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Hibbert T, Krpetic Z, Latimer J, Leighton H, McHugh R, Pottenger S, Wragg C, James CE. Antimicrobials: An update on new strategies to diversify treatment for bacterial infections. Adv Microb Physiol 2024; 84:135-241. [PMID: 38821632 DOI: 10.1016/bs.ampbs.2023.12.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2024]
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Ninety-five years after Fleming's discovery of penicillin, a bounty of antibiotic compounds have been discovered, modified, or synthesised. Diversification of target sites, improved stability and altered activity spectra have enabled continued antibiotic efficacy, but overwhelming reliance and misuse has fuelled the global spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). An estimated 1.27 million deaths were attributable to antibiotic resistant bacteria in 2019, representing a major threat to modern medicine. Although antibiotics remain at the heart of strategies for treatment and control of bacterial diseases, the threat of AMR has reached catastrophic proportions urgently calling for fresh innovation. The last decade has been peppered with ground-breaking developments in genome sequencing, high throughput screening technologies and machine learning. These advances have opened new doors for bioprospecting for novel antimicrobials. They have also enabled more thorough exploration of complex and polymicrobial infections and interactions with the healthy microbiome. Using models of infection that more closely resemble the infection state in vivo, we are now beginning to measure the impacts of antimicrobial therapy on host/microbiota/pathogen interactions. However new approaches are needed for developing and standardising appropriate methods to measure efficacy of novel antimicrobial combinations in these contexts. A battery of promising new antimicrobials is now in various stages of development including co-administered inhibitors, phages, nanoparticles, immunotherapy, anti-biofilm and anti-virulence agents. These novel therapeutics need multidisciplinary collaboration and new ways of thinking to bring them into large scale clinical use.
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- Tegan Hibbert
- Department of Clinical Infection, Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences (IVES), University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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- School of Science, Engineering, and Environment, University of Salford, Salford, UK
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- School of Science, Engineering, and Environment, University of Salford, Salford, UK
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- Department of Clinical Infection, Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences (IVES), University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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- School of Infection and Immunity, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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- Department of Clinical Infection, Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences (IVES), University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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- Department of Clinical Infection, Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences (IVES), University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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- School of Science, Engineering, and Environment, University of Salford, Salford, UK.
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Kim J, Kim EJ, Ko HJ, Lee YH, Hong SK, Shin M, Lee JH, Kwak W. Construction of Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) mutants that exclusively produce NA4/NA6 intermediates of agarose metabolism through mutation induction. Sci Rep 2023; 13:18968. [PMID: 37923760 PMCID: PMC10624881 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-46410-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2023] [Accepted: 10/31/2023] [Indexed: 11/06/2023] Open
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NA4/NA6, an intermediate degradation product of β-agarase, is a high value-added product with anticancer, anti-obesity, and anti-diabetic effects. Therefore, a method that enables the efficient production of NA4/NA6 would be useful from economic and medical perspectives. In this study, we aimed to generate a Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) mutant M22-2C43 that produces NA4/NA6 as a final product; this method serves as a more efficient alternative to the enzymatic conversion of β-agarase for the generation of these products. The M22-2C43 strain was generated through two rounds of mutagenesis and screening for increased β-agarase activity and effective production of NA4/NA6. We assembled the complete genomes of two mutants, M22 and M22-2C43, which were identified following a two-round screening. Large and small genetic changes were found in these two mutants, including the loss of two plasmids present in wild-type S. coelicolor A3(2) and chromosome circularization of mutant M22-2C43. These findings suggest that mutant M22-2C43 can produce NA4/NA6 as a degradation product due to functional inactivation of the dagB gene through a point mutation (G474A), ultimately preventing further degradation of NA4/NA6 to NA2. To our knowledge, this is the first report of a microbial strain that can effectively produce NA4/NA6 as the main degradation product of β-agarase, opening the door for the use of this species for the large-scale production of this valuable product.
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- Jina Kim
- Department of Medical and Biological Sciences, The Catholic University of Korea, Bucheon, 14662, Republic of Korea
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- Dyne Bio Inc., Seongnam-si, Gyeonggido, 13209, Republic of Korea
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- Dyne Bio Inc., Seongnam-si, Gyeonggido, 13209, Republic of Korea
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- Dyne Bio Inc., Seongnam-si, Gyeonggido, 13209, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biological Science and Bioinformatics, Myongji University, 116 Myongji-Ro, Cheoin-gu, Yongin, 17058, Gyeonggido, Korea
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- Department of Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 06510, USA
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- Dyne Bio Inc., Seongnam-si, Gyeonggido, 13209, Republic of Korea.
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- Department of Medical and Biological Sciences, The Catholic University of Korea, Bucheon, 14662, Republic of Korea.
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Fuentes MS, Álvarez A, Cuozzo SA, Benimeli CS. Combination of slurry-bioreactors and actinobacteria consortia as strategy to bioremediate chlordane-contaminated soils. CHEMOSPHERE 2023:139270. [PMID: 37343638 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.139270] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2023] [Revised: 06/07/2023] [Accepted: 06/16/2023] [Indexed: 06/23/2023]
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Soil contamination caused by pesticides poses a significant environmental challenge, and addressing it requires effective solutions. Bioremediation, combining the utilization of slurry-bioreactors and microbial consortia, emerges as an appropiated strategy to tackle this issue. Therefore, this research evaluated the chlordane (CLD) removal efficiency by a Streptomyces consortium through bioaugmentation of polluted soils, and slurry-bioreactors. For that, a Streptomyces defined consortium with CLD removal abilities was inoculated in soil microcosms and soil-slurry bioreactors (SB), with (SB-TSB) and without stimulation (SB-water). In soil, CLD presence has no negative effect on consortium growth. This was supported by comparing its duplication time (7.48 ± 0.14 h) with the obtained in the biotic control (7.45 ± 0.04 h). Furthermore, 17% of pesticide removal by microbial action was detected in the treated microcosms. In SB, the microbial development was not affected by the pesticide presence. In SB-TSB, the microbial growth was higher than in SB-water. This was supported by its lesser duplication time (7.27 ± 0.17 h) with respect to the non-stimulated systems (10.88 ± 0.29 h). However, SB-water showed the highest CLD removal ability (34.8%), with a concomitant increase in the chloride ion release. In the phytotoxicity test, the vigor index showed that the bioremediation in SB-water did not exert adverse effects greater than those generated by the CLD. Indeed, the root length increased after the treatment. These findings demonstrate the versatility of the Streptomyces consortium to remediate solid and semi-solid matrices impacted with pesticides, and the advantage of using bioaugmented SB to enhance the pollutants removal and accelerating the clean-up time required.
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- María S Fuentes
- Planta Piloto de Procesos Industriales Microbiológicos (PROIMI-CONICET), Av. Belgrano y Pje. Caseros, Tucumán, 4000, Argentina.
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- Planta Piloto de Procesos Industriales Microbiológicos (PROIMI-CONICET), Av. Belgrano y Pje. Caseros, Tucumán, 4000, Argentina; Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto Miguel Lillo, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Miguel Lillo 205, Tucumán, 4000, Argentina
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- Planta Piloto de Procesos Industriales Microbiológicos (PROIMI-CONICET), Av. Belgrano y Pje. Caseros, Tucumán, 4000, Argentina; Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto Miguel Lillo, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Miguel Lillo 205, Tucumán, 4000, Argentina
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- Planta Piloto de Procesos Industriales Microbiológicos (PROIMI-CONICET), Av. Belgrano y Pje. Caseros, Tucumán, 4000, Argentina; Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Catamarca, Belgrano 300, Catamarca, 4700, Argentina.
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Yagüe P, Willemse J, Xiao X, Zhang L, Manteca A, van Wezel GP. FtsZ phosphorylation pleiotropically affects Z-ladder formation, antibiotic production, and morphogenesis in Streptomyces coelicolor. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2023; 116:1-19. [PMID: 36383329 PMCID: PMC9823044 DOI: 10.1007/s10482-022-01778-w] [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: 01/03/2022] [Accepted: 08/27/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The GTPase FtsZ forms the cell division scaffold in bacteria, which mediates the recruitment of the other components of the divisome. Streptomycetes undergo two different forms of cell division. Septa without detectable peptidoglycan divide the highly compartmentalised young hyphae during early vegetative growth, and cross-walls are formed that dissect the hyphae into long multinucleoid compartments in the substrate mycelium, while ladders of septa are formed in the aerial hyphae that lead to chains of uninucleoid spores. In a previous study, we analysed the phosphoproteome of Streptomyces coelicolor and showed that FtsZ is phosphorylated at Ser 317 and Ser389. Substituting Ser-Ser for either Glu-Glu (mimicking phosphorylation) or Ala-Ala (mimicking non-phosphorylation) hinted at changes in antibiotic production. Here we analyse development, colony morphology, spore resistance, and antibiotic production in FtsZ knockout mutants expressing FtsZ alleles mimicking Ser319 and Ser387 phosphorylation and non-phosphorylation: AA (no phosphorylation), AE, EA (mixed), and EE (double phosphorylation). The FtsZ-eGFP AE, EA and EE alleles were not able to form observable FtsZ-eGFP ladders when they were expressed in the S. coelicolor wild-type strain, whereas the AA allele could form apparently normal eGFP Z-ladders. The FtsZ mutant expressing the FtsZ EE or EA or AE alleles is able to sporulate indicating that the mutant alleles are able to form functional Z-rings leading to sporulation when the wild-type FtsZ gene is absent. The four mutants were pleiotropically affected in colony morphogenesis, antibiotic production, substrate mycelium differentiation and sporulation (sporulation timing and spore resistance) which may be an indirect result of the effect in sporulation Z-ladder formation. Each mutant showed a distinctive phenotype in antibiotic production, single colony morphology, and sporulation (sporulation timing and spore resistance) indicating that the different FtsZ phosphomimetic alleles led to different phenotypes. Taken together, our data provide evidence for a pleiotropic effect of FtsZ phosphorylation in colony morphology, antibiotic production, and sporulation.
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- Paula Yagüe
- grid.5132.50000 0001 2312 1970Department of Molecular Biotechnology, Institute of Biology Leiden, Leiden University, PO Box 9505, 2300 AB Leiden, The Netherlands
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- grid.5132.50000 0001 2312 1970Department of Molecular Biotechnology, Institute of Biology Leiden, Leiden University, PO Box 9505, 2300 AB Leiden, The Netherlands
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- grid.5132.50000 0001 2312 1970Department of Molecular Biotechnology, Institute of Biology Leiden, Leiden University, PO Box 9505, 2300 AB Leiden, The Netherlands
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- grid.5132.50000 0001 2312 1970Department of Molecular Biotechnology, Institute of Biology Leiden, Leiden University, PO Box 9505, 2300 AB Leiden, The Netherlands
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- grid.10863.3c0000 0001 2164 6351Departamento de Biología Funcional e IUOPA, Área de Microbiología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Oviedo, 33006 Oviedo, Spain
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- grid.5132.50000 0001 2312 1970Department of Molecular Biotechnology, Institute of Biology Leiden, Leiden University, PO Box 9505, 2300 AB Leiden, The Netherlands
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Antonov IV, O’Loughlin S, Gorohovski AN, O’Connor PB, Baranov PV, Atkins JF. Streptomyces rare codon UUA: from features associated with 2 adpA related locations to candidate phage regulatory translational bypassing. RNA Biol 2023; 20:926-942. [PMID: 37968863 PMCID: PMC10732093 DOI: 10.1080/15476286.2023.2270812] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2022] [Accepted: 10/02/2023] [Indexed: 11/17/2023] Open
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In Streptomyces species, the cell cycle involves a switch from an early and vegetative state to a later phase where secondary products including antibiotics are synthesized, aerial hyphae form and sporulation occurs. AdpA, which has two domains, activates the expression of numerous genes involved in the switch from the vegetative growth phase. The adpA mRNA of many Streptomyces species has a UUA codon in a linker region between 5' sequence encoding one domain and 3' sequence encoding its other and C-terminal domain. UUA codons are exceptionally rare in Streptomyces, and its functional cognate tRNA is not present in a fully modified and acylated form, in the early and vegetative phase of the cell cycle though it is aminoacylated later. Here, we report candidate recoding signals that may influence decoding of the linker region UUA. Additionally, a short ORF 5' of the main ORF has been identified with a GUG at, or near, its 5' end and an in-frame UUA near its 3' end. The latter is commonly 5 nucleotides 5' of the main ORF start. Ribosome profiling data show translation of that 5' region. Ten years ago, UUA-mediated translational bypassing was proposed as a sensor by a Streptomyces phage of its host's cell cycle stage and an effector of its lytic/lysogeny switch. We provide the first experimental evidence supportive of this proposal.
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- Ivan V. Antonov
- Russian Academy of Science, Institute of Bioengineering, Research Center of Biotechnology, Moscow, Russia
- Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Faculty of Computer Science, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
- School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
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- School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
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- Russian Academy of Science, Institute of Bioengineering, Research Center of Biotechnology, Moscow, Russia
- Structural Biology and BioComputing Program, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain
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- School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
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- School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
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Berckx F, Bandong CM, Wibberg D, Kalinowski J, Willemse J, Brachmann A, Simbahan J, Pawlowski K. Streptomyces coriariae sp. nov., a novel streptomycete isolated from actinorhizal nodules of Coriaria intermedia. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72. [PMID: 36748598 DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.005603] [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] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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An actinobacterial strain, CMB-FB, was isolated from surface-sterilized root nodules of a Coriaria intermedia plant growing along Halsema Highway in the province of Benguet (Luzon, Philippines). The 16S rRNA gene sequence of CMB-FB showed high sequence similarity to those of the type strains of Streptomyces rishiriensis (99.4 %), Streptomyces humidus (99.1 %), Streptomyces cacaoi subsp. asoensis (99.0 %), and Streptomyces phaeofaciens (98.6 %). The major menaquinones of CMB-FB were composed of MK-9(H4), MK-9(H6) and MK-9(H8), and there was a minor contribution of MK-9(H10). The polar lipid profile consisted of phosphatidylethanolamine, unidentified aminolipids and phospholipids, a glycophospholipid and four unidentified lipids. The diagnostic diamino acid of the peptidoglycan was meso-diaminopimelic acid. The major fatty acids were iso-C16 : 0, anteiso-C15 : 0 and anteiso-C17 : 0. The results of physiological analysis indicated that CMB-FB was mesophilic. The results of phylogenetic, genome-genome distance calculation and average nucleotide identity analysis indicated that the isolated strain represents the type strain of a novel species. On the basis of these results, strain CMB-FB (=DSM 112754T=LMG 32457T) is proposed as the type strain of the novel species Streptomyces coriariae sp. nov.
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- Fede Berckx
- Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden.,Institute of Biology, College of Science, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines
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- Center for Biotechnology (CeBiTec), Bielefeld University, 33594 Bielefeld, Germany.,Present address: ELIXIR-DE, Institute of Bio- and Geosciences IBG-5 - Computational Metagenomics, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany
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- Center for Biotechnology (CeBiTec), Bielefeld University, 33594 Bielefeld, Germany
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- Molecular Biotechnology, Institute of Biology, Leiden University, 2300 RA Leiden, Netherlands
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- Institute of Biology, College of Science, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines
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- Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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Usmani Z, Kulp M, Lukk T. Bioremediation of lindane contaminated soil: Exploring the potential of actinobacterial strains. CHEMOSPHERE 2021; 278:130468. [PMID: 34126690 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2021.130468] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2020] [Revised: 03/19/2021] [Accepted: 03/30/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Lindane, an organochlorine pesticide, causes detrimental impacts on the environment and human health owing to its high toxicity, low degradation, and bioaccumulation. Its toxic nature can be overcome by biological and eco-friendly approaches involving its degradation and detoxification. The biodegradation of lindane was assessed using actinobacterial species Thermobifida cellulosilytica TB100 (T. cellulosilytica), Thermobifida halotolerans DSM 44931 (T. halotolerans) and Streptomyces coelicolor A3 (S. coelicolor). The degradation conditions of Lindane such as pH, temperature, inoculum volume, glucose concentration and number of days were optimized under broth conditions. Lindane degradation at different concentrations was studied in soil using reverse phase-high performance liquid chromatography over a 30 day period. A bioassay test was performed on seeds of Lactuca sativa (Lettuce) to assess the success of bioremediated soil. Maximum lindane degradation in soil was observed using T. cellulosilytica sp. The degradation trend for different concentrations of lindane using T. halotolerans in sterilized soil was 55 mg kg-1 (82%) ˃ 155 mg kg-1 (75%) ˃ 255 mg kg-1 (70%) after an incubation period of 30 days. Lindane degradation in soil followed the first order reaction kinetics. Phytotoxicity test on seeds of Lactuca sativa showed considerably good vigor index values for the bioremediated sterilized and non-sterilized soil by T. cellulosilytica, T. halotolerans and S. coelicolor in comparison to the contaminated soil without bacteria. This confirms that these actinobacterial species can be implemented in bioaugmentation of contaminated sites to efficiently remediate high lindane concentrations.
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- Zeba Usmani
- Laboratory of Structural Biology and Lignin Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Tallinn University of Technology, 12618, Tallinn, Estonia
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- Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Tallinn University of Technology, 12618, Tallinn, Estonia
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- Laboratory of Structural Biology and Lignin Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Tallinn University of Technology, 12618, Tallinn, Estonia.
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Silov S, Zaburannyi N, Anisimova M, Ostash B. The Use of the Rare TTA Codon in Streptomyces Genes: Significance of the Codon Context? Indian J Microbiol 2020; 61:24-30. [PMID: 33505089 DOI: 10.1007/s12088-020-00902-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2020] [Accepted: 07/22/2020] [Indexed: 10/23/2022] Open
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Streptomycetes, Gram-positive bacteria with huge and GC-rich genomes provide an ample example of codon usage bias taken to the extreme. Particularly, in all sequenced to date streptomycete genomes leucyl codon TTA is the rarest one. It is present (usually once or twice) in 70-200 out of 7000-8000 coding sequences that make up a typical streptomycete genome. tRNALeu UAA of streptomycetes, encoded by the bldA gene, has been shown to be present in mature form only after the onset of morphological differentiation and activation of secondary metabolism. Consequently, during the early stages of cell growth, the translation of genes carrying the TTA codon can be interrupted due to the absence of tRNALeu UAA. Several reports show that mutations of TTA to synonymous codons in certain genes indeed relieve their expression from bldA dependence. However, the deletion of bldA does not always arrest the expression of TTA-containing genes. The nucleotides T/C downstream of TTA were suggested, in 2002, to favor TTA mistranslation. We tested this hypothesis using sizable datasets derived from individual Streptomyces genome and a subset of TTA+ genes for secondary metabolism known for their active expression. Our results revealed nucleotide biases downstream of NNA codons family, such as the preference for C and the avoidance of A. Yet, none of the observed biases was sufficient to claim a special case for TTA codon. Hence, the issue of codon context and TTA codon mistranslation in Streptomyces deserves further elaboration.
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- Serhii Silov
- Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Hrushevskoho Str. 4, Lviv, 79005 Ukraine
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- Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Hrushevskoho Str. 4, Lviv, 79005 Ukraine
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- Institute of Applied Simulations, School of Life Sciences and Facility Management, Zürich University of Applied Sciences, Einsiedlerstrasse 31a, 8820 Wädenswil, Switzerland.,Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Hrushevskoho Str. 4, Lviv, 79005 Ukraine
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Koshla O, Yushchuk O, Ostash I, Dacyuk Y, Myronovskyi M, Jäger G, Süssmuth RD, Luzhetskyy A, Byström A, Kirsebom LA, Ostash B. Gene miaA for post-transcriptional modification of tRNA XXA is important for morphological and metabolic differentiation in Streptomyces. Mol Microbiol 2019; 112:249-265. [PMID: 31017319 DOI: 10.1111/mmi.14266] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/20/2019] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Members of actinobacterial genus Streptomyces possess a sophisticated life cycle and are the deepest source of bioactive secondary metabolites. Although morphogenesis and secondary metabolism are subject to transcriptional co-regulation, streptomycetes employ an additional mechanism to initiate the aforementioned processes. This mechanism is based on delayed translation of rare leucyl codon UUA by the only cognate tRNALeu UAA (encoded by bldA). The bldA-based genetic switch is an extensively documented example of translational regulation in Streptomyces. Yet, after five decades since the discovery of bldA, factors that shape its function and peculiar conditionality remained elusive. Here we address the hypothesis that post-transcriptional tRNA modifications play a role in tRNA-based mechanisms of translational control in Streptomyces. Particularly, we studied two Streptomyces albus J1074 genes, XNR_1074 (miaA) and XNR_1078 (miaB), encoding tRNA (adenosine(37)-N6)-dimethylallyltransferase and tRNA (N6-isopentenyl adenosine(37)-C2)-methylthiotransferase respectively. These enzymes produce, in a sequential manner, a hypermodified ms2 i6 A37 residue in most of the A36-A37-containing tRNAs. We show that miaB and especially miaA null mutant of S. albus possess altered morphogenesis and secondary metabolism. We provide genetic evidence that miaA deficiency impacts translational level of gene expression, most likely through impaired decoding of codons UXX and UUA in particular.
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- Oksana Koshla
- Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, 4 Hrushevskoho st., Lviv, 79005, Ukraine
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- Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, 4 Hrushevskoho st., Lviv, 79005, Ukraine
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- Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, 4 Hrushevskoho st., Lviv, 79005, Ukraine
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- Department of Physics of Earth, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, 4 Hrushevskoho st., Lviv, 79005, Ukraine
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- Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research, Saarland Campus, Building C2.3, Saarbrucken, 66123, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University, 6K och 6L, Sjukhusområdet, Umeå, 90197, Sweden
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- Institut für Chemie, Technische Universität Berlin, Straβe des 17 Juni 124/TC2, Berlin, 10623, Germany
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- Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research, Saarland Campus, Building C2.3, Saarbrucken, 66123, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University, 6K och 6L, Sjukhusområdet, Umeå, 90197, Sweden
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- Uppsala Biomedicinska Centrum BMC, Uppsala University, Husargatan 3, Box 596, Uppsala, 75124, Sweden
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- Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, 4 Hrushevskoho st., Lviv, 79005, Ukraine
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Sehin Y, Koshla O, Dacyuk Y, Zhao R, Ross R, Myronovskyi M, Limbach PA, Luzhetskyy A, Walker S, Fedorenko V, Ostash B. Gene ssfg_01967 (miaB) for tRNA modification influences morphogenesis and moenomycin biosynthesis in Streptomyces ghanaensis ATCC14672. MICROBIOLOGY (READING, ENGLAND) 2019; 165:233-245. [PMID: 30543507 PMCID: PMC7003650 DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.000747] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2018] [Accepted: 10/31/2018] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Streptomyces ghanaensis ATCC14672 is remarkable for its production of phosphoglycolipid compounds, moenomycins, which serve as a blueprint for the development of a novel class of antibiotics based on inhibition of peptidoglycan glycosyltransferases. Here we employed mariner transposon (Tn) mutagenesis to find new regulatory genes essential for moenomycin production. We generated a library of 3000 mutants which were screened for altered antibiotic activity. Our focus centred on a single mutant, HIM5, which accumulated lower amounts of moenomycin and was impaired in morphogenesis as compared to the parental strain. HIM5 carried the Tn insertion within gene ssfg_01967 for putative tRNA (N6-isopentenyl adenosine(37)-C2)-methylthiotransferase, or MiaB, and led to a reduced level of thiomethylation at position 37 in the anticodon of S. ghanaensis transfer ribonucleic acid (tRNA). It is likely that the mutant phenotype of HIM5 stems from the way in which ssfg_01967::Tn influences translation of the rare leucine codon UUA in several genes for moenomycin production and life cycle progression in S. ghanaensis. This is the first report showing that quantitative changes in tRNA modification status in Streptomyces have physiological consequences.
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- Yuliia Sehin
- Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Hrushevskoho st. 4, Lviv 79005, Ukraine
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- Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Hrushevskoho st. 4, Lviv 79005, Ukraine
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- Department of Physics of the Earth, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Hrushevskoho st. 4, Lviv 79005, Ukraine
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- Rieveschl Laboratories for Mass Spectrometry, Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, 318 College Dr, 404 Crosley Tower, Cincinnati OH 45221-0172, USA
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- Rieveschl Laboratories for Mass Spectrometry, Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, 318 College Dr, 404 Crosley Tower, Cincinnati OH 45221-0172, USA
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- Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland Campus, Building C2.3, 66123 Saarbrucken, Germany
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- Rieveschl Laboratories for Mass Spectrometry, Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, 318 College Dr, 404 Crosley Tower, Cincinnati OH 45221-0172, USA
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- Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland Campus, Building C2.3, 66123 Saarbrucken, Germany
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, 4 Blackfan Circle, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Hrushevskoho st. 4, Lviv 79005, Ukraine
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- Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Hrushevskoho st. 4, Lviv 79005, Ukraine
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Fuentes MS, Raimondo EE, Amoroso MJ, Benimeli CS. Removal of a mixture of pesticides by a Streptomyces consortium: Influence of different soil systems. CHEMOSPHERE 2017; 173:359-367. [PMID: 28126570 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2017.01.044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2016] [Revised: 12/14/2016] [Accepted: 01/06/2017] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Although the use of organochlorine pesticides (OPs) is restricted or banned in most countries, they continue posing environmental and health concerns, so it is imperative to develop methods for removing them from the environment. This work is aimed to investigate the simultaneous removal of three OPs (lindane, chlordane and methoxychlor) from diverse types of systems by employing a native Streptomyces consortium. In liquid systems, a satisfactory microbial growth was observed accompanied by removal of lindane (40.4%), methoxychlor (99.5%) and chlordane (99.8%). In sterile soil microcosms, the consortium was able to grow without significant differences in the different textured soils (clay silty loam, sandy and loam), both contaminated or not contaminated with the OPs-mixture. The Streptomyces consortium was able to remove all the OPs in sterile soil microcosm (removal order: clay silty loam > loam > sandy). So, clay silty loam soil (CSLS) was selected for next assays. In non-sterile CSLS microcosms, chlordane removal was only about 5%, nonetheless, higher rates was observed for lindane (11%) and methoxychlor (20%). In CSLS slurries, the consortium exhibited similar growth levels, in the presence of or in the absence of the OPs-mixture. Not all pesticides were removed in the same way; the order of pesticide dissipation was: methoxychlor (26%)>lindane (12.5%)>chlordane (10%). The outlines of microbial growth and pesticides removal provide information about using actinobacteria consortium as strategies for bioremediation of OPs-mixture in diverse soil systems. Texture of soils and assay conditions (sterility, slurry formulation) were determining factors influencing the removal of each pesticide of the mixture.
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- María S Fuentes
- Planta Piloto de Procesos Industriales Microbiológicos (PROIMI-CONICET), Avenida Belgrano y Pasaje Caseros, 4000, Tucumán, Argentina; Universidad del Norte Santo Tomás de Aquino, 9 de Julio 165, 4000, Tucumán, Argentina
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- Planta Piloto de Procesos Industriales Microbiológicos (PROIMI-CONICET), Avenida Belgrano y Pasaje Caseros, 4000, Tucumán, Argentina
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- Planta Piloto de Procesos Industriales Microbiológicos (PROIMI-CONICET), Avenida Belgrano y Pasaje Caseros, 4000, Tucumán, Argentina; Universidad del Norte Santo Tomás de Aquino, 9 de Julio 165, 4000, Tucumán, Argentina; Facultad de Bioquímica, Química y Farmacia, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Ayacucho 491, 4000, Tucumán, Argentina
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- Planta Piloto de Procesos Industriales Microbiológicos (PROIMI-CONICET), Avenida Belgrano y Pasaje Caseros, 4000, Tucumán, Argentina; Universidad del Norte Santo Tomás de Aquino, 9 de Julio 165, 4000, Tucumán, Argentina.
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Ferguson NL, Peña-Castillo L, Moore MA, Bignell DRD, Tahlan K. Proteomics analysis of global regulatory cascades involved in clavulanic acid production and morphological development in Streptomyces clavuligerus. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2016; 43:537-55. [DOI: 10.1007/s10295-016-1733-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2015] [Accepted: 01/02/2016] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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The genus Streptomyces comprises bacteria that undergo a complex developmental life cycle and produce many metabolites of importance to industry and medicine. Streptomyces clavuligerus produces the β-lactamase inhibitor clavulanic acid, which is used in combination with β-lactam antibiotics to treat certain β-lactam resistant bacterial infections. Many aspects of how clavulanic acid production is globally regulated in S. clavuligerus still remains unknown. We conducted comparative proteomics analysis using the wild type strain of S. clavuligerus and two mutants (ΔbldA and ΔbldG), which are defective in global regulators and vary in their ability to produce clavulanic acid. Approximately 33.5 % of the predicted S. clavuligerus proteome was detected and 192 known or putative regulatory proteins showed statistically differential expression levels in pairwise comparisons. Interestingly, the expression of many proteins whose corresponding genes contain TTA codons (predicted to require the bldA tRNA for translation) was unaffected in the bldA mutant.
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- Nicole L Ferguson
- grid.25055.37 0000000091306822 Department of Biology Memorial University of Newfoundland A1B 3X9 St. John’s NL Canada
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- grid.25055.37 0000000091306822 Department of Biology Memorial University of Newfoundland A1B 3X9 St. John’s NL Canada
- grid.25055.37 0000000091306822 Department of Computer Science Memorial University of Newfoundland A1B 3X5 St. John’s NL Canada
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- grid.25055.37 0000000091306822 Department of Biology Memorial University of Newfoundland A1B 3X9 St. John’s NL Canada
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- grid.25055.37 0000000091306822 Department of Biology Memorial University of Newfoundland A1B 3X9 St. John’s NL Canada
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- grid.25055.37 0000000091306822 Department of Biology Memorial University of Newfoundland A1B 3X9 St. John’s NL Canada
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Popa Ungureanu C, Favier L, Bahrim G, Amrane A. Response surface optimization of experimental conditions for carbamazepine biodegradation by Streptomyces MIUG 4.89. N Biotechnol 2015; 32:347-57. [DOI: 10.1016/j.nbt.2014.12.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2014] [Revised: 12/08/2014] [Accepted: 12/12/2014] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Wolański M, Jakimowicz D, Zakrzewska-Czerwińska J. Fifty years after the replicon hypothesis: cell-specific master regulators as new players in chromosome replication control. J Bacteriol 2014; 196:2901-11. [PMID: 24914187 PMCID: PMC4135643 DOI: 10.1128/jb.01706-14] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Numerous free-living bacteria undergo complex differentiation in response to unfavorable environmental conditions or as part of their natural cell cycle. Developmental programs require the de novo expression of several sets of genes responsible for morphological, physiological, and metabolic changes, such as spore/endospore formation, the generation of flagella, and the synthesis of antibiotics. Notably, the frequency of chromosomal replication initiation events must also be adjusted with respect to the developmental stage in order to ensure that each nascent cell receives a single copy of the chromosomal DNA. In this review, we focus on the master transcriptional factors, Spo0A, CtrA, and AdpA, which coordinate developmental program and which were recently demonstrated to control chromosome replication. We summarize the current state of knowledge on the role of these developmental regulators in synchronizing the replication with cell differentiation in Bacillus subtilis, Caulobacter crescentus, and Streptomyces coelicolor, respectively.
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- Marcin Wolański
- Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland
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- Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland Department of Microbiology, Ludwik Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wrocław, Poland
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- Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland Department of Microbiology, Ludwik Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wrocław, Poland
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Zhao S, Sakai A, Zhang X, Vetting MW, Kumar R, Hillerich B, San Francisco B, Solbiati J, Steves A, Brown S, Akiva E, Barber A, Seidel RD, Babbitt PC, Almo SC, Gerlt JA, Jacobson MP. Prediction and characterization of enzymatic activities guided by sequence similarity and genome neighborhood networks. eLife 2014; 3. [PMID: 24980702 PMCID: PMC4113996 DOI: 10.7554/elife.03275] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2014] [Accepted: 06/26/2014] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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Metabolic pathways in eubacteria and archaea often are encoded by operons and/or gene clusters (genome neighborhoods) that provide important clues for assignment of both enzyme functions and metabolic pathways. We describe a bioinformatic approach (genome neighborhood network; GNN) that enables large scale prediction of the in vitro enzymatic activities and in vivo physiological functions (metabolic pathways) of uncharacterized enzymes in protein families. We demonstrate the utility of the GNN approach by predicting in vitro activities and in vivo functions in the proline racemase superfamily (PRS; InterPro IPR008794). The predictions were verified by measuring in vitro activities for 51 proteins in 12 families in the PRS that represent ∼85% of the sequences; in vitro activities of pathway enzymes, carbon/nitrogen source phenotypes, and/or transcriptomic studies confirmed the predicted pathways. The synergistic use of sequence similarity networks3 and GNNs will facilitate the discovery of the components of novel, uncharacterized metabolic pathways in sequenced genomes. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.03275.001 DNA molecules are polymers in which four nucleotides—guanine, adenine, thymine, and cytosine—are arranged along a sugar backbone. The sequence of these four nucleotides along the DNA strand determines the genetic code of the organism, and can be deciphered using various genome sequencing techniques. Microbial genomes are particularly easy to sequence as they contain fewer than several million nucleotides, compared with the 3 billion or so nucleotides that are present in the human genome. Reading a genome sequence is straight forward, but predicting the physiological functions of the proteins encoded by the genes in the sequence can be challenging. In a process called genome annotation, the function of protein is predicted by comparing the relevant gene to the genes of proteins with known functions. However, microbial genomes and proteins are hugely diverse and over 50% of the microbial genomes that have been sequenced have not yet been related to any physiological function. With thousands of microbial genomes waiting to be deciphered, large scale approaches are needed. Zhao et al. take advantage of a particular characteristic of microbial genomes. DNA sequences that code for two proteins required for the same task tend to be closer to each other in the genome than two sequences that code for unrelated functions. Operons are an extreme example; an operon is a unit of DNA that contains several genes that are expressed as proteins at the same time. Zhao et al. have developed a bioinformatic method called the genome neighbourhood network approach to work out the function of proteins based on their position relative to other proteins in the genome. When applied to the proline racemase superfamily (PRS), which contains enzymes with similar sequences that can catalyze three distinct chemical reactions, the new approach was able to assign a function to the majority of proteins in a public database of PRS enzymes, and also revealed new members of the PRS family. Experiments confirmed that the proteins behaved as predicted. The next challenge is to develop the genome neighbourhood network approach so that it can be applied to more complex systems. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.03275.002
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- Suwen Zhao
- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, United States
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- Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States
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- Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, United States
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- Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, United States
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- Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States
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- Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States
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- Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, United States
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- Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, United States
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- Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, United States
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- Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, United States
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- Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, United States
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- Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, United States
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Enhanced removal of a pesticides mixture by single cultures and consortia of free and immobilized Streptomyces strains. BIOMED RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2013; 2013:392573. [PMID: 23865051 PMCID: PMC3705853 DOI: 10.1155/2013/392573] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2013] [Revised: 06/07/2013] [Accepted: 06/13/2013] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Pesticides are normally used to control specific pests and to increase the productivity in crops; as a result, soils are contaminated with mixtures of pesticides. In this work, the ability of Streptomyces strains (either as pure or mixed cultures) to remove pentachlorophenol and chlorpyrifos was studied. The antagonism among the strains and their tolerance to the toxic mixture was evaluated. Results revealed that the strains did not have any antagonistic effects and showed tolerance against the pesticides mixture. In fact, the growth of mixed cultures was significantly higher than in pure cultures. Moreover, a pure culture (Streptomyces sp. A5) and a quadruple culture had the highest pentachlorophenol removal percentages (10.6% and 10.1%, resp.), while Streptomyces sp. M7 presented the best chlorpyrifos removal (99.2%). Mixed culture of all Streptomyces spp. when assayed either as free or immobilized cells showed chlorpyrifos removal percentages of 40.17% and 71.05%, respectively, and for pentachlorophenol 5.24% and 14.72%, respectively, suggesting better removal of both pesticides by using immobilized cells. These results reveal that environments contaminated with mixtures of xenobiotics could be successfully cleaned up by using either free or immobilized cultures of Streptomyces, through in situ or ex situ remediation techniques.
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Fyans JK, Bignell D, Loria R, Toth I, Palmer T. The ESX/type VII secretion system modulates development, but not virulence, of the plant pathogen Streptomyces scabies. MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY 2013; 14:119-30. [PMID: 23009676 PMCID: PMC6638804 DOI: 10.1111/j.1364-3703.2012.00835.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Streptomyces scabies is a model organism for the investigation of plant-microbe interactions in Gram-positive bacteria. Here, we investigate the type VII protein secretion system (T7SS) in S. scabies; the T7SS is required for the virulence of other Gram-positive bacteria, including Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Staphylococcus aureus. The hallmarks of a functional T7SS are an EccC protein that forms an essential component of the secretion apparatus and two small, sequence-related substrate proteins, EsxA and EsxB. A putative transmembrane protein, EccD, may also be associated with T7S in Actinobacteria. In this study, we constructed strains of the plant pathogen S. scabies carrying marked mutations in genes coding for EccC, EccD, EsxA and EsxB. Unexpectedly, we showed that all four mutant strains retain full virulence towards several plant hosts. However, disruption of the esxA or esxB, but not eccC or eccD, genes affects S. scabies development, including a delay in sporulation, abnormal spore chains and resistance to lysis by the Streptomyces-specific phage ϕC31. We further showed that these phenotypes are specific to the loss of the T7SS substrate proteins EsxA and EsxB, and are not observed when components of the T7SS secretion machinery are lacking. Taken together, these results imply an unexpected intracellular role for EsxA and EsxB.
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- Joanna K Fyans
- Division of Molecular Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 5EH, UK
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NdgR, a common transcriptional activator for methionine and leucine biosynthesis in Streptomyces coelicolor. J Bacteriol 2012; 194:6837-46. [PMID: 23065973 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00695-12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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We show here that NdgR, a known transcriptional activator of isopropylmalate dehydratase in actinomycetes, may have other targets in the cell. An in-frame deletion mutant of ndgR showed unexpectedly poor growth in defined minimal medium even in the presence of leucine. To our surprise, it was supplementation of cysteine and methionine that corrected the growth. Based on this, we propose that NdgR induces cysteine-methionine biosynthesis. Direct involvement of NdgR in the very last steps of methionine synthesis with methionine synthase (metH) and 5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (metF) was examined. From a pulldown assay, it was seen that NdgR was enriched from crude cell lysates with a strong affinity to metH and metF upstream sequences. Direct physical interaction of NdgR with these targets was further examined with a gel mobility shift assay. ndgR, leuC, metH, and metF were inducible in M145 cells upon nutrient downshift from rich to minimal medium but were not induced in the ndgR knockout mutant. Taking these observations together, NdgR-dependent metH-metF expression would account for the abnormal growth phenotype of the ndgR mutant although there may be additional NdgR-dependent genes in the Cys-Met metabolic pathways. As the first transcriptional factor reported for regulating Cys-Met metabolism in Streptomyces, NdgR links two disparate amino acid families, branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs) and sulfur amino acids, at the transcriptional level. Considering that Cys-Met metabolism is connected to mycothiol and one-carbon metabolism, NdgR may have broad physiological impacts.
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DNA recognition and transcriptional regulation by the WhiA sporulation factor. Sci Rep 2011; 1:156. [PMID: 22355671 PMCID: PMC3240954 DOI: 10.1038/srep00156] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2011] [Accepted: 10/27/2011] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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Sporulation in the filamentous bacteria Streptomyces coelicolor is a tightly regulated process involving aerial hyphae growth, chromosome segregation, septation and spore maturation. Genetic studies have identified numerous genes that regulate sporulation, including WhiA and the sigma factor WhiG. WhiA, which has been postulated to be a transcriptional regulator, contains two regions typically associated with DNA binding: an N-terminal domain similar to LAGLIDADG homing endonucleases, and a C-terminal helix-turn-helix domain. We characterized several in vitro activities displayed by WhiA. It binds at least two sporulation-specific promoters: its own and that of parABp2. DNA binding is primarily driven by its HTH domain, but requires full-length protein for maximum affinity. WhiA transcription is stimulated by WhiG, while the WhiA protein binds directly to WhiG (leading to inhibition of WhiG-dependent transcription). These separate activities, which resemble a possible feedback loop, may help coordinate the closely timed cessation of aerial growth and subsequent spore formation.
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Tsai HH, Huang CH, Tessmer I, Erie DA, Chen CW. Linear Streptomyces plasmids form superhelical circles through interactions between their terminal proteins. Nucleic Acids Res 2010; 39:2165-74. [PMID: 21109537 PMCID: PMC3064793 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq1204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Linear chromosomes and linear plasmids of Streptomyces possess covalently bound terminal proteins (TPs) at the 5′ ends of their telomeres. These TPs are proposed to act as primers for DNA synthesis that patches the single-stranded gaps at the 3′ ends during replication. Most (‘archetypal’) Streptomyces TPs (designated Tpg) are highly conserved in size and sequence. In addition, there are a number of atypical TPs with heterologous sequences and sizes, one of which is Tpc that caps SCP1 plasmid of Streptomyces coelicolor. Interactions between the TPs on the linear Streptomyces replicons have been suggested by electrophoretic behaviors of TP-capped DNA and circular genetic maps of Streptomyces chromosomes. Using chemical cross-linking, we demonstrated intramolecular and intermolecular interactions in vivo between Tpgs, between Tpcs and between Tpg and Tpc. Interactions between the chromosomal and plasmid telomeres were also detected in vivo. The intramolecular telomere interactions produced negative superhelicity in the linear DNA, which was relaxed by topoisomerase I. Such intramolecular association between the TPs poses a post-replicational complication in the formation of a pseudo-dimeric structure that requires resolution by exchanging TPs or DNA.
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- Hsiu-Hui Tsai
- Department of Life Sciences and Institute of Genome Sciences, National Yang-Ming University, Shih-Pai, Taipei 112, Taiwan
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Metabolomic characterization of the salt stress response in Streptomyces coelicolor. Appl Environ Microbiol 2010; 76:2574-81. [PMID: 20190082 DOI: 10.1128/aem.01992-09] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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The humicolous actinomycete Streptomyces coelicolor routinely adapts to a wide variety of habitats and rapidly changing environments. Upon salt stress, the organism is also known to increase the levels of various compatible solutes. Here we report the results of the first high-resolution metabolomics time series analysis of various strains of S. coelicolor exposed to salt stress: the wild type, mutants with progressive knockouts of the ectoine biosynthesis pathway, and two stress regulator mutants (with disruptions of the sigB and osaB genes). Samples were taken from cultures at 0, 4, 8, and 24 h after salt stress treatment and analyzed by liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry with an LTQ Orbitrap XL mass spectrometer. The results suggest that a large fraction of amino acids is upregulated in response to the salt stress, as are proline/glycine-containing di- and tripeptides. Additionally we found that 5'-methylthioadenosine, a known inhibitor of polyamine biosynthesis, is downregulated upon salt stress. Strikingly, no major differences between the wild-type cultures and the two stress regulator mutants were found, indicating a considerable robustness of the metabolomic response to salt stress, compared to the more volatile changes in transcript abundance reported earlier.
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O'Rourke S, Wietzorrek A, Fowler K, Corre C, Challis GL, Chater KF. Extracellular signalling, translational control, two repressors and an activator all contribute to the regulation of methylenomycin production in Streptomyces coelicolor. Mol Microbiol 2008; 71:763-78. [PMID: 19054329 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2008.06560.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Bioinformatic analysis of the plasmid-linked gene cluster associated with biosynthesis of methylenomycin (Mm) suggested that part of the cluster directs synthesis of a gamma-butyrolactone-like autoregulator. Autoregulator activity could be extracted from culture fluids, but differed from gamma-butyrolactones in being alkali resistant. The activity has recently been shown to comprise a series of novel autoregulator molecules, the methylenomycin furans (termed MMF). MMF autoregulator activity is shown to account for the ability of certain Mm non-producing mutants to act as 'secretors' in cosynthesis with other 'convertor' mutants. Three genes implicated in MMF biosynthesis are flanked by two regulatory genes, which are related to genes for gamma-butyrolactone-binding proteins. Genetic evidence suggests that these two genes encode components of a hetero-oligomeric repressor of MMF and Mm biosynthesis. The Mm biosynthetic genes themselves depend on the activator gene mmyB, which appears to be repressed by the putative MmyR/MmfR complex until enough MMF accumulates to release repression. The presence of TTA codons in mmyB and the main MMF biosynthetic gene causes Mm production to be dependent on the pleiotropically acting bldA gene, which encodes the tRNA for the rarely used UUA codon.
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- Sean O'Rourke
- John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Colney, Norwich, UK
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The 8-9-Mb Streptomyces chromosome is linear, with a "core" containing essential genes and "arms" carrying conditionally adaptive genes that can sustain large deletions in the laboratory. Bidirectional chromosome replication from a central oriC is completed by "end-patching," primed from terminal proteins covalently bound to the free 5'-ends. Plasmid-mediated conjugation involves movement of double-stranded DNA by proteins resembling other bacterial motor proteins, probably via hyphal tip fusion, mediated by these transfer proteins. Circular plasmids probably transfer chromosomes by transient integration, but linear plasmids may lead the donor chromosome end-first into the recipient by noncovalent association of ends. Transfer of complete chromosomes may be the rule. The recipient mycelium is colonized by intramycelial spreading of plasmid copies, under the control of plasmid-borne "spread" genes. Chromosome partition into prespore compartments of the aerial mycelium is controlled in part by actin- and tubulin-like proteins, resembling MreB and FtsZ of other bacteria.
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- David A Hopwood
- Department of Molecular Microbiology, John Innes Centre, Colney, Norwich, NR4 7UH, United Kingdom.
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Widdick DA, Dilks K, Chandra G, Bottrill A, Naldrett M, Pohlschröder M, Palmer T. The twin-arginine translocation pathway is a major route of protein export in Streptomyces coelicolor. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2006; 103:17927-32. [PMID: 17093047 PMCID: PMC1693849 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0607025103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 119] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The twin-arginine translocation (Tat) pathway is a protein transport system for the export of folded proteins. Substrate proteins are targeted to the Tat translocase by N-terminal signal peptides harboring a distinctive R-R-x-Phi-Phi "twin-arginine" amino acid motif. Using a combination of proteomic techniques, the protein contents from the cell wall of the model Gram-positive bacterium Streptomyces coelicolor were identified and compared with that of mutant strains defective in Tat transport. The proteomic experiments pointed to 43 potentially Tat-dependent extracellular proteins. Of these, 25 were verified as bearing bona fide Tat-targeting signal peptides after independent screening with a facile, rapid, and sensitive reporter assay. The identified Tat substrates, among others, include polymer-degrading enzymes, phosphatases, and binding proteins as well as enzymes involved in secondary metabolism. Moreover, in addition to predicted extracellular substrates, putative lipoproteins were shown to be Tat-dependent. This work provides strong experimental evidence that the Tat system is used as a major general export pathway in Streptomyces.
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- David A. Widdick
- Departments of *Molecular Microbiology and
- School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, United Kingdom; and
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- Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104
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- Biological Chemistry, John Innes Centre, Norwich NR4 7UH, United Kingdom
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- Biological Chemistry, John Innes Centre, Norwich NR4 7UH, United Kingdom
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- Departments of *Molecular Microbiology and
- School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, United Kingdom; and
- To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail:
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Petković H, Cullum J, Hranueli D, Hunter IS, Perić-Concha N, Pigac J, Thamchaipenet A, Vujaklija D, Long PF. Genetics of Streptomyces rimosus, the oxytetracycline producer. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev 2006; 70:704-28. [PMID: 16959966 PMCID: PMC1594589 DOI: 10.1128/mmbr.00004-06] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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From a genetic standpoint, Streptomyces rimosus is arguably the best-characterized industrial streptomycete as the producer of oxytetracycline and other tetracycline antibiotics. Although resistance to these antibiotics has reduced their clinical use in recent years, tetracyclines have an increasing role in the treatment of emerging infections and noninfective diseases. Procedures for in vivo and in vitro genetic manipulations in S. rimosus have been developed since the 1950s and applied to study the genetic instability of S. rimosus strains and for the molecular cloning and characterization of genes involved in oxytetracycline biosynthesis. Recent advances in the methodology of genome sequencing bring the realistic prospect of obtaining the genome sequence of S. rimosus in the near term.
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- Hrvoje Petković
- Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Chater KF. Streptomyces inside-out: a new perspective on the bacteria that provide us with antibiotics. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2006; 361:761-8. [PMID: 16627293 PMCID: PMC1609407 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2005.1758] [Citation(s) in RCA: 165] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2005] [Accepted: 09/21/2005] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Many of the antibiotics used today are made by a group of bacteria called Streptomyces. Streptomycetes evolved about 450 million years ago as branched filamentous organisms adapted to the utilization of plant remains. They reproduce by sending up specialized aerial branches, which form spores. Aerial growth is parasitic on the primary colony, which is digested and reused for aerial growth. The reproductive phase is coordinated with the secretion of antibiotics, which may protect the colony against invading bacteria during aerial growth. A clue to the integration of antibiotic production and aerial growth is provided by bldA mutants, which are defective in both processes. These mutants lack the ability to translate a particularly rare codon, UUA, in the genetic code. The UUA codon (TTA in DNA) is present in several regulatory genes that control sets of antibiotic production genes, and in one, bldH that controls aerial mycelium formation. The regulatory genes for antibiotic production are all involved in self-reinforcing regulatory systems that potentially amplify the regulatory significance of small changes in the efficiency of translation of UUA codons. One of the regulatory targets of bldH is an extracellular protease inhibitor protein that is likely to delay the digestion of the primary biomass until the colony is ready for aerial growth. The use of the UUA codon to orchestrate different aspects of extracellular biology appeared very early in Streptomyces evolution.
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- Keith F Chater
- Department of Molecular Microbiology, John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Colney, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK.
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Zhu D, He X, Zhou X, Deng Z. Expression of the melC operon in several Streptomyces strains is positively regulated by AdpA, an AraC family transcriptional regulator involved in morphological development in Streptomyces coelicolor. J Bacteriol 2005; 187:3180-7. [PMID: 15838045 PMCID: PMC1082821 DOI: 10.1128/jb.187.9.3180-3187.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Dark brown haloes of melanin around colonies are an easily visualized phenotype displayed by many Streptomyces strains harboring plasmid pIJ702 carrying the melC operon of Streptomyces antibioticus IMRU3270. Spontaneous melanin-negative mutants of pIJ702 occur with a frequency of ca. 1%, and often mutation occurs in the melC operon, which removes the BglII site as part of an inverted repeat. Other melanin-negative mutations seem to occur spontaneously in Streptomyces lividans, resulting in white colonies from which intact, melanin-producing pIJ702 can be isolated by introduction into a new host. S. lividans ZX66 was found to be such a mutant and to have a secondary mutation influencing expression of the melC operon on the chromosome. A 3.3-kb DNA fragment was isolated from its progenitor strain, JT46, and a gene able to restore melC operon expression was found to encode a member of an AraC family of transcriptional regulators, which was equivalent to AdpA(c) in Streptomyces coelicolor and therefore was designated AdpA(l). Lack of melC operon expression was correlated with a single A-to-C transversion, which altered a single key amino acid residue from Thr to Pro. The transcription of the melC operon was found to be greatly reduced in the adpA mutant background. The counterpart gene (adpA(a)) in the S. antibioticus strain in which the melC operon carried on pIJ702 originated was also isolated and was found to have an identical regulatory role. Thus, we concluded that the melC operon is under general direct positive control by AdpA family proteins, perhaps at the transcriptional level and certainly at the translational level via bldA, in Streptomyces.
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- Dongqing Zhu
- Bio-X Life Science Research Center, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 200030, People's Republic of China
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Yang MC, Losick R. Cytological evidence for association of the ends of the linear chromosome in Streptomyces coelicolor. J Bacteriol 2001; 183:5180-6. [PMID: 11489872 PMCID: PMC95395 DOI: 10.1128/jb.183.17.5180-5186.2001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2001] [Accepted: 06/04/2001] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The chromosome of the filamentous bacterium Streptomyces coelicolor is linear, but the genetic map is circular. We present cytological evidence based on the use of fluorescence in situ hybridization showing that the ends of the chromosome frequently colocalize, in agreement with the idea that the ends are held together, effectively forming a circular chromosome. These observations provide a possible explanation for how a linear bacterial chromosome can exhibit a circular genetic map.
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- M C Yang
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
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Glansdorff N. About the last common ancestor, the universal life-tree and lateral gene transfer: a reappraisal. Mol Microbiol 2000; 38:177-85. [PMID: 11069646 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.02126.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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An organismal tree rooted in the bacterial branch and derived from a hyperthermophilic last common ancestor (LCA) is still widely assumed to represent the path followed by evolution from the most primeval cells to the three domains recognized among contemporary organisms: Bacteria, Archaea and Eucarya. In the past few years, however, more and more discrepancies between this pattern and individual protein trees have been brought to light. There has been an overall tendency to attribute these incongruities to widespread lateral gene transfer. However, recent developments, a reappraisal of earlier evidence and considerations of our own lead us to a quite different view. It would appear (i) that the role of lateral gene transfer was overemphasized in recent discussions of molecular phylogenies; (ii) that the LCA was probably a non-thermophilic protoeukaryote from which both Archaea and Bacteria emerged by reductive evolution but not as sister groups, in keeping with a current evolutionary scheme for the biosynthesis of membrane lipids; and (iii) that thermophilic Archaea may have been the first branch to diverge from the ancestral line.
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- N Glansdorff
- Microbiology, Free University of Brussels (VUB), Flanders Interuniversity Institute and J.-M. Wiame Microbiological Research Institute, Brussels B-1070, Belgium.
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Yamasaki M, Miyashita K, Cullum J, Kinashi H. A complex insertion sequence cluster at a point of interaction between the linear plasmid SCP1 and the linear chromosome of Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2). J Bacteriol 2000; 182:3104-10. [PMID: 10809688 PMCID: PMC94495 DOI: 10.1128/jb.182.11.3104-3110.2000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2000] [Accepted: 03/13/2000] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The giant linear plasmid SCP1 can integrate into the central region of the linear chromosome of Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2). Nucleotide sequence analysis around the target site for SCP1 integration in strain M145 identified a total of five copies of four insertion sequences (ISs) in a 6.5-kb DNA stretch. Three of the four (IS468, IS469, and IS470) are new IS elements, and the other is IS466. All of these elements contain one open reading frame which encodes a transposase-like protein. Two copies of IS468 (IS468A and -B) are tandemly aligned at the left end of the cluster. Following these, IS469 and IS466 are located in a tail-to-tail orientation with 69.3% identity to each other. IS470 is located at the right end of the cluster. The activities of IS466 and IS468 were demonstrated by transposition experiments and sequence comparison of several copies, respectively.
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- M Yamasaki
- Department of Molecular Biotechnology, Hiroshima University, 1-4-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8527, Japan
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Naidenova M, Mihailov J, Ivanova I. Action of Oxadin Ron the Antibiotic Activity of Streptomyces Albus MU-13. BIOTECHNOL BIOTEC EQ 1999. [DOI: 10.1080/13102818.1999.10819034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022] Open
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Süsstrunk U, Pidoux J, Taubert S, Ullmann A, Thompson CJ. Pleiotropic effects of cAMP on germination, antibiotic biosynthesis and morphological development in Streptomyces coelicolor. Mol Microbiol 1998; 30:33-46. [PMID: 9786183 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.01033.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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In wild-type Streptomyces coelicolor MT1110 cultures, cyclic adenosine 3',5' monophosphate (cAMP) was synthesized throughout the developmental programme with peaks of accumulation both during germination and later when aerial mycelium and actinorhodin were being produced. Construction and characterization of an adenylate cyclase disruption mutant (BZ1) demonstrated that cAMP facilitated these developmental processes. Although pulse-labelling experiments showed that a similar germination process was initiated in BZ1 and MT1110, germ-tube emergence was severely delayed in BZ1 and never occurred in more than 85% of the spores. Studies of growth and development on solid glucose minimal medium (SMMS, buffered or unbuffered) showed that MT1110 and BZ1 produced acid during the first rapid growth phase, which generated substrate mycelium. Thereafter, on unbuffered SMMS, only MT1110 resumed growth and produced aerial mycelium by switching to an alternative metabolism that neutralized its medium, probably by reincorporating and metabolizing extracellular acids. BZ1 was not able to neutralize its medium or produce aerial mycelium on unbuffered SMMS; these defects were suppressed by high concentrations (>1 mM) of cAMP during early growth or on buffered medium. Other developmental mutants (bldA, bldB, bldC, bldD, bldG) also irreversibly acidified this medium. However, these bald mutants were not suppressed by exogenous cAMP or neutralizing buffer. BZ1 also differentiated when it was cultured in close proximity to MT1110, a property observed in cross-feeding experiments between bald mutants and commonly thought to reflect diffusion of a discrete positively acting signalling molecule. In this case, MT1110 generated a more neutral pH environment that allowed BZ1 to reinitiate growth and form aerial mycelium. The fact that actinorhodin synthesis could be induced by concentrations of cAMP (< 20 microM) found in the medium of MT1110 cultures, suggested that it may serve as a diffusible signalling molecule to co-ordinate antibiotic biosynthesis.
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- U Süsstrunk
- Department of Microbiology, Biozentrum, University of Basle, Switzerland
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1997 Fred Griffith Review Lecture
(Delivered at the 138th Meeting of the Society for General Microbiology, 2 September 1977)
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- Keith F. Chater
- John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Colney, Norwich NR7 4UH, UK
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Brown MP, Aidoo KA, Vining LC. A role for pabAB, a p-aminobenzoate synthase gene of Streptomyces venezuelae ISP5230, in chloramphenicol biosynthesis. MICROBIOLOGY (READING, ENGLAND) 1996; 142 ( Pt 6):1345-1355. [PMID: 8704974 DOI: 10.1099/13500872-142-6-1345] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Mutagenesis of Streptomyces venezuelae ISP5230 and selection for P-aminobenzoic acid-dependent growth in the presence of sulfanilamide yielded pab mutants (VS519 and VS620) that continued to produce chloramphenicol (Cm), although with increased medium dependence. Transforming the mutants with pDQ102 or pDQ103, which carried a pab-complementing fragment from S. venezuelae ISP5230 in alternative orientations, restored uniformly high Cm production in VS620, but did not alter the medium dependence of Cm production in VS519. The cloned S. venezuelae DNA fragment was subcloned and trimmed to the minimum size conferring pab complementation. The resulting 2.8 kb BamHl-Sacl fragment was sequenced. Codon preference analysis showed one complete ORF encoding a polypeptide of 670 amino acids. Comparison of the deduced amino acid sequence with database proteins indicated that the N- and C-terminal regions resembled PabA and PabB, respectively, of numerous bacteria. The gene product showed overall sequence similarity to the product of a fused pabAB gene associated with secondary metabolism in Streptomyces griseus. Insertion of an apramycin resistance gene into pabAB cloned in a segregationally unstable vector and replacement of the S. venezuelae chromosomal pabAB with the disrupted copy lowered sulfanilamide resistance from 25 to 5 micrograms mL-1 and blocked Cm production.
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- Michael P Brown
- Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 4J1Canada
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- Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 4J1Canada
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- Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 4J1Canada
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Packter NM, Olukoshi ER. Ultrastructural studies of neutral lipid localisation in Streptomyces. Arch Microbiol 1995; 164:420-7. [PMID: 8588744 DOI: 10.1007/bf02529740] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Triacylglycerol is accumulated by Streptomyces spp. when grown in submerged culture. Ultrastructural studies using transmission electron microscopy (TEM), staining and freeze-fracture/freeze-etch procedures, and light microscopy confirmed the accumulation of neutral lipid by S. lividans and S. coelicolor during the stationary phase and its storage within membrane-bound globular structures within the cytoplasm. These structures were of various sizes and occupied up to approximately 80% of the total cell volume at that time. There was no evidence of such material within cells examined during the early exponential phase of growth. The globules visualised by TEM were electron-transparent since they comprised lipids containing saturated fatty acids that did not react with osmium tetroxide. The globules appeared to be bounded by a single membrane.
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- N M Packter
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
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Weiser J, Ehrenberg M, Náprstek J. In vitro measurement of translation accuracy of ribosomes isolated from streptomycin-resistant mutant of Streptomyces granaticolor. Folia Microbiol (Praha) 1994; 39:129-32. [PMID: 7959428 DOI: 10.1007/bf02906807] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Accuracy of activity of ribosome isolated from UV-light-induced streptomycin-resistant R-21 mutant of Streptomyces granaticolor was measured in an E. coli-derived system translating poly(U) with a high rate and accuracy. Ribosomes from the R-21 mutant strain were shown to be resistant to streptomycin and about two-fold more accurate than those from the wild type. The mutant strain was found to be resistant to 1000 mg/L streptomycin (Stm) during vegetative growth while it sporulated on agar plates containing only up to 200 mg/L of Stm. The growth rate of the R-21 mutant in complex liquid medium was indistinguishable from that of the wild-type strain.
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- J Weiser
- Institute of Microbiology, Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic, Prague
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Sailaja K, Joseph R. Purification and Properties of Xylose Isomerase ofStreptomyces coelicolor A3 (2). STARCH-STARKE 1993. [DOI: 10.1002/star.19930450904] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Romaguera A, Menge U, Breves R, Diekmann H. Chitinases of Streptomyces olivaceoviridis and significance of processing for multiplicity. J Bacteriol 1992; 174:3450-4. [PMID: 1592803 PMCID: PMC206026 DOI: 10.1128/jb.174.11.3450-3454.1992] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Five extracellular chitinases of 20.5, 30, 47, 70, and 92 kDa purified from the culture filtrate of Streptomyces olivaceoviridis ATCC 11238 differed in their sequences at the amino termini of the protein chains. In the native state, the chitinases were found to be resistant to proteolysis by trypsin, papain, and Staphylococcus aureus V8 protease. The latter produced several fragments of identical molecular mass from chitinases denaturated with sodium dodecyl sulfate. Five proteases were detected in the protein concentrate from the culture filtrate, and two of them showing ability to cleave chitinases in the native state were purified. One, a protease of 42 kDa, released a 30-kDa protein from the 70-kDa chitinase that reacts with anti-30 kDa chitinase antibodies; the other, a protease of 29 kDa, split the 30-kDa chitinase into 20.5-, 18-, and 16-kDa fragments. From these results, it was deduced that the 70-kDa chitinase is the precursor protein of the 30- and 20.5-kDa chitinases.
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- A Romaguera
- Institut für Mikrobiologie, Universität Hannover, Germany
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Held T, Kutzner HJ. Genetic recombination in Streptomyces michiganensis DSM 40,015 revealed three genes responsible for the formation of melanin. J Basic Microbiol 1991; 31:127-34. [PMID: 1908899 DOI: 10.1002/jobm.3620310211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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By UV and NTG mutagenesis numerous auxotrophic, antibiotic-resistant and melanin-negative mutants were isolated from Streptomyces michiganensis DSM 40,015 which proved to possess a efficient photoreactivation system. Using a mel- test strain with three auxotrophic markers and a antibiotic resistance for crosses with numerous prototrophic mel- strains three classes of mutants (melA, melB and melC) could be found. This classification was further supported by a series of crosses. The melC locus seemed to correspond to the melC locus of S. glaucescens which contains the tyrosinase structural gene.
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- T Held
- Institut für Mikrobiologie, Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany
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Raymer G, Willard JM, Schottel JL. Cloning, sequencing, and regulation of expression of an extracellular esterase gene from the plant pathogen Streptomyces scabies. J Bacteriol 1990; 172:7020-6. [PMID: 2254271 PMCID: PMC210823 DOI: 10.1128/jb.172.12.7020-7026.1990] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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The gene that encodes the extracellular esterase produced by Streptomyces scabies has been cloned and sequenced. The gene was identified by hybridization to a synthetic oligonucleotide that corresponds to the amino-terminal amino acid sequence determined for the secreted form of the esterase. Nucleotide sequence analysis predicted a 345-amino-acid open reading frame, a putative ribosome-binding site, and 39 amino acids at the amino terminus of the sequence that is not found in the secreted protein. This 39-amino-acid sequence has many of the characteristics common to known signal peptides. End mapping the esterase transcript revealed a single 5' end of the mRNA located 51 nucleotides upstream from the start point for translation. Northern (RNA) hybridization analysis of the esterase message by using the cloned esterase gene as a probe indicated that the esterase mRNA is about 1,440 nucleotides in length and was detected only when the cells were grown in the presence of zinc. These results suggest that the level of esterase mRNA detected in the cells is regulated by zinc.
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- G Raymer
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Minnesota, St. Paul 55108
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Ochi K. Streptomyces relC mutants with an altered ribosomal protein ST-L11 and genetic analysis of a Streptomyces griseus relC mutant. J Bacteriol 1990; 172:4008-16. [PMID: 2113916 PMCID: PMC213386 DOI: 10.1128/jb.172.7.4008-4016.1990] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Several relaxed (rel) mutants have been obtained from Streptomyces species by selecting colonies resistant to thiopeptin, an analogue of thiostrepton. Using two-dimensional gel electrophoresis, I compared the ribosomal proteins from rel and rel+ pairs of S. antibioticus, S. lavendulae, S. griseoflavus, and S. griseus. It was found that all of the Streptomyces rel mutants thus examined had an altered or missing ribosomal protein, designated tentatively ST-L11. These rel mutants therefore could be classified as relC mutants and were highly sensitive to erythromycin or high temperature. A relC mutant of S. griseus was defective in streptomycin production, but phenotypic reversion of this defect to normal productivity was found at high incidence among progeny of the relC mutant. This phenotypic reversion did not accompany a reappearance of ribosomal protein ST-L11, and furthermore the ability of accumulating ppGpp still remained at a low level, thus suggesting existence of a mutation (named sup) which suppresses the streptomycin deficiency phenotype exhibited by the relC mutant. Genetic analysis revealed that there is a correlation between the rel mutation and the inability to produce streptomycin or aerial mycelia. The sup mutation was found to lie at a chromosomal locus distinct from that of the relC mutation. It was therefore concluded that the dependence of streptomycin production on the normal function of the relC gene could be entirely bypassed by a mutation at the suppressor locus (sup). The suppressing effect of the sup mutation on the relC mutation was blocked when the afs mutation (defective in A-factor synthesis) was introduced into a relC sup double mutant. It is proposed that the sup gene or its product can be direct or indirect target for ppGpp.
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- K Ochi
- Exploratory Research Laboratories, Fujisawa Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Ibaraki, Japan
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Pérez-González JA, López-Cabrera M, Pardo JM, Jiménez A. Biochemical characterization of two cloned resistance determinants encoding a paromomycin acetyltransferase and a paromomycin phosphotransferase from Streptomyces rimosus forma paromomycinus. J Bacteriol 1989; 171:329-34. [PMID: 2536659 PMCID: PMC209591 DOI: 10.1128/jb.171.1.329-334.1989] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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The mechanism conferring resistance to paromomycin in Streptomyces rimosus forma paromomycinus, the producing organism, was studied at the level of both protein synthesis and drug-inactivating enzymes. Ribosomes prepared from this organism grown in either production or nonproduction medium were fully sensitive to paromomycin. A paromomycin acetyltransferase and a paromomycin phosphotransferase, both characteristic of the producer, were highly purified from extracts prepared from two Streptomyces lividans transformants harboring the relevant genes inserted in pIJ702-derived plasmids. In vitro, paromomycin was inactivated by either activity. In vivo, however, S. lividans clones containing the gene for either enzyme inserted in the low-copy-number plasmid pIJ41 were resistant to only low levels of paromomycin. In contrast, an S. lividans transformant containing both genes inserted in the same pIJ41-derived plasmid displayed high levels of resistance to paromomycin. These results indicate that both genes are required to determine the high levels of resistance to this drug in the producing organism. Paromomycin is doubly modified by the enzymes. However, whereas acetylparomomycin was a poorer substrate than paromomycin for the phosphotransferase, phosphorylparomomycin was modified more actively than was the intact drug by the acetyltransferase. These findings are discussed in terms of both a permeability barrier to paromomycin and the possible role(s) of the two enzymes in the biosynthetic pathway of this antibiotic.
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- J A Pérez-González
- Centro de Biología Molecular (CSIC and UAM), Universidad Autónoma, Madrid, Spain
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van Pée KH. Molecular cloning and high-level expression of a bromoperoxidase gene from Streptomyces aureofaciens Tü24. J Bacteriol 1988; 170:5890-4. [PMID: 3142859 PMCID: PMC211697 DOI: 10.1128/jb.170.12.5890-5894.1988] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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A bromoperoxidase gene was cloned from Streptomyces aureofaciens Tü24 into Streptomyces lividans TK64 by using the promoter-probe vector pIJ486. Subcloning of DNA from the original, unstable clone allowed the gene to be localized to a 1.7-kilobase (kb) fragment of DNA. Southern blotting showed that the cloned 1.7-kb insert hybridized to a 4.3-kb fragment in an SstI digest of S. aureofaciens Tü24 total DNA. The 1.7-kb insert was shown to code for a protein with the electrophoretic properties of the subunits of the nonheme bromoperoxidase isolated from S. aureofaciens Tü24. The protein produced by S. lividans TK64 transformed with pHM621, which contained an 8.0-kb insert, was shown to be identical to the S. aureofaciens Tü24 bromoperoxidase in terms of its electrophoretic mobility on denaturing and nondenaturing polyacrylamide gels and its NH2-terminal amino acid sequence. The bromoperoxidase was overproduced (up to 180 times) by S. lividans TK64 containing pHM621. Based on the heat stability of the S. aureofaciens Tü24 bromoperoxidase, a new and simple purification procedure with very high yields was developed.
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- K H van Pée
- Institut für Mikrobiologie, Universität Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Federal Republic of Germany
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Schauer A, Ranes M, Santamaria R, Guijarro J, Lawlor E, Mendez C, Chater K, Losick R. Visualizing gene expression in time and space in the filamentous bacterium Streptomyces coelicolor. Science 1988; 240:768-72. [PMID: 3363358 DOI: 10.1126/science.3363358] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Streptomycetes are prokaryotic microorganisms that exhibit a complex, mycelial fungus-like cycle of morphological differentiation. Development involves at least two spatially separated types of cells: the branching hyphae of the substrate mycelium, which penetrate the stratum upon which the colony feeds, and the upwardly protruding hyphae of the aerial mycelium, which undergo metamorphosis into spores. The luciferase-encoding luxA and luxB operon of the luminescent marine bacterium Vibrio harveyi was used as a promoter probe to visualize gene expression in differentiating colonies of Streptomyces coelicolor. Promoters for developmental genes of several kinds gave distinctive temporal and spatial patterns of light emission.
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- A Schauer
- Department of Cellular and Developmental Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138
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Guijarro J, Santamaria R, Schauer A, Losick R. Promoter determining the timing and spatial localization of transcription of a cloned Streptomyces coelicolor gene encoding a spore-associated polypeptide. J Bacteriol 1988; 170:1895-901. [PMID: 2450872 PMCID: PMC211047 DOI: 10.1128/jb.170.4.1895-1901.1988] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Streptomyces coelicolor is a filamentous, gram-positive bacterium that exhibits a complex cycle of morphological differentiation involving the formation of an aerial mycelium of multinucleoid hyphae which undergo septation to form long chains of spores. We report the identification of two proteins of 13 and 3 kilodaltons, designated SapA and SapB, respectively, that are produced during formation of the aerial mycelium and are found in assocation with purified, mature spores. We cloned the structural gene (sapA) for one of these spore-associated proteins. Nucleotide sequence analysis suggests that the 13-kilodalton polypeptide is derived from a larger pre- or preproprotein containing a leader sequence of 37 amino acids. Nuclease protection-hybridization analysis and experiments using the Vibrio harveyi, luciferase-encoding luxAB operon as a gene tag demonstrated that expression of sapA is controlled from a promoter contained within a region of less than 110 base pairs in length, whose transcription start site is located approximately 50 base pairs upstream from the initiation codon for the sapA open reading frame. Transcription of sapA was induced at the time of appearance of the aerial mycelium, and the level of sapA transcripts was significantly reduced in certain mutants blocked in aerial mycelium (bld) and or spore (whi) formation. As further evidence of the association of sapA transcription with morphological differentiation, experiments in which we monitored sapA transcription topographically by use of a sapA-luxAB operon fusion demonstrated a close spatial correlation between colony regions undergoing aerial mycelium formation and zones of sapA-promoted light emission.
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- J Guijarro
- Department of Cellular and Developmental Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
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Ikeda H, Kotaki H, Omura S. Genetic studies of avermectin biosynthesis in Streptomyces avermitilis. J Bacteriol 1987; 169:5615-21. [PMID: 3680172 PMCID: PMC214006 DOI: 10.1128/jb.169.12.5615-5621.1987] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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A genetic recombination study of an industrial strain of Streptomyces avermitilis which produces avermectin is described. A genetic map has been constructed by analysis of haploid recombinants and linkage relationships of 16 marker loci. Fifteen avermectin-nonproducing mutants, produced by mutagenesis, were classified into two phenotypically different groups, of which one produced avermectin aglycon and the other was able to convert avermectin aglycon to avermectins. Two different mutants were found to map closely to each other.
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- H Ikeda
- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kitasato University, Tokyo, Japan
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Hutchinson CR. The impact of genetic engineering on the commercial production of antibiotics by Streptomyces and related bacteria. Appl Biochem Biotechnol 1987; 16:169-90. [PMID: 3332755 DOI: 10.1007/bf02798365] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Developments in Streptomyces genetics that have laid a foundation for this field over the past ten years are reviewed and discussed to suggest how this knowledge might useful for improving the commercial production of antibiotics. This brief analysis predicts a bright future for the application of Streptomyces genetics in antibiotic production.
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- C R Hutchinson
- School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin, Madison 53706
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Stuttard C, Atkinson L, Vats S. Genome structure in Streptomyces spp.: adjacent genes on the S. coelicolor A3(2) linkage map have cotransducible analogs in S. venezuelae. J Bacteriol 1987; 169:3814-6. [PMID: 3475272 PMCID: PMC212471 DOI: 10.1128/jb.169.8.3814-3816.1987] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Cotransduction analysis in Streptomyces venezuelae with the generalized transducing phage SV1 showed that several pairs of likely analogs of markers that are adjacent on the conjugational linkage map of Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) were cotransducible and therefore physically close together. This supports the contention that taxonomically distinct "species" of Streptomyces are genetically closely related.
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Vögtli M, Hütter R. Characterisation of the hydroxystreptomycin phosphotransferase gene (sph) of Streptomyces glaucescens: nucleotide sequence and promoter analysis. MOLECULAR & GENERAL GENETICS : MGG 1987; 208:195-203. [PMID: 3039305 DOI: 10.1007/bf00330442] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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The nucleotide sequence of a 1384 bp fragment containing the coding and promoter sequences of the streptomycin phosphotransferase gene (sph) of the hydroxystreptomycin-producing Streptomyces glaucescens was determined. Evidence for an ATG as translation start codon for sph was derived from a comparison with the amino-terminal amino acid sequence of an aminoglycoside phosphotransferase (aphD gene product) of S. griseus, exhibiting a high degree of amino acid homology to the deduced amino acid sequence of the S. glaucescens sph gene product. Transcriptional start and termination sites for the sph gene were identified by primer extension and/or nuclease S1 mapping experiments. The promoter region of the sph gene appears to be complex since tandemly arranged promoters (orfIp1, orfIp2) initiating transcription of a likely coding region (ORFI) in the opposite direction overlap sph promoter sequences. The presumptive sphp and orfIp1 promoters show considerable sequence similarities in the -10 region to Escherichia coli consensus promoter sequences but no homology to E. coli or Streptomyces -35 regions.
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McQueen DA, Schottel JL. Purification and characterization of a novel extracellular esterase from pathogenic Streptomyces scabies that is inducible by zinc. J Bacteriol 1987; 169:1967-71. [PMID: 3571156 PMCID: PMC212061 DOI: 10.1128/jb.169.5.1967-1971.1987] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Native polyacrylamide gels of extracellular proteins produced by several Streptomyces isolates grown with suberin were assayed in situ for esterase activity. Two pathogenic isolates of Streptomyces scabies from different geographical regions were found to produce a similar esterase activity that was not produced by nonpathogenic strains. After treatment with EDTA, suberin no longer induced esterase production. Expression was restored when EDTA-treated suberin was supplemented with zinc. The optimal concentration of zinc required for esterase production was 2 microM. This esterase was purified from one of the pathogenic isolates and characterized. The enzyme was 38,000 daltons when determined by gel filtration on Sephadex G-100 and 36,000 daltons when determined by denaturing polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The esterase showed maximal activity in sodium phosphate buffer above pH 8.0, was stable to temperatures of up to 60 degrees C, and had an apparent Km of 125 microM p-nitrophenyl butyrate.
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