Abstract
Asukamycin, a member of the manumycin family of antibiotics, exhibits strong antibacterial, antifungal, and antineoplastic activities. However, its production in the wild-type strain of Streptomyces nodosus subsp. asukaensis ATCC 29757 is relatively low. Recently, the biosynthetic gene cluster for asukamycin was identified in the producing organism, and among the 36 genes reported in the cluster, six (asuR1-asuR6) were proposed to encode proteins that function as transcriptional regulators. In order to investigate their involvement in asukamycin biosynthesis and to engineer mutant strains of S. nodosus that are able to produce large amounts of asukamycin, we carried out in vivo gene inactivation, transcriptional analysis of the biosynthetic genes in the mutants, and gene duplication in the producing strain of S. nodosus. The results show that two of the putative regulatory genes (asuR1 and asuR5) are critical for asukamycin biosynthesis, whereas others regulate the pathway at various levels. Overexpression of a gene cassette harboring asuR1, asuR2, asuR3, and asuR4 in S. nodosus resulted in changes in morphology of the producing strain and an approximately 14-fold increase of asukamycin production. However, overexpression of th...Continue Reading
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