SummaryTwo regulatory genes, jadR2 and jadR3, in the jadomycin (jad) biosynthetic gene cluster of Streptomyces venezuelae encode homologues of γ-butyrolactone receptor. JadR2 was previously shown to be a pseudo γ-butyrolactone receptor. jadR3 is situated at the upstream of jadW123 encoding putative enzymes for γ-butyrolactone biosynthesis. Disruption of jadR3 resulted in markedly decreased production of jadomycin. Transcriptional analysis revealed that JadR3 represses jadW1, jadR2 and jadR3 but activates jadR1, the key activator gene for jadomycin biosynthesis. DNase I footprinting showed that JadR3 has four binding sites in the intergenic regions of jadR2-jadR1 and jadR3-jadW1. A JadR3 interactive molecule, SVB1, was purified from a large-scale fermentation and its structure found to be the same as SCB3, a γ-butyrolactone from Streptomyces coelicolor, and was absent from a jadW123 mutant lacking jadomycin production. Addition of SVB1 or extract from S. coelicolor to the mutant restored jadomycin production. Overall, our results revealed that the association of JadR3 and SVB1 plays an important role in controlling a regulatory mini-network governing jadomycin biosynthesis, providing new insights into the ways in which γ-butyrolactone/receptor systems modulate antibiotic biosynthesis in Streptomyces.
Several strategies have been used to clone large DNA fragments directly from bacterial
genome. Most of these approaches are based on different site-specific recombination systems
consisting of a specialized recombinase and its target sites. In this study, a novel
strategy based on phage ϕBT1 integrase-mediated site-specific recombination was developed,
and used for simultaneous Streptomyces genome engineering and cloning of antibiotic
gene clusters. This method has been proved successful for the cloning of actinorhodin gene
cluster from Streptomyces coelicolor M145, napsamycin gene cluster and daptomycin
gene cluster from Streptomyces roseosporus NRRL 15998 at a frequency higher than 80%.
Furthermore, the system could be used to increase the titer of antibiotics as we
demonstrated with actinorhodin and daptomycin, and it will be broadly applicable in many
Streptomyces.
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