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Identification by gene deletion analysis of a regulator, VmsR, that controls virginiamycin biosynthesis in Streptomyces virginiae.

ABSTRACT: Virginiae butanolide (VB)-BarA of Streptomyces virginiae is one of the newly discovered pairs of a butyrolactone autoregulator and a corresponding receptor protein of Streptomyces species and regulates the production of the antibiotic virginiamycin (VM) in S. virginiae. The gene vmsR was found to be situated 4.7 kbp upstream of the barA gene, which encodes the VB-specific receptor. The vmsR product was predicted to be a regulator of VM biosynthesis based on its high homology to some Streptomyces pathway-specific transcriptional regulators for the biosynthetic gene clusters of polyketide antibiotics, such as Streptomyces peucetius DnrI (47.5% identity, 84. 3% similarity), which controls daunorubicin biosynthesis. A vmsR deletion mutant was created by homologous recombination. Neither virginiamycin M(1) nor virginiamycin S was produced in the vmsR mutant, while amounts of VB and BarA similar to those produced in the wild-type strain were detected. Reverse transcription-PCR analyses confirmed that the vmsR deletion had no deleterious effects on the transcription of the vmsR-surrounding genes, indicating that VmsR is a positive regulator of VM biosynthesis in S. virginiae.

SUBMITTER: Kawachi R

PROVIDER: S-EPMC94767 | biostudies-literature | 2000 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Identification by gene deletion analysis of a regulator, VmsR, that controls virginiamycin biosynthesis in Streptomyces virginiae.

Kawachi R R Wangchaisoonthorn U U Nihira T T Yamada Y Y

Journal of bacteriology 20001101 21

Virginiae butanolide (VB)-BarA of Streptomyces virginiae is one of the newly discovered pairs of a butyrolactone autoregulator and a corresponding receptor protein of Streptomyces species and regulates the production of the antibiotic virginiamycin (VM) in S. virginiae. The gene vmsR was found to be situated 4.7 kbp upstream of the barA gene, which encodes the VB-specific receptor. The vmsR product was predicted to be a regulator of VM biosynthesis based on its high homology to some Streptomyces ...[more]

PMID: 11029453

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Project description:BackgroundAs well known, both natural and synthetic steroidal compounds are powerful endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs) which can cause reproductive toxicity and affect cellular development in mammals and thus are generally regarded as serious contributors to water pollution. Streptomyces virginiae IBL14 is an effective degradative strain for many steroidal compounds and can also catalyze the C25 hydroxylation of diosgenin, the first-ever biotransformation found on the F-ring of diosgenin.ResultsTo completely elucidate the hydroxylation function of cytochrome P450 genes (CYPs) found during biotransformation of steroids by S. virginiae IBL14, the whole genome sequencing of this strain was carried out via 454 Sequencing Systems. The analytical results of BLASTP showed that the strain IBL14 contains 33 CYPs, 7 ferredoxins and 3 ferredoxin reductases in its 8.0 Mb linear chromosome. CYPs from S. virginiae IBL14 are phylogenetically closed to those of Streptomyces sp. Mg1 and Streptomyces sp. C. One new subfamily was found as per the fact that the CYP Svu001 in S. virginiae IBL14 shares 66% identity only to that (ZP_05001937, protein identifer) from Streptomyces sp. Mg1. Further analysis showed that among all of the 33 CYPs in S. virginiae IBL14, three CYPs are clustered with ferredoxins, one with ferredoxin and ferredoxin reductase and three CYPs with ATP/GTP binding proteins, four CYPs arranged with transcriptional regulatory genes and one CYP located on the upstream of an ATP-binding protein and transcriptional regulators as well as four CYPs associated with other functional genes involved in secondary metabolism and degradation.ConclusionsThese characteristics found in CYPs from S. virginiae IBL14 show that the EXXR motif in the K-helix is not absolutely conserved in CYP157 family and I-helix not absolutely essential for the CYP structure, too. Experimental results showed that both CYP Svh01 and CYP Svu022 are two hydroxylases, capable of bioconverting diosgenone into isonuatigenone and β-estradiol into estriol, respectively.

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Identification by gene deletion analysis of a regulator, VmsR, that controls virginiamycin biosynthesis in Streptomyces virginiae.

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Identification by gene deletion analysis of a regulator, VmsR, that controls virginiamycin biosynthesis in Streptomyces virginiae.

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