The conserved actinobacterial two-component system MtrAB coordinates chloramphenicol production with sporulation in Streptomyces venezuelae NRRL B-65442

Som, Nicolle F., Heine, Daniel, Holmes, Neil A., Munnoch, John T., Chandra, Govind, Seipke, Ryan F., Hoskisson, Paul A., Wilkinson, Barrie and Hutchings, Matthew I. (2017) The conserved actinobacterial two-component system MtrAB coordinates chloramphenicol production with sporulation in Streptomyces venezuelae NRRL B-65442. Frontiers in Microbiology, 8. ISSN 1664-302X

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Abstract

Streptomyces bacteria make numerous secondary metabolites, including half of all known antibiotics. Production of antibiotics is usually coordinated with the onset of sporulation but the cross regulation of these processes is not fully understood. This is important because most Streptomyces antibiotics are produced at low levels or not at all under laboratory conditions and this makes large scale production of these compounds very challenging. Here we characterise the highly conserved actinobacterial two-component system MtrAB in the model organism Streptomyces venezuelae and provide evidence that it coordinates production of the antibiotic chloramphenicol with sporulation. MtrAB are known to coordinate DNA replication and cell division in Mycobacterium tuberculosis where TB-MtrA is essential for viability. We were unable to delete mtrA in S. venezuelae unless another copy was present in trans but deletion of mtrB resulted in a global shift in the metabolome, including constitutive, high-level production of chloramphenicol. We found that chloramphenicol is detectable in the wild type strain, but only at very low levels and only after it has sporulated. ChIP-seq showed that MtrA binds upstream of DNA replication and cell division genes and genes required for chloramphenicol production. dnaA, dnaN, oriC and wblE (whiB1) appear to be targets for MtrA in both M. tuberculosis and S. venezuelae. Intriguingly, over-expression of TB-MtrA and gain of function TB- and Sv-MtrA proteins in S. venezuelae also switched on high level production of chloramphenicol. Given the conservation of MtrAB, these constructs might be useful tools for manipulating antibiotic production in other filamentous actinomycetes.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: chloramphenicol,cell division,mtra,streptomyces,antibiotics,sdg 3 - good health and well-being ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/good_health_and_well_being
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Science > School of Biological Sciences
Faculty of Science > School of Chemistry
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Molecular Microbiology
Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Organisms and the Environment
Depositing User: Pure Connector
Date Deposited: 08 Jun 2017 05:08
Last Modified: 13 May 2023 00:08
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/63703
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.01145

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