Role of the cmcH-ccaR intergenic region and ccaR overexpression in cephamycin C biosynthesis in Streptomyces clavuligerus

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2013-07-01

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Kurt, Aslihan
Alvarez-Alvarez, Ruben
Liras, Paloma
Özcengiz, Gülay

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The effect of the CcaR regulatory protein on expression of the cephamycin C gene cluster is studied. Quantitative reverse transcription PCR (qRT-PCR) expression analysis of the cephamycin biosynthesis genes in the ccaR-disrupted strain, S. clavuligerus ccaR::aph, revealed that in the absence of CcaR, the lat and cmcI genes expression was reduced 2,200-and 1,087-fold compared with the wild type. Expression of pcbAB-pcbC-cefD-cefE-cmcJ-cmcH and blp was 225- to 359-fold lower, while expression of pcbR-pbpA-bla and orf10 was only slightly affected if at all, indicating that resistance and regulatory genes are not under CcaR control as opposed to pathway biosynthetic genes. In the intergenic cmcH-ccaR region, a small messenger RNA (mRNA) overlaps with the cmcH transcription terminator. Deletion of 688 bp of the intergenic region results in a strain, S. clavuligerus Delta RI, still able to produce cephamycin C and clavulanic acid but at levels 30-40 % lower than the parental strain. Therefore, specific sequences in the intergenic region upstream of ccaR enhance the expression of ccaR but are not essential for its expression. Strains containing an additional ccaR gene integrated in the chromosome, S. clavuligerus pSET-PC, or multiple copies of ccaR expressed from the PglpF promoter, S. clavuligerus pAK23, were constructed. Fermentations of the pAK23 strain resulted in a 6.1-fold increase in specific cephamycin C production relative to the wild type. In the same experiments, qRT-PCR analysis of the cephamycin biosynthesis genes showed a 5.1-fold increase in ccaR expression and similar increases in expression of lat and cmcI, while expression of other cluster genes were increased in the order of 2- to 3-fold.

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Biotechnology, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, General Medicine

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/43252

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APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

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https://doi.org/10.1007/s00253-013-4721-4

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A. Kurt, R. Alvarez-Alvarez, P. Liras, and G. Özcengiz, “Role of the cmcH-ccaR intergenic region and ccaR overexpression in cephamycin C biosynthesis in Streptomyces clavuligerus,” APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY, pp. 5869–5880, 2013, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/43252.