Project description:Genome sequencing of deep sea derived actinomycetes Saccharopolyspora erythraea strain SCSIO 07745, a rich source of novel bioactive compounds
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Project description:Novel plant-derived bioactive compounds shape the human gut microbiome in vitro
Project description:Microbial consortia consist of a multitude of prokaryotic and eukaryotic microorganisms. Their interaction is critical for the functioning of ecosystems. Until now, there is limited knowledge about the communication signals determining the interaction between bacteria and fungi and how they influence microbial consortia. Here, we discovered that bacterial low molecular weight arginine-derived polyketides trigger the production of distinct natural products in fungi. These compounds are produced by actinomycetes found on all continents except Antarctica and are characterized by an arginine-derived positively charged group linked to a linear or cyclic polyene moiety. Producer bacteria can be readily isolated from soil as well as fungi that decode the signal and respond with the biosynthesis of natural products. Both arginine-derived polyketides and the compounds produced by fungi in response shape microbial interactions.
Project description:SYSTERACT: Systematic Rebuilding of Actinomycetes for Natural Product Formation For several decades antibiotics have saved millions of lives, but their overuse makes them less effective due to increase in bacterial resistance. Because of this major clinical and public health problem, there is an urgent need for new effective antimicrobials. The ERASysAPP project SYSTERACT aims to further develop, the model actinobacterium Streptomyces coelicolor into improved microbial cell factories to heterologously produce diverse bioactive compounds in amounts needed for structural and functional evaluation. Unprecedented systems biology understanding of S. coelicolor is being combined with morphology engineering and improved (de-)regulation and precursor supply to accelerate bioactive compound discovery efforts. By that means, we aim to generate a stepwise improved 'Superhost' for the production of antibiotics in which metabolic bottlenecks and regulatory restriction are greatly mitigated. The optimized strains will be tested concerning their applicability for an improved production of commercially relevant antibiotics and the expression of novel bioactive gene clusters identified in new actinomycete strains and environmental metagenomes. So far two strains, M145 and M1152, have been cultivated for time-resolved 'omics sampling, and a larger number of additional strains are on the list for similar experiments. High quality RNAseq-based transcriptome data have been generated and processed. M145 is the wildtype strain in S. coelicolor (as used in STREAM, see also GSE18489), 3 biol. replicas and M1152 lacks four major biosynthetic gene clusters, undecylprodigine (RED), calcium-dependent antibiotic (CDA), coelimycin (CPK) and actinorhodin (ACT). Contributors: A. Wentzel, W. Wohlleben, G. van Wezel, D van Dissel, O. Wolkenhauer, E. Kerkhoven, N. Spidsoe, K. Nieselt and the SYSTERACT consortium
Project description:SYSTERACT: Systematic Rebuilding of Actinomycetes for Natural Product Formation For several decades antibiotics have saved millions of lives, but their overuse makes them less effective due to increase in bacterial resistance. Because of this major clinical and public health problem, there is an urgent need for new effective antimicrobials. The ERASysAPP project SYSTERACT aims to further develop, the model actinobacterium Streptomyces coelicolor into improved microbial cell factories to heterologously produce diverse bioactive compounds in amounts needed for structural and functional evaluation. Unprecedented systems biology understanding of S. coelicolor is being combined with morphology engineering and improved (de-)regulation and precursor supply to accelerate bioactive compound discovery efforts. By that means, we aim to generate a stepwise improved 'Superhost' for the production of antibiotics in which metabolic bottlenecks and regulatory restriction are greatly mitigated. The optimized strains will be tested concerning their applicability for an improved production of commercially relevant antibiotics and the expression of novel bioactive gene clusters identified in new actinomycete strains and environmental metagenomes. So far two strains, M145 and M1152, have been cultivated for time-resolved 'omics sampling, and a larger number of additional strains are on the list for similar experiments. High quality RNAseq-based transcriptome data have been generated and processed. M145 is the wildtype strain in S. coelicolor (as used in STREAM, see also GSE18489), 3 biol. replicas and M1152 lacks four major biosynthetic gene clusters, undecylprodigine (RED), calcium-dependent antibiotic (CDA), coelimycin (CPK) and actinorhodin (ACT). Contributors: A. Wentzel, W. Wohlleben, G. van Wezel, D van Dissel, O. Wolkenhauer, E. Kerkhoven, N. Spidsoe, K. Nieselt and the SYSTERACT consortium