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Lü J, Long Q, Zhao Z, Chen L, He W, Hong J, Liu K, Wang Y, Pang X, Deng Z, Tao M. Engineering the Erythromycin-Producing Strain Saccharopolyspora erythraea HOE107 for the Heterologous Production of Polyketide Antibiotics. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:593217. [PMID: 33363524 PMCID: PMC7752772 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.593217] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2020] [Accepted: 11/10/2020] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Bacteria of the genus Saccharopolyspora produce important polyketide antibiotics, including erythromycin A (Sac. erythraea) and spinosad (Sac. spinosa). We herein report the development of an industrial erythromycin-producing strain, Sac. erythraea HOE107, into a host for the heterologous expression of polyketide biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) from other Saccharopolyspora species and related actinomycetes. To facilitate the integration of natural product BGCs and auxiliary genes beneficial for the production of natural products, the erythromycin polyketide synthase (ery) genes were replaced with two bacterial attB genomic integration sites associated with bacteriophages ϕC31 and ϕBT1. We also established a highly efficient conjugation protocol for the introduction of large bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) clones into Sac. erythraea strains. Based on this optimized protocol, an arrayed BAC library was effectively transferred into Sac. erythraea. The large spinosad gene cluster from Sac. spinosa and the actinorhodin gene cluster from Streptomyces coelicolor were successfully expressed in the ery deletion mutant. Deletion of the endogenous giant polyketide synthase genes pkeA1-pkeA4, the product of which is not known, and the flaviolin gene cluster (rpp) from the bacterium increased the heterologous production of spinosad and actinorhodin. Furthermore, integration of pJTU6728 carrying additional beneficial genes dramatically improved the yield of actinorhodin in the engineered Sac. erythraea strains. Our study demonstrated that the engineered Sac. erythraea strains SLQ185, LJ161, and LJ162 are good hosts for the expression of heterologous antibiotics and should aid in expression-based genome-mining approaches for the discovery of new and cryptic antibiotics from Streptomyces and rare actinomycetes.
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- Jin Lü
- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, Joint International Research Laboratory of Metabolic and Developmental Sciences, Shanghai-Islamabad-Belgrade Joint Innovation Center on Antibacterial Resistances, School of Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, Joint International Research Laboratory of Metabolic and Developmental Sciences, Shanghai-Islamabad-Belgrade Joint Innovation Center on Antibacterial Resistances, School of Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, Joint International Research Laboratory of Metabolic and Developmental Sciences, Shanghai-Islamabad-Belgrade Joint Innovation Center on Antibacterial Resistances, School of Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, Joint International Research Laboratory of Metabolic and Developmental Sciences, Shanghai-Islamabad-Belgrade Joint Innovation Center on Antibacterial Resistances, School of Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, Joint International Research Laboratory of Metabolic and Developmental Sciences, Shanghai-Islamabad-Belgrade Joint Innovation Center on Antibacterial Resistances, School of Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, Joint International Research Laboratory of Metabolic and Developmental Sciences, Shanghai-Islamabad-Belgrade Joint Innovation Center on Antibacterial Resistances, School of Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, Joint International Research Laboratory of Metabolic and Developmental Sciences, Shanghai-Islamabad-Belgrade Joint Innovation Center on Antibacterial Resistances, School of Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, Joint International Research Laboratory of Metabolic and Developmental Sciences, Shanghai-Islamabad-Belgrade Joint Innovation Center on Antibacterial Resistances, School of Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, Joint International Research Laboratory of Metabolic and Developmental Sciences, Shanghai-Islamabad-Belgrade Joint Innovation Center on Antibacterial Resistances, School of Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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Davies J, Ryan KS. Introducing the parvome: bioactive compounds in the microbial world. ACS Chem Biol 2012; 7:252-9. [PMID: 22074935 DOI: 10.1021/cb200337h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 110] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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We describe and discuss the features and functions of the "parvome", the "-ome" of the chemical world, consisting of the small molecules produced by living organisms. Here, we focus specifically on the world of microbial small molecules. Many years of natural product discovery research, coupled with recent advances and applications of genetic and genomic techniques have revealed the presence of an enormous collection of unique small molecules that are the products of cellular metabolism. As yet, we have a poor understanding of their functions and, in most cases, little knowledge of their routes of biosynthesis, although such information is accruing rapidly. In this review, we attempt to address the raison d'etre of the parvome in the bacterial world, and we propose that a better understanding of the true biological roles of natural products will permit the application of rational approaches to the more effective exploitation of their use in medicine by humankind.
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- Julian Davies
- Department
of Microbiology and Immunology and ‡Department of Chemistry, University
of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z3 Canada
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- Department
of Microbiology and Immunology and ‡Department of Chemistry, University
of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z3 Canada
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Cryptic polyketide synthase genes in non-pathogenic Clostridium SPP. PLoS One 2012; 7:e29609. [PMID: 22235310 PMCID: PMC3250452 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029609] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2011] [Accepted: 11/30/2011] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Modular type I polyketide synthases (PKS) produce a vast array of bacterial metabolites with highly diverse biological functions. Notably, all known polyketides were isolated from aerobic bacteria, and yet no example has been reported for strict anaerobes. In this study we explored the diversity and distribution of PKS genes in the genus Clostridium. In addition to comparative genomic analyses combined with predictions of modular type I polyketide synthase (PKS) gene clusters in sequenced genomes of Clostridium spp., a representative selection of other species inhabiting a variety of ecological niches was investigated by PCR screening for PKS genes. Our data reveal that all studied pathogenic Clostridium spp. are devoid of putative PKS genes. In stark contrast, cryptic PKS genes are widespread in genomes of non-pathogenic Clostridium species. According to phylogenetic analyses, the Clostridium PKS genes have unusual and diverse origins. However, reverse transcription quantitative PCR demonstrates that these genes are silent under standard cultivation conditions, explaining why the related metabolites have been overlooked until now. This study presents clostridia as a putative source for novel bioactive polyketides.
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Boghigian BA, Myint M, Wu J, Pfeifer BA. Simultaneous production and partitioning of heterologous polyketide and isoprenoid natural products in an Escherichia coli two-phase bioprocess. J Ind Microbiol Biotechnol 2011; 38:1809-20. [PMID: 21487833 PMCID: PMC9871370 DOI: 10.1007/s10295-011-0969-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2011] [Accepted: 03/26/2011] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Natural products have long served as rich sources of drugs possessing a wide range of pharmacological activities. The discovery and development of natural product drug candidates is often hampered by the inability to efficiently scale and produce a molecule of interest, due to inherent qualities of the native producer. Heterologous biosynthesis in an engineering and process-friendly host emerged as an option to produce complex natural products. Escherichia coli has previously been utilized to produce complex precursors to two popular natural product drugs, erythromycin and paclitaxel. These two molecules represent two of the largest classes of natural products, polyketides and isoprenoids, respectively. In this study, we have developed a platform E. coli strain capable of simultaneous production of both product precursors at titers greater than 15 mg l(-1). The utilization of a two-phase batch bioreactor allowed for very strong in situ separation (having a partitioning coefficient of greater than 5,000), which would facilitate downstream purification processes. The system developed here could also be used in metagenomic studies to screen environmental DNA for natural product discovery and preliminary production experiments.
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- Brett A Boghigian
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Science and Technology Center, Tufts University, 4 Colby Street, Medford, MA 02155, USA
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Biosynthesis of the Putative Siderophore Erythrochelin Requires Unprecedented Crosstalk between Separate Nonribosomal Peptide Gene Clusters. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2010; 17:160-73. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2010.01.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2009] [Revised: 01/14/2010] [Accepted: 01/21/2010] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Nett M, Ikeda H, Moore BS. Genomic basis for natural product biosynthetic diversity in the actinomycetes. Nat Prod Rep 2009; 26:1362-84. [PMID: 19844637 PMCID: PMC3063060 DOI: 10.1039/b817069j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 538] [Impact Index Per Article: 35.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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The phylum Actinobacteria hosts diverse high G + C, Gram-positive bacteria that have evolved a complex chemical language of natural product chemistry to help navigate their fascinatingly varied lifestyles. To date, 71 Actinobacteria genomes have been completed and annotated, with the vast majority representing the Actinomycetales, which are the source of numerous antibiotics and other drugs from genera such as Streptomyces, Saccharopolyspora and Salinispora . These genomic analyses have illuminated the secondary metabolic proficiency of these microbes – underappreciated for years based on conventional isolation programs – and have helped set the foundation for a new natural product discovery paradigm based on genome mining. Trends in the secondary metabolomes of natural product-rich actinomycetes are highlighted in this review article, which contains 199 references.
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- Markus Nett
- Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans-Knöll Institute, Beutenbergstr. 11a, 07745 Jena, Germany.
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- Kitasato Institute for Life Sciences, Kitasato University, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, 228-8555, Japan.
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- Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA
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- Gregory L Challis
- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, U.K.
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Complete gene expression profiling of Saccharopolyspora erythraea using GeneChip DNA microarrays. Microb Cell Fact 2007; 6:37. [PMID: 18039355 PMCID: PMC2206050 DOI: 10.1186/1475-2859-6-37] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2007] [Accepted: 11/26/2007] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Background The Saccharopolyspora erythraea genome sequence, recently published, presents considerable divergence from those of streptomycetes in gene organization and function, confirming the remarkable potential of S. erythraea for producing many other secondary metabolites in addition to erythromycin. In order to investigate, at whole transcriptome level, how S. erythraea genes are modulated, a DNA microarray was specifically designed and constructed on the S. erythraea strain NRRL 2338 genome sequence, and the expression profiles of 6494 ORFs were monitored during growth in complex liquid medium. Results The transcriptional analysis identified a set of 404 genes, whose transcriptional signals vary during growth and characterize three distinct phases: a rapid growth until 32 h (Phase A); a growth slowdown until 52 h (Phase B); and another rapid growth phase from 56 h to 72 h (Phase C) before the cells enter the stationary phase. A non-parametric statistical method, that identifies chromosomal regions with transcriptional imbalances, determined regional organization of transcription along the chromosome, highlighting differences between core and non-core regions, and strand specific patterns of expression. Microarray data were used to characterize the temporal behaviour of major functional classes and of all the gene clusters for secondary metabolism. The results confirmed that the ery cluster is up-regulated during Phase A and identified six additional clusters (for terpenes and non-ribosomal peptides) that are clearly regulated in later phases. Conclusion The use of a S. erythraea DNA microarray improved specificity and sensitivity of gene expression analysis, allowing a global and at the same time detailed picture of how S. erythraea genes are modulated. This work underlines the importance of using DNA microarrays, coupled with an exhaustive statistical and bioinformatic analysis of the results, to understand the transcriptional organization of the chromosomes of micro-organisms producing natural products.
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Frank B, Wenzel SC, Bode HB, Scharfe M, Blöcker H, Müller R. From genetic diversity to metabolic unity: studies on the biosynthesis of aurafurones and aurafuron-like structures in myxobacteria and streptomycetes. J Mol Biol 2007; 374:24-38. [PMID: 17919655 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2007.09.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2007] [Revised: 08/29/2007] [Accepted: 09/04/2007] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The myxobacterial polyketide secondary metabolites aurafuron A and B were identified by genome mining in the myxobacterial strain Stigmatella aurantiaca DW4/3-1. The compounds contain an unusual furanone moiety and resemble metabolites isolated from soil-dwelling and marine actinobacteria, a fungus and mollusks. We describe here the cloning and functional analysis of the aurafuron biosynthetic gene cluster, including site-directed mutagenesis and feeding studies using labeled precursors. The polyketide core of the aurafurones is assembled by a modular polyketide synthase (PKS). As with many such systems described from myxobacteria, the aurafuron PKS exhibits a number of unusual features, including the apparent iterative use of a module, redundant modules and domains, a trans acting dehydratase and the absence of a terminal thioesterase domain. Four oxidoreductases are encoded within the gene locus, some of which likely participate in formation of the furanone moiety via a Baeyer-Villiger type oxidation. Indeed, inactivation of a gene encoding a cytochrome P(450) monooxygenase completely abolished production of both compounds. We also compare the complete gene locus to biosynthetic gene clusters from two Streptomyces sp., which produce close structural analogues of the aurafurones. A portion of the post-PKS biosynthetic machinery is strikingly similar in all three cases, in contrast to the PKS genes, which are highly divergent. Phylogenetic analysis of the ketosynthase domains further indicates that the PKSs have developed independently (polyphyletically) during evolution. These findings point to a currently unknown but important biological function of aurafuron-like compounds for the producing organisms.
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- Bettina Frank
- Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Saarland University, P.O. Box 151150, 66041 Saarbrücken, Germany
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Kuscer E, Coates N, Challis I, Gregory M, Wilkinson B, Sheridan R, Petković H. Roles of rapH and rapG in positive regulation of rapamycin biosynthesis in Streptomyces hygroscopicus. J Bacteriol 2007; 189:4756-63. [PMID: 17468238 PMCID: PMC1913445 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00129-07] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Rapamycin is an important macrocyclic polyketide produced by Streptomyces hygroscopicus and showing immunosuppressive, antifungal, and antitumor activities as well as displaying anti-inflammatory and neuroregenerative properties. The immense pharmacological potential of rapamycin has led to the production of an array of analogues, including through genetic engineering of the rapamycin biosynthetic gene cluster. This cluster contains several putative regulatory genes. Based on DNA sequence analysis, the products of genes rapH and rapG showed high similarities with two different families of transcriptional activators, LAL and AraC, respectively. Overexpression of either gene resulted in a substantial increase in rapamycin biosynthesis, confirming their positive regulatory role, while deletion of both from the chromosome of S. hygroscopicus resulted in a complete loss of antibiotic production. Complementation studies indicated an essential role of the RapG regulator for rapamycin biosynthesis and a supportive role of RapH. A direct effect of rapH and rapG gene products on the promoter of the rapamycin polyketide synthase operon, rapA-rapB, was observed using the chalcone synthase gene rppA as a reporter system.
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- Enej Kuscer
- Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Jamnikarjeva 101, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Weissman KJ. Single Amino Acid Substitutions Alter the Efficiency of Docking in Modular Polyketide Biosynthesis. Chembiochem 2006; 7:1334-42. [PMID: 16871615 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.200600185] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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- Kira J Weissman
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, 80 Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA, UK.
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Tohyama S, Kakinuma K, Eguchi T. The Complete Biosynthetic Gene Cluster of the 28-Membered Polyketide Macrolactones, Halstoctacosanolides, from Streptomyces halstedii HC34. J Antibiot (Tokyo) 2006; 59:44-52. [PMID: 16568718 DOI: 10.1038/ja.2006.7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Halstoctacoanolides A and B are 28-membered polyketide macrolactones and were isolated from Streptomyces halstedii HC34. The biosynthetic gene cluster (hls cluster) of halstoctacosanolides was completely identified from the genome library of Streptomyces halstedii HC34. DNA sequence analysis of ca. 100 kb region revealed that there were seven type I polyketide synthases (PKSs) and two cytochrome P450 monooxygenases in this cluster. Involvement of the gene cluster in the halstoctacosanolide biosynthesis was demonstrated by the gene disruption of P450 monooxygenase genes. The mutants produced a new deoxygenated halstoctacosanolide derivative, halstoctacosanolide C, which confirmed that the hls gene cluster was essential for the biosynthesis of halstoctacosanolides.
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- Shigehiro Tohyama
- Department of Chemistry & Materials Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1, O-okayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan
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