosophenweg 14 , 07743 Jena , Germany
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Anwar MN, Li ZF, Gong Y, Singh RP, Li YZ. Omics Studies Revealed the Factors Involved in the Formation of Colony Boundary in Myxococcus xanthus. Cells 2019; 8:E530. [PMID: 31163575 PMCID: PMC6627406 DOI: 10.3390/cells8060530] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2019] [Revised: 05/29/2019] [Accepted: 05/31/2019] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Two unrecognizable strains of the same bacterial species form a distinct colony boundary. During growth as colonies, Myxococcus xanthus uses multiple factors to establish cooperation between recognized strains and prevent interactions with unrecognized strains of the same species. Here, ΔMXAN_0049 is a mutant strain deficient in immunity for the paired nuclease gene, MXAN_0050, that has a function in the colony-merger incompatibility of Myxococcus xanthus DK1622. With the aim to investigate the factors involved in boundary formation, a proteome and metabolome study was employed. Visualization of the boundary between DK1622 and ΔMXAN_0049 was done scanning electron microscope (SEM), which displayed the presence of many damaged cells in the boundary. Proteome analysis of the DK1622- boundary disclosed many possible proteins, such as cold shock proteins, cell shape-determining protein MreC, along with a few pathways, such as RNA degradation, phenylalanine, tyrosine and tryptophan biosynthesis, and Type VI secretion system (T6SS), which may play major roles in the boundary formation. Metabolomics studies revealed various secondary metabolites that were significantly produced during boundary formation. Overall, the results concluded that multiple factors participated in the boundary formation in M. xanthus, leading to cellular damage that is helpful in solving the mystery of the boundary formation mechanism.
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- Mian Nabeel Anwar
- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Institute of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Institute of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Institute of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Institute of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, China.
- Department of Research and Development, Uttaranchal University, Dehradun 248007, India.
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Institute of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, China.
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Metabolomic profiles differ among unique genotypes of a threatened Caribbean coral. Sci Rep 2019; 9:6067. [PMID: 30988456 PMCID: PMC6465396 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-42434-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2018] [Accepted: 04/01/2019] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Global threats to reefs require urgent efforts to resolve coral attributes that affect survival in a changing environment. Genetically different individuals of the same coral species are known to exhibit different responses to the same environmental conditions. New information on coral physiology, particularly as it relates to genotype, could aid in unraveling mechanisms that facilitate coral survival in the face of stressors. Metabolomic profiling detects a large subset of metabolites in an organism, and, when linked to metabolic pathways, can provide a snapshot of an organism’s physiological state. Identifying metabolites associated with desirable, genotype-specific traits could improve coral selection for restoration and other interventions. A key step toward this goal is determining whether intraspecific variation in coral metabolite profiles can be detected for species of interest, however little information exists to illustrate such differences. To address this gap, we applied untargeted 1H-NMR and LC-MS metabolomic profiling to three genotypes of the threatened coral Acropora cervicornis. Both methods revealed distinct metabolite “fingerprints” for each genotype examined. A number of metabolites driving separation among genotypes were identified or putatively annotated. Pathway analysis suggested differences in protein synthesis among genotypes. For the first time, these data illustrate intraspecific variation in metabolomic profiles for corals in a common garden. Our results contribute to the growing body of work on coral metabolomics and suggest future work could identify specific links between phenotype and metabolite profile in corals.
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Vohsen SA, Fisher CR, Baums IB. Metabolomic richness and fingerprints of deep-sea coral species and populations. Metabolomics 2019; 15:34. [PMID: 30830472 PMCID: PMC6469635 DOI: 10.1007/s11306-019-1500-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2018] [Accepted: 02/22/2019] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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INTRODUCTION From shallow water to the deep sea, corals form the basis of diverse communities with significant ecological and economic value. These communities face many anthropogenic stressors including energy and mineral extraction activities, ocean acidification and rising sea temperatures. Corals and their symbionts produce a diverse assemblage of compounds that may help provide resilience to some of these stressors. OBJECTIVES We aim to characterize the metabolomic diversity of deep-sea corals in an ecological context by investigating patterns across space and phylogeny. METHODS We applied untargeted Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry to examine the metabolomic diversity of the deep-sea coral, Callogorgia delta, across three sites in the Northern Gulf of Mexico as well as three other deep-sea corals, Stichopathes sp., Leiopathes glaberrima, and Lophelia pertusa, and a shallow-water species, Acropora palmata. RESULTS Different coral species exhibited distinct metabolomic fingerprints and differences in metabolomic richness including core ions unique to each species. C. delta was generally least diverse while Lophelia pertusa was most diverse. C. delta from different sites had different metabolomic fingerprints and metabolomic richness at individual and population levels, although no sites exhibited unique core ions. Two core ions unique to C. delta were putatively identified as diterpenes and thus may possess a biologically important function. CONCLUSION Deep-sea coral species have distinct metabolomic fingerprints and exhibit high metabolomic diversity at multiple scales which may contribute to their capabilities to respond to both natural and anthropogenic stressors, including climate change.
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- Samuel A Vohsen
- Department of Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, 208 Mueller Laboratory, University Park, PA, 16802, USA.
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- Department of Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, 208 Mueller Laboratory, University Park, PA, 16802, USA
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- Department of Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, 208 Mueller Laboratory, University Park, PA, 16802, USA
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Amiri Moghaddam J, Crüsemann M, Alanjary M, Harms H, Dávila-Céspedes A, Blom J, Poehlein A, Ziemert N, König GM, Schäberle TF. Analysis of the Genome and Metabolome of Marine Myxobacteria Reveals High Potential for Biosynthesis of Novel Specialized Metabolites. Sci Rep 2018; 8:16600. [PMID: 30413766 PMCID: PMC6226438 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-34954-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2018] [Accepted: 10/29/2018] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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Comparative genomic/metabolomic analysis is a powerful tool to disclose the potential of microbes for the biosynthesis of novel specialized metabolites. In the group of marine myxobacteria only a limited number of isolated species and sequenced genomes is so far available. However, the few compounds isolated thereof so far show interesting bioactivities and even novel chemical scaffolds; thereby indicating a huge potential for natural product discovery. In this study, all marine myxobacteria with accessible genome data (n = 5), including Haliangium ochraceum DSM 14365, Plesiocystis pacifica DSM 14875, Enhygromyxa salina DSM 15201 and the two newly sequenced species Enhygromyxa salina SWB005 and SWB007, were analyzed. All of these accessible genomes are large (~10 Mb), with a relatively small core genome and many unique coding sequences in each strain. Genome analysis revealed a high variety of biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) between the strains and several resistance models and essential core genes indicated the potential to biosynthesize antimicrobial molecules. Polyketides (PKs) and terpenes represented the majority of predicted specialized metabolite BGCs and contributed to the highest share between the strains. BGCs coding for non-ribosomal peptides (NRPs), PK/NRP hybrids and ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides (RiPPs) were mostly strain specific. These results were in line with the metabolomic analysis, which revealed a high diversity of the chemical features between the strains. Only 6-11% of the metabolome was shared between all the investigated strains, which correlates to the small core genome of these bacteria (13-16% of each genome). In addition, the compound enhygrolide A, known from E. salina SWB005, was detected for the first time and structurally elucidated from Enhygromyxa salina SWB006. The here acquired data corroborate that these microorganisms represent a most promising source for the detection of novel specialized metabolites.
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- Institute for Pharmaceutical Biology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- Department of Microbiology and Biotechnology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) Partner Site Cologne/Bonn, Bonn, Germany.,Institute for Insect Biotechnology, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany
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- Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany
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- Department of Genomics and Applied Microbiology and Göttingen Genomics Laboratory, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Microbiology and Biotechnology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Institute for Pharmaceutical Biology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
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- German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) Partner Site Cologne/Bonn, Bonn, Germany. .,Institute for Insect Biotechnology, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany. .,Department of Bioresources of the Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology, Giessen, Germany.
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Gut Microbial and Metabolic Responses to Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium and Candida albicans. mBio 2018; 9:mBio.02032-18. [PMID: 30401779 PMCID: PMC6222126 DOI: 10.1128/mbio.02032-18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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The gut microbiota is increasingly recognized for playing a critical role in human health and disease, especially in conferring resistance to both virulent pathogens such as Salmonella, which infects 1.2 million people in the United States every year (E. Scallan, R. M. Hoekstra, F. J. Angulo, R. V. Tauxe, et al., Emerg Infect Dis 17:7–15, 2011, https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1701.P11101), and opportunistic pathogens like Candida, which causes an estimated 46,000 cases of invasive candidiasis each year in the United States (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Antibiotic Resistance Threats in the United States, 2013, 2013). Using a gnotobiotic mouse model, we investigate potential changes in gut microbial community structure and function during infection using metagenomics and metabolomics. We observe that changes in the community and in biosynthetic gene cluster potential occur within 3 days for the virulent Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium, but there are minimal changes with a poorly colonizing Candida albicans. In addition, the metabolome shifts depending on infection status, including changes in glutathione metabolites in response to Salmonella infection, potentially in response to host oxidative stress. The gut microbiota confers resistance to pathogens of the intestinal ecosystem, yet the dynamics of pathogen-microbiome interactions and the metabolites involved in this process remain largely unknown. Here, we use gnotobiotic mice infected with the virulent pathogen Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium or the opportunistic pathogen Candida albicans in combination with metagenomics and discovery metabolomics to identify changes in the community and metabolome during infection. To isolate the role of the microbiota in response to pathogens, we compared mice monocolonized with the pathogen, uninfected mice “humanized” with a synthetic human microbiome, or infected humanized mice. In Salmonella-infected mice, by 3 days into infection, microbiome community structure and function changed substantially, with a rise in Enterobacteriaceae strains and a reduction in biosynthetic gene cluster potential. In contrast, Candida-infected mice had few microbiome changes. The LC-MS metabolomic fingerprint of the cecum differed between mice monocolonized with either pathogen and humanized infected mice. Specifically, we identified an increase in glutathione disulfide, glutathione cysteine disulfide, inosine 5’-monophosphate, and hydroxybutyrylcarnitine in mice infected with Salmonella in contrast to uninfected mice and mice monocolonized with Salmonella. These metabolites potentially play a role in pathogen-induced oxidative stress. These results provide insight into how the microbiota community members interact with each other and with pathogens on a metabolic level.
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Engineering Pseudochelin Production in Myxococcus xanthus. Appl Environ Microbiol 2018; 84:AEM.01789-18. [PMID: 30217842 DOI: 10.1128/aem.01789-18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2018] [Accepted: 09/01/2018] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Myxobacteria utilize the catechol natural products myxochelin A and B in order to maintain their iron homeostasis. Recently, the production of these siderophores, along with a new myxochelin derivative named pseudochelin A, was reported for the marine bacterium Pseudoalteromonas piscicida S2040. The latter derivative features a characteristic imidazoline moiety, which was proposed to originate from an intramolecular condensation reaction of the β-aminoethyl amide group in myxochelin B. To identify the enzyme catalyzing this conversion, we compared the myxochelin regulons of two myxobacterial strains that produce solely myxochelin A and B with those of P. piscicida S2040. This approach revealed a gene exclusive to the myxochelin regulon in P. piscicida S2040, coding for an enzyme of the amidohydrolase superfamily. To prove that this enzyme is indeed responsible for the postulated conversion, the reaction was reconstituted in vitro using a hexahistidine-tagged recombinant protein made in Escherichia coli, with myxochelin B as the substrate. To test the production of pseudochelin A under in vivo conditions, the amidohydrolase gene was cloned into the myxobacterial plasmid pZJY156 and placed under the control of a copper-inducible promoter. The resulting vector was introduced into the myxobacterium Myxococcus xanthus DSM 16526, a native producer of myxochelin A and B. Following induction with copper, the myxobacterial expression strain was found to synthesize small quantities of pseudochelin A. Replacement of the copper-inducible promoter with the constitutive pilA promoter led to increased production levels in M. xanthus, which facilitated the isolation and subsequent structural verification of the heterologously produced compound.IMPORTANCE In this study, an enzyme for imidazoline formation in pseudochelin biosynthesis was identified. Evidence for the involvement of this enzyme in the postulated reaction was obtained after in vitro reconstitution. Furthermore, the function of this enzyme was demonstrated in vivo by transferring the corresponding gene into the bacterium Myxococcus xanthus, which thereby became a producer of pseudochelin A. In addition to clarifying the molecular basis of imidazoline formation in siderophore biosynthesis, we describe the heterologous expression of a gene in a myxobacterium without chromosomal integration. Due to its metabolic proficiency, M. xanthus represents an interesting alternative to established host systems for the reconstitution and manipulation of biosynthetic pathways. Since the plasmid used in this study is easily adaptable for the expression of other enzymes as well, we expand the conventional expression strategy for myxobacteria, which is based on the integration of biosynthetic genes into the host genome.
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In silico characterization of a novel putative aerotaxis chemosensory system in the myxobacterium, Corallococcus coralloides. BMC Genomics 2018; 19:757. [PMID: 30340510 PMCID: PMC6194562 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-018-5151-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2018] [Accepted: 10/08/2018] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Background An efficient signal transduction system allows a bacterium to sense environmental cues and then to respond positively or negatively to those signals; this process is referred to as taxis. In addition to external cues, the internal metabolic state of any bacterium plays a major role in determining its ability to reside and thrive in its current environment. Similar to external signaling molecules, cytoplasmic signals are also sensed by methyl-accepting chemotaxis proteins (MCPs) via diverse ligand binding domains. Myxobacteria are complex soil-dwelling social microbes that can perform a variety of physiologic and metabolic activities ranging from gliding motility, sporulation, biofilm formation, carotenoid and secondary metabolite biosynthesis, predation, and slime secretion. To live such complex lifestyles, they have evolved efficient signal transduction systems with numerous one- and two-component regulatory system along with a large array of chemosensory systems to perceive and integrate both external and internal cues. Results Here we report the in silico characterization of a putative energy taxis cluster, Cc-5, which is present in only one amongst 34 known and sequenced myxobacterial genomes, Corallococcus coralloides. In addition, we propose that this energy taxis cluster is involved in oxygen sensing, suggesting that C. coralloides can sense (either directly or indirectly) and then respond to changing concentrations of molecular oxygen. Conclusions This hypothesis is based on the presence of a unique MCP encoded in this gene cluster that contains two different oxygen-binding sensor domains, PAS and globin. In addition, the two monooxygenases encoded in this cluster may contribute to aerobic respiration via ubiquinone biosynthesis, which is part of the cytochrome bc1 complex. Finally, we suggest that this cluster was acquired from Actinobacteria, Gammaproteobacteria or Cyanobacteria. Overall, this in silico study has identified a potentially innovative and evolved mechanism of energy taxis in only one of the myxobacteria, C. coralloides. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s12864-018-5151-6) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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Hoffmann T, Krug D, Bozkurt N, Duddela S, Jansen R, Garcia R, Gerth K, Steinmetz H, Müller R. Correlating chemical diversity with taxonomic distance for discovery of natural products in myxobacteria. Nat Commun 2018; 9:803. [PMID: 29476047 PMCID: PMC5824889 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-03184-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 110] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2017] [Accepted: 01/24/2018] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Some bacterial clades are important sources of novel bioactive natural products. Estimating the magnitude of chemical diversity available from such a resource is complicated by issues including cultivability, isolation bias and limited analytical data sets. Here we perform a systematic metabolite survey of ~2300 bacterial strains of the order Myxococcales, a well-established source of natural products, using mass spectrometry. Our analysis encompasses both known and previously unidentified metabolites detected under laboratory cultivation conditions, thereby enabling large-scale comparison of production profiles in relation to myxobacterial taxonomy. We find a correlation between taxonomic distance and the production of distinct secondary metabolite families, further supporting the idea that the chances of discovering novel metabolites are greater by examining strains from new genera rather than additional representatives within the same genus. In addition, we report the discovery and structure elucidation of rowithocin, a myxobacterial secondary metabolite featuring an uncommon phosphorylated polyketide scaffold. It is thought that the chances for discovery of novel natural products increase by screening rare organisms. Here the authors analyse metabolites produced by over 2300 myxobacterial strains and, indeed, find a correlation between taxonomic distance and production of distinct secondary metabolite families.
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- Thomas Hoffmann
- Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Department of Microbial Natural Products, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research and Department of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Saarland University, Campus E8.1, 66123, Saarbrücken, Germany.,German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Hannover-Braunschweig, 38124, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Department of Microbial Natural Products, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research and Department of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Saarland University, Campus E8.1, 66123, Saarbrücken, Germany.,German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Hannover-Braunschweig, 38124, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Department of Microbial Natural Products, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research and Department of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Saarland University, Campus E8.1, 66123, Saarbrücken, Germany
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- Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Department of Microbial Natural Products, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research and Department of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Saarland University, Campus E8.1, 66123, Saarbrücken, Germany
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- Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Department of Microbial Drugs, 38124, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Department of Microbial Natural Products, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research and Department of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Saarland University, Campus E8.1, 66123, Saarbrücken, Germany.,German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Hannover-Braunschweig, 38124, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Department of Microbial Drugs, 38124, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Department of Microbial Drugs, 38124, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Department of Microbial Natural Products, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research and Department of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Saarland University, Campus E8.1, 66123, Saarbrücken, Germany. .,German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Hannover-Braunschweig, 38124, Braunschweig, Germany.
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Sierra-García IN, Romero-Tabarez M, Orduz-Peralta S. Determinación de la actividad antimicrobiana e insecticida de extractos producidos por bacterias aisladas de suelo. ACTUALIDADES BIOLÓGICAS 2017. [DOI: 10.17533/96] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Colombia es considerado uno de los países con mayor diversidad biológica, sin embargo, muy poca de esa diversidad ha sido explorada para identificar sustancias biológicamente activas. Los metabolitos secundarios bacterianos pueden presentar actividad frente a patógenos de plantas y animales y representan alternativas biotecnológicas para la industria. El objetivo de este estudio fue evaluar el potencial de diferentes cepas bacterianas aisladas de suelo, para producir sustancias biológicamente activas como antibacterianos, antifúngicos e insecticidas. Un total de 92 extractos metanólicos de metabolitos secundarios bacterianos fueron evaluados. La actividad antibacterial y antifúngica se evaluó mediante el ensayo de difusión en agar frente a diversas bacterias como Bacillus subtilis, Enterococcus faecalis, Escherichia coli y Staphylococcus aureus frente a diferentes hongos Alternaria sp., Colletotrichum sp., Fusarium sp., Pestalotia sp. y Verticillium sp. La actividad insecticida se evaluó determinando el efecto de los extractos sobre la mortalidad de larvas de Aedes aegypti (Diptera) y Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera). Se determinó que el 50% de los aislamientos bacterianos tuvieron algún tipo de actividad, aunque la mayor actividad biológica se detectó en los extractos producidos por bacterias del género Bacillus, identificados por medio de análisis del ADN ribosomal 16S y por caracterización bioquímica con API® 50 CHB, MicroLogTM y Biolog. Las especies del género Bacillus identificadas han sido caracterizadas como productoras de compuestos antimicrobianos de amplio espectro o de varios compuestos con diferentes actividades. La actividad biológica presentada por los extractos evidencian que los microorganismos terrestres y especialmente, las especies de Bacillus son productores prolíficos de diversas sustancias bioactivas.
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Sucipto H, Pogorevc D, Luxenburger E, Wenzel SC, Müller R. Heterologous production of myxobacterial α-pyrone antibiotics in Myxococcus xanthus. Metab Eng 2017; 44:160-170. [PMID: 29030273 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2017.10.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2017] [Revised: 10/01/2017] [Accepted: 10/05/2017] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Myxopyronins (MXN) and corallopyronins (COR) are structurally related α-pyrone antibiotics from myxobacteria that represent a highly promising compound class for the development of broad-spectrum antibacterial therapeutic agents. Their ability to inhibit RNA polymerase through interaction with the "switch region", a novel target, distant from previously characterized RNA polymerase inhibitors (e.g. rifampicin), makes them particularly promising candidates for further research. To improve compound supply for further investigation of MXN, COR and novel derivatives of these antibacterial agents, establishment of an efficient and versatile microbial production platform for myxobacterial α-pyrone antibiotics is highly desirable. Here we describe design, construction and expression of a heterologous production and engineering platforms for MXN and COR to facilitate rational structure design and yield improvement approaches in the myxobacterial host strain Myxococcus xanthus DK1622. Optimization of the cultivation medium yielded significantly higher production titers of MXN A at around 41-fold increase and COR A at around 25-fold increase, compared to the standard CTT medium.
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- Hilda Sucipto
- Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research and Department of Pharmacy at Saarland University, Saarland University Campus, Building E8.1, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
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- Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research and Department of Pharmacy at Saarland University, Saarland University Campus, Building E8.1, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany; German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Hannover-Braunschweig, Germany
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- Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research and Department of Pharmacy at Saarland University, Saarland University Campus, Building E8.1, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany; German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Hannover-Braunschweig, Germany
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- Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research and Department of Pharmacy at Saarland University, Saarland University Campus, Building E8.1, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany.
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- Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research and Department of Pharmacy at Saarland University, Saarland University Campus, Building E8.1, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany; German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Hannover-Braunschweig, Germany.
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Yang YJ, Wang Y, Li ZF, Gong Y, Zhang P, Hu WC, Sheng DH, Li YZ. Increasing on-target cleavage efficiency for CRISPR/Cas9-induced large fragment deletion in Myxococcus xanthus. Microb Cell Fact 2017; 16:142. [PMID: 28814300 PMCID: PMC5559782 DOI: 10.1186/s12934-017-0758-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2017] [Accepted: 08/09/2017] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The CRISPR/Cas9 system is a powerful tool for genome editing, in which the sgRNA binds and guides the Cas9 protein for the sequence-specific cleavage. The protocol is employable in different organisms, but is often limited by cell damage due to the endonuclease activity of the introduced Cas9 and the potential off-target DNA cleavage from incorrect guide by the 20 nt spacer. RESULTS In this study, after resolving some critical limits, we have established an efficient CRISPR/Cas9 system for the deletion of large genome fragments related to the biosynthesis of secondary metabolites in Myxococcus xanthus cells. We revealed that the high expression of a codon-optimized cas9 gene in M. xanthus was cytotoxic, and developed a temporally high expression strategy to reduce the cell damage from high expressions of Cas9. We optimized the deletion protocol by using the tRNA-sgRNA-tRNA chimeric structure to ensure correct sgRNA sequence. We found that, in addition to the position-dependent nucleotide preference, the free energy of a 20 nt spacer was a key factor for the deletion efficiency. CONCLUSIONS By using the developed protocol, we achieved the CRISPR/Cas9-induced deletion of large biosynthetic gene clusters for secondary metabolites in M. xanthus DK1622 and its epothilone-producing mutant. The findings and the proposals described in this paper were suggested to be workable in other organisms, for example, other Gram negative bacteria with high GC content.
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- Ying-jie Yang
- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Science, Shandong University, Jinan, 250100 People’s Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Science, Shandong University, Jinan, 250100 People’s Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Science, Shandong University, Jinan, 250100 People’s Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Science, Shandong University, Jinan, 250100 People’s Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Science, Shandong University, Jinan, 250100 People’s Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Science, Shandong University, Jinan, 250100 People’s Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Science, Shandong University, Jinan, 250100 People’s Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Science, Shandong University, Jinan, 250100 People’s Republic of China
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Bian X, Tang B, Yu Y, Tu Q, Gross F, Wang H, Li A, Fu J, Shen Y, Li YZ, Stewart AF, Zhao G, Ding X, Müller R, Zhang Y. Heterologous Production and Yield Improvement of Epothilones in Burkholderiales Strain DSM 7029. ACS Chem Biol 2017; 12:1805-1812. [PMID: 28467833 DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.7b00097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The cloning of microbial natural product biosynthetic gene clusters and their heterologous expression in a suitable host have proven to be a feasible approach to improve the yield of valuable natural products and to begin mining cryptic natural products in microorganisms. Myxobacteria are a prolific source of novel bioactive natural products with only limited choices of heterologous hosts that have been exploited. Here, we describe the use of Burkholderiales strain DSM 7029 as a potential heterologous host for the functional expression of myxobacterial secondary metabolites. Using a newly established electroporation procedure, the 56 kb epothilone biosynthetic gene cluster from the myxobacterium Sorangium cellulosum was introduced into the chromosome of strain DSM 7029 by transposition. Production of epothilones A, B, C, and D was detected despite their yields being low. Optimization of the medium, introduction of the exogenous methylmalonyl-CoA biosynthetic pathway, and overexpression of rare tRNA genes resulted in an approximately 75-fold increase in the total yields of epothilones to 307 μg L-1. These results show that strain DSM 7029 has the potential to produce epothilones with reasonable titers and might be a broadly applicable host for the heterologous expression of other myxobacterial polyketide synthases and nonribosomal peptide synthetases, expediting the process of genome mining.
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- Xiaoying Bian
- Shandong
University−Helmholtz Institute of Biotechnology, State Key
Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Science, Shandong University, Qingdao 266235, China
- Department
of Microbial Natural Products, Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research and Saarland University, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
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- Collaborative
Innovation Center for Genetics and Development, State Key Laboratory
of Genetic Engineering, Department of Microbiology, School of Life
Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Collaborative
Innovation Center for Genetics and Development, State Key Laboratory
of Genetic Engineering, Department of Microbiology, School of Life
Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Shandong
University−Helmholtz Institute of Biotechnology, State Key
Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Science, Shandong University, Qingdao 266235, China
- Department
of Microbial Natural Products, Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research and Saarland University, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
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- Genomics,
Biotechnology Center, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden 01062, Germany
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- Shandong
University−Helmholtz Institute of Biotechnology, State Key
Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Science, Shandong University, Qingdao 266235, China
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- Shandong
University−Helmholtz Institute of Biotechnology, State Key
Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Science, Shandong University, Qingdao 266235, China
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- Shandong
University−Helmholtz Institute of Biotechnology, State Key
Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Science, Shandong University, Qingdao 266235, China
- Genomics,
Biotechnology Center, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden 01062, Germany
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- Shandong
University−Helmholtz Institute of Biotechnology, State Key
Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Science, Shandong University, Qingdao 266235, China
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- Shandong
University−Helmholtz Institute of Biotechnology, State Key
Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Science, Shandong University, Qingdao 266235, China
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- Genomics,
Biotechnology Center, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden 01062, Germany
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- Collaborative
Innovation Center for Genetics and Development, State Key Laboratory
of Genetic Engineering, Department of Microbiology, School of Life
Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
- CAS
Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, Institute of Plant Physiology
and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China
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- Collaborative
Innovation Center for Genetics and Development, State Key Laboratory
of Genetic Engineering, Department of Microbiology, School of Life
Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Department
of Microbial Natural Products, Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research and Saarland University, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
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- Shandong
University−Helmholtz Institute of Biotechnology, State Key
Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Science, Shandong University, Qingdao 266235, China
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Chanana S, Thomas CS, Braun DR, Hou Y, Wyche TP, Bugni TS. Natural Product Discovery Using Planes of Principal Component Analysis in R (PoPCAR). Metabolites 2017; 7:metabo7030034. [PMID: 28703778 PMCID: PMC5618319 DOI: 10.3390/metabo7030034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2017] [Revised: 06/20/2017] [Accepted: 07/11/2017] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Rediscovery of known natural products hinders the discovery of new, unique scaffolds. Efforts have mostly focused on streamlining the determination of what compounds are known vs. unknown (dereplication), but an alternative strategy is to focus on what is different. Utilizing statistics and assuming that common actinobacterial metabolites are likely known, focus can be shifted away from dereplication and towards discovery. LC-MS-based principal component analysis (PCA) provides a perfect tool to distinguish unique vs. common metabolites, but the variability inherent within natural products leads to datasets that do not fit ideal standards. To simplify the analysis of PCA models, we developed a script that identifies only those masses or molecules that are unique to each strain within a group, thereby greatly reducing the number of data points to be inspected manually. Since the script is written in R, it facilitates integration with other metabolomics workflows and supports automated mass matching to databases such as Antibase.
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- Shaurya Chanana
- Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53705, USA.
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- Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53705, USA.
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- Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53705, USA.
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- Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53705, USA.
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- Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53705, USA.
- Exploratory Science Center, Merck & Co., 320 Bent St., Cambridge, MA 02141, USA.
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- Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53705, USA.
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Molecular and functional characterization of myxobacteria isolated from soil in India. 3 Biotech 2017; 7:112. [PMID: 28567623 DOI: 10.1007/s13205-017-0722-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2016] [Accepted: 04/06/2017] [Indexed: 10/19/2022] Open
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This study reports the isolation of myxobacteria from soil collected from plains in north India. Based on the morphology and 16S rDNA sequence, the isolated myxobacteria were identified as Corallococcus sp., Pyxidicoccus sp., Myxococcus sp., Cystobacter sp. and Archangium sp. The myxobacteria were functionally characterized to assess their ability to produce antibacterial and anticancer metabolites. The isolates were found to be functionally versatile as they produced extracellular bioactive molecules that exhibited high frequency of activities against Bacillus cereus, Mycobacterium smegmatis, Enterobacter cloacae and Pseudomonas syringae. The strains also showed cytotoxic activity against the human cancer cell lines of liver, pancreas, prostrate, bone and cervix. These results indicate the importance of isolating diverse strains of myxobacteria from unexplored habitats to find novel bioactive compounds. Moreover, the bioactive molecules explored in this study are predominantly hydrophilic compounds, obviating the limitations of solubility-related aspect of drug discovery.
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Sharma R, Jamwal V, Singh VP, Wazir P, Awasthi P, Singh D, Vishwakarma RA, Gandhi SG, Chaubey A. Revelation and cloning of valinomycin synthetase genes in Streptomyces lavendulae ACR-DA1 and their expression analysis under different fermentation and elicitation conditions. J Biotechnol 2017; 253:40-47. [PMID: 28528783 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2017.05.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2017] [Revised: 05/02/2017] [Accepted: 05/08/2017] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Streptomyces species are amongst the most exploited microorganisms due to their ability to produce a plethora of secondary metabolites with bioactive potential, including several well known drugs. They are endowed with immense unexplored potential and substantial efforts are required for their isolation as well as characterization for their bioactive potential. Unexplored niches and extreme environments are host to diverse microbial species. In this study, we report Streptomyces lavendulae ACR-DA1, isolated from extreme cold deserts of the North Western Himalayas, which produces a macrolactone antibiotic, valinomycin. Valinomycin is a K+ ionophoric non-ribosomal cyclodepsipeptide with a broad range of bioactivities including antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral and cytotoxic/anticancer activities. Production of valinomycin by the strain S. lavendulae ACR-DA1 was studied under different fermentation conditions like fermentation medium, temperature and addition of biosynthetic precursors. Synthetic medium at 10°C in the presence of precursors i.e. valine and pyruvate showed enhanced valinomycin production. In order to assess the impact of various elicitors, expression of the two genes viz. vlm1 and vlm2 that encode components of heterodimeric valinomycin synthetase, was analyzed using RT-PCR and correlated with quantity of valinomycin using LC-MS/MS. Annelid, bacterial and yeast elicitors increased valinomycin production whereas addition of fungal and plant elicitors down regulated the biosynthetic genes and reduced valinomycin production. This study is also the first report of valinomycin biosynthesis by Streptomyces lavendulae.
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- Richa Sharma
- CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine, Canal Road, Jammu,180001, India; Academy of Scientific & Innovative Research, New Delhi, 110001, India
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- CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine, Canal Road, Jammu,180001, India
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- CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine, Canal Road, Jammu,180001, India
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- CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine, Canal Road, Jammu,180001, India
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- CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine, Canal Road, Jammu,180001, India
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- CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine, Canal Road, Jammu,180001, India; Academy of Scientific & Innovative Research, New Delhi, 110001, India
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- CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine, Canal Road, Jammu,180001, India; Academy of Scientific & Innovative Research, New Delhi, 110001, India
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- CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine, Canal Road, Jammu,180001, India; Academy of Scientific & Innovative Research, New Delhi, 110001, India.
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- CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine, Canal Road, Jammu,180001, India; Academy of Scientific & Innovative Research, New Delhi, 110001, India.
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Burgard C, Zaburannyi N, Nadmid S, Maier J, Jenke-Kodama H, Luxenburger E, Bernauer HS, Wenzel SC. Genomics-Guided Exploitation of Lipopeptide Diversity in Myxobacteria. ACS Chem Biol 2017; 12:779-786. [PMID: 28128551 DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.6b00953] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Analysis of 122 myxobacterial genome sequences suggested 16 strains as producers of the myxochromide lipopeptide family. Detailed sequence comparison of the respective mch biosynthetic gene clusters informed a genome-mining approach, ultimately leading to the discovery and chemical characterization of four novel myxochromide core types. The myxochromide megasynthetase is subject to evolutionary diversification, resulting in considerable structural diversity of biosynthesis products. The observed differences are due to the number, type, sequence, and configuration of the incorporated amino acids. The analysis revealed molecular details on how point mutations and recombination events led to structural diversity. It also gave insights into the evolutionary scenarios that have led to the emergence of mch clusters in different strains and genera of myxobacteria.
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- Christian Burgard
- Helmholtz
Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Helmholtz Centre
for Infection Research and Pharmaceutical Biotechnology at Saarland
University, Saarland University Campus, Building E8.1, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
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- Helmholtz
Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Helmholtz Centre
for Infection Research and Pharmaceutical Biotechnology at Saarland
University, Saarland University Campus, Building E8.1, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
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- Helmholtz
Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Helmholtz Centre
for Infection Research and Pharmaceutical Biotechnology at Saarland
University, Saarland University Campus, Building E8.1, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
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- IStLS − Information Services to Life Sciences, Härlestraße 24/1, 78727 Oberndorf am Neckar/Boll, Germany
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- Microbiology
and Biochemistry of Secondary Metabolites Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), 1919-1 Tancha, Onna-son, Okinawa 904-0495, Japan
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- Helmholtz
Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Helmholtz Centre
for Infection Research and Pharmaceutical Biotechnology at Saarland
University, Saarland University Campus, Building E8.1, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
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- Helmholtz
Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Helmholtz Centre
for Infection Research and Pharmaceutical Biotechnology at Saarland
University, Saarland University Campus, Building E8.1, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
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Covington BC, McLean JA, Bachmann BO. Comparative mass spectrometry-based metabolomics strategies for the investigation of microbial secondary metabolites. Nat Prod Rep 2017; 34:6-24. [PMID: 27604382 PMCID: PMC5214543 DOI: 10.1039/c6np00048g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Covering: 2000 to 2016The labor-intensive process of microbial natural product discovery is contingent upon identifying discrete secondary metabolites of interest within complex biological extracts, which contain inventories of all extractable small molecules produced by an organism or consortium. Historically, compound isolation prioritization has been driven by observed biological activity and/or relative metabolite abundance and followed by dereplication via accurate mass analysis. Decades of discovery using variants of these methods has generated the natural pharmacopeia but also contributes to recent high rediscovery rates. However, genomic sequencing reveals substantial untapped potential in previously mined organisms, and can provide useful prescience of potentially new secondary metabolites that ultimately enables isolation. Recently, advances in comparative metabolomics analyses have been coupled to secondary metabolic predictions to accelerate bioactivity and abundance-independent discovery work flows. In this review we will discuss the various analytical and computational techniques that enable MS-based metabolomic applications to natural product discovery and discuss the future prospects for comparative metabolomics in natural product discovery.
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- Brett C Covington
- Department of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, 7330 Stevenson Center, Nashville, TN 37235, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, 7330 Stevenson Center, Nashville, TN 37235, USA. and Center for Innovative Technology, Vanderbilt University, 5401 Stevenson Center, Nashville, TN 37235, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, 7330 Stevenson Center, Nashville, TN 37235, USA.
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Kraemer SA, Wielgoss S, Fiegna F, Velicer GJ. The biogeography of kin discrimination across microbial neighbourhoods. Mol Ecol 2016; 25:4875-88. [PMID: 27540705 PMCID: PMC5054864 DOI: 10.1111/mec.13803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2016] [Revised: 07/27/2016] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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The spatial distribution of potential interactants is critical to social evolution in all cooperative organisms. Yet the biogeography of microbial kin discrimination at the scales most relevant to social interactions is poorly understood. Here we resolve the microbiogeography of social identity and genetic relatedness in local populations of the model cooperative bacterium Myxococcus xanthus at small spatial scales, across which the potential for dispersal is high. Using two criteria of relatedness—colony‐merger compatibility during cooperative motility and DNA‐sequence similarity at highly polymorphic loci—we find that relatedness decreases greatly with spatial distance even across the smallest scale transition. Both social relatedness and genetic relatedness are maximal within individual fruiting bodies at the micrometre scale but are much lower already across adjacent fruiting bodies at the millimetre scale. Genetic relatedness was found to be yet lower among centimetre‐scale samples, whereas social allotype relatedness decreased further only at the metre scale, at and beyond which the probability of social or genetic identity among randomly sampled isolates is effectively zero. Thus, in M. xanthus, high‐relatedness patches form a rich mosaic of diverse social allotypes across fruiting body neighbourhoods at the millimetre scale and beyond. Individuals that migrate even short distances across adjacent groups will frequently encounter allotypic conspecifics and territorial kin discrimination may profoundly influence the spatial dynamics of local migration. Finally, we also found that the phylogenetic scope of intraspecific biogeographic analysis can affect the detection of spatial structure, as some patterns evident in clade‐specific analysis were masked by simultaneous analysis of all strains.
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- Susanne A Kraemer
- Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, King's Buildings, Edinburgh, EH9 3FL, UK.
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- Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zürich, Universitätstrasse 16, 8092, Zürich, Switzerland.
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- Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zürich, Universitätstrasse 16, 8092, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zürich, Universitätstrasse 16, 8092, Zürich, Switzerland
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The study of natural products is entering a renaissance, driven by the discovery that the majority of bacterial secondary metabolites are not produced under standard laboratory conditions. Understanding the ecological role of natural products is key to efficiently directing our screening efforts, and to ensuring that each screen efficiently captures the full biosynthetic repertoire of the producing organisms. Myxobacteria represent one of the most common and diverse groups of bacteria, with roughly 2500 strains publically available. Fed largely through predation, the myxobacteria have developed a large repertoire of natural products that target other microorganisms, including bacteria and fungi. Many of these interactions can be observed in predation assays, providing direct evidence for environmental interactions. With a focus on Myxococcus xanthus, this review will highlight how recent advances in myxobacteria are revealing the chemical ecology of bacterial natural products.
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- Brandon L. Findlay
- Department of Chemistry and
Biochemistry, Faculty of Arts and Science, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H4B 1R6
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Dávila-Céspedes A, Hufendiek P, Crüsemann M, Schäberle TF, König GM. Marine-derived myxobacteria of the suborder Nannocystineae: An underexplored source of structurally intriguing and biologically active metabolites. Beilstein J Org Chem 2016; 12:969-984. [PMID: 27340488 PMCID: PMC4902002 DOI: 10.3762/bjoc.12.96] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2016] [Accepted: 04/25/2016] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Myxobacteria are famous for their ability to produce most intriguing secondary metabolites. Till recently, only terrestrial myxobacteria were in the focus of research. In this review, however, we discuss marine-derived myxobacteria, which are particularly interesting due to their relatively recent discovery and due to the fact that their very existence was called into question. The to-date-explored members of these halophilic or halotolerant myxobacteria are all grouped into the suborder Nannocystineae. Few of them were chemically investigated revealing around 11 structural types belonging to the polyketide, non-ribosomal peptide, hybrids thereof or terpenoid class of secondary metabolites. A most unusual structural type is represented by salimabromide from Enhygromyxa salina. In silico analyses were carried out on the available genome sequences of four bacterial members of the Nannocystineae, revealing the biosynthetic potential of these bacteria.
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- Institute for Pharmaceutical Biology, University of Bonn, Nussallee 6, 53115 Bonn, Germany
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- Institute for Pharmaceutical Biology, University of Bonn, Nussallee 6, 53115 Bonn, Germany
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- Institute for Pharmaceutical Biology, University of Bonn, Nussallee 6, 53115 Bonn, Germany
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- Institute for Pharmaceutical Biology, University of Bonn, Nussallee 6, 53115 Bonn, Germany
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An Integrated Metabolomic and Genomic Mining Workflow To Uncover the Biosynthetic Potential of Bacteria. mSystems 2016; 1:mSystems00028-15. [PMID: 27822535 PMCID: PMC5069768 DOI: 10.1128/msystems.00028-15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2015] [Accepted: 04/01/2016] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Microorganisms are a rich source of bioactives; however, chemical identification is a major bottleneck. Strategies that can prioritize the most prolific microbial strains and novel compounds are of great interest. Here, we present an integrated approach to evaluate the biosynthetic richness in bacteria and mine the associated chemical diversity. Thirteen strains closely related to Pseudoalteromonas luteoviolacea isolated from all over the Earth were analyzed using an untargeted metabolomics strategy, and metabolomic profiles were correlated with whole-genome sequences of the strains. We found considerable diversity: only 2% of the chemical features and 7% of the biosynthetic genes were common to all strains, while 30% of all features and 24% of the genes were unique to single strains. The list of chemical features was reduced to 50 discriminating features using a genetic algorithm and support vector machines. Features were dereplicated by tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) networking to identify molecular families of the same biosynthetic origin, and the associated pathways were probed using comparative genomics. Most of the discriminating features were related to antibacterial compounds, including the thiomarinols that were reported from P. luteoviolacea here for the first time. By comparative genomics, we identified the biosynthetic cluster responsible for the production of the antibiotic indolmycin, which could not be predicted with standard methods. In conclusion, we present an efficient, integrative strategy for elucidating the chemical richness of a given set of bacteria and link the chemistry to biosynthetic genes. IMPORTANCE We here combine chemical analysis and genomics to probe for new bioactive secondary metabolites based on their pattern of distribution within bacterial species. We demonstrate the usefulness of this combined approach in a group of marine Gram-negative bacteria closely related to Pseudoalteromonas luteoviolacea, which is a species known to produce a broad spectrum of chemicals. The approach allowed us to identify new antibiotics and their associated biosynthetic pathways. Combining chemical analysis and genetics is an efficient "mining" workflow for identifying diverse pharmaceutical candidates in a broad range of microorganisms and therefore of great use in bioprospecting.
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Maansson M, Vynne NG, Klitgaard A, Nybo JL, Melchiorsen J, Nguyen DD, Sanchez LM, Ziemert N, Dorrestein PC, Andersen MR, Gram L. An Integrated Metabolomic and Genomic Mining Workflow To Uncover the Biosynthetic Potential of Bacteria. mSystems 2016. [PMID: 27822535 DOI: 10.1128/msystems.00038-00016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/13/2023] Open
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Microorganisms are a rich source of bioactives; however, chemical identification is a major bottleneck. Strategies that can prioritize the most prolific microbial strains and novel compounds are of great interest. Here, we present an integrated approach to evaluate the biosynthetic richness in bacteria and mine the associated chemical diversity. Thirteen strains closely related to Pseudoalteromonas luteoviolacea isolated from all over the Earth were analyzed using an untargeted metabolomics strategy, and metabolomic profiles were correlated with whole-genome sequences of the strains. We found considerable diversity: only 2% of the chemical features and 7% of the biosynthetic genes were common to all strains, while 30% of all features and 24% of the genes were unique to single strains. The list of chemical features was reduced to 50 discriminating features using a genetic algorithm and support vector machines. Features were dereplicated by tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) networking to identify molecular families of the same biosynthetic origin, and the associated pathways were probed using comparative genomics. Most of the discriminating features were related to antibacterial compounds, including the thiomarinols that were reported from P. luteoviolacea here for the first time. By comparative genomics, we identified the biosynthetic cluster responsible for the production of the antibiotic indolmycin, which could not be predicted with standard methods. In conclusion, we present an efficient, integrative strategy for elucidating the chemical richness of a given set of bacteria and link the chemistry to biosynthetic genes. IMPORTANCE We here combine chemical analysis and genomics to probe for new bioactive secondary metabolites based on their pattern of distribution within bacterial species. We demonstrate the usefulness of this combined approach in a group of marine Gram-negative bacteria closely related to Pseudoalteromonas luteoviolacea, which is a species known to produce a broad spectrum of chemicals. The approach allowed us to identify new antibiotics and their associated biosynthetic pathways. Combining chemical analysis and genetics is an efficient "mining" workflow for identifying diverse pharmaceutical candidates in a broad range of microorganisms and therefore of great use in bioprospecting.
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- Maria Maansson
- Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
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- Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
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- Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
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- Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
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- Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
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- Interfaculty Institute of Microbiology and Infection Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany; Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA; Interfaculty Institute of Microbiology and Infection Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA; Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA; Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
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- Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
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- Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
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Bacterial biofilms are dense and often mixed-species surface-attached communities in which bacteria coexist and compete for limited space and nutrients. Here we present the different antagonistic interactions described in biofilm environments and their underlying molecular mechanisms, along with ecological and evolutionary insights as to how competitive interactions arise and are maintained within biofilms.
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A barrier to homologous recombination between sympatric strains of the cooperative soil bacterium Myxococcus xanthus. ISME JOURNAL 2016; 10:2468-77. [PMID: 27046334 PMCID: PMC5030687 DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2016.34] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2015] [Revised: 01/05/2016] [Accepted: 02/02/2016] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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The bacterium Myxococcus xanthus glides through soil in search of prey microbes, but when food sources run out, cells cooperatively construct and sporulate within multicellular fruiting bodies. M. xanthus strains isolated from a 16 × 16-cm-scale patch of soil were previously shown to have diversified into many distinct compatibility types that are distinguished by the failure of swarming colonies to merge upon encounter. We sequenced the genomes of 22 isolates from this population belonging to the two most frequently occurring multilocus sequence type (MLST) clades to trace patterns of incipient genomic divergence, specifically related to social divergence. Although homologous recombination occurs frequently within the two MLST clades, we find an almost complete absence of recombination events between them. As the two clades are very closely related and live in sympatry, either ecological or genetic barriers must reduce genetic exchange between them. We find that the rate of change in the accessory genome is greater than the rate of amino-acid substitution in the core genome. We identify a large genomic tract that consistently differs between isolates that do not freely merge and therefore is a candidate region for harbouring gene(s) responsible for self/non-self discrimination.
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Korp J, Vela Gurovic MS, Nett M. Antibiotics from predatory bacteria. Beilstein J Org Chem 2016; 12:594-607. [PMID: 27340451 PMCID: PMC4902038 DOI: 10.3762/bjoc.12.58] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2016] [Accepted: 03/11/2016] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Bacteria, which prey on other microorganisms, are commonly found in the environment. While some of these organisms act as solitary hunters, others band together in large consortia before they attack their prey. Anecdotal reports suggest that bacteria practicing such a wolfpack strategy utilize antibiotics as predatory weapons. Consistent with this hypothesis, genome sequencing revealed that these micropredators possess impressive capacities for natural product biosynthesis. Here, we will present the results from recent chemical investigations of this bacterial group, compare the biosynthetic potential with that of non-predatory bacteria and discuss the link between predation and secondary metabolism.
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- Juliane Korp
- Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans-Knöll-Institute, Beutenbergstr. 11, 07745 Jena, Germany
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- Centro de Recursos Naturales Renovables de la Zona Semiárida (CERZOS) -CONICET- Carrindanga Km 11, Bahía Blanca 8000, Argentina
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- Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans-Knöll-Institute, Beutenbergstr. 11, 07745 Jena, Germany
- Department of Biochemical and Chemical Engineering, Technical Biology, Technical University Dortmund, Emil-Figge-Strasse 66, 44227 Dortmund, Germany
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