Isolation and Production of Prodigiosin Pigments from Streptomyces spp.

Author(s):  
Leena Sebastian ◽  
A. Martin Paul ◽  
D. Jayanthi
Keyword(s):  
Metabolites ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 239
Author(s):  
Arshad Ali Shaikh ◽  
Louis-Felix Nothias ◽  
Santosh K. Srivastava ◽  
Pieter C. Dorrestein ◽  
Kapil Tahlan

Bacterial specialized metabolites are of immense importance because of their medicinal, industrial, and agricultural applications. Streptomyces clavuligerus is a known producer of such compounds; however, much of its metabolic potential remains unknown, as many associated biosynthetic gene clusters are silent or expressed at low levels. The overexpression of ribosome recycling factor (frr) and ribosome engineering (induced rpsL mutations) in other Streptomyces spp. has been reported to increase the production of known specialized metabolites. Therefore, we used an overexpression strategy in combination with untargeted metabolomics, molecular networking, and in silico analysis to annotate 28 metabolites in the current study, which have not been reported previously in S. clavuligerus. Many of the newly described metabolites are commonly found in plants, further alluding to the ability of S. clavuligerus to produce such compounds under specific conditions. In addition, the manipulation of frr and rpsL led to different metabolite production profiles in most cases. Known and putative gene clusters associated with the production of the observed compounds are also discussed. This work suggests that the combination of traditional strain engineering and recently developed metabolomics technologies together can provide rapid and cost-effective strategies to further speed up the discovery of novel natural products.


Planta ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 253 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Subramaniam Gopalakrishnan ◽  
Vadlamudi Srinivas ◽  
Nimmala Naresh ◽  
Sambangi Pratyusha ◽  
Sravani Ankati ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 163 ◽  
pp. 2415-2428
Author(s):  
Selvaraj Alagu Lakshmi ◽  
RajaMohamed Beema Shafreen ◽  
Appasamy Priyanga ◽  
Sugathan Shiburaj ◽  
Shunmugiah Karutha Pandian

1970 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 6-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bidur Dhungel ◽  
Manoj Subedi ◽  
Kiran Babu Tiwari ◽  
Upendra Thapa Shrestha ◽  
Subarna Pokhrel ◽  
...  

Glucose isomerase (EC 5.3.1.5) was extracted from Streptomyces spp., isolated from Mt. Everest soil sample, and purified by ammonium sulfate fractionation and Sepharose-4B chromatography. A 7.1 fold increase in specific activity of the purified enzyme over crude was observed. Using glucose as substrate, the Michaelis constant (KM<) and maximal velocity (Vmax) were found to be 0.45M and 0.18U/mg. respectively. The optimum substrate (glucose) concentration, optimum enzyme concentration, optimum pH, optimum temperature, and optimum reaction time were 0.6M, 62.14μg/100μl, 6.9, 70ºC, and 30 minutes, respectively. Optimum concentrations of Mg2+ and Co2+ were 5mM and 0.5mM, respectively. The enzyme was thermostable with half-life 30 minutes at 100ºC.DOI: 10.3126/ijls.v1i0.2300 Int J Life Sci 1 : 6-10


1998 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 960-967 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raghida A. Bukhalid ◽  
Soo Young Chung ◽  
Rosemary Loria

We are investigating the genetic basis for, and evolution of, plant pathogenicity in Streptomyces spp. The plant-pathogenic species S. scabies, S. acidiscabies, and S. turgidiscabies cause the scab disease of potato and produce the phytotoxins, thaxtomins. Forty-three Streptomyces strains representing the three species were evaluated; all thaxtomin A-producing Streptomyces strains were pathogenic on potato tubers and all but one hybridized to nec1 and ORFtnp, two genes previously cloned from S. scabies ATCC 41973. nec1 confers a pathogenic phenotype on S. lividans TK24, a nonpathogen, and ORFtnp is a transposase pseudogene located 5′ to nec1. The eight nonpathogenic strains tested neither produced thaxtomin A nor hybridized to nec1. ORFtnp and nec1 occurred on a single PvuII restriction fragment in all thaxtomin A-producing Streptomyces strains. The nucleotide sequences of the homologs of nec1 and ORFtnp from two pathogenic strains each of S. scabies, S. acidiscabies, and S. turgidiscabies were identical; oligonucleotide primers specific to this gene amplified homologs from all strains that hybridized to nec1. We propose that nec1 and ORFtnp have been horizontally mobilized from S. scabies to S. acidiscabies and S. turgidiscabies, and that nec1 is involved in pathogenicity and physically linked to the thaxtomin A biosynthetic genes.


2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 27-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed I. Khattab ◽  
Eltahir H. Babiker ◽  
Humodi A. Saeed

The objectives of this study were to isolate and identify Streptomyces from soil sediments as well as to optimize cultural growth conditions for maximum antibacterial productivity. A total of fifty soil sediments were collected from Red Sea, Sudan. The soil sediments were pretreated and cultivated on agar medium. Promising Streptomyces spp. were isolated by agar overlay method using indicator organisms. Optimization of chemical and physical culture conditions was carried out. The later was judged by assessment of antibacterial activity. Ethyl acetate was used to extract the secondary metabolite compounds. The separation of the active ingredients was performed using both thin layer chromatography (TLC) and gas chromatography-mass spectrometer (GC-MS). The results revealed nine strains of Streptomyces. Of them two (PS1 and PS28) isolates exhibited high activity against pathogenic bacteria. The optimum growth conditions were pH 7.5, temperature at 30°C, soyabean concentration 2.5 g/l, incubation period in 7 days, MgSO4.7H2O conc. 1g/l and K2HPO4 conc. 2.5g/l. TLC test showed three and two fragments from metabolites of PS1 and PS28 respectively, while the GC-MS analysis revealed eight and eleven compounds with antibacterial activity of PS1 and PS28 respectively. It is concluded that marine is promising source of secondary metabolites.Khattab et al., International Current Pharmaceutical Journal, February 2016, 5(3): 27-32


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