In vitro and in vivo antagonism of actinomycetes isolated from Moroccan rhizospherical soils against Sclerotium rolfsii: a causal agent of root rot on sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.)

Aims:  To evaluate the ability of the isolated actinomycetes to inhibit in vitro plant pathogenic fungi and the efficacy of promising antagonistic isolates to reduce in vivo the incidence of root rot induced by Sclerotium rolfsii on sugar beet.
Methods and Results:  Actinomycetes isolated from rhizosphere soil of sugar beet were screened for antagonistic activity against a number of plant pathogens, including S.   rolfsii . Ten actinomycetes out of 195 screened in vitro were strongly inhibitory to S. rolfsii . These isolates were subsequently tested for their ability to inhibit sclerotial germination and hyphal growth of S. roflsii . The most important inhibitions were obtained by the culture filtrate from the isolates J-2 and B-11, including 100% inhibition of sclerotial germination and 80% inhibition of hyphal growth. These two isolates (J-2 and B-11) were then screened for their ability to protect sugar beet against infection of S. rolfsii induced root rot in a pot trial. The treatment of S. rolfsii infested soil with a biomass and culture filtrate mixture of the selected antagonists reduced significantly ( P  ≤ 0·05) the incidence of root rot on sugar beet. Isolate J-2 was most effective and allowed a high fresh weight of sugar beet roots to be obtained. Both antagonists J-2 and B-11 were classified as belonging to the genus Streptomyces species through morphological and chemical characteristics as well as 16S rDNA analysis.
Conclusion:  Streptomyces isolates J-2 and B-11 showed a potential for controlling root rot on sugar beet and could be useful in integrated control against diverse soil borne plant pathogens.
Significance and Impact of the Study:  This investigation showed the role, which actinomycete bacteria can play to control root rot caused by S.   rolfsii , in the objective to reduce treatments with chemical fungicides.     

天蓝色链霉菌代谢物组测定方法优化及其代谢特征

链霉菌能够产生多种抗生素,具有重要的研究与应用价值。代谢物组学能够定性和定量测定胞内外主要低分子量代谢产物。相对于其他组学,代谢物组学在监控胞内代谢状态、指导物种理性改造方面具有独特优势。本文旨在建立一种快速、准确的链霉菌胞内代谢物分析方法。以模式菌株天蓝色链霉菌为研究对象,基于GC-MS分析平台优化了代谢物组学样品制备流程中的细胞淬灭时间、菌体分离方法、代谢物提取及代谢物衍生化条件,并利用该方法对天蓝色链霉菌不同生长时期各代谢途径的相对活性进行了初步分析。采用"低温淬灭(–40℃,4 min)-快速过滤分离-反复冻融(45 s/3 min)-衍生化(40℃,90 min)"的流程能够鉴定出中心代谢途径(糖酵解、戊糖磷酸途径和TCA循环)、氨基酸代谢途径、脂肪酸代谢途径、核酸代谢途径及部分次级代谢途径中的103种主要代谢物。利用该流程测定发现天蓝色链霉菌细胞生长周期中存在显著的代谢时序差异,并且发现氨基酸与脂肪酸代谢在衔接初级代谢与次级代谢生物合成中具有重要作用。本研究建立的测定方法能够有效地用于天蓝色链霉胞内代谢物分析,该方法将有助于深入刻画链霉菌细胞代谢过程,为菌株代谢工程改造增加次级代谢产物产量提供理性指导。     

紫红链霉菌对钉螺酶组织化学的影响

为研究紫红链霉菌灭螺作用的机理,将钉螺分别浸泡于紫红链霉菌培养液(含菌4×106/ml)及去氯水、培养基中36h后,用酶组织化学方法显示各组钉螺肝脏、中枢神经节、头足部及鳃的Mg2 激活的三磷酸腺苷酶(Mg2 ATPase)、胆碱脂酶(ChE)、一氧化氮合酶(NOS)、乳酸脱氢酶(LDH)、琥珀酸脱氢酶(SDH)并观察其变化。结果显示:菌液浸泡组钉螺的Mg2 ATPase活性在肝脏、中枢神经节、头足部及鳃部均明显减弱或完全失活,LDH在中枢神经节、头足部也有一定程度减弱,ChE、NOS、SDH在肝脏、中枢神经节、头足部及鳃部与去氯水组无明显差异;培养基组与去氯水组钉螺相应部位的Mg2 ATPase、ChE、NOS、LDH、SDH活性一致。结果提示:紫红链霉菌的灭螺作用机理主要在于破坏钉螺体内Mg2 ATPase和LDH活性,使ATP生成和利用障碍,最终因能量缺乏而丧失生命功能直至死亡     

Heterologous production of daptomycin in Streptomyces lividans

Daptomycin and the A21978C antibiotic complex are lipopeptides produced by Streptomyces roseosporus and also in recombinant Streptomyces lividans TK23 and TK64 strains, when a 128 kbp region of cloned S. roseosporus DNA containing the daptomycin gene cluster is inserted site-specifically in the ϕC31 attB site. A21978C fermentation yields were initially much lower in S. lividans than in S. roseosporus, and detection was complicated by the production of host metabolites. However A21978C production in S. lividans was improved by deletion of genes encoding the production of actinorhodin and by medium optimization to control the chemical form of the calcium dependent antibiotic (CDA). This latter compound has not previously been chemically characterized as a S. lividans product. Adding phosphate to a defined fermentation medium resulted in formation of only the phosphorylated forms of CDA, which were well separated from A21978C on chromatographic analysis. Adjusting the level of phosphate in the medium led to an improvement in A21978C yield from 20 to 55 mg/l.     

The structural genes encoding CO dehydrogenase subunits (cox L,M and S) in Pseudomonas carboxydovorans OM5 reside on plasmid pHCG3 and are,with the exception of Streptomyces thermoautotrophicus,conserved in carboxydotrophic bacteria

Employing deoxyoligonucleotide probes and Southern hybridizations, we have examined in carboxydotrophic bacteria the localization on the genome of genes encoding the large, medium and small subunits of CO dehydrogenase (coxL, M and S, respectively). In Pseudomonas carboxydovorans OM5 coxL, M and S were identified on the plasmid pHCG3; they were absent on the chromosome. This was evident from positive hybridizations with plasmid DNA of the wild-type strain OM5 and the absence of hybridizations with chromosomal DNA from the plasmid cured mutant strain OM5–12. The genes coxL, M and S were found on plasmids in all other plasmid-containing carboxydotrophic bacteria e.g. Alcaligenes carboxydus, Azomonas B1, Pseudomonas carboxydoflava, Pseudomonas carboxydovorans OM2 and OM4. Cox L, M and S could be identified on the chromosome of the plasmid-free bacteria Arthrobacter 11/x, Bacillus schlegelii, Pseudomonas carboxydohydrogena, and Pseudomonas carboxydovorans OM3. These results essentially confirm and extend former reports that cox genes are rather conserved among carboxydotrophic bacteria of distinct taxonomic position. However, Streptomyces thermoautotrophicus is an noteworthy exception since none of the three cox genes could be detected. This refers to a new type of CO dehydrogenase and is in accord with results indicating that the S. thermoautotrophicus CO dehydrogenase has an unusual electron acceptor specificity and some other properties setting it apart from the classical CO dehydrogenases.Abbreviations CODH carbon monoxide dehydrogenase - H₂ase hydrogenase - kb kilobase - PRK phosphoribulokinase - Rubisco ribulosebisphosphate carboxylase - SDS sodium dodecylsulfate     

8-Mop选育天兰淡红链霉菌(S. Coeruleorubidus)高产株

本文首次报导天兰淡红链霉菌（S.coeruleorubidus)经8－甲氧基补骨脂素选育后,获得一株摇瓶产量稳增7．47％的高产株,已在国内应用。     

链霉菌-ZLT产生的蓝色素性质研究

报道了一株链霉菌产生的蓝色素的性质。研究表明,该色素水溶性好,具有较高的热稳定性;低pH条件下,抗氧化还原能力较强。大多数所测试的金属离子基本不影响色素的性质。中性条件下色素耐日光,碱性条件下耐紫外光。     

Proteins that interact with GTP in Streptomyces griseus and its possible implication in morphogenesis

Abstract By cross-linking with [α-³²P]GTP or [γ-³²P]GTP with or without UV treatment, several proteins of Streptomyces griseus were shown to interact with GTP in specific ways. After gel electrophoresis, 19 bands of radioactivity were found; 12 bands were assigned as GTP-binding proteins and 6 bands as phosphorylated proteins. One band was assumed to be a guanylylated protein. The profile of radioactive bands was similar between cells prepared from liquid or solid culture, but markedly different between growth phases. A mutant (strain M-1) defective in aerial mycelium formation, which was originally found as a decoyinine-resistant isolate, was found to have a different profile of phosphorylated proteins.     

Biocatalytic role of cytochrome P450s to produce antibiotics: A review

Cytochrome P450s belong to a family of heme-binding monooxygenases, which catalyze regio- and stereospecific functionalisation of C–H, C–C, and C–N bonds, including heteroatom oxidation, oxidative C–C bond cleavages, and nitrene transfer. P450s are considered useful biocatalysts for the production of pharmaceutical products, fine chemicals, and bioremediating agents. Despite having tremendous biotechnological potential, being heme-monooxygenases, P450s require either autologous or heterologous redox partner(s) to perform chemical transformations. Randomly distributed P450s throughout a bacterial genome and devoid of particular redox partners in natural products biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) showed an extra challenge to reveal their pharmaceutical potential. However, continuous efforts have been made to understand their involvement in antibiotic biosynthesis and their modification, and this review focused on such BGCs. Here, particularly, we have discussed the role of P450s involved in the production of macrolides and aminocoumarin antibiotics, nonribosomal peptide (NRPSs) antibiotics, ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptide (RiPPs) antibiotics, and others. Several reactions catalyzed by P450s, as well as the role of their redox partners involved in the BGCs of various antibiotics and their derivatives, have been primarily addressed in this review, which would be useful in further exploration of P450s for the biosynthesis of new therapeutics.