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Regulation of valanimycin biosynthesis in : characterization of VlmI as a antibiotic regulatory protein (SARP) Free

Abstract

antibiotic regulatory proteins (SARPs) have been shown to activate transcription by binding to a tandemly arrayed set of heptameric direct repeats located around the −35 region of their cognate promoters. Experimental evidence is presented here showing that is a regulatory gene in the valanimycin biosynthetic gene cluster of and encodes a protein belonging to the SARP family. The organization of the valanimycin biosynthetic gene cluster suggests that the valanimycin biosynthetic genes are located on three potential transcripts, , and . Disruption of abolished valanimycin biosynthesis. Western blot analyses showed that VlmR and VlmA are absent from the mutant and that the production of VlmK is severely diminished. These results demonstrate that the expression of these genes from the three potential transcripts is under the positive control of VlmI. The and – intergenic regions both exhibit a pattern of heptameric direct repeats. Gel shift assays with VlmI overproduced in as a C-terminal FLAG-tagged protein clearly demonstrated that VlmI binds to DNA fragments from both regions that contain these heptameric repeats. When a high-copy-number expression plasmid was introduced into M512, which contains mutations in the undecylprodigiosin and actinorhodin activators and , undecylprodigiosin production was restored, showing that can complement a mutation. Introduction of the same expression plasmid into an mutant restored valanimycin production to wild-type levels.

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Keyword(s): SARP, Streptomyces antibiotic regulatory protein
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Regulation of valanimycin biosynthesis in Streptomyces viridifaciens: characterization of VlmI as a Streptomyces antibiotic regulatory protein (SARP)
Microbiology 156, 472 (2010); https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.033167-0
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