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PLOS ONE
Volume 17, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0270379
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- Institute for Fermentation, Osaka (IFO)
- Amano Enzyme Foundation
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) [16K18673]
- JSPS [18H02120]
- IFO general research grant from IFO
- JSPS A3 Foresight Program
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In this study, carbon ion beam-induced mutagenesis was used to screen for RED production-deficient mutants of Streptomyces coelicolor. Through genome resequencing and gene complementation experiments, it was found that gltB and fusA genes were responsible for the reduced production of RED.
Streptomyces lividans TK23 interacts with mycolic acid-containing bacteria (MACB), such as Tsukamurella pulmonis TP-B0596, and this direct cell contact activates its secondary metabolism (e.g., the production of undecylprodigiosin: RED). Here, we employed carbon (C-12(5+)) ion beam-induced mutagenesis to investigate the signature of induced point mutations and further identify the gene(s) responsible for the production of secondary metabolites induced by T. pulmonis. We irradiated spores of the Streptomyces coelicolor strain JCM4020 with carbon ions to generate a mutant library. We screened the RED production-deficient mutants of S. coelicolor by mixing them with T. pulmonis TP-B0596 on agar plates, identifying the red/white phenotype of the growing colonies. Through this process, we selected 59 RED-deficient mutants from around 152,000 tested spores. We resequenced the genomes of 16 mutants and identified 44 point mutations, which revealed the signatures induced by C-12(5+)-irradiation. Via gene complementation experiments, we also revealed that two genes-glutamate synthase (gltB) and elongation factor G (fusA)-are responsible for the reduced production of RED.
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