Project description:This study develops a pipeline for high-level production of the reverse antibiotic nybomycin from three seaweed species: Himanthalia elongata, Palmaria palmata, and Ulva lactuca. Screening Streptomyces strains identified S. explomaris, a marine species, as the best host to express the nybomycin gene cluster. The accumulated low yields in artificial seawater with brown seaweed hydrolysate. Gene expression analysis revealed downregulation of precursor supply pathways and upregulation of repressors, limiting biosynthesis. Metabolic engineering addressed these bottlenecks, leading to a superior S. explomaris mutant achieving 57 mg/L, a five-fold increase as compared to reported yields. The strain effectively valorized commercial seaweed hydrolysates, highlighting marine feedstocks' potential for antibiotic production.

2025-03-10 | GSE291039 | GEO

Burkholderiales bacterium SCN3

Project description:Burkholderiales bacterium SCN3 Genome sequencing

| PRJNA578257 | ENA

Burkholderiales bacterium JOSHI_001

Project description:Burkholderiales bacterium JOSHI_001 genome sequencing project

| PRJNA59875 | ENA

Adrenaline-mediated activation of antibiotic production in Streptomyces highlights catechol as elicitor of specialized metabolism

Project description:Actinobacteria are a rich source of bioactive molecules, and genome sequencing has shown that the vast majority of their biosynthetic potential has yet to be explored. However, many of their biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) are poorly expressed in the laboratory, which prevents discovery of their cognate natural products. To exploit their full biosynthetic potential, better understanding of the signals that promote the expression of BGCs is needed. Here, we show that the human stress hormone epinephrine (adrenaline) elicits antibiotic production by Actinobacteria. Catechol was established as the likely eliciting moiety, since similar responses were seen for catechol and for the catechol-containing molecules dopamine and catechin but not for related molecules. Exploration of the catechol-responsive strain Streptomyces sp. MBT84 using mass spectral networking revealed elicitation of a BGC that produces the angucycline glycosides aquayamycin, urdamycinone B and galtamycin C. Heterologous expression of the catechol-cleaving enzymes catechol 1,2-dioxygenase or catechol 2,3 dioxygenase counteracted the eliciting effect of catechol. Thus, for the first time we show the activation of natural product biosynthesis by a human hormone, leading to the identification of the ubiquitous catechol moiety as elicitor of BGCs for siderophores and antibiotics.

2022-01-10 | PXD030484 | Pride

Adrenaline-mediated activation of antibiotic production in Streptomyces highlights catechol as elicitor of specialized metabolism

2022-02-04 | PXD030319 | Pride