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NATURAL PRODUCTS AND BIOPROSPECTING
Volume 11, Issue 4, Pages 431-445Publisher
SPRINGERNATURE
DOI: 10.1007/s13659-021-00304-1
Keywords
Actinomycetes; Schizosaccharomyces pombe; Morphology; Phenotype; Antifungal; Polyene
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- Francis Crick Institute - Cancer Research UK [FC001121]
- UK Medical Research Council [FC001121]
- Wellcome Trust [FC001121, 093917]
- Demuris Ltd.
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The study aimed to identify bioactive natural product compounds that alter the cellular shape of fission yeast. Bioassays confirmed that many antifungal agents induced a rounded phenotype, and further investigation revealed specific strains producing various antifungal compounds.
This study was designed to identify and investigate bioactive natural product compounds that alter the cellular shape of the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe and induce a rounded or small cellular morphological phenotype. Bioassays using a range of antifungal agents against a multidrug-sensitive fission yeast strain, SAK950 showed that many induced a rounded phenotype. We then investigated whether 46 of the actinomycete strains identified in our previous study as inducing a similar phenotype produced antifungal agents of similar classes. We show that five of the strains produced streptothricin and that 26 strains produced polyenes, including fungichromin, filipin and candicidin, the last of which was produced by 24 strains. A taxonomic study of the strains indicated that the majority of the candicidin only producers were Streptomyces hydrogenans and S. albidoflavus whilst those that additionally produced streptothricin were related to S. enissocaesilis. A follow-up study to investigate the natural products made by related strains indicated that they followed a similar pattern. The identification of several compounds from the actinomycete strains similar to the antifungal agents initially tested confirm the validity of an approach using the S. pombe morphological phenotype and actinomycete taxonomy as a predictive tool for natural product identification. [GRAPHICS] .
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