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FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS
Volume 333, Issue 2, Pages 169-179Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2012.02609.x
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Streptomyces; genomic engineering; antibiotic biosynthetic genes; telomere
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Streptomyces coelicolor, with its 8 667 507-bp linear chromosome, is the genetically most studied Streptomyces species and is an excellent model for studying antibiotic production and cell differentiation. Here, we report construction of S. coelicolor derivatives containing sequential deletions of all the 10 polyketide synthase (PKS) and nonribosomal peptide synthetase (NRPS) biosynthetic gene clusters and a 900-kb subtelomeric sequence (total c. 1.22 Mb, 14% of the genome). No obvious differences in growth rates and sporulation of the strains were found. An artificially circularized S. coelicolor genome with deletions of total c. 1.6 Mb segments (840-kb for the left and 761-kb for the right arm of the linear chromosome) was obtained. The actinorhodin biosynthetic gene cluster could be overexpressed in some of the constructed strains.
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