Project description:To identify unique gene expression in higher antibiotics producing Streptomyces coelicolor strain, non-producer M1146 and the derivative strain M1146+ACT (M1146 with actinorhodin biosynthetic genes cluster) was choosen for comparative transcriptome analysis. The genes with different gene expression might be key genes important for antibiotics production.
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
Project description:The goal was to study the dfactionation of different lignocelullose (glucose, wheat bran, wheat straw) by Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) and the corresponding production of secondary metabolites. This was performed by multi-omic experiment such as transcriptomic/metabolomic and leads to the production of new metabolites. For that, the strain Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) was subjected to two carbon sources in triplicate (wheat bran and glucose as control). Enzymatic activities were studied at different times and the expression of CAZYmes was studied by transcriptomic in order to detect which enzymes are needed for each carbon source
Project description:Bacteria in the genus Streptomyces are soil dwelling oligotrophs and important producers of secondary metabolites. Previously we showed that global mRNA expression was subject to a series of metabolic and regulatory switches during the life time of a fermentor batch culture of S. coelicolor M145. Here we analyse the proteome from eight time points from the same fermentor culture and, as phosphate availability is an important regulator of secondary metabolite production, compare this to the proteome of a similar time course from an S. coelicolor mutant, INB201 (ΔphoP), defective in the control of phosphate utilisation. The proteomes provide a detailed view of enzymes involved in central carbon and nitrogen metabolism. Trends in protein expression over the time courses were deduced from a protein abundance index which also revealed the importance of stress pathway proteins in both cultures. As expected the ΔphoP mutant was deficient in expression of PhoP-dependent genes and several putatively compensatory metabolic and regulatory pathways for phosphate scavenging were detected. Notably there is a succession of switches that co-ordinately induce the production of enzymes for five different secondary metabolite biosynthesis pathways over the course of the batch cultures and these were not confined to the stationary phase.
Project description:A complex programme of regulation governs gene expression during development of the morphologically and biochemically complex eubacterial genus Streptomyces. Earlier work has suggested a model in which 'higher level' pleiotropic regulators activate 'pathway-specific' regulators located within chromosomal gene clusters encoding biosynthesis of individual antibiotics. We used mutational analysis and adventitious overexpression of key Streptomyces coelicolor regulators to investigate functional interactions among them. We report here that cluster-situated regulators (CSRs) thought to be pathway-specific can also control other antibiotic biosynthetic gene clusters, and thus have pleiotropic actions. Surprisingly, we also find that CSRs exhibit growth-phase-dependent control over afsR2/afsS, a 'higher level' pleiotropic regulatory locus not located within any of the chromosomal gene clusters it targets, and further demonstrate that cross-regulation by CSRs is modulated globally and differentially during the S. coelicolor growth cycle by the RNaseIII homologue AbsB. Our results, which reveal a network of functional interactions among regulators that govern production of antibiotics and other secondary metabolites in S. coelicolor, suggest that revision of the currently prevalent view of higher-level versus pathway-specific regulation of secondary metabolism in Streptomyces species is warranted. Groups of assays that are related as part of a time series. Keywords: time_series_design
Project description:Streptomyces coelicolor normally produce spores with a relatively high heterogeneity, which will produce genetically heterogeneous sub-populations. These sub-populations often exert massive chromosome amplifications and deletions. Cells with gross chromosomal changes produce an increased diversity of secondary metabolites and secrete significantly more antibiotics; however, these changes come at the cost of dramatically reduced individual fitness, providing direct evidence for a trade-off between secondary metabolite production and fitness. We propose that antibiotic production in colonies of the multicellular bacterium Streptomyces coelicolor is coordinated by a division of labour. This proteomics survey will provide more detailed insights into how these chromosomal changed strains behave under normal growth condition.
Project description:A complex programme of regulation governs gene expression during development of the morphologically and biochemically complex eubacterial genus Streptomyces. Earlier work has suggested a model in which 'higher level' pleiotropic regulators activate 'pathway-specific' regulators located within chromosomal gene clusters encoding biosynthesis of individual antibiotics. We used mutational analysis and adventitious overexpression of key Streptomyces coelicolor regulators to investigate functional interactions among them. We report here that cluster-situated regulators (CSRs) thought to be pathway-specific can also control other antibiotic biosynthetic gene clusters, and thus have pleiotropic actions. Surprisingly, we also find that CSRs exhibit growth-phase-dependent control over afsR2/afsS, a 'higher level' pleiotropic regulatory locus not located within any of the chromosomal gene clusters it targets, and further demonstrate that cross-regulation by CSRs is modulated globally and differentially during the S. coelicolor growth cycle by the RNaseIII homologue AbsB. Our results, which reveal a network of functional interactions among regulators that govern production of antibiotics and other secondary metabolites in S. coelicolor, suggest that revision of the currently prevalent view of higher-level versus pathway-specific regulation of secondary metabolism in Streptomyces species is warranted. Groups of assays that are related as part of a time series. Computed