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Zhu Z, Ding X, Rang J, Xia L. Application and research progress of ARTP mutagenesis in actinomycetes breeding. Gene 2024; 929:148837. [PMID: 39127415 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2024.148837] [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: 04/17/2024] [Revised: 08/06/2024] [Accepted: 08/07/2024] [Indexed: 08/12/2024]
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Atmospheric and room temperature plasma (ARTP) is an emerging artificial mutagenesis breeding technology. In comparison to traditional physical and chemical methods, ARTP technology can induce DNA damage more effectively and obtain mutation strains with stable heredity more easily after screening. It possesses advantages such as simplicity, safety, non-toxicity, and cost-effectiveness, showing high application value in microbial breeding. This article focuses on ARTP mutagenesis breeding of actinomycetes, specifically highlighting the application of ARTP mutagenesis technology in improving the performance of strains and enhancing the biosynthetic capabilities of actinomycetes. We analyzed the advantages and challenges of ARTP technology in actinomycetes breeding and summarized the common features, specific mutation sites and metabolic pathways of ARTP mutagenic strains, which could give guidance for genetic modification. It suggested that the future research work should focus on the establishment of high throughput rapid screening methods and integrate transcriptomics, proteomics, metabonomics and other omics to delve into the genetic regulations and synthetic mechanisms of the bioactive substances in ARTP mutated actinomycetes. This article aims to provide new perspectives for actinomycetes breeding through the establishment and application of ARTP mutagenesis technology, thereby promoting source innovation and the sustainable industrial development of actinomycetes.
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- Zirong Zhu
- Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Microbial Molecular Biology, State Key Laboratory of Developmental Biology of Freshwater Fish, College of Life Science, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, Hunan, China
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- Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Microbial Molecular Biology, State Key Laboratory of Developmental Biology of Freshwater Fish, College of Life Science, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, Hunan, China
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- Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Microbial Molecular Biology, State Key Laboratory of Developmental Biology of Freshwater Fish, College of Life Science, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, Hunan, China
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- Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Microbial Molecular Biology, State Key Laboratory of Developmental Biology of Freshwater Fish, College of Life Science, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, Hunan, China.
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Yu G, Ge X, Li W, Ji L, Yang S. Interspecific cross-talk: The catalyst driving microbial biosynthesis of secondary metabolites. Biotechnol Adv 2024; 76:108420. [PMID: 39128577 DOI: 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2024.108420] [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: 03/02/2024] [Revised: 06/07/2024] [Accepted: 08/04/2024] [Indexed: 08/13/2024]
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Microorganisms co-exist and co-evolve in nature, forming intricate ecological communities. The interspecies cross-talk within these communities creates and sustains their great biosynthetic potential, making them an important source of natural medicines and high-value-added chemicals. However, conventional investigations into microbial metabolites are typically carried out in pure cultures, resulting in the absence of specific activating factors and consequently causing a substantial number of biosynthetic gene clusters to remain silent. This, in turn, hampers the in-depth exploration of microbial biosynthetic potential and frequently presents researchers with the challenge of rediscovering compounds. In response to this challenge, the coculture strategy has emerged to explore microbial biosynthetic capabilities and has shed light on the study of cross-talk mechanisms. These elucidated mechanisms will contribute to a better understanding of complex biosynthetic regulations and offer valuable insights to guide the mining of secondary metabolites. This review summarizes the research advances in microbial cross-talk mechanisms, with a particular focus on the mechanisms that activate the biosynthesis of secondary metabolites. Additionally, the instructive value of these mechanisms for developing strategies to activate biosynthetic pathways is discussed. Moreover, challenges and recommendations for conducting in-depth studies on the cross-talk mechanisms are presented.
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- Guihong Yu
- School of Life Sciences, Shandong Province Key Laboratory of Applied Mycology, and Qingdao International Center on Microbes Utilizing Biogas, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao 266109, Shandong Province, People's Republic of China.
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- School of Life Sciences, Shandong Province Key Laboratory of Applied Mycology, and Qingdao International Center on Microbes Utilizing Biogas, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao 266109, Shandong Province, People's Republic of China
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- School of Life Sciences, Shandong Province Key Laboratory of Applied Mycology, and Qingdao International Center on Microbes Utilizing Biogas, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao 266109, Shandong Province, People's Republic of China
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- School of Life Sciences, Shandong Province Key Laboratory of Applied Mycology, and Qingdao International Center on Microbes Utilizing Biogas, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao 266109, Shandong Province, People's Republic of China
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- School of Life Sciences, Shandong Province Key Laboratory of Applied Mycology, and Qingdao International Center on Microbes Utilizing Biogas, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao 266109, Shandong Province, People's Republic of China.
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Zulfiqar M, Singh V, Steinbeck C, Sorokina M. Review on computer-assisted biosynthetic capacities elucidation to assess metabolic interactions and communication within microbial communities. Crit Rev Microbiol 2024; 50:1053-1092. [PMID: 38270170 DOI: 10.1080/1040841x.2024.2306465] [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: 03/13/2023] [Revised: 11/17/2023] [Accepted: 01/12/2024] [Indexed: 01/26/2024]
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Microbial communities thrive through interactions and communication, which are challenging to study as most microorganisms are not cultivable. To address this challenge, researchers focus on the extracellular space where communication events occur. Exometabolomics and interactome analysis provide insights into the molecules involved in communication and the dynamics of their interactions. Advances in sequencing technologies and computational methods enable the reconstruction of taxonomic and functional profiles of microbial communities using high-throughput multi-omics data. Network-based approaches, including community flux balance analysis, aim to model molecular interactions within and between communities. Despite these advances, challenges remain in computer-assisted biosynthetic capacities elucidation, requiring continued innovation and collaboration among diverse scientists. This review provides insights into the current state and future directions of computer-assisted biosynthetic capacities elucidation in studying microbial communities.
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- Mahnoor Zulfiqar
- Institute for Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany
- Cluster of Excellence Balance of the Microverse, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany
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- Institute for Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany
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- Institute for Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany
- Cluster of Excellence Balance of the Microverse, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany
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- Institute for Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany
- Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, Research and Development, Pharmaceuticals, Bayer, Berlin, Germany
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Liu Y, Wang L, Feng Y, Liao Q, Lei X, Hu X, Zhou L, Zhang Y. Untargeted Metabolomics Approach for the Discovery of Salinity-Related Alkaloids in a Stony Coral-Derived Fungus Aspergillus terreus. Int J Mol Sci 2024; 25:10544. [PMID: 39408873 PMCID: PMC11476925 DOI: 10.3390/ijms251910544] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2024] [Revised: 09/24/2024] [Accepted: 09/28/2024] [Indexed: 10/20/2024] Open
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As a part of the important species that form coral reef ecosystems, stony corals have become a potential source of pharmacologically active lead compounds for an increasing number of compounds with novel chemical structures and strong biological activity. In this study, the secondary metabolites and biological activities are reported for Aspergillus terreus C21-1, an epiphytic fungus acquired from Porites pukoensis collected from Xuwen Coral Reef Nature Reserve, China. This strain was cultured in potato dextrose broth (PDB) media and rice media with different salinities based on the OSMAC strategy. The mycelial morphology and high-performance thin layer chromatographic (HPTLC) fingerprints of the fermentation extracts together with bioautography were recorded. Furthermore, an untargeted metabolomics study was performed using principal component analysis (PCA), orthogonal projection to latent structure discriminant analysis (O-PLSDA), and feature-based molecular networking (FBMN) to analyze their secondary metabolite variations. The comprehensive results revealed that the metabolite expression in A. terreus C21-1 differed significantly between liquid and solid media. The metabolites produced in liquid medium were more diverse but less numerous compared to those in solid medium. Meanwhile, the mycelial morphology underwent significant changes with increasing salinity under PDB cultivation conditions, especially in PDB with 10% salinity. Untargeted metabolomics revealed significant differences between PDB with 10% salinity and other media, as well as between liquid and solid media. FBMN analysis indicated that alkaloids, which might be produced under high salt stress, contributed largely to the differences. The biological activities results showed that six groups of crude extracts exhibited acetylcholinesterase (AChE) inhibitory activities, along with 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) free radical scavenging and antibacterial activities. The results of this study showed that the increase in salinity favored the production of unique alkaloid compounds by A. terreus C21-1.
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- Yayue Liu
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Aquatic Product Processing and Safety, Guangdong Provincial Engineering Laboratory for Marine Biological Products, Guangdong Provincial Center for Modern Agricultural Scientific Innovation, Shenzhen Institute of Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang Municipal Key Laboratory of Marine Drugsand Nutrition for Brain Health, Research Institute for Marine Drugs and Nutrition, College of Food Science and Technology, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang 524088, China; (Y.L.); (L.W.); (Y.F.); (Q.L.); (X.L.); (X.H.)
- Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhanjiang), Zhanjiang 524088, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Seafood Deep Processing, Dalian Polytechnic University, Dalian 116034, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Aquatic Product Processing and Safety, Guangdong Provincial Engineering Laboratory for Marine Biological Products, Guangdong Provincial Center for Modern Agricultural Scientific Innovation, Shenzhen Institute of Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang Municipal Key Laboratory of Marine Drugsand Nutrition for Brain Health, Research Institute for Marine Drugs and Nutrition, College of Food Science and Technology, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang 524088, China; (Y.L.); (L.W.); (Y.F.); (Q.L.); (X.L.); (X.H.)
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Aquatic Product Processing and Safety, Guangdong Provincial Engineering Laboratory for Marine Biological Products, Guangdong Provincial Center for Modern Agricultural Scientific Innovation, Shenzhen Institute of Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang Municipal Key Laboratory of Marine Drugsand Nutrition for Brain Health, Research Institute for Marine Drugs and Nutrition, College of Food Science and Technology, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang 524088, China; (Y.L.); (L.W.); (Y.F.); (Q.L.); (X.L.); (X.H.)
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Aquatic Product Processing and Safety, Guangdong Provincial Engineering Laboratory for Marine Biological Products, Guangdong Provincial Center for Modern Agricultural Scientific Innovation, Shenzhen Institute of Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang Municipal Key Laboratory of Marine Drugsand Nutrition for Brain Health, Research Institute for Marine Drugs and Nutrition, College of Food Science and Technology, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang 524088, China; (Y.L.); (L.W.); (Y.F.); (Q.L.); (X.L.); (X.H.)
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Aquatic Product Processing and Safety, Guangdong Provincial Engineering Laboratory for Marine Biological Products, Guangdong Provincial Center for Modern Agricultural Scientific Innovation, Shenzhen Institute of Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang Municipal Key Laboratory of Marine Drugsand Nutrition for Brain Health, Research Institute for Marine Drugs and Nutrition, College of Food Science and Technology, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang 524088, China; (Y.L.); (L.W.); (Y.F.); (Q.L.); (X.L.); (X.H.)
- Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhanjiang), Zhanjiang 524088, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Seafood Deep Processing, Dalian Polytechnic University, Dalian 116034, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Aquatic Product Processing and Safety, Guangdong Provincial Engineering Laboratory for Marine Biological Products, Guangdong Provincial Center for Modern Agricultural Scientific Innovation, Shenzhen Institute of Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang Municipal Key Laboratory of Marine Drugsand Nutrition for Brain Health, Research Institute for Marine Drugs and Nutrition, College of Food Science and Technology, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang 524088, China; (Y.L.); (L.W.); (Y.F.); (Q.L.); (X.L.); (X.H.)
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Aquatic Product Processing and Safety, Guangdong Provincial Engineering Laboratory for Marine Biological Products, Guangdong Provincial Center for Modern Agricultural Scientific Innovation, Shenzhen Institute of Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang Municipal Key Laboratory of Marine Drugsand Nutrition for Brain Health, Research Institute for Marine Drugs and Nutrition, College of Food Science and Technology, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang 524088, China; (Y.L.); (L.W.); (Y.F.); (Q.L.); (X.L.); (X.H.)
- Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhanjiang), Zhanjiang 524088, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Seafood Deep Processing, Dalian Polytechnic University, Dalian 116034, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Aquatic Product Processing and Safety, Guangdong Provincial Engineering Laboratory for Marine Biological Products, Guangdong Provincial Center for Modern Agricultural Scientific Innovation, Shenzhen Institute of Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang Municipal Key Laboratory of Marine Drugsand Nutrition for Brain Health, Research Institute for Marine Drugs and Nutrition, College of Food Science and Technology, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang 524088, China; (Y.L.); (L.W.); (Y.F.); (Q.L.); (X.L.); (X.H.)
- Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhanjiang), Zhanjiang 524088, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Seafood Deep Processing, Dalian Polytechnic University, Dalian 116034, China
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Surwase AJ, Thakur NL. Production of marine-derived bioactive peptide molecules for industrial applications: A reverse engineering approach. Biotechnol Adv 2024; 77:108449. [PMID: 39260778 DOI: 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2024.108449] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2023] [Revised: 06/28/2024] [Accepted: 09/07/2024] [Indexed: 09/13/2024]
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This review examines a wide range of marine microbial-derived bioactive peptide molecules, emphasizing the significance of reverse engineering in their production. The discussion encompasses the advancements in Marine Natural Products (MNPs) bio-manufacturing through the integration of omics-driven microbial engineering and bioinformatics. The distinctive features of non-ribosomally synthesised peptides (NRPs), and ribosomally synthesised precursor peptides (RiPP) biosynthesis is elucidated and presented. Additionally, the article delves into the origins of common peptide modifications. It highlights various genome mining approaches for the targeted identification of Biosynthetic Gene Clusters (BGCs) and novel RiPP and NRPs-derived peptides. The review aims to demonstrate the advancements, prospects, and obstacles in engineering both RiPP and NRP biosynthetic pathways.
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- Akash J Surwase
- CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula 403004, Goa, India; Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad 201002, India.
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- CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula 403004, Goa, India; Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad 201002, India.
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Tay DWP, Tan LL, Heng E, Zulkarnain N, Chin EJ, Tan ZYQ, Leong CY, Ng VWP, Yang LK, Seow DCS, Kanagasundaram Y, Ng SB, Lim YH, Wong FT. Tandem mass spectral metabolic profiling of 54 actinobacterial strains and their 459 mutants. Sci Data 2024; 11:977. [PMID: 39244610 PMCID: PMC11380661 DOI: 10.1038/s41597-024-03833-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2024] [Accepted: 08/27/2024] [Indexed: 09/09/2024] Open
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Natural products encompass a diverse range of compounds with high impact applications in consumer care, agriculture and most notably, therapeutics. However, despite the expansive chemical repertoire indicated in genomic information of microbes, only a small subset can be obtained under laboratory conditions. To increase accessible chemical space and realize Nature's full chemical potential, a multi-pronged genetic- and cultivation-based strategy has been employed to activate and upregulate natural product biosyntheses in native and heterologous strains. This data descriptor documents a characterized collection of 2,138 liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC/MS-MS) spectra of fermentation extracts from 54 native actinobacterial strains collected from soil and marine environments in Singapore, and their 459 activated mutants in 3 to 5 media. A total of 743 unique metabolites have been identified, with the activated mutants demonstrating an approximately 2-fold expansion in accessible chemical space over wild type strains. Interrogating this expanded chemical diversity with cheminformatic tools can provide direction for the discovery of novel natural products with desirable functional activity.
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- Dillon W P Tay
- Institute of Sustainability for Chemicals, Energy and Environment (ISCE2), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 8 Biomedical Grove, #07-01 Neuros Building, Singapore, 138665, Republic of Singapore.
- Singapore Integrative Biosystems and Engineering Research (SIBER), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore, Republic of Singapore.
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- Singapore Integrative Biosystems and Engineering Research (SIBER), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore, Republic of Singapore
- Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 61 Biopolis Drive, #07-06, Proteos, Singapore, 138673, Republic of Singapore
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- Singapore Integrative Biosystems and Engineering Research (SIBER), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore, Republic of Singapore
- Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 61 Biopolis Drive, #07-06, Proteos, Singapore, 138673, Republic of Singapore
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- Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 61 Biopolis Drive, #07-06, Proteos, Singapore, 138673, Republic of Singapore
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- Singapore Institute of Food and Biotechnology Innovation (SIFBI), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 31 Biopolis Way, #01-02, Nanos, Singapore, 138669, Republic of Singapore
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- Singapore Institute of Food and Biotechnology Innovation (SIFBI), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 31 Biopolis Way, #01-02, Nanos, Singapore, 138669, Republic of Singapore
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- Singapore Institute of Food and Biotechnology Innovation (SIFBI), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 31 Biopolis Way, #01-02, Nanos, Singapore, 138669, Republic of Singapore
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- Singapore Institute of Food and Biotechnology Innovation (SIFBI), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 31 Biopolis Way, #01-02, Nanos, Singapore, 138669, Republic of Singapore
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- Singapore Institute of Food and Biotechnology Innovation (SIFBI), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 31 Biopolis Way, #01-02, Nanos, Singapore, 138669, Republic of Singapore
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- Singapore Institute of Food and Biotechnology Innovation (SIFBI), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 31 Biopolis Way, #01-02, Nanos, Singapore, 138669, Republic of Singapore
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- Singapore Institute of Food and Biotechnology Innovation (SIFBI), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 31 Biopolis Way, #01-02, Nanos, Singapore, 138669, Republic of Singapore
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- Singapore Institute of Food and Biotechnology Innovation (SIFBI), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 31 Biopolis Way, #01-02, Nanos, Singapore, 138669, Republic of Singapore
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- Institute of Sustainability for Chemicals, Energy and Environment (ISCE2), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 8 Biomedical Grove, #07-01 Neuros Building, Singapore, 138665, Republic of Singapore
- Singapore Integrative Biosystems and Engineering Research (SIBER), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore, Republic of Singapore
- Synthetic Biology Translational Research Program, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, 10 Medical Drive, Singapore, 117597, Republic of Singapore
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- Institute of Sustainability for Chemicals, Energy and Environment (ISCE2), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 8 Biomedical Grove, #07-01 Neuros Building, Singapore, 138665, Republic of Singapore.
- Singapore Integrative Biosystems and Engineering Research (SIBER), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore, Republic of Singapore.
- Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 61 Biopolis Drive, #07-06, Proteos, Singapore, 138673, Republic of Singapore.
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Pulliam C, Xue D, Campbell A, Older E, Li J. Discovery and Heterologous Expression of Trilenodin, an Antimicrobial Lasso Peptide with a Unique Tri-Isoleucine Motif. Chembiochem 2024:e202400586. [PMID: 39225753 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.202400586] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2024] [Revised: 08/20/2024] [Accepted: 09/03/2024] [Indexed: 09/04/2024]
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Lasso peptides are an increasingly relevant class of peptide natural products with diverse biological activities, intriguing physical properties, and unique chemical structures. Most characterized lasso peptides have been from Actinobacteria and Proteobacteria, despite bioinformatic analyses suggesting that other bacterial taxa, particularly those from Firmicutes, are rich in biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) encoding lasso peptides. Herein, we report the bioinformatic identification of a lasso peptide BGC from Paenibacillus taiwanensis DSM18679 which we termed pats. We used a bioinformatics-guided isolation approach and high-resolution tandem mass spectrometry (HRMS/MS) to isolate and subsequently characterize a new lasso peptide produced from the pats BGC, which we named trilenodin, after the tri-isoleucine motif present in its primary sequence. This tri-isoleucine motif is unique among currently characterized lasso peptides. We confirmed the connection between the pats BGC and trilenodin production by establishing the first Bacillus subtilis 168-based heterologous expression system for expressing Firmicutes lasso peptides. We finally determined that trilenodin exhibits potent antimicrobial activity against B. subtilis and Klebsiella pneumoniae, making trilenodin the first characterized biologically active lasso peptide from Firmicutes. Collectively, we demonstrate that bacteria from Firmicutes can serve as high-potential sources of chemically and biologically diverse lasso peptides.
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- Conor Pulliam
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, 29208, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, 29208, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, 29208, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, 29208, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, 29208, United States
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Elumalai L, Nagarajan S, Anbalmani S, Murthy S, Manikkam R, Ramasamy B. Bioactive compound from marine seagrass Streptomyces argenteolus TMA13: combatting fish pathogens with time-kill kinetics and live-dead cell imaging. Braz J Microbiol 2024; 55:2669-2681. [PMID: 39028533 PMCID: PMC11405562 DOI: 10.1007/s42770-024-01407-w] [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: 03/05/2024] [Accepted: 05/28/2024] [Indexed: 07/20/2024] Open
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Actinobacteria, pervasive in aquatic and terrestrial environments, exhibit a filamentous morphology, possess DNA with a specific G + C content and production of numerous secondary metabolites. This study, focused on actinobacteria isolated from marine seagrass, investigating their antibacterial activity against fish pathogens. Among 28 isolates, Streptomyces argenteolus TMA13 displayed the maximum zone of inhibition against fish pathogens-Aeromonas hydrophila (10 mm), Aeromonas caviae (22 mm), Edwardsiella tarda (17 mm), Vibrio harveyi (22 mm) and Vibrio anguillarum (12 mm) using the agar plug method. Optimization of this potent strain involved with various factors, including pH, temperature, carbon source and salt condition to enhance both yield production and antibacterial efficacy. In anti-biofilm assay shows the maximum percentage of inhibition while increasing concentration of TMA13 extract. Minimal Inhibitory Concentration (MIC) and Minimal Bactericidal Concentration (MBC) assays with TMA13 crude extract demonstrated potent activity against fish pathogens at remarkably low concentrations. Time-kill kinetics assay showcased growth curve variations over different time intervals for all fish pathogens treated with a 100 µg/ml concentration of crude extract, indicating a decline in cells viability and progression into the death phase. Additionally, fluorescence microscopic visualization of bacterial cells exposed to the extracts emitting green and red fluorescence, enabling live-dead cell differentiation was also studied. Further characterization of the crude extract through GC-MS and FT-IR analyses performed and identified secondary metabolites with functional groups exhibiting significant antibacterial activity. This study elucidates the capacity of Streptomyces argenteolus TMA13 to enhance the production of antibiotic compounds effective against fish pathogens.
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- Lokesh Elumalai
- Actinobacterial Research Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, Periyar University, Salem, 636011, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Actinobacterial Research Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, Periyar University, Salem, 636011, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Actinobacterial Research Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, Periyar University, Salem, 636011, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Actinobacterial Research Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, Periyar University, Salem, 636011, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Centre for Drug Discovery and Development, Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, 600119, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Actinobacterial Research Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, Periyar University, Salem, 636011, Tamil Nadu, India.
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Wang S, Li X, Yang W, Huang R. Exploring the secrets of marine microorganisms: Unveiling secondary metabolites through metagenomics. Microb Biotechnol 2024; 17:e14533. [PMID: 39075735 PMCID: PMC11286668 DOI: 10.1111/1751-7915.14533] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2024] [Accepted: 07/12/2024] [Indexed: 07/31/2024] Open
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Marine microorganisms are increasingly recognized as primary producers of marine secondary metabolites, drawing growing research interest. Many of these organisms are unculturable, posing challenges for study. Metagenomic techniques enable research on these unculturable microorganisms, identifying various biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) related to marine microbial secondary metabolites, thereby unveiling their secrets. This review comprehensively analyses metagenomic methods used in discovering marine microbial secondary metabolites, highlighting tools commonly employed in BGC identification, and discussing the potential and challenges in this field. It emphasizes the key role of metagenomics in unveiling secondary metabolites, particularly in marine sponges and tunicates. The review also explores current limitations in studying these metabolites through metagenomics, noting how long-read sequencing technologies and the evolution of computational biology tools offer more possibilities for BGC discovery. Furthermore, the development of synthetic biology allows experimental validation of computationally identified BGCs, showcasing the vast potential of metagenomics in mining marine microbial secondary metabolites.
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- Shaoyu Wang
- Institute of Marine Science and TechnologyShandong UniversityQingdaoShandongChina
- Qingdao Key Laboratory of Ocean Carbon Sequestration and Negative Emission TechnologyShandong UniversityQingdaoChina
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- Institute of Marine Science and TechnologyShandong UniversityQingdaoShandongChina
- Qingdao Key Laboratory of Ocean Carbon Sequestration and Negative Emission TechnologyShandong UniversityQingdaoChina
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- School of Computer Science and TechnologyShandong UniversityQingdaoShandongChina
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- Institute of Marine Science and TechnologyShandong UniversityQingdaoShandongChina
- Qingdao Key Laboratory of Ocean Carbon Sequestration and Negative Emission TechnologyShandong UniversityQingdaoChina
- Global Ocean Negative Carbon Emissions (ONCE) Program AllianceQingdaoChina
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Nofiani R, Ardiningsih P, Rudiyansyah, Padupu D, Rizky, Amalia DA, Octaviana S, Sukito A, Setiyoningrum F, Weisberg AJ, Mahmud T. Biological activities and metabolomic profiles of extracts from the marine sediment bacterium Nocardiopsis alba DP1B cultivated in different media. Microb Pathog 2024; 192:106702. [PMID: 38825090 DOI: 10.1016/j.micpath.2024.106702] [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: 01/30/2024] [Revised: 04/24/2024] [Accepted: 05/15/2024] [Indexed: 06/04/2024]
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The soil bacterium DP1B was isolated from a marine sediment collected off the coast of Randayan Island, Kalimantan Barat, Indonesia and identified based on 16S rDNA as Nocardiopsis alba. The bacterium was cultivated in seven different media (A1, ISP1, ISP2, ISP4, PDB, PC-1, and SCB) with three different solvents [distilled water, 5 % NaCl solution, artificial seawater (ASW)] combinations, shaken at 200 rpm, 30 °C, for 7 days. The culture broths were extracted with ethyl acetate and each extract was tested for its antimicrobial activity and brine shrimp lethality, and the chemical diversity was assessed using thin-layer chromatography (TLC), gas chromatography (GC), and liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry/mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS). The result showed that almost all extracts showed antibacterial but not antifungal activity, whereas their brine shrimp toxicity levels vary from high to low. The best medium/solvent combinations for antibacterial activity and toxicity were PC-1 (in either distilled water, 5% NaCl solution, or ASW) and SCB in ASW. Different chemical diversity profiles were observed on TLC, GC-MS, and LC-MS/MS. Extracts from the PC-1 cultures seem to contain a significant number of cyclic dipeptides, whereas those from the SCB cultures contain sesquiterpenes, indicating that media and solvent compositions can affect the secondary metabolite profiles of DP1B. In addition, untargeted metabolomic analyses using LC-MS/MS showed many molecular ions that did not match with those in the Global Natural Products Social Molecular Networking (GNPS) database, suggesting that DP1B has great potential as a source of new natural products.
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- Risa Nofiani
- Department of Chemistry, Universitas Tanjungpura, Pontianak, 78124, Indonesia.
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- Department of Chemistry, Universitas Tanjungpura, Pontianak, 78124, Indonesia
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- Department of Chemistry, Universitas Tanjungpura, Pontianak, 78124, Indonesia
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- Department of Chemistry, Universitas Tanjungpura, Pontianak, 78124, Indonesia
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- Department of Chemistry, Universitas Tanjungpura, Pontianak, 78124, Indonesia
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- Department of Chemistry, Universitas Tanjungpura, Pontianak, 78124, Indonesia
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- Research Center for Applied Microbiology, National Research and Innovation Agency, Bogor, 16911, Indonesia
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- Research Center for Applied Microbiology, National Research and Innovation Agency, Bogor, 16911, Indonesia
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- Research Center for Applied Microbiology, National Research and Innovation Agency, Bogor, 16911, Indonesia
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- Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, United States
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97333, United States
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Song W, Ji L, Zhang Y, Cao L. New cytotoxic indole derivatives with anti-FADU potential produced by the endophytic fungus Penicillium oxalicum 2021CDF-3 through the OSMAC strategy. Front Microbiol 2024; 15:1400803. [PMID: 38873167 PMCID: PMC11169714 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2024.1400803] [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: 03/14/2024] [Accepted: 05/21/2024] [Indexed: 06/15/2024] Open
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Fungi possess well-developed secondary metabolism pathways that are worthy of in-depth exploration. The One Strain Many Compounds (OSMAC) strategy is a useful method for exploring chemically diverse secondary metabolites. In this study, continued chemical investigations of the marine red algae-derived endophytic fungus Penicillium oxalicum 2021CDF-3 cultured in PDB media yielded six structurally diverse indole derivatives, including two new prenylated indole alkaloids asperinamide B (1) and peniochroloid B (5), as well as four related derivatives (compounds 2-4 and 6). The chemical structures of these compounds, including the absolute configurations of 1 and 5, were determined by extensive analyses of HRESIMS, 1D and 2D NMR spectroscopic data, and TDDFT-ECD calculations. Compound 1 was found to possess an unusual 3-pyrrolidone dimethylbenzopyran fused to the bicyclo[2.2.2]diazaoctane moiety, which was rare in previously reported prenylated indole alkaloids. In vitro cytotoxic experiments against four human tumor cell lines (HeLa, HepG2, FADU, and A549) indicated that 1 strongly inhibited the FADU cell line, with an IC50 value of 0.43 ± 0.03 μM. This study suggested that the new prenylated indole alkaloid 1 is a potential lead compound for anti-FADU drugs.
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- Wei Song
- Department of Otolaryngology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Pediatrics, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Zhejiang, China
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- Shandong Research Center of Engineering and Technology for Safety Inspection of Food and Drug, Shandong Institute for Food and Drug Control, Jinan, China
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- Department of Otolaryngology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Zhejiang, China
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Díaz-Cruz GA, Bignell DRD. Exploring the specialized metabolome of the plant pathogen Streptomyces sp. 11-1-2. Sci Rep 2024; 14:10414. [PMID: 38710735 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-60630-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2023] [Accepted: 04/25/2024] [Indexed: 05/08/2024] Open
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Streptomyces bacteria are notable for producing chemically diverse specialized metabolites that exhibit various bioactivities and mediate interactions with different organisms. Streptomyces sp. 11-1-2 is a plant pathogen that produces nigericin and geldanamycin, both of which display toxic effects against various plants. Here, the 'One Strain Many Compounds' approach was used to characterize the metabolic potential of Streptomyces sp. 11-1-2. Organic extracts were prepared from 11-1-2 cultures grown on six different agar media, and the extracts were tested in antimicrobial and plant bioassays and were subjected to untargeted metabolomics and molecular networking. Most extracts displayed strong bioactivity against Gram-positive bacteria and yeast, and they exhibited phytotoxic activity against potato tuber tissue and radish seedlings. Several known specialized metabolites, including musacin D, galbonolide B, guanidylfungin A, meridamycins and elaiophylin, were predicted to be present in the extracts along with closely related compounds with unknown structure and bioactivity. Targeted detection confirmed the presence of elaiophylin in the extracts, and bioassays using pure elaiophylin revealed that it enhances the phytotoxic effects of geldanamycin and nigericin on potato tuber tissue. Overall, this study reveals novel insights into the specialized metabolites that may mediate interactions between Streptomyces sp. 11-1-2 and other bacteria and eukaryotic organisms.
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- Gustavo A Díaz-Cruz
- Department of Biology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL, Canada
- Phytopathology Department, Plant Protection Research Center (CIPROC), Agronomy School, Universidad de Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica
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- Department of Biology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL, Canada.
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Berger T, Alenfelder J, Steinmüller S, Heimann D, Gohain N, Petras D, Wang M, Berger R, Kostenis E, Reher R. A MassQL-Integrated Molecular Networking Approach for the Discovery and Substructure Annotation of Bioactive Cyclic Peptides. JOURNAL OF NATURAL PRODUCTS 2024; 87:692-704. [PMID: 38385767 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.3c00750] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/23/2024]
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The marine sponge-derived fungus Stachylidium bicolor 293 K04 is a prolific producer of specialized metabolites, including certain cyclic tetrapeptides called endolides, which are characterized by the presence of the unusual amino acid N-methyl-3-(3-furyl)-alanine. This rare feature can be used as bait to detect new endolide-like analogs through customized fragment pattern searches of tandem mass spectrometry data using the Mass Spec Query Language (MassQL). Here, we integrate endolide-specific MassQL queries with molecular networking to obtain substructural information guiding the targeted isolation and structure elucidation of the new proline-containing endolides E (1) and F (2). We showed that endolide F (but not E) is a moderate antagonist of the arginine vasopressin V1A receptor, a member of the G protein-coupled receptor superfamily.
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- Tim Berger
- Institute for Pharmaceutical Biology and Biotechnology, Department of Pharmacy, Philipps-University Marburg, Robert-Koch-Straße 4, 35037 Marburg, Germany
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- Section of Molecular, Cellular and Pharmacobiology, Institute of Pharmaceutical Biology, Nussallee 6, 53115 Bonn, Germany
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- Section of Molecular, Cellular and Pharmacobiology, Institute of Pharmaceutical Biology, Nussallee 6, 53115 Bonn, Germany
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- Department of Chemical Biology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Inhoffenstraße 7, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Philipps-University Marburg, Hans-Meerwein-Straße 4, 35032 Marburg, Germany
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- Interfaculty of Microbiology and Infection Medicine, University of Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Computer Science, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California 92507, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Philipps-University Marburg, Hans-Meerwein-Straße 4, 35032 Marburg, Germany
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- Section of Molecular, Cellular and Pharmacobiology, Institute of Pharmaceutical Biology, Nussallee 6, 53115 Bonn, Germany
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- Institute for Pharmaceutical Biology and Biotechnology, Department of Pharmacy, Philipps-University Marburg, Robert-Koch-Straße 4, 35037 Marburg, Germany
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Cook GD, Stasulli NM. Employing synthetic biology to expand antibiotic discovery. SLAS Technol 2024; 29:100120. [PMID: 38340893 DOI: 10.1016/j.slast.2024.100120] [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: 06/16/2023] [Revised: 01/04/2024] [Accepted: 02/07/2024] [Indexed: 02/12/2024]
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Antimicrobial-resistant (AMR) bacterial pathogens are a continually growing threat as our methods for combating these infections continue to be overcome by the evolution of resistance mechanisms. Recent therapeutic methods have not staved off the concern of AMR infections, so continued research focuses on new ways of identifying small molecules to treat AMR pathogens. While chemical modification of existing antibiotics is possible, there has been rapid development of resistance by pathogens that were initially susceptible to these compounds. Synthetic biology is becoming a key strategy in trying to predict and induce novel, natural antibiotics. Advances in cloning and mutagenesis techniques applied through a synthetic biology lens can help characterize the native regulation of antibiotic biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) to identify potential modifications leading to more potent antibiotic activity. Additionally, many cryptic antibiotic BGCs are derived from non-ribosomal peptide synthase (NRPS) and polyketide synthase (PKS) biosynthetic pathways; complex, clustered genetic sequences that give rise to amino acid-derived natural products. Synthetic biology can be applied to modify and metabolically engineer these enzyme-based systems to promote rapid and sustainable production of natural products and their variants. This review will focus on recent advances related to synthetic biology as applied to genetic pathway characterization and identification of antibiotics from naturally occurring BGCs. Specifically, we will summarize recent efforts to characterize BGCs via general genomic mutagenesis, endogenous gene expression, and heterologous gene expression.
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- Greta D Cook
- Department of Biology and Environmental Science, University of New Haven, 300 Boston Post Rd, Dodds Hall 316, West Haven 06516 USA
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- Department of Biology and Environmental Science, University of New Haven, 300 Boston Post Rd, Dodds Hall 316, West Haven 06516 USA.
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Palacios-Rodriguez AP, Espinoza-Culupú A, Durán Y, Sánchez-Rojas T. Antimicrobial Activity of Bacillus amyloliquefaciens BS4 against Gram-Negative Pathogenic Bacteria. Antibiotics (Basel) 2024; 13:304. [PMID: 38666980 PMCID: PMC11047741 DOI: 10.3390/antibiotics13040304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2024] [Revised: 03/08/2024] [Accepted: 03/15/2024] [Indexed: 04/29/2024] Open
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Worldwide, bacterial resistance is one of the most severe public health problems. Currently, the failure of antibiotics to counteract superbugs highlights the need to search for new molecules with antimicrobial potential to combat them. The objective of this research was to evaluate the antimicrobial activity of Bacillus amyloliquefaciens BS4 against Gram-negative bacteria. Thirty yeasts and thirty-two Bacillus isolates were tested following the agar well-diffusion method. Four Bacillus sp. strains (BS3, BS4, BS17, and BS21) showed antagonistic activity against E. coli ATCC 25922 using bacterial culture (BC) and the cell-free supernatant (CFS), where the BS4 strain stood out, showing inhibitory values of 20.50 ± 0.70 mm and 19.67 ± 0.58 mm for BC and CFS, respectively. The Bacillus sp. BS4 strain can produce antioxidant, non-hemolytic, and antimicrobial metabolites that exhibit activity against several microorganisms such as Salmonella enterica, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Shigella flexneri, Enterobacter aerogenes, Proteus vulgaris, Yersinia enterocolitica, Serratia marcescens, Aeromonas sp., Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Candida albicans, and Candida tropicalis. According to the characterization of the supernatant, the metabolites could be proteinaceous. The production of these metabolites is influenced by carbon and nitrogen sources. The most suitable medium to produce antimicrobial metabolites was TSB broth. The one-factor-at-a-time method was used to standardize parameters such as pH, agitation, temperature, carbon source, nitrogen source, and salts, resulting in the best conditions of pH 7, 150 rpm, 28 °C, starch (2.5 g/L), tryptone (20 g/L), and magnesium sulfate (0.2 g/L), respectively. Moreover, the co-culture was an excellent strategy to improve antimicrobial activity, achieving maximum antimicrobial activity with an inhibition zone of 21.85 ± 1.03 mm. These findings position the Bacillus amyloliquefaciens BS4 strain as a promising candidate for producing bioactive molecules with potential applications in human health.
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- Ana Paula Palacios-Rodriguez
- Laboratory of Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima 15081, Peru; (A.P.P.-R.); (Y.D.)
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- Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima 15081, Peru
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- Laboratory of Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima 15081, Peru; (A.P.P.-R.); (Y.D.)
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- Laboratory of Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima 15081, Peru; (A.P.P.-R.); (Y.D.)
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Kum E, İnce E. Metabolomics Approach to Explore Bioactive Natural Products Derived From Plant-Root-Associated Streptomyces. Appl Biochem Biotechnol 2024:10.1007/s12010-024-04905-7. [PMID: 38512549 DOI: 10.1007/s12010-024-04905-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/04/2024] [Indexed: 03/23/2024]
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Streptomyces, a prominent genus within the Actinomycetota phylum, is responsible for over 60% of clinically relevant antibiotics. Streptomyces strains inhabiting plant roots possess the potential to synthesize bioactive natural products, conferring defense and resilience to plants against pathogenic microorganisms. However, this potential remains largely unexplored. This study aims to screen for bioactive metabolites produced by Streptomyces strains in the plant rhizosphere.Six Streptomyces isolates were cultivated using three modified media to induce the production of diverse metabolites, employing the One Strain Many Compounds (OSMAC) approach. The metabolites present in extracts from fermentation broths were examined through a non-targeted Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) approach coupled with Global Natural Products Social Molecular Networking (GNPS MN). The antimicrobial activity of the extracts was assessed using the disc diffusion method.The strains demonstrated a wide-ranging antimicrobial efficacy against all examined organisms. The GNPS molecular network analyses reveal that metabolite profiles in extracts can exhibit variations based on the medium and solvent system employed. Notably, the ethyl acetate and dichloromethane extracts from Streptomyces sp. CAH29, cultivated in Glucose-Yeast Extract Medium (GYM), exhibited inhibition diameters of up to 30 mm against both Staphylococcus aureus and Candida albicans. Within the metabolomes of these strains, the antibiotics spiramycin and actinomycin were detected. Additionally, lyngbatoxin, a tumor promoter, and potential new analogs were identified. Significantly, a considerable portion of the produced metabolites did not align with any known compounds, indicating the existence of unidentified metabolites generated by these strains. This suggests the possibility of introducing novel chemical entities.Our study illustrated that Streptomyces strains associated with plant roots could be considered a valuable source of bioactive secondary metabolites. Furthermore, the metabolomics approach utilized in this study serves as a rapid and valuable tool for the screening of microorganisms capable of producing bioactive metabolites.
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- Ekrem Kum
- The Institute of Natural and Applied Science, Dicle University, Diyarbakır, Turkey
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Dicle University, Diyarbakır, Turkey.
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Baunach M, Guljamow A, Miguel-Gordo M, Dittmann E. Harnessing the potential: advances in cyanobacterial natural product research and biotechnology. Nat Prod Rep 2024; 41:347-369. [PMID: 38088806 DOI: 10.1039/d3np00045a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/21/2024]
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Covering: 2000 to 2023Cyanobacteria produce a variety of bioactive natural products that can pose a threat to humans and animals as environmental toxins, but also have potential for or inspire pharmaceutical use. As oxygenic phototrophs, cyanobacteria furthermore hold great promise for sustainable biotechnology. Yet, the necessary tools for exploiting their biotechnological potential have so far been established only for a few model strains of cyanobacteria, while large untapped biosynthetic resources are hidden in slow-growing cyanobacterial genera that are difficult to access by genetic techniques. In recent years, several approaches have been developed to circumvent the bottlenecks in cyanobacterial natural product research. Here, we summarize current progress that has been made in unlocking or characterizing cryptic metabolic pathways using integrated omics techniques, orphan gene cluster activation, use of genetic approaches in original producers, heterologous expression and chemo-enzymatic techniques. We are mainly highlighting genomic mining concepts and strategies towards high-titer production of cyanobacterial natural products from the last 10 years and discuss the need for further research developments in this field.
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- Martin Baunach
- University of Potsdam, Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24/25, 14476 Potsdam, Germany.
- University of Bonn, Institute of Pharmaceutical Biology, Nußallee 6, 53115 Bonn, Germany
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- University of Potsdam, Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24/25, 14476 Potsdam, Germany.
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- University of Potsdam, Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24/25, 14476 Potsdam, Germany.
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- University of Potsdam, Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24/25, 14476 Potsdam, Germany.
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Geris R, Teles de Jesus VE, Ferreira da Silva A, Malta M. Exploring Culture Media Diversity to Produce Fungal Secondary Metabolites and Cyborg Cells. Chem Biodivers 2024; 21:e202302066. [PMID: 38335028 DOI: 10.1002/cbdv.202302066] [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: 12/20/2023] [Revised: 02/07/2024] [Accepted: 02/08/2024] [Indexed: 02/12/2024]
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Fungi are microorganisms of significant biotechnological importance due to their ability to provide food and produce several value-added secondary metabolites and enzymes. Its products move billions of dollars in the pharmaceutical, cosmetics, and additives sectors. These microorganisms also play a notable role in bionanotechnology, leading to the production of hybrid biological-inorganic materials (such as cyborg cells) and the use of their enzyme complex in the biosynthesis of nanoparticles. In this sense, optimizing the fungal growth process is necessary, with selecting the cultivation medium as one of the essential factors for the microorganism to reach its maximum metabolic expression. The culture medium's composition can also impact the nanomaterial's stability and prevent the incorporation of nanoparticles into fungal cells. Therefore, our main objectives are the following: (1) compile and discuss the most commonly employed culture media for the production of fungal secondary metabolites and the formation of cyborg cells, accompanied by preparation methods; (2) provide a six-step guide to investigating the fungal metabolomic profile and (3) discuss the main procedures of microbial cultivation to produce fungal cyborg cells.
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- Regina Geris
- Laboratório de Biotecnologia e Química de Microrganismos (LBQM), Departamento de Química Orgânica, Instituto de Química, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Rua Barão de Jeremoabo S/n, 40170-115, Salvador, Brasil
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- Laboratório de Biotecnologia e Química de Microrganismos (LBQM), Departamento de Química Orgânica, Instituto de Química, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Rua Barão de Jeremoabo S/n, 40170-115, Salvador, Brasil
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- Laboratório de Biotecnologia e Química de Microrganismos (LBQM), Departamento de Química Orgânica, Instituto de Química, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Rua Barão de Jeremoabo S/n, 40170-115, Salvador, Brasil
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- Laboratório de Biotecnologia e Química de Microrganismos (LBQM), Departamento de Química Orgânica, Instituto de Química, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Rua Barão de Jeremoabo S/n, 40170-115, Salvador, Brasil
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Sabotič J, Bayram E, Ezra D, Gaudêncio SP, Haznedaroğlu BZ, Janež N, Ktari L, Luganini A, Mandalakis M, Safarik I, Simes D, Strode E, Toruńska-Sitarz A, Varamogianni-Mamatsi D, Varese GC, Vasquez MI. A guide to the use of bioassays in exploration of natural resources. Biotechnol Adv 2024; 71:108307. [PMID: 38185432 DOI: 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2024.108307] [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: 07/24/2023] [Revised: 12/05/2023] [Accepted: 01/01/2024] [Indexed: 01/09/2024]
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Bioassays are the main tool to decipher bioactivities from natural resources thus their selection and quality are critical for optimal bioprospecting. They are used both in the early stages of compounds isolation/purification/identification, and in later stages to evaluate their safety and efficacy. In this review, we provide a comprehensive overview of the most common bioassays used in the discovery and development of new bioactive compounds with a focus on marine bioresources. We present a comprehensive list of practical considerations for selecting appropriate bioassays and discuss in detail the bioassays typically used to explore antimicrobial, antibiofilm, cytotoxic, antiviral, antioxidant, and anti-ageing potential. The concept of quality control and bioassay validation are introduced, followed by safety considerations, which are critical to advancing bioactive compounds to a higher stage of development. We conclude by providing an application-oriented view focused on the development of pharmaceuticals, food supplements, and cosmetics, the industrial pipelines where currently known marine natural products hold most potential. We highlight the importance of gaining reliable bioassay results, as these serve as a starting point for application-based development and further testing, as well as for consideration by regulatory authorities.
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- Jerica Sabotič
- Department of Biotechnology, Jožef Stefan Institute, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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- Institute of Environmental Sciences, Bogazici University, Bebek, Istanbul 34342, Turkey
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- Department of Plant Pathology and Weed Research, ARO, The Volcani Institute, P.O.Box 15159, Rishon LeZion 7528809, Israel
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- Associate Laboratory i4HB - Institute for Health and Bioeconomy, NOVA School of Science and Technology, NOVA University Lisbon, 2819-516 Caparica, Portugal; UCIBIO - Applied Biomolecular Sciences Unit, Department of Chemistry, Blue Biotechnology & Biomedicine Lab, NOVA School of Science and Technology, NOVA University of Lisbon, 2819-516 Caparica, Portugal
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- Institute of Environmental Sciences, Bogazici University, Bebek, Istanbul 34342, Turkey
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- Department of Biotechnology, Jožef Stefan Institute, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- B3Aqua Laboratory, National Institute of Marine Sciences and Technologies, Carthage University, Tunis, Tunisia
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- Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Turin, 10123 Turin, Italy
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- Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, 71500 Heraklion, Greece
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- Department of Nanobiotechnology, Biology Centre, ISBB, CAS, Na Sadkach 7, 370 05 Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic; Regional Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials, Czech Advanced Technology and Research Institute, Palacky University, Slechtitelu 27, 783 71 Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- Centre of Marine Sciences (CCMAR), Universidade do Algarve, 8005-139 Faro, Portugal; 2GenoGla Diagnostics, Centre of Marine Sciences (CCMAR), Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal
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- Latvian Institute of Aquatic Ecology, Agency of Daugavpils University, Riga LV-1007, Latvia
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- Department of Marine Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Oceanography and Geography, University of Gdańsk, 81-378 Gdynia, Poland
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- Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, 71500 Heraklion, Greece
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Cyprus University of Technology, 3036 Limassol, Cyprus
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Wang W, Huang J, Liao L, Yang X, Chen C, Liu J, Zhu H, Zhang Y. Chae-type cytochalasans from coculture of Aspergillus flavipes and Chaetomium globosum. PHYTOCHEMISTRY 2024; 219:113961. [PMID: 38182030 DOI: 10.1016/j.phytochem.2023.113961] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2023] [Revised: 12/27/2023] [Accepted: 12/29/2023] [Indexed: 01/07/2024]
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Cocultivation of the high cytochalasan-producing fungi Aspergillus flavipes and Chaetomium globosum resulted in the isolation of 11 undescribed Chae-type cytochalasans. Their structures were determined by spectroscopic data and NMR data calculations. Asperchaetoglobin A (1) was the first Chae-type cytochalasan possessing an unprecedented nitrogen bridge between C-17 and C-20 to generate a surprising 5/6/12/5 multiple ring system; asperchaetoglobins B and C (2 and 3) displayed higher oxidation with an additional epoxide at the thirteen-member ring; asperchaetoglobin D (4) was the second Chae-type cytochalasin featuring a 5/6/12 tricyclic ring system. The cytotoxic activities against five human cancer cell lines and antibacterial activities against Staphylococcus aureus and Colon bacillus of selected compounds were evaluated in vitro.
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- Wenjing Wang
- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, South-Central Minzu University, Wuhan, 430074, People's Republic of China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, South-Central Minzu University, Wuhan, 430074, People's Republic of China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, South-Central Minzu University, Wuhan, 430074, People's Republic of China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, South-Central Minzu University, Wuhan, 430074, People's Republic of China
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- Hubei Key Laboratory of Natural Medicinal Chemistry and Resource Evaluation, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430030, People's Republic of China
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- Hubei Key Laboratory of Natural Medicinal Chemistry and Resource Evaluation, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430030, People's Republic of China
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- Hubei Key Laboratory of Natural Medicinal Chemistry and Resource Evaluation, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430030, People's Republic of China.
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- Hubei Key Laboratory of Natural Medicinal Chemistry and Resource Evaluation, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430030, People's Republic of China.
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Lv H, Li WJ, Xu P, Tang JG, Zheng Y, Wan Y, Lin Y, Wang H, Li XN. Structural diversity of microbial secondary metabolites based on chemical epigenetic manipulation. Bioorg Chem 2024; 143:107093. [PMID: 38185012 DOI: 10.1016/j.bioorg.2023.107093] [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: 10/12/2023] [Revised: 12/09/2023] [Accepted: 12/31/2023] [Indexed: 01/09/2024]
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Fungi are microorganisms with biosynthetic potential that are capable of producing a wide range of chemically diverse and biologically interesting small molecules. Chemical epigenetic manipulation has been increasingly explored as a simple and powerful tool to induce the production of additional microbial secondary metabolites in fungi. This review focuses on chemical epigenetic manipulation in fungi and summarizes 379 epigenetic manipulation products discovered from 2008 to 2022 to promote the discovery of their medicinal value.
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- Huawei Lv
- College of Pharmaceutical Science & Key Laboratory of Marine Fishery Resources Exploitment & Utilization of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310014, China
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- College of Pharmaceutical Science & Key Laboratory of Marine Fishery Resources Exploitment & Utilization of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310014, China
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- College of Pharmaceutical Science & Key Laboratory of Marine Fishery Resources Exploitment & Utilization of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310014, China
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- College of Pharmaceutical Science & Key Laboratory of Marine Fishery Resources Exploitment & Utilization of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310014, China
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- College of Pharmaceutical Science & Key Laboratory of Marine Fishery Resources Exploitment & Utilization of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310014, China
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- College of Pharmaceutical Science & Key Laboratory of Marine Fishery Resources Exploitment & Utilization of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310014, China
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- Department of Pharmacy, Tongde Hospital of Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou 310012, China.
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- College of Pharmaceutical Science & Key Laboratory of Marine Fishery Resources Exploitment & Utilization of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310014, China.
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- College of Pharmaceutical Science & Key Laboratory of Marine Fishery Resources Exploitment & Utilization of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310014, China.
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Vitorino IR, Pinto E, Martín J, Mackenzie TA, Ramos MC, Sánchez P, de la Cruz M, Vicente F, Vasconcelos V, Reyes F, Lage OM. Uncovering the biotechnological capacity of marine and brackish water Planctomycetota. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2024; 117:26. [PMID: 38261060 PMCID: PMC10805854 DOI: 10.1007/s10482-023-01923-z] [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: 09/14/2023] [Accepted: 12/21/2023] [Indexed: 01/24/2024]
Abstract
An appealing strategy for finding novel bioactive molecules in Nature consists in exploring underrepresented and -studied microorganisms. Here, we investigated the antimicrobial and tumoral anti-proliferative bioactivities of twenty-three marine and estuarine bacteria of the fascinating phylum Planctomycetota. This was achieved through extraction of compounds produced by the Planctomycetota cultured in oligotrophic medium followed by an antimicrobial screening against ten relevant human pathogens including Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, and fungi. Cytotoxic effects of the extracts were also evaluated against five tumoral cell lines. Moderate to potent activities were obtained against Enterococcus faecalis, methicillin-sensitive and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and vancomycin-sensitive and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium. Anti-fungal effects were observed against Trichophyton rubrum, Candida albicans and Aspergillus fumigatus. The highest cytotoxic effects were observed against human breast, pancreas and melanoma tumoral cell lines. Novipirellula caenicola and Rhodopirellula spp. strains displayed the widest spectrum of bioactivities while Rubinisphaera margarita ICM_H10T affected all Gram-positive bacteria tested. LC-HRMS analysis of the extracts did not reveal the presence of any known bioactive natural product, suggesting that the observed activities are most likely caused by novel molecules, that need identification. In summary, we expanded the scope of planctomycetal species investigated for bioactivities and demonstrated that various strains are promising sources of novel bioactive compounds, which reenforces the potential biotechnological prospects offered by Planctomycetota.
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- Inês R Vitorino
- Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Rua Do Campo Alegre S/N, 4169-007, Porto, Portugal.
- CIIMAR/CIMAR, Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research, Terminal de Cruzeiros Do Porto de Leixões, 4450-208, Matosinhos, Portugal.
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- CIIMAR/CIMAR, Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research, Terminal de Cruzeiros Do Porto de Leixões, 4450-208, Matosinhos, Portugal
- Laboratory of Microbiology, Biological Sciences Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Porto, 4050-313, Porto, Portugal
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- Fundación MEDINA, PTS Health Sciences Technology Park, Avenida del Conocimiento 34, 18016, Granada, Spain
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- Fundación MEDINA, PTS Health Sciences Technology Park, Avenida del Conocimiento 34, 18016, Granada, Spain
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- Fundación MEDINA, PTS Health Sciences Technology Park, Avenida del Conocimiento 34, 18016, Granada, Spain
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- Fundación MEDINA, PTS Health Sciences Technology Park, Avenida del Conocimiento 34, 18016, Granada, Spain
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- Fundación MEDINA, PTS Health Sciences Technology Park, Avenida del Conocimiento 34, 18016, Granada, Spain
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- Fundación MEDINA, PTS Health Sciences Technology Park, Avenida del Conocimiento 34, 18016, Granada, Spain
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Rua Do Campo Alegre S/N, 4169-007, Porto, Portugal
- CIIMAR/CIMAR, Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research, Terminal de Cruzeiros Do Porto de Leixões, 4450-208, Matosinhos, Portugal
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- Fundación MEDINA, PTS Health Sciences Technology Park, Avenida del Conocimiento 34, 18016, Granada, Spain
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Rua Do Campo Alegre S/N, 4169-007, Porto, Portugal
- CIIMAR/CIMAR, Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research, Terminal de Cruzeiros Do Porto de Leixões, 4450-208, Matosinhos, Portugal
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Sritharan T, Salim AA, Khalil ZG, Capon RJ. Jugiones A-D: Antibacterial Xanthone-Anthraquinone Heterodimers from Australian Soil-Derived Penicillium shearii CMB-STF067. Antibiotics (Basel) 2024; 13:97. [PMID: 38247656 PMCID: PMC10812710 DOI: 10.3390/antibiotics13010097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2023] [Revised: 01/17/2024] [Accepted: 01/17/2024] [Indexed: 01/23/2024] Open
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The Australian roadside soil-derived fungus Penicillium shearii CMB-STF067 was prioritized for chemical investigation based on an SDA cultivation extract exhibiting both antibacterial properties and natural products with unprecedented molecular formulae (GNPS). Subsequent miniaturized 24-well plate cultivation profiling (MATRIX) identified red rice as optimal for the production of the target chemistry, with scaled-up cultivation, extraction and fractionation yielding four new xanthone-anthraquinone heterodimers, jugiones A-D (1-4), whose structures were assigned by detailed spectroscopic analysis and biosynthetic considerations. Of note, where 1-2 and 4 were active against the Gram-positive bacteria vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecalis (IC50 2.6-3.9 μM) and multiple-drug-resistant clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus (IC50 1.8-6.4 μM), and inactive against the Gram-negative bacteria Escherichia coli (IC50 > 30 μM), the closely related analog 3 exhibited no antibacterial properties (IC50 > 30 μM). Furthermore, where 1 was cytotoxic to human carcinoma (IC50 9.0-9.8 μM) and fungal (IC50 4.1 μM) cells, 2 and 4 displayed no such cytotoxicity (IC50 > 30 μM), revealing an informative structure activity relationship (SAR). We also extended the SAR study to other known compounds of this heterodimer class, which showed that the modification of ring G can reduce or eliminate the cytotoxicity while retaining the antibacterial activity.
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- Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia; (T.S.); (A.A.S.); (Z.G.K.)
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Karimian S, Farahmandzad N, Mohammadipanah F. Manipulation and epigenetic control of silent biosynthetic pathways in actinobacteria. World J Microbiol Biotechnol 2024; 40:65. [PMID: 38191749 DOI: 10.1007/s11274-023-03861-4] [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: 06/22/2023] [Accepted: 11/29/2023] [Indexed: 01/10/2024]
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Most biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) of Actinobacteria are either silent or expressed less than the detectable level. The non-genetic approaches including biological interactions, chemical agents, and physical stresses that can be used to awaken silenced pathways are compared in this paper. These non-genetic induction strategies often need screening approaches, including one strain many compounds (OSMAC), reporter-guided mutant selection, and high throughput elicitor screening (HiTES) have been developed. Different types of genetic manipulations applied in the induction of cryptic BGCs of Actinobacteria can be categorized as genome-wide pleiotropic and targeted approaches like manipulation of global regulatory systems, modulation of regulatory genes, ribosome and engineering of RNA polymerase or phosphopantheteine transferases. Targeted approaches including genome editing by CRISPR, mutation in transcription factors and modification of BGCs promoters, inactivation of the highly expressed biosynthetic pathways, deleting the suppressors or awakening the activators, heterologous expression, or refactoring of gene clusters can be applied for activation of pathways which are predicted to synthesize new bioactive structures in genome mining studies of Acinobacteria. In this review, the challenges and advantages of employing these approaches in induction of Actinobacteria BGCs are discussed. Further, novel natural products needed as drug for pharmaceutical industry or as biofertilizers in agricultural industry can be discovered even from known species of Actinobactera by the innovative approaches of metabolite biosynthesis elicitation.
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- Sanaz Karimian
- Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Biological Science, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Biosystems Engineering, Auburn university, Auburn, AL 36849, USA
- Pharmaceutical Biotechnology Lab, School of Biology and Center of Excellence in Phylogeny of Living Organisms, College of Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, 14155-6455, Iran
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- Pharmaceutical Biotechnology Lab, School of Biology and Center of Excellence in Phylogeny of Living Organisms, College of Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, 14155-6455, Iran.
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Tay DWP, Tan LL, Heng E, Zulkarnain N, Ching KC, Wibowo M, Chin EJ, Tan ZYQ, Leong CY, Ng VWP, Yang LK, Seow DCS, Lim YW, Koh W, Koduru L, Kanagasundaram Y, Ng SB, Lim YH, Wong FT. Exploring a general multi-pronged activation strategy for natural product discovery in Actinomycetes. Commun Biol 2024; 7:50. [PMID: 38184720 PMCID: PMC10771470 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-023-05648-7] [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: 08/16/2023] [Accepted: 11/29/2023] [Indexed: 01/08/2024] Open
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Natural products possess significant therapeutic potential but remain underutilized despite advances in genomics and bioinformatics. While there are approaches to activate and upregulate natural product biosynthesis in both native and heterologous microbial strains, a comprehensive strategy to elicit production of natural products as well as a generalizable and efficient method to interrogate diverse native strains collection, remains lacking. Here, we explore a flexible and robust integrase-mediated multi-pronged activation approach to reliably perturb and globally trigger antibiotics production in actinobacteria. Across 54 actinobacterial strains, our approach yielded 124 distinct activator-strain combinations which consistently outperform wild type. Our approach expands accessible metabolite space by nearly two-fold and increases selected metabolite yields by up to >200-fold, enabling discovery of Gram-negative bioactivity in tetramic acid analogs. We envision these findings as a gateway towards a more streamlined, accelerated, and scalable strategy to unlock the full potential of Nature's chemical repertoire.
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- NRF-CRP19-2017-05-00 National Research Foundation Singapore (National Research Foundation-Prime Minister's office, Republic of Singapore)
- NRF-CRP19-2017-05-00 National Research Foundation Singapore (National Research Foundation-Prime Minister's office, Republic of Singapore)
- NRF-CRP19-2017-05-00 National Research Foundation Singapore (National Research Foundation-Prime Minister's office, Republic of Singapore)
- NRF-CRP19-2017-05-00 National Research Foundation Singapore (National Research Foundation-Prime Minister's office, Republic of Singapore)
- NRF-CRP19-2017-05-00 National Research Foundation Singapore (National Research Foundation-Prime Minister's office, Republic of Singapore)
- NRF-CRP19-2017-05-00 National Research Foundation Singapore (National Research Foundation-Prime Minister's office, Republic of Singapore)
- NRF-CRP19-2017-05-00 National Research Foundation Singapore (National Research Foundation-Prime Minister's office, Republic of Singapore)
- NRF-CRP19-2017-05-00 National Research Foundation Singapore (National Research Foundation-Prime Minister's office, Republic of Singapore)
- C211917006 Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
- C233017006 Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
- C211917003 Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
- C211917006 Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
- C233017006 Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
- C211917006 Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
- National Research Foundation Singapore (National Research Foundation-Prime Minister’s office, Republic of Singapore)
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- Dillon W P Tay
- Institute of Sustainability for Chemicals, Energy and Environment (ISCE2), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 8 Biomedical Grove, #07-01 Neuros Building, Singapore, 138665, Republic of Singapore
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- Molecular Engineering Lab, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 61 Biopolis Drive, #07-06, Proteos, Singapore, 138673, Republic of Singapore
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- Molecular Engineering Lab, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 61 Biopolis Drive, #07-06, Proteos, Singapore, 138673, Republic of Singapore
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- Molecular Engineering Lab, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 61 Biopolis Drive, #07-06, Proteos, Singapore, 138673, Republic of Singapore
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- Singapore Institute of Food and Biotechnology Innovation (SIFBI), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 31 Biopolis Way, #01-02, Nanos, Singapore, 138669, Republic of Singapore
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- Singapore Institute of Food and Biotechnology Innovation (SIFBI), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 31 Biopolis Way, #01-02, Nanos, Singapore, 138669, Republic of Singapore
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- Singapore Institute of Food and Biotechnology Innovation (SIFBI), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 31 Biopolis Way, #01-02, Nanos, Singapore, 138669, Republic of Singapore
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- Singapore Institute of Food and Biotechnology Innovation (SIFBI), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 31 Biopolis Way, #01-02, Nanos, Singapore, 138669, Republic of Singapore
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- Singapore Institute of Food and Biotechnology Innovation (SIFBI), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 31 Biopolis Way, #01-02, Nanos, Singapore, 138669, Republic of Singapore
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- Singapore Institute of Food and Biotechnology Innovation (SIFBI), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 31 Biopolis Way, #01-02, Nanos, Singapore, 138669, Republic of Singapore
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- Singapore Institute of Food and Biotechnology Innovation (SIFBI), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 31 Biopolis Way, #01-02, Nanos, Singapore, 138669, Republic of Singapore
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- Singapore Institute of Food and Biotechnology Innovation (SIFBI), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 31 Biopolis Way, #01-02, Nanos, Singapore, 138669, Republic of Singapore
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- Institute of Sustainability for Chemicals, Energy and Environment (ISCE2), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 8 Biomedical Grove, #07-01 Neuros Building, Singapore, 138665, Republic of Singapore
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- Bioinformatics Institute (BII), Agency of Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 30 Biopolis Street, #07-01, Matrix, Singapore, 138671, Republic of Singapore
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- Molecular Engineering Lab, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 61 Biopolis Drive, #07-06, Proteos, Singapore, 138673, Republic of Singapore
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- Singapore Institute of Food and Biotechnology Innovation (SIFBI), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 31 Biopolis Way, #01-02, Nanos, Singapore, 138669, Republic of Singapore
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- Singapore Institute of Food and Biotechnology Innovation (SIFBI), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 31 Biopolis Way, #01-02, Nanos, Singapore, 138669, Republic of Singapore
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- Institute of Sustainability for Chemicals, Energy and Environment (ISCE2), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 8 Biomedical Grove, #07-01 Neuros Building, Singapore, 138665, Republic of Singapore.
- Synthetic Biology Translational Research Program, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, 10 Medical Drive, Singapore, 117597, Republic of Singapore.
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- Institute of Sustainability for Chemicals, Energy and Environment (ISCE2), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 8 Biomedical Grove, #07-01 Neuros Building, Singapore, 138665, Republic of Singapore.
- Molecular Engineering Lab, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 61 Biopolis Drive, #07-06, Proteos, Singapore, 138673, Republic of Singapore.
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Li Y, Gong N, Zhou L, Yang Z, Zhang H, Gu Y, Ma J, Ju J. OSMAC-Based Discovery and Biosynthetic Gene Clusters Analysis of Secondary Metabolites from Marine-Derived Streptomyces globisporus SCSIO LCY30. Mar Drugs 2023; 22:21. [PMID: 38248647 PMCID: PMC10817512 DOI: 10.3390/md22010021] [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: 12/15/2023] [Revised: 12/25/2023] [Accepted: 12/26/2023] [Indexed: 01/23/2024] Open
Abstract
The one strain many compounds (OSMAC) strategy is an effective method for activating silent gene clusters by cultivating microorganisms under various conditions. The whole genome sequence of the marine-derived strain Streptomyces globisporus SCSIO LCY30 revealed that it contains 30 biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs). By using the OSMAC strategy, three types of secondary metabolites were activated and identified, including three angucyclines, mayamycin A (1), mayamycin B (2), and rabolemycin (3); two streptophenazines (streptophenazin O (4) and M (5)); and a macrolide dimeric dinactin (6), respectively. The biosynthetic pathways of the secondary metabolites in these three families were proposed based on the gene function prediction and structural information. The bioactivity assays showed that angucycline compounds 1-3 exhibited potent antitumor activities against 11 human cancer cell lines and antibacterial activities against a series of Gram-positive bacteria. Mayamycin (1) selectively exhibited potent cytotoxicity activity against triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) cell lines such as MDA-MB-231, MDA-MB-468, and Bt-549, with IC50 values of 0.60-2.22 μM.
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- Yanqing Li
- CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-Resources and Ecology, RNAM Center for Marine Microbiology, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Marine Materia Medica, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 110039, China
- Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), Guangzhou 511458, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Diagnostics, Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Guangdong Medical University, Dongguan 523808, China (H.Z.)
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-Resources and Ecology, RNAM Center for Marine Microbiology, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Marine Materia Medica, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China
- Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), Guangzhou 511458, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-Resources and Ecology, RNAM Center for Marine Microbiology, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Marine Materia Medica, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 110039, China
- Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), Guangzhou 511458, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Diagnostics, Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Guangdong Medical University, Dongguan 523808, China (H.Z.)
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- Syngenta Jealott’s Hill International Research Centre, Bracknell RG42 6EY, Berkshire, UK
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-Resources and Ecology, RNAM Center for Marine Microbiology, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Marine Materia Medica, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 110039, China
- Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), Guangzhou 511458, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-Resources and Ecology, RNAM Center for Marine Microbiology, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Marine Materia Medica, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 110039, China
- Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), Guangzhou 511458, China
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Le Loarer A, Dufossé L, Bignon J, Frédérich M, Ledoux A, Fouillaud M, Gauvin-Bialecki A. OSMAC Method to Assess Impact of Culture Parameters on Metabolomic Diversity and Biological Activity of Marine-Derived Actinobacteria. Mar Drugs 2023; 22:23. [PMID: 38248648 PMCID: PMC10817652 DOI: 10.3390/md22010023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2023] [Revised: 12/19/2023] [Accepted: 12/22/2023] [Indexed: 01/23/2024] Open
Abstract
Actinobacteria are known for their production of bioactive specialized metabolites, but they are still under-exploited. This study uses the "One Strain Many Compounds" (OSMAC) method to explore the potential of three preselected marine-derived actinobacteria: Salinispora arenicola (SH-78) and two Micromonospora sp. strains (SH-82 and SH-57). Various parameters, including the duration of the culture and the nature of the growth medium, were modified to assess their impact on the production of specialized metabolites. This approach involved a characterization based on chemical analysis completed with the construction of molecular networks and biological testing to evaluate cytotoxic and antiplasmodial activities. The results indicated that the influence of culture parameters depended on the studied species and also varied in relation with the microbial metabolites targeted. However, common favorable parameters could be observed for all strains such as an increase in the duration of the culture or the use of the A1 medium. For Micromonospora sp. SH-82, the solid A1 medium culture over 21 days favored a greater chemical diversity. A rise in the antiplasmodial activity was observed with this culture duration, with a IC50 twice as low as for the 14-day culture. Micromonospora sp. SH-57 produced more diverse natural products in liquid culture, with approximately 54% of nodes from the molecular network specifically linked to the type of culture support. Enhanced biological activities were also observed with specific sets of parameters. Finally, for Salinispora arenicola SH-78, liquid culture allowed a greater diversity of metabolites, but intensity variations were specifically observed for some metabolites under other conditions. Notably, compounds related to staurosporine were more abundant in solid culture. Consequently, in the range of the chosen parameters, optimal conditions to enhance metabolic diversity and biological activities in these three marine-derived actinobacteria were identified, paving the way for future isolation works.
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- Alexandre Le Loarer
- Laboratory of Chemistry and Biotechnology of Natural Products, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of La Réunion, 15 Avenue René Cassin, CS 92003, CEDEX 09, 97744 Saint-Denis, France; (A.L.L.); (L.D.); (M.F.)
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- Laboratory of Chemistry and Biotechnology of Natural Products, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of La Réunion, 15 Avenue René Cassin, CS 92003, CEDEX 09, 97744 Saint-Denis, France; (A.L.L.); (L.D.); (M.F.)
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- Institute of Chemistry of Natural Substances (ICSN), CNRS UPR 2301, Université Paris-Saclay, 1, av. de la Terrasse, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette, France;
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- Pharmacognosy Laboratory, Department of Pharmacy, Centre Interfacultaire de Recherche sur le Médicament (CIRM), University of Liège, Campus du Sart-Tilman, Quartier Hôpital, Avenue Hippocrate, 15, B36, 4000 Liege, Belgium; (M.F.); (A.L.)
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- Pharmacognosy Laboratory, Department of Pharmacy, Centre Interfacultaire de Recherche sur le Médicament (CIRM), University of Liège, Campus du Sart-Tilman, Quartier Hôpital, Avenue Hippocrate, 15, B36, 4000 Liege, Belgium; (M.F.); (A.L.)
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- Laboratory of Chemistry and Biotechnology of Natural Products, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of La Réunion, 15 Avenue René Cassin, CS 92003, CEDEX 09, 97744 Saint-Denis, France; (A.L.L.); (L.D.); (M.F.)
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- Laboratory of Chemistry and Biotechnology of Natural Products, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of La Réunion, 15 Avenue René Cassin, CS 92003, CEDEX 09, 97744 Saint-Denis, France; (A.L.L.); (L.D.); (M.F.)
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Wu CC, Stierle AA, Stierle DB, Chen H, Swyers M, Decker T, Borkowski E, Korajczyk P, Ye R, Mondava N. Activation of cryptic biosynthetic gene clusters by fungal artificial chromosomes to produce novel secondary metabolites. AIMS Microbiol 2023; 9:757-779. [PMID: 38173972 PMCID: PMC10758572 DOI: 10.3934/microbiol.2023039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2023] [Revised: 12/07/2023] [Accepted: 12/08/2023] [Indexed: 01/05/2024] Open
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In 2017, we reported the discovery of Berkeleylactone A (BPLA), a novel, potent antibiotic produced exclusively in co-culture by two extremophilic fungi, Penicillium fuscum and P. camembertii/clavigerum, which were isolated from the Berkeley Pit, an acid mine waste lake, in Butte, Montana. Neither fungus synthesized BPLA when grown in axenic culture. Recent studies suggest that secondary metabolites (SMs) are often synthesized by enzymes encoded by co-localized genes that form "biosynthetic gene clusters" (BGCs), which might remain silent (inactive) under various fermentation conditions. Fungi may also harbor cryptic BGCs that are not associated with previously characterized molecules. We turned to the tools of Fungal Artificial Chromosomes (FAC)-Next-Gen-Sequencing (NGS) to understand how co-culture activated cryptic biosynthesis of BPLA and several related berkeleylactones and to further investigate the true biosynthetic potential of these two fungi. FAC-NGS enables the capture of BGCs as individual FACs for heterologous expression in a modified strain of Aspergillus nidulans (heterologous host, FAC-AnHH). With this methodology, we created ten BGC-FACs that yielded fourteen different SMs, including strobilurin, which was previously isolated exclusively from basidiomycetes. Eleven of these compounds were not detected in the extracts of the FAC-AnHH. Of this discrete set, only the novel compound citreohybriddional had been isolated from either Penicillium sp. before and only at very low yield. We propose that through heterologous expression, FACs activated these silent BGCs, resulting in the synthesis of new natural products (NPs) with yields as high as 50%-60% of the crude organic extracts.
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- Chengcang C. Wu
- Intact Genomics, Inc. 1100 Corporate Square Drive, Suite 257, St Louis, Missouri, 63132, USA
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- Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana 59812, USA
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- Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana 59812, USA
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- Intact Genomics, Inc. 1100 Corporate Square Drive, Suite 257, St Louis, Missouri, 63132, USA
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- Intact Genomics, Inc. 1100 Corporate Square Drive, Suite 257, St Louis, Missouri, 63132, USA
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- Intact Genomics, Inc. 1100 Corporate Square Drive, Suite 257, St Louis, Missouri, 63132, USA
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- Intact Genomics, Inc. 1100 Corporate Square Drive, Suite 257, St Louis, Missouri, 63132, USA
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- Intact Genomics, Inc. 1100 Corporate Square Drive, Suite 257, St Louis, Missouri, 63132, USA
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- Intact Genomics, Inc. 1100 Corporate Square Drive, Suite 257, St Louis, Missouri, 63132, USA
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- Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana 59812, USA
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Wu YT, Zhao XN, Zhang PX, Wang CF, Li J, Wei XY, Shi JQ, Dai W, Zhang Q, Liu JQ. Rapid Discovery of Substances with Anticancer Potential from Marine Fungi Based on a One Strain-Many Compounds Strategy and UPLC-QTOF-MS. Mar Drugs 2023; 21:646. [PMID: 38132967 PMCID: PMC10745104 DOI: 10.3390/md21120646] [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: 10/24/2023] [Revised: 12/12/2023] [Accepted: 12/13/2023] [Indexed: 12/23/2023] Open
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The secondary metabolites of marine fungi with rich chemical diversity and biological activity are an important and exciting target for natural product research. This study aimed to investigate the fungal community in Quanzhou Bay, Fujian, and identified 28 strains of marine fungi. A total of 28 strains of marine fungi were screened for small-scale fermentation by the OSMAC (One Strain-Many Compounds) strategy, and 77 EtOAc crude extracts were obtained and assayed for cancer cell inhibition rate. A total of six strains of marine fungi (P-WZ-2, P-WZ-3-2, P-WZ-4, P-WZ-5, P56, and P341) with significant changes in cancer cell inhibition induced by the OSMAC strategy were analysed by UPLC-QTOF-MS. The ACD/MS Structure ID Suite software was used to predict the possible structures with inhibitory effects on cancer cells. A total of 23 compounds were identified, of which 10 compounds have been reported to have potential anticancer activity or cytotoxicity. In this study, the OSMAC strategy was combined with an untargeted metabolomics approach based on UPLC-QTOF-MS to efficiently analyse the effect of changes in culture conditions on anticancer potentials and to rapidly find active substances that inhibit cancer cell growth.
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- Yu-Ting Wu
- Engineering Research Centre of Molecular Medicine of Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Fujian Molecular Medicine, Key Laboratory of Precision Medicine and Molecular Diagnosis of Fujian Universities, Key Laboratory of Xiamen Marine and Gene Drugs, School of Medicine, Huaqiao University, Quanzhou 361020, China; (Y.-T.W.); (X.-N.Z.); (P.-X.Z.); (J.L.); (X.-Y.W.); (J.-Q.S.); (W.D.); (Q.Z.)
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- Engineering Research Centre of Molecular Medicine of Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Fujian Molecular Medicine, Key Laboratory of Precision Medicine and Molecular Diagnosis of Fujian Universities, Key Laboratory of Xiamen Marine and Gene Drugs, School of Medicine, Huaqiao University, Quanzhou 361020, China; (Y.-T.W.); (X.-N.Z.); (P.-X.Z.); (J.L.); (X.-Y.W.); (J.-Q.S.); (W.D.); (Q.Z.)
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- Engineering Research Centre of Molecular Medicine of Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Fujian Molecular Medicine, Key Laboratory of Precision Medicine and Molecular Diagnosis of Fujian Universities, Key Laboratory of Xiamen Marine and Gene Drugs, School of Medicine, Huaqiao University, Quanzhou 361020, China; (Y.-T.W.); (X.-N.Z.); (P.-X.Z.); (J.L.); (X.-Y.W.); (J.-Q.S.); (W.D.); (Q.Z.)
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- College of Oceanology and Food Science, Quanzhou Normal University, Quanzhou 362000, China;
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- Engineering Research Centre of Molecular Medicine of Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Fujian Molecular Medicine, Key Laboratory of Precision Medicine and Molecular Diagnosis of Fujian Universities, Key Laboratory of Xiamen Marine and Gene Drugs, School of Medicine, Huaqiao University, Quanzhou 361020, China; (Y.-T.W.); (X.-N.Z.); (P.-X.Z.); (J.L.); (X.-Y.W.); (J.-Q.S.); (W.D.); (Q.Z.)
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- Engineering Research Centre of Molecular Medicine of Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Fujian Molecular Medicine, Key Laboratory of Precision Medicine and Molecular Diagnosis of Fujian Universities, Key Laboratory of Xiamen Marine and Gene Drugs, School of Medicine, Huaqiao University, Quanzhou 361020, China; (Y.-T.W.); (X.-N.Z.); (P.-X.Z.); (J.L.); (X.-Y.W.); (J.-Q.S.); (W.D.); (Q.Z.)
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- Engineering Research Centre of Molecular Medicine of Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Fujian Molecular Medicine, Key Laboratory of Precision Medicine and Molecular Diagnosis of Fujian Universities, Key Laboratory of Xiamen Marine and Gene Drugs, School of Medicine, Huaqiao University, Quanzhou 361020, China; (Y.-T.W.); (X.-N.Z.); (P.-X.Z.); (J.L.); (X.-Y.W.); (J.-Q.S.); (W.D.); (Q.Z.)
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- Engineering Research Centre of Molecular Medicine of Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Fujian Molecular Medicine, Key Laboratory of Precision Medicine and Molecular Diagnosis of Fujian Universities, Key Laboratory of Xiamen Marine and Gene Drugs, School of Medicine, Huaqiao University, Quanzhou 361020, China; (Y.-T.W.); (X.-N.Z.); (P.-X.Z.); (J.L.); (X.-Y.W.); (J.-Q.S.); (W.D.); (Q.Z.)
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- Engineering Research Centre of Molecular Medicine of Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Fujian Molecular Medicine, Key Laboratory of Precision Medicine and Molecular Diagnosis of Fujian Universities, Key Laboratory of Xiamen Marine and Gene Drugs, School of Medicine, Huaqiao University, Quanzhou 361020, China; (Y.-T.W.); (X.-N.Z.); (P.-X.Z.); (J.L.); (X.-Y.W.); (J.-Q.S.); (W.D.); (Q.Z.)
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- Engineering Research Centre of Molecular Medicine of Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Fujian Molecular Medicine, Key Laboratory of Precision Medicine and Molecular Diagnosis of Fujian Universities, Key Laboratory of Xiamen Marine and Gene Drugs, School of Medicine, Huaqiao University, Quanzhou 361020, China; (Y.-T.W.); (X.-N.Z.); (P.-X.Z.); (J.L.); (X.-Y.W.); (J.-Q.S.); (W.D.); (Q.Z.)
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Virués-Segovia JR, Millán C, Pinedo C, González-Rodríguez VE, Papaspyrou S, Zorrilla D, Mackenzie TA, Ramos MC, de la Cruz M, Aleu J, Durán-Patrón R. New Eremophilane-Type Sesquiterpenes from the Marine Sediment-Derived Fungus Emericellopsis maritima BC17 and Their Cytotoxic and Antimicrobial Activities. Mar Drugs 2023; 21:634. [PMID: 38132955 PMCID: PMC10745059 DOI: 10.3390/md21120634] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2023] [Revised: 11/30/2023] [Accepted: 12/06/2023] [Indexed: 12/23/2023] Open
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The fungal strain BC17 was isolated from sediments collected in the intertidal zone of the inner Bay of Cadiz and characterized as Emericellopsis maritima. On the basis of the one strain-many compounds (OSMAC) approach, four new eremophilane-type sesquiterpenes (1-4), together with thirteen known derivatives (5-17) and two reported diketopiperazines (18, 19), were isolated from this strain. The chemical structures and absolute configurations of the new compounds were determined through extensive NMR and HRESIMS spectroscopic studies and ECD calculation. Thirteen of the isolated eremophilanes were examined for cytotoxic and antimicrobial activities. PR toxin (16) exhibited cytotoxic activity against HepG2, MCF-7, A549, A2058, and Mia PaCa-2 human cancer cell lines with IC50 values ranging from 3.75 to 33.44 µM. (+)-Aristolochene (10) exhibited selective activity against the fungal strains Aspergillus fumigatus ATCC46645 and Candida albicans ATCC64124 at 471 µM.
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- Jorge R. Virués-Segovia
- Departamento de Química Orgánica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Cádiz, Puerto Real, 11510 Cádiz, Spain; (J.R.V.-S.); (C.M.); (C.P.)
- Instituto de Investigación en Biomoléculas (INBIO), Universidad de Cádiz, Puerto Real, 11510 Cádiz, Spain
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- Departamento de Química Orgánica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Cádiz, Puerto Real, 11510 Cádiz, Spain; (J.R.V.-S.); (C.M.); (C.P.)
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- Departamento de Química Orgánica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Cádiz, Puerto Real, 11510 Cádiz, Spain; (J.R.V.-S.); (C.M.); (C.P.)
- Instituto de Investigación en Biomoléculas (INBIO), Universidad de Cádiz, Puerto Real, 11510 Cádiz, Spain
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- Laboratorio de Microbiología, Departamento de Biomedicina, Biotecnología y Salud Pública, Facultad de Ciencias del Mar y Ambientales, Universidad de Cádiz, Puerto Real, 11510 Cádiz, Spain;
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- Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias del Mar y Ambientales, Universidad de Cádiz, Puerto Real, 11510 Cádiz, Spain;
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- Departamento de Química Física, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Cádiz, Campus Universitario Puerto Real s/n, Puerto Real, 11510 Cádiz, Spain;
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- Centro de Excelencia en Investigación de Medicamentos Innovadores en Andalucía, Fundación MEDINA, 18016 Granada, Spain; (T.A.M.); (M.C.R.); (M.d.l.C.)
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- Centro de Excelencia en Investigación de Medicamentos Innovadores en Andalucía, Fundación MEDINA, 18016 Granada, Spain; (T.A.M.); (M.C.R.); (M.d.l.C.)
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- Centro de Excelencia en Investigación de Medicamentos Innovadores en Andalucía, Fundación MEDINA, 18016 Granada, Spain; (T.A.M.); (M.C.R.); (M.d.l.C.)
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- Departamento de Química Orgánica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Cádiz, Puerto Real, 11510 Cádiz, Spain; (J.R.V.-S.); (C.M.); (C.P.)
- Instituto de Investigación en Biomoléculas (INBIO), Universidad de Cádiz, Puerto Real, 11510 Cádiz, Spain
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- Departamento de Química Orgánica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Cádiz, Puerto Real, 11510 Cádiz, Spain; (J.R.V.-S.); (C.M.); (C.P.)
- Instituto de Investigación en Biomoléculas (INBIO), Universidad de Cádiz, Puerto Real, 11510 Cádiz, Spain
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Rathinam AJ, Santhaseelan H, Dahms HU, Dinakaran VT, Murugaiah SG. Bioprospecting of unexplored halophilic actinobacteria against human infectious pathogens. 3 Biotech 2023; 13:398. [PMID: 37974926 PMCID: PMC10645811 DOI: 10.1007/s13205-023-03812-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2023] [Accepted: 10/08/2023] [Indexed: 11/19/2023] Open
Abstract
Human pathogenic diseases received much attention recently due to their uncontrolled spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) which causes several threads every year. Effective alternate antimicrobials are urgently required to combat those disease causing infectious microbes. Halophilic actinobacteria revealed huge potentials and unexplored cultivable/non-cultivable actinobacterial species producing enormous antimicrobials have been proved in several genomics approaches. Potential gene clusters, PKS and NRPKS from Nocardia, Salinospora, Rhodococcus, and Streptomyces have wide range coding genes of secondary metabolites. Biosynthetic pathways identification via various approaches like genome mining, In silico, OSMAC (one strain many compound) analysis provides better identification of knowing the active metabolites using several databases like AMP, APD and CRAMPR, etc. Genome constellations of actinobacteria particularly the prediction of BGCs (Biosynthetic Gene Clusters) to mine the bioactive molecules such as pigments, biosurfactants and few enzymes have been reported for antimicrobial activity. Saltpan, saltlake, lagoon and haloalkali environment exploring potential actinobacterial strains Micromonospora, Kocuria, Pseudonocardia, and Nocardiopsis revealed several acids and ester derivatives with antimicrobial potential. Marine sediments and marine macro organisms have been found as significant population holders of potential actinobacterial strains. Deadly infectious diseases (IDs) including tuberculosis, ventilator-associated pneumonia and Candidiasis, have been targeted by halo-actinobacterial metabolites with promising results. Methicillin resistant Staphylococus aureus and virus like Encephalitic alphaviruses were potentially targeted by halophilic actinobacterial metabolites by the compound Homoseongomycin from sponge associated antinobacterium. In this review, we discuss the potential antimicrobial properties of various biomolecules extracted from the unexplored halophilic actinobacterial strains specifically against human infectious pathogens along with prospective genomic constellations.
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- Arthur James Rathinam
- Department of Marine Science, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, 620 024 India
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- Department of Marine Science, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, 620 024 India
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- Department of Biomedical Science and Environmental Biology, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, 80708 Taiwan
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Zhong M, Kang H, Liu W, Ma L, Liu D. Alkaloid diversity expansion of a talent fungus Penicillium raistrichii through OSMAC-based cultivation. Front Microbiol 2023; 14:1279140. [PMID: 38029208 PMCID: PMC10665910 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1279140] [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: 08/17/2023] [Accepted: 10/16/2023] [Indexed: 12/01/2023] Open
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Introduction Alkaloidal natural products are attractive for their broad spectrum of pharmaceutical bioactivities. In the present work, the highly productive saline soil derived fungus, Penicillium raistrichii, was subjected to the strategy of OSMAC (one strain many compounds) with changes of cultivation status. Then, the work-flow led to the expansion of the alkaloid chemical diversity and subsequently induced the accumulation of four undescribed alkaloids, named raistrimides A-D (1-4), including three β-carbolines (1-3), one 2-quinolinone (4), and one new natural product, 2-quinolinone (5), along with five known alkaloid chemicals (6-10). Methods A set of NMR techniques including 1H, 13C, HSQC and HMBC, along with other spectroscopic data of UV-Vis, IR and HRESIMS, were introduced to assign the plain structures of compounds 1-10. The absolute configuration of 1-3 were elucidated by means of X-ray crystallography or spectroscopic analyses on optical rotation values and experimental electronic circular dichroism (ECD) data. In addition, it was the first report on the confirmation of structures of 6, 7 and 9 by X-ray crystallography data. The micro-broth dilution method was applied to evaluate antimicrobial effect of all compounds towards Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, and Candida albicans. Results and discussion The results indicated compounds 1, 3 and 4 to be bioactive, which may be potential for further development of anti-antimicrobial agents. The finding in this work implied that OSMAC strategy was a powerful and effective tool for promotion of new chemical entities from P. raistrichii.
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- Laboratory of Natural Drug Discovery and Research, College of Pharmacy, Binzhou Medical University, Yantai, China
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- Laboratory of Natural Drug Discovery and Research, College of Pharmacy, Binzhou Medical University, Yantai, China
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Jahajeeah D, Ranghoo-Sanmukhiya M, Schäfer G. Metabolic Profiling, Antiviral Activity and the Microbiome of Some Mauritian Soft Corals. Mar Drugs 2023; 21:574. [PMID: 37999398 PMCID: PMC10672535 DOI: 10.3390/md21110574] [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: 09/14/2023] [Revised: 10/29/2023] [Accepted: 10/30/2023] [Indexed: 11/25/2023] Open
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Soft corals, recognized as sessile marine invertebrates, rely mainly on chemical, rather than physical defense, by secreting intricate secondary metabolites with plausible pharmaceutical implication. Their ecological niche encompasses a diverse community of symbiotic microorganisms which potentially contribute to the biosynthesis of these bioactive metabolites. The emergence of new viruses and heightened viral resistance underscores the urgency to explore novel pharmacological reservoirs. Thus, marine organisms, notably soft corals and their symbionts, have drawn substantial attention. In this study, the chemical composition of four Mauritian soft corals: Sinularia polydactya, Cespitularia simplex, Lobophytum patulum, and Lobophytum crassum was investigated using LC-MS techniques. Concurrently, Illumina 16S metagenomic sequencing was used to identify the associated bacterial communities in the named soft corals. The presence of unique biologically important compounds and vast microbial communities found therein was further followed up to assess their antiviral effects against SARS-CoV-2 and HPV pseudovirus infection. Strikingly, among the studied soft corals, L. patulum displayed an expansive repertoire of unique metabolites alongside a heightened bacterial consort. Moreover, L. patulum extracts exerted some promising antiviral activity against SARS-CoV-2 and HPV pseudovirus infection, and our findings suggest that L. patulum may have the potential to serve as a therapeutic agent in the prevention of infectious diseases, thereby warranting further investigation.
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- Deeya Jahajeeah
- Department of Agricultural & Food Science, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Mauritius, Reduit 80837, Mauritius;
- International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Cape Town 7925, South Africa;
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- Department of Agricultural & Food Science, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Mauritius, Reduit 80837, Mauritius;
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- International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Cape Town 7925, South Africa;
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Martín-Aragón V, Trigal Martínez M, Cuadrado C, Daranas AH, Fernández Medarde A, Sánchez
López JM. OSMAC Approach and Cocultivation for the Induction of Secondary Metabolism of the Fungus Pleotrichocladium opacum. ACS OMEGA 2023; 8:39873-39885. [PMID: 37901491 PMCID: PMC10601420 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.3c06299] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2023] [Accepted: 10/02/2023] [Indexed: 10/31/2023]
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The application of an OSMAC (One Strain-Many Compounds) approach on the fungus Pleotrichocladium opacum, isolated from a soil sample collected on the coast of Asturias (Spain), using different culture media, chemical elicitors, and cocultivation techniques resulted in the isolation and identification of nine new compounds (8, 9, 12, 15-18, 20, 21), along with 15 known ones (1-7, 10, 11, 14, 19, 22-25). Compounds 1-9 were detected in fungal extracts from JSA liquid fermentation, compounds 10-12 were isolated from a solid rice medium, whereas compounds 14 and 15 were isolated from a solid wheat medium. Addition of 5-azacytidine to the solid rice medium caused the accumulation of compounds 16-18, whereas adding N-acetyl-d-glucosamine triggered the production of two additional metabolites, 19 and 20. Finally, cocultivation of the fungus Pleotrichocladium opacum with Echinocatena sp. in a solid PDA medium led to the production of five additional natural products, 21-25. The structures of the new compounds were elucidated by HRESIMS and 1D and 2D NMR as well as by comparison with literature data. DP4+ and mix-J-DP4 computational methods were applied to determine the relative configurations of the novel compounds, and in some cases, the absolute configurations were assigned by a comparison of the optical rotations with those of related natural products.
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- Biomar
Microbial Technologies, Parque Tecnológico de León, Parcela M-10.4,
Armunia,León 24009, Spain
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- Instituto
de Productos Naturales y Agrobiología, Consejo Superior de
Investigaciones Científicas (IPNA-CSIC), San Cristobal de La Laguna, Tenerife 38206, Spain
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- Instituto
de Productos Naturales y Agrobiología, Consejo Superior de
Investigaciones Científicas (IPNA-CSIC), San Cristobal de La Laguna, Tenerife 38206, Spain
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- Biomar
Microbial Technologies, Parque Tecnológico de León, Parcela M-10.4,
Armunia,León 24009, Spain
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López
- Biomar
Microbial Technologies, Parque Tecnológico de León, Parcela M-10.4,
Armunia,León 24009, Spain
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Martín-Aragón VR, Millán FR, Cuadrado C, Daranas AH, Medarde AF, López JMS. Induction of New Aromatic Polyketides from the Marine Actinobacterium Streptomyces griseorubiginosus through an OSMAC Approach. Mar Drugs 2023; 21:526. [PMID: 37888461 PMCID: PMC10608293 DOI: 10.3390/md21100526] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2023] [Revised: 09/29/2023] [Accepted: 09/30/2023] [Indexed: 10/28/2023] Open
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Using the OSMAC (One Strain Many Compounds) approach, the actinobacterium Streptomyces griseorubiginosus, derived from an unidentified cnidarian collected from a reef near Pointe de Bellevue in Réunion Island (France), was subjected to cultivation under diverse conditions. This endeavour yielded the isolation of a repertoire of 23 secondary metabolites (1-23), wherein five compounds were unprecedented as natural products (19-23). Specifically, compounds 19 and 20 showcased novel anthrone backbones, while compound 23 displayed a distinctive tetralone structure. Additionally, compounds 21 and 22 presented an unusual naphtho [2,3-c]furan-4(9H)-one chromophore. Interestingly, the detection of all these novel compounds (19-23) was exclusively achieved when the bacterium was cultured in FA-1 liquid medium supplemented with the epigenetic modifier γ-butyrolactone. The elucidation of the structural features of the newfound compounds was accomplished through a combination of HRESIMS, 1D and 2D NMR spectroscopy, as well as QM-NMR (Quantum Mechanical-Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) methods and by comparison with existing literature. Moreover, the determination of the relative configuration of compound 23 was facilitated by employing the mix-J-DP4 computational approach.
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- Víctor Rodríguez Martín-Aragón
- Biomar Microbial Technologies, Parque Tecnológico de León, Parcela M-10.4, Armunia, 24009 León, Spain; (V.R.M.-A.); (F.R.M.); (A.F.M.)
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- Biomar Microbial Technologies, Parque Tecnológico de León, Parcela M-10.4, Armunia, 24009 León, Spain; (V.R.M.-A.); (F.R.M.); (A.F.M.)
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- Instituto de Productos Naturales y Agrobiología, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IPNA-CSIC), 38206 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain;
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- Instituto de Productos Naturales y Agrobiología, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IPNA-CSIC), 38206 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain;
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- Biomar Microbial Technologies, Parque Tecnológico de León, Parcela M-10.4, Armunia, 24009 León, Spain; (V.R.M.-A.); (F.R.M.); (A.F.M.)
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- Biomar Microbial Technologies, Parque Tecnológico de León, Parcela M-10.4, Armunia, 24009 León, Spain; (V.R.M.-A.); (F.R.M.); (A.F.M.)
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Li X, Xu H, Li Y, Liao S, Liu Y. Exploring Diverse Bioactive Secondary Metabolites from Marine Microorganisms Using Co-Culture Strategy. Molecules 2023; 28:6371. [PMID: 37687200 PMCID: PMC10489945 DOI: 10.3390/molecules28176371] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2023] [Revised: 08/17/2023] [Accepted: 08/28/2023] [Indexed: 09/10/2023] Open
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The isolation and identification of an increasing number of secondary metabolites featuring unique skeletons and possessing diverse bioactivities sourced from marine microorganisms have garnered the interest of numerous natural product chemists. There has been a growing emphasis on how to cultivate microorganisms to enhance the chemical diversity of metabolites and avoid the rediscovery of known ones. Given the significance of secondary metabolites as a means of communication among microorganisms, microbial co-culture has been introduced. By mimicking the growth patterns of microbial communities in their natural habitats, the co-culture strategy is anticipated to stimulate biosynthetic gene clusters that remain dormant under traditional laboratory culture conditions, thereby inducing the production of novel secondary metabolites. Different from previous reviews mainly focusing on fermentation conditions or metabolite diversities from marine-derived co-paired strains, this review covers the marine-derived co-culture microorganisms from 2012 to 2022, and turns to a particular discussion highlighting the selection of co-paired strains for marine-derived microorganisms, especially the fermentation methods for their co-cultural apparatus, and the screening approaches for the convenient and rapid detection of novel metabolites, as these are important in the co-culture. Finally, the structural and bioactivity diversities of molecules are also discussed. The challenges and prospects of co-culture are discussed on behave of the views of the authors.
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- Xiaolin Li
- Research Center for Marine Microbes, CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-Resources and Ecology, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Marine Materia Medica, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Wuya College of Innovation, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, Shenyang 110016, China
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- Research Center for Marine Microbes, CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-Resources and Ecology, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Marine Materia Medica, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Research Center for Marine Microbes, CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-Resources and Ecology, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Marine Materia Medica, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Research Center for Marine Microbes, CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-Resources and Ecology, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Marine Materia Medica, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
- Wuya College of Innovation, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, Shenyang 110016, China
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Ngamcharungchit C, Chaimusik N, Panbangred W, Euanorasetr J, Intra B. Bioactive Metabolites from Terrestrial and Marine Actinomycetes. Molecules 2023; 28:5915. [PMID: 37570885 PMCID: PMC10421486 DOI: 10.3390/molecules28155915] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2023] [Revised: 07/27/2023] [Accepted: 08/01/2023] [Indexed: 08/13/2023] Open
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Actinomycetes inhabit both terrestrial and marine ecosystems and are highly proficient in producing a wide range of natural products with diverse biological functions, including antitumor, immunosuppressive, antimicrobial, and antiviral activities. In this review, we delve into the life cycle, ecology, taxonomy, and classification of actinomycetes, as well as their varied bioactive metabolites recently discovered between 2015 and 2023. Additionally, we explore promising strategies to unveil and investigate new bioactive metabolites, encompassing genome mining, activation of silent genes through signal molecules, and co-cultivation approaches. By presenting this comprehensive and up-to-date review, we hope to offer a potential solution to uncover novel bioactive compounds with essential activities.
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- Chananan Ngamcharungchit
- Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10400, Thailand
- Mahidol University and Osaka University Collaborative Research Center on Bioscience and Biotechnology, Bangkok 10400, Thailand
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- Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10400, Thailand
- Mahidol University and Osaka University Collaborative Research Center on Bioscience and Biotechnology, Bangkok 10400, Thailand
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- Research, Innovation and Partnerships Office, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkok 10140, Thailand
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkok 10140, Thailand
- Laboratory of Biotechnological Research for Energy and Bioactive Compounds, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Khet Thung Khru, Bangkok 10140, Thailand
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- Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10400, Thailand
- Mahidol University and Osaka University Collaborative Research Center on Bioscience and Biotechnology, Bangkok 10400, Thailand
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Correia J, Borges A, Simões M, Simões LC. Beyond Penicillin: The Potential of Filamentous Fungi for Drug Discovery in the Age of Antibiotic Resistance. Antibiotics (Basel) 2023; 12:1250. [PMID: 37627670 PMCID: PMC10451904 DOI: 10.3390/antibiotics12081250] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2023] [Revised: 07/24/2023] [Accepted: 07/27/2023] [Indexed: 08/27/2023] Open
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Antibiotics are a staple in current medicine for the therapy of infectious diseases. However, their extensive use and misuse, combined with the high adaptability of bacteria, has dangerously increased the incidence of multi-drug-resistant (MDR) bacteria. This makes the treatment of infections challenging, especially when MDR bacteria form biofilms. The most recent antibiotics entering the market have very similar modes of action to the existing ones, so bacteria rapidly catch up to those as well. As such, it is very important to adopt effective measures to avoid the development of antibiotic resistance by pathogenic bacteria, but also to perform bioprospecting of new molecules from diverse sources to expand the arsenal of drugs that are available to fight these infectious bacteria. Filamentous fungi have a large and vastly unexplored secondary metabolome and are rich in bioactive molecules that can be potential novel antimicrobial drugs. Their production can be challenging, as the associated biosynthetic pathways may not be active under standard culture conditions. New techniques involving metabolic and genetic engineering can help boost antibiotic production. This study aims to review the bioprospection of fungi to produce new drugs to face the growing problem of MDR bacteria and biofilm-associated infections.
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- João Correia
- LEPABE—Laboratory for Process Engineering, Environment, Biotechnology and Energy, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Porto, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal; (J.C.); (A.B.)
- ALiCE—Associate Laboratory in Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal
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- LEPABE—Laboratory for Process Engineering, Environment, Biotechnology and Energy, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Porto, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal; (J.C.); (A.B.)
- ALiCE—Associate Laboratory in Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal
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- LEPABE—Laboratory for Process Engineering, Environment, Biotechnology and Energy, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Porto, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal; (J.C.); (A.B.)
- ALiCE—Associate Laboratory in Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal
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- CEB—Centre of Biological Engineering, University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal;
- LABBELS—Associate Laboratory in Biotechnology, Bioengineering and Microelectromechanical Systems, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal
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Yu HB, Ning Z, Hu B, Zhu YP, Lu XL, He Y, Jiao BH, Liu XY. Cytosporin Derivatives from Arctic-Derived Fungus Eutypella sp. D-1 via the OSMAC Approach. Mar Drugs 2023; 21:382. [PMID: 37504913 PMCID: PMC10381684 DOI: 10.3390/md21070382] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2023] [Revised: 06/26/2023] [Accepted: 06/27/2023] [Indexed: 07/29/2023] Open
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A chemical investigation of the Arctic-derived fungus Eutypella sp. D-1 based on the OSMAC (one strain many compounds) approach resulted in the isolation of five cytosporin polyketides (compounds 1-3 and 11-12) from rice medium and eight cytosporins (compounds 2 and 4-11) from solid defined medium. The structures of the seven new compounds, eutypelleudesmane A (1), cytosporin Y (2), cytosporin Z (3), cytosporin Y1 (4), cytosporin Y2 (5), cytosporin Y3 (6), and cytosporin E1 (7), were elucidated by analyzing their detailed spectroscopic data. Structurally, cytosporin Y1 (4) may be a key intermediate in the biosynthesis of the isolated cytosporins, rather than an end product. Compound 1 contained a unique skeleton formed by the ester linkage of two moieties, cytosporin F (12) and the eudesmane-type sesquiterpene dihydroalanto glycol. Additionally, the occurrence of cyclic carbonate moieties in compounds 6 and 7 was found to be rare in nature. The antibacterial, immunosuppressive, and cytotoxic activities of all compounds derived from Eutypella sp. D-1 were evaluated. Unfortunately, only compounds 3, 6, 8, and 10-11 displayed immunosuppressive activity, with inhibitory rates of 62.9%, 59.5%, 67.8%, 55.8%, and 68.7%, respectively, at a concentration of 5 μg/mL.
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- Hao-Bing Yu
- Naval Medical Center of PLA, Department of Marine Biomedicine and Polar Medicine, Naval Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Naval Medical Center of PLA, Department of Marine Biomedicine and Polar Medicine, Naval Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Naval Medical Center of PLA, Department of Marine Biomedicine and Polar Medicine, Naval Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Basic Medical Experimental Teaching Center, College of Basic Medical Sciences, Naval Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Basic Medical Sciences, Naval Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Naval Medical Center of PLA, Department of Marine Biomedicine and Polar Medicine, Naval Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Basic Medical Sciences, Naval Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Naval Medical Center of PLA, Department of Marine Biomedicine and Polar Medicine, Naval Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China
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Rajvanshi J, Sogani M, Kumar A, Arora S, Syed Z, Sonu K, Gupta NS, Kalra A. Perceiving biobased plastics as an alternative and innovative solution to combat plastic pollution for a circular economy. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2023; 874:162441. [PMID: 36858235 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162441] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2022] [Revised: 02/15/2023] [Accepted: 02/20/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Plastic waste from fossil-based sources, including single-use packaging materials, is continuously accumulating in landfills, and leaching into the environment. A 2021 UN Environment Programme (UNEP) report suggests that the plastic pollution is likely to be doubled by 2030, posing a major challenge to the environment and the overall global plastic waste management efforts. The use of biobased plastics such as polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) as a biodegradable substitute for petroleum-based plastics could be a feasible option to combat this issue which may further result in much lower carbon emissions and energy usage in comparison to conventional plastics as additional advantages. Though recent years have seen the use of microbes as biosynthetic machinery for biobased plastics, using various renewable feedstocks, the scaled-up production of such materials is still challenging. The current study outlays applications of biobased plastics, potential microorganisms producing biobased plastics such as Cupriavidus necator, Bacillus sp., Rhodopseudomonas palustris, microalgae, and mixed microbial cultures, and inexpensive and renewable resources as carbon substrates including industrial wastes. This review also provides deep insights into the operational parameters, challenges and mitigation, and future opportunities for maximizing the production of biobased plastic products. Finally, this review emphasizes the concept of biorefinery as a sustainable and innovative solution for biobased plastic production for achieving a circular bioeconomy.
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- Jayana Rajvanshi
- Department of Biosciences, Manipal University Jaipur, 303007, Rajasthan, India
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- Department of Biosciences, Manipal University Jaipur, 303007, Rajasthan, India.
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- The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Environment, Waite Campus, Urrbrae, SA 5064, Australia.
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- Dr. B. Lal Institute of Biotechnology, Malviya Industrial Area, Malviya Nagar, Jaipur, 302017, Rajasthan, India
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- Department of Biosciences, Manipal University Jaipur, 303007, Rajasthan, India
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kashi Institute of Technology, Varanasi, 221307, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- Department of Biosciences, Manipal University Jaipur, 303007, Rajasthan, India
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- Dr. B. Lal Institute of Biotechnology, Malviya Industrial Area, Malviya Nagar, Jaipur, 302017, Rajasthan, India
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Lin L, Zhang T, Xu J. Genetic and Environmental Factors Influencing the Production of Select Fungal Colorants: Challenges and Opportunities in Industrial Applications. J Fungi (Basel) 2023; 9:585. [PMID: 37233296 PMCID: PMC10219082 DOI: 10.3390/jof9050585] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2023] [Revised: 05/03/2023] [Accepted: 05/15/2023] [Indexed: 05/27/2023] Open
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Natural colorants, mostly of plant and fungal origins, offer advantages over chemically synthetic colorants in terms of alleviating environmental pollution and promoting human health. The market value of natural colorants has been increasing significantly across the globe. Due to the ease of artificially culturing most fungi in the laboratory and in industrial settings, fungi have emerged as the organisms of choice for producing many natural colorants. Indeed, there is a wide variety of colorful fungi and a diversity in the structure and bioactivity of fungal colorants. Such broad diversities have spurred significant research efforts in fungi to search for natural alternatives to synthetic colorants. Here, we review recent research on the genetic and environmental factors influencing the production of three major types of natural fungal colorants: carotenoids, melanins, and polyketide-derived colorants. We highlight how molecular genetic studies and environmental condition manipulations are helping to overcome some of the challenges associated with value-added and large-scale productions of these colorants. We finish by discussing potential future trends, including synthetic biology approaches, in the commercial production of fungal colorants.
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- Lan Lin
- Key Laboratory of Developmental Genes and Human Diseases (MOE), School of Life Science and Technology, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China;
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- Department of Bioengineering, Medical School, Southeast University, Nanjing 210009, China;
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- Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1, Canada
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Gasparek M, Steel H, Papachristodoulou A. Deciphering mechanisms of production of natural compounds using inducer-producer microbial consortia. Biotechnol Adv 2023; 64:108117. [PMID: 36813010 DOI: 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2023.108117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2022] [Revised: 02/03/2023] [Accepted: 02/06/2023] [Indexed: 02/22/2023]
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Living organisms produce a wide range of metabolites. Because of their potential antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral, or cytostatic properties, such natural molecules are of high interest to the pharmaceutical industry. In nature, these metabolites are often synthesized via secondary metabolic biosynthetic gene clusters that are silent under the typical culturing conditions. Among different techniques used to activate these silent gene clusters, co-culturing of "producer" species with specific "inducer" microbes is a particularly appealing approach due to its simplicity. Although several "inducer-producer" microbial consortia have been reported in the literature and hundreds of different secondary metabolites with attractive biopharmaceutical properties have been described as a result of co-cultivating inducer-producer consortia, less attention has been devoted to the understanding of the mechanisms and possible means of induction for production of secondary metabolites in co-cultures. This lack of understanding of fundamental biological functions and inter-species interactions significantly limits the diversity and yield of valuable compounds using biological engineering tools. In this review, we summarize and categorize the known physiological mechanisms of production of secondary metabolites in inducer-producer consortia, and then discuss approaches that could be exploited to optimize the discovery and production of secondary metabolites.
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- Miroslav Gasparek
- Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PJ, United Kingdom.
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- Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PJ, United Kingdom
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Heng E, Lim YW, Leong CY, Ng VWP, Ng SB, Lim YH, Wong FT. Enhancing armeniaspirols production through multi-level engineering of a native Streptomyces producer. Microb Cell Fact 2023; 22:84. [PMID: 37118806 PMCID: PMC10142417 DOI: 10.1186/s12934-023-02092-4] [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: 01/28/2023] [Accepted: 04/11/2023] [Indexed: 04/30/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Nature has provided unique molecular scaffolds for applications including therapeutics, agriculture, and food. Due to differences in ecological environments and laboratory conditions, engineering is often necessary to uncover and utilize the chemical diversity. Although we can efficiently activate and mine these often complex 3D molecules, sufficient production of target molecules for further engineering and application remain a considerable bottleneck. An example of these bioactive scaffolds is armeniaspirols, which are potent polyketide antibiotics against gram-positive pathogens and multi-resistance gram-negative Helicobacter pylori. Here, we examine the upregulation of armeniaspirols in an alternative Streptomyces producer, Streptomyces sp. A793. RESULTS Through an incidental observation of enhanced yields with the removal of a competing polyketide cluster, we observed seven-fold improvement in armeniaspirol production. To further investigate the improvement of armeniaspirol production, we examine upregulation of armeniaspirols through engineering of biosynthetic pathways and primary metabolism; including perturbation of genes in biosynthetic gene clusters and regulation of triacylglycerols pool. CONCLUSION With either overexpression of extender unit pathway or late-stage N-methylation, or the deletion of a competing polyketide cluster, we can achieve seven-fold to forty nine-fold upregulation of armeniaspirol production. The most significant upregulation was achieved by expression of heterologous fatty acyl-CoA synthase, where we observed not only a ninety seven-fold increase in production yields compared to wild type, but also an increase in the diversity of observed armeniaspirol intermediates and analogs.
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- Elena Heng
- Molecular Engineering Laboratory, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 61 Biopolis Drive, #07-06, Proteos, Singapore, 138673, Singapore
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- Chemical Biotechnology and Biocatalysis, Institute of Sustainability for Chemicals, Energy and Environment (ISCE2), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 8 Biomedical Grove, Neuros, #07-01, Singapore, 138665, Singapore
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- Singapore Institute of Food and Biotechnology Innovation (SIFBI), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 31 Biopolis Way, Level 2, Nanos, Singapore, 138669, Singapore
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- Singapore Institute of Food and Biotechnology Innovation (SIFBI), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 31 Biopolis Way, Level 2, Nanos, Singapore, 138669, Singapore
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- Singapore Institute of Food and Biotechnology Innovation (SIFBI), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 31 Biopolis Way, Level 2, Nanos, Singapore, 138669, Singapore
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- Chemical Biotechnology and Biocatalysis, Institute of Sustainability for Chemicals, Energy and Environment (ISCE2), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 8 Biomedical Grove, Neuros, #07-01, Singapore, 138665, Singapore.
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- Molecular Engineering Laboratory, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 61 Biopolis Drive, #07-06, Proteos, Singapore, 138673, Singapore.
- Chemical Biotechnology and Biocatalysis, Institute of Sustainability for Chemicals, Energy and Environment (ISCE2), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 8 Biomedical Grove, Neuros, #07-01, Singapore, 138665, Singapore.
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Yao H, Liu S, Liu T, Ren D, Yang Q, Zhou Z, Mao J. Screening of marine sediment-derived microorganisms and their bioactive metabolites: a review. World J Microbiol Biotechnol 2023; 39:172. [PMID: 37115432 DOI: 10.1007/s11274-023-03621-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2023] [Accepted: 04/14/2023] [Indexed: 04/29/2023]
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Marine sediments are one of the largest habitats on Earth, and their unique ecology, such as high salinity, high pressure, and hypoxia, may activate certain silent genes in marine microbes, resulting in microbes, enzymes, active products, and specific metabolic pathways that can adapt to these specific ecological environments. Marine sediment-derived microorganisms and their bioactive metabolites are of great significance and have potential commercial development prospects for food, pharmaceutical, chemical industries, agriculture, environmental protection and human nutrition and health. In recent years, although there have been numerous scientific reports surrounding marine sediment-derived microorganisms and their bioactive metabolites, a comprehensive review of their research progress is lacking. This paper presents the development and renewal of traditional culture-dependent and omics analysis techniques and their application to the screening of marine sediment-derived microorganisms producing bioactive substances. It also highlights recent research advances in the last five years surrounding the types, functional properties and potential applications of bioactive metabolites produced by marine sediment-derived microorganisms. These bioactive metabolites mainly include antibiotics, enzymes, enzyme inhibitors, sugars, proteins, peptides, and some other small molecule metabolites. In addition, the review ends with concluding remarks on the challenges and future directions for marine sediment-derived microorganisms and their bioactive metabolites. The review report not only helps to deepen the understanding of marine sediment-derived microorganisms and their bioactive metabolites, but also provides some useful information for the exploitation and utilization of marine microbial resources and the mining of new compounds with potential functional properties.
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- Hongli Yao
- National Engineering Research Center of Cereal Fermentation and Food Biomanufacturing, School of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214122, Jiangsu, China
- Jiangsu Provincial Engineering Research Center for Bioactive Product Processing Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214122, Jiangsu, China
- Department of Biology and Food Engineering, Bozhou University, Bozhou, 236800, Anhui, China
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- National Engineering Research Center of Cereal Fermentation and Food Biomanufacturing, School of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214122, Jiangsu, China
- Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory, Guangzhou, 511458, Guangdong, China
- Jiangsu Provincial Engineering Research Center for Bioactive Product Processing Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214122, Jiangsu, China
- Jiangnan University (Shaoxing) Industrial Technology Research Institute, Shaoxing, 31200, Zhejiang, China
- National Engineering Research Center of Huangjiu, Zhejiang Guyuelongshan Shaoxing Wine CO., LTD, Shaoxing, 646000, Zhejiang, China
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- National Engineering Research Center of Cereal Fermentation and Food Biomanufacturing, School of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214122, Jiangsu, China
- Jiangsu Provincial Engineering Research Center for Bioactive Product Processing Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214122, Jiangsu, China
- Jiangnan University (Shaoxing) Industrial Technology Research Institute, Shaoxing, 31200, Zhejiang, China
- National Engineering Research Center of Huangjiu, Zhejiang Guyuelongshan Shaoxing Wine CO., LTD, Shaoxing, 646000, Zhejiang, China
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- National Engineering Research Center of Cereal Fermentation and Food Biomanufacturing, School of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214122, Jiangsu, China
- Jiangsu Provincial Engineering Research Center for Bioactive Product Processing Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214122, Jiangsu, China
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- National Engineering Research Center of Cereal Fermentation and Food Biomanufacturing, School of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214122, Jiangsu, China
- Jiangsu Provincial Engineering Research Center for Bioactive Product Processing Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214122, Jiangsu, China
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- National Engineering Research Center of Cereal Fermentation and Food Biomanufacturing, School of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214122, Jiangsu, China
- Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory, Guangzhou, 511458, Guangdong, China
- Jiangsu Provincial Engineering Research Center for Bioactive Product Processing Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214122, Jiangsu, China
- Jiangnan University (Shaoxing) Industrial Technology Research Institute, Shaoxing, 31200, Zhejiang, China
- National Engineering Research Center of Huangjiu, Zhejiang Guyuelongshan Shaoxing Wine CO., LTD, Shaoxing, 646000, Zhejiang, China
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- National Engineering Research Center of Cereal Fermentation and Food Biomanufacturing, School of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214122, Jiangsu, China.
- Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory, Guangzhou, 511458, Guangdong, China.
- Jiangsu Provincial Engineering Research Center for Bioactive Product Processing Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214122, Jiangsu, China.
- Jiangnan University (Shaoxing) Industrial Technology Research Institute, Shaoxing, 31200, Zhejiang, China.
- National Engineering Research Center of Huangjiu, Zhejiang Guyuelongshan Shaoxing Wine CO., LTD, Shaoxing, 646000, Zhejiang, China.
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Vitale GA, Scarpato S, Mangoni A, D'Auria MV, Della Sala G, de Pascale D. Enhanced Molecular Networking Shows Microbacterium sp. V1 as a Factory of Antioxidant Proline-Rich Peptides. Mar Drugs 2023; 21:md21040256. [PMID: 37103395 PMCID: PMC10146280 DOI: 10.3390/md21040256] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2023] [Revised: 04/14/2023] [Accepted: 04/20/2023] [Indexed: 04/28/2023] Open
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Two linear proline-rich peptides (1-2), bearing an N-terminal pyroglutamate, were isolated from the marine bacterium Microbacterium sp. V1, associated with the marine sponge Petrosia ficiformis, collected in the volcanic CO2 vents in Ischia Island (South Italy). Peptide production was triggered at low temperature following the one strain many compounds (OSMAC) method. Both peptides were detected together with other peptides (3-8) via an integrated, untargeted MS/MS-based molecular networking and cheminformatic approach. The planar structure of the peptides was determined by extensive 1D and 2D NMR and HR-MS analysis, and the stereochemistry of the aminoacyl residues was inferred by Marfey's analysis. Peptides 1-8 are likely to arise from Microbacterium V1 tailor-made proteolysis of tryptone. Peptides 1 and 2 were shown to display antioxidant properties in the ferric-reducing antioxidant power (FRAP) assay.
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- Giovanni Andrea Vitale
- Department of Eco-Sustainable Marine Biotechnology, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Via A.F. Acton, Molosiglio, 80133 Naples, Italy
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- Department of Pharmacy, University of Naples "Federico II", 80131 Naples, Italy
- GEOMAR Centre for Marine Biotechnology (GEOMAR-Biotech), Research Unit Marine Natural Products Chemistry, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Am Kiel-Kanal 44, 24106 Kiel, Germany
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- Department of Pharmacy, University of Naples "Federico II", 80131 Naples, Italy
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- Department of Eco-Sustainable Marine Biotechnology, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Via A.F. Acton, Molosiglio, 80133 Naples, Italy
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- Department of Eco-Sustainable Marine Biotechnology, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Via A.F. Acton, Molosiglio, 80133 Naples, Italy
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Alanzi A, Elhawary EA, Ashour ML, Moussa AY. Aspergillus co-cultures: A recent insight into their secondary metabolites and microbial interactions. Arch Pharm Res 2023; 46:273-298. [PMID: 37032397 DOI: 10.1007/s12272-023-01442-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2022] [Accepted: 02/28/2023] [Indexed: 04/11/2023]
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There is an urgent need for novel antibiotics to combat emerging resistant microbial strains. One of the most pressing resources is Aspergillus microbial cocultures. The genome of Aspergillus species comprises a far larger number of novel gene clusters than previously expected, and novel strategies and approaches are essential to exploit this potential source of new drugs and pharmacological agents. This is the first review consulting recent developments and chemical diversity of Aspergillus cocultures and highlighting its untapped richness. The analyzed data revealed that cocultivation of several Aspergillus species with other microorganisms, including bacteria, plants, and fungi, is a source of novel bioactive natural products. Various vital chemical skeleton leads were newly produced or augmented in Aspergillus cocultures, among which were taxol, cytochalasans, notamides, pentapeptides, silibinin, and allianthrones. The possibility of mycotoxin production or complete elimination in cocultivations was detected, which pave the way for better decontamination strategies. Most cocultures revealed a remarkable improvement in their antimicrobial or cytotoxic behavior due to their produced chemical patterns; for instance, weldone and asperterrin whose antitumor and antibacterial activities, respectively, were superior. Microbial cocultivation elicited the upregulation or production of specific metabolites whose importance and significance are yet to be revealed. With more than 155 compounds isolated from Aspergillus cocultures in the last 10 years, showing overproduction, reduction, or complete suppression under the optimized coculture circumstances, this study filled a gap for medicinal chemists searching for new lead sources or bioactive molecules as anticancer agents or antimicrobials.
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- Abdullah Alanzi
- Department of Pharmacognosy, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, 11451, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Ain shams University, Cairo, 11566, Egypt
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- Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Ain shams University, Cairo, 11566, Egypt
- Pharmacy Program, Department of Pharmaceutical Science, Batterjee Medical College, 21442, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Ain shams University, Cairo, 11566, Egypt.
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Pacheco-Tapia R, Ortíz S, Jargeat P, Amasifuen C, Vansteelandt M, Haddad M. Exploration of the Production of Three Thiodiketopiperazines by an Endophytic Fungal Strain of Cophinforma mamane. Chem Biodivers 2023; 20:e202201087. [PMID: 36919620 DOI: 10.1002/cbdv.202201087] [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] [Revised: 03/10/2023] [Accepted: 03/12/2023] [Indexed: 03/16/2023]
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Endophytic fungi possess a versatile metabolism which is related to their ability to live in diverse ecological niches. While culturing under laboratory conditions, their metabolism is mainly influenced by the culture media, time of incubation and other physicochemical factors. In this study, we focused on the production of 3 thiodiketopiperazines (TDKPs) botryosulfuranols A-C produced by an endophytic strain of Cophinforma mamane isolated from the leaves of Bixa orellana L collected in the Peruvian Amazon. We studied the time-course production of botryosulfuranols A-C during 28 days and evaluated the variations in the production of secondary metabolites, including the TDKPs, produced by C. mamane in response to different culture media, light versus dark conditions and different incubation times. We observed a short time-frame production of botryosulfuranol C while its production was significantly affected by the light conditions and nutrients of the culture media. Botryosulfuranols A and B showed a similar production pattern and a similar response to culturing conditions. Molecular networking allowed us to detect three compounds related to TDKPs that will be the focus of future experiments.
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- Romina Pacheco-Tapia
- UMR 152 Pharma Dev, Université de Toulouse, IRD, UPS, France
- Laboratorios de Investigación y Desarrollo, Facultad de Ciencias y Filosofía, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Perú
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- Therapeutic Innovation Laboratory UMR CNRS 7200, Faculty of Pharmacy, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
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- Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique UMR 5174, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, IRD, France
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- Instituto Nacional de Innovación Agraria, Dirección de Recursos Genéticos y Biotecnología, Avenida La Molina 1981, Lima, 15024, Perú
- Present address: Epigénomique Fonctionnelle et Physiologie Moléculaire Du Diabète et Maladies Associées UMR 1283/8199, Université de Lille, Lille, France
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- UMR 152 Pharma Dev, Université de Toulouse, IRD, UPS, France
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Michael, Waturangi DE. Antibiofilm activity from endophyte bacteria, Vibrio cholerae strains, and actinomycetes isolates in liquid and solid culture. BMC Microbiol 2023; 23:83. [PMID: 36991312 PMCID: PMC10053847 DOI: 10.1186/s12866-023-02829-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2022] [Accepted: 03/20/2023] [Indexed: 03/30/2023] Open
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Background
Biofilm-associated infections are a global threat to our economy and human health; as such, development of antibiofilm compounds is an urgent need. Our previous study identified eleven environmental isolates of endophyte bacteria, actinomycetes, and two strains of Vibrio cholerae as having strong antibiofilm activity, but only tested crude extracts from liquid culture. Here we grew the same bacteria in solid culture to induce the formation of colony biofilms and the expression of genes that may ultimately produce antibiofilm compounds. This research aimed to compare antibiofilm inhibition and destruction activities between liquid and solid cultures of these eleven environmental isolates against the biofilms of representative pathogenic bacteria.
Results
We measured antibiofilm activity using the static antibiofilm assay and crystal violet staining. The majority of our isolates exhibited higher inhibitory antibiofilm activity in liquid media, including all endophyte bacteria, V. cholerae V15a, and actinomycetes strains (CW01, SW03, CW17). However, for V. cholerae strain B32 and two actinomycetes bacteria (TB12 and SW12), the solid crude extracts showed higher inhibitory activity. Regarding destructive antibiofilm activity, many endophyte isolates and V. cholerae strains showed no significant difference between culture methods; the exceptions were endophyte bacteria isolate JerF4 and V. cholerae B32. The liquid extract of isolate JerF4 showed higher destructive activity relative to the corresponding solid culture extract, while for V. cholerae strain B32 the solid extract showed higher activity against some biofilms of pathogenic bacteria.
Conclusions
Culture conditions, namely solid or liquid culture, can influence the activity of culture extracts against biofilms of pathogenic bacteria. We compared the antibiofilm activity and presented the data that majority of isolates showed a higher antibiofilm activity in liquid culture. Interestingly, solid extracts from three isolates (B32, TB12, and SW12) have a better inhibition or/and destruction antibiofilm activity compared to their liquid culture. Further research is needed to characterize the activities of specific metabolites in solid and liquid culture extracts and to determine the mechanisms of their antibiofilm actions.
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Prioritization of Microorganisms Isolated from the Indian Ocean Sponge Scopalina hapalia Based on Metabolomic Diversity and Biological Activity for the Discovery of Natural Products. Microorganisms 2023; 11:microorganisms11030697. [PMID: 36985270 PMCID: PMC10057949 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms11030697] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2023] [Revised: 02/27/2023] [Accepted: 03/01/2023] [Indexed: 03/11/2023] Open
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Despite considerable advances in medicine and technology, humanity still faces many deadly diseases such as cancer and malaria. In order to find appropriate treatments, the discovery of new bioactive substances is essential. Therefore, research is now turning to less frequently explored habitats with exceptional biodiversity such as the marine environment. Many studies have demonstrated the therapeutic potential of bioactive compounds from marine macro- and microorganisms. In this study, nine microbial strains isolated from an Indian Ocean sponge, Scopalina hapalia, were screened for their chemical potential. The isolates belong to different phyla, some of which are already known for their production of secondary metabolites, such as the actinobacteria. This article aims at describing the selection method used to identify the most promising microorganisms in the field of active metabolites production. The method is based on the combination of their biological and chemical screening, coupled with the use of bioinformatic tools. The dereplication of microbial extracts and the creation of a molecular network revealed the presence of known bioactive molecules such as staurosporin, erythromycin and chaetoglobosins. Molecular network exploration indicated the possible presence of novel compounds in clusters of interest. The biological activities targeted in the study were cytotoxicity against the HCT-116 and MDA-MB-231 cell lines and antiplasmodial activity against Plasmodium falciparum 3D7. Chaetomium globosum SH-123 and Salinispora arenicola SH-78 strains actually showed remarkable cytotoxic and antiplasmodial activities, while Micromonospora fluostatini SH-82 demonstrated promising antiplasmodial effects. The ranking of the microorganisms as a result of the different screening steps allowed the selection of a promising strain, Micromonospora fluostatini SH-82, as a premium candidate for the discovery of new drugs.
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Hesketh-Best PJ, January GG, Koch MJ, Warburton PJ, Howell KL, Upton M. Whole genomes of deep-sea sponge-associated bacteria exhibit high novel natural product potential. FEMS MICROBES 2023; 4:xtad005. [PMID: 37333438 PMCID: PMC10117722 DOI: 10.1093/femsmc/xtad005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2022] [Revised: 01/18/2023] [Accepted: 02/03/2023] [Indexed: 08/20/2023] Open
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Global antimicrobial resistance is a health crisis that can change the face of modern medicine. Exploring diverse natural habitats for bacterially-derived novel antimicrobial compounds has historically been a successful strategy. The deep-sea presents an exciting opportunity for the cultivation of taxonomically novel organisms and exploring potentially chemically novel spaces. In this study, the draft genomes of 12 bacteria previously isolated from the deep-sea sponges Phenomena carpenteri and Hertwigia sp. are investigated for the diversity of specialized secondary metabolites. In addition, early data support the production of antibacterial inhibitory substances produced from a number of these strains, including activity against clinically relevant pathogens Acinetobacter baumannii, Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Staphylococcus aureus. Draft whole-genomes are presented of 12 deep-sea isolates, which include four potentially novel strains: Psychrobacter sp. PP-21, Streptomyces sp. DK15, Dietzia sp. PP-33, and Micrococcus sp. M4NT. Across the 12 draft genomes, 138 biosynthetic gene clusters were detected, of which over half displayed less than 50% similarity to known BGCs, suggesting that these genomes present an exciting opportunity to elucidate novel secondary metabolites. Exploring bacterial isolates belonging to the phylum Actinomycetota, Pseudomonadota, and Bacillota from understudied deep-sea sponges provided opportunities to search for new chemical diversity of interest to those working in antibiotic discovery.
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- Poppy J Hesketh-Best
- School of Biological and Marine Sciences, University of Plymouth, Drake Circus, Plymouth PL4 8AA, United Kingdom
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Plymouth, Drake Circus, Plymouth PL4 8AA, United Kingdom
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Plymouth, Drake Circus, Plymouth PL4 8AA, United Kingdom
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Plymouth, Drake Circus, Plymouth PL4 8AA, United Kingdom
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- School of Biological and Marine Sciences, University of Plymouth, Drake Circus, Plymouth PL4 8AA, United Kingdom
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Plymouth, Drake Circus, Plymouth PL4 8AA, United Kingdom
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