Regulation of antibiotic production in Actinobacteria: new perspectives from the post-genomic era

HU Van Der Heul, BL Bilyk, KJ McDowall… - Natural product …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2000 to 2018 The antimicrobial activity of many of their natural products has
brought prominence to the Streptomycetaceae, a family of Gram-positive bacteria that …

Extreme environments: microbiology leading to specialized metabolites

AM Sayed, MHA Hassan, HA Alhadrami… - Journal of Applied …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The prevalence of multidrug‐resistant microbial pathogens due to the continued misuse and
overuse of antibiotics in agriculture and medicine is raising the prospect of a return to the …

[HTML][HTML] Activation of microbial secondary metabolic pathways: Avenues and challenges

B Baral, A Akhgari, M Metsä-Ketelä - Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology, 2018 - Elsevier
Microbial natural products are a tremendous source of new bioactive chemical entities for
drug discovery. Next generation sequencing has revealed an unprecedented genomic …

Novel bioactive natural products from bacteria via bioprospecting, genome mining and metabolic engineering

ON Sekurova, O Schneider… - Microbial biotechnology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
For over seven decades, bacteria served as a valuable source of bioactive natural products
some of which were eventually developed into drugs to treat infections, cancer and immune …

Metagenomics approaches in discovery and development of new bioactive compounds from marine actinomycetes

GP Mahapatra, S Raman, S Nayak, S Gouda, G Das… - Current …, 2020 - Springer
Marine actinomycetes are prolific sources of marine drug discovery system contributing for
several bioactive compounds of biomedical prominence. Metagenomics, a culture …

[HTML][HTML] Regulation of antibiotic biosynthesis in actinomycetes: perspectives and challenges

J Wei, L He, G Niu - Synthetic and systems biotechnology, 2018 - Elsevier
Actinomycetes are the main sources of antibiotics. The onset and level of production of each
antibiotic is subject to complex control by multi-level regulators. These regulators exert their …

Rational engineering of Streptomyces albus J1074 for the overexpression of secondary metabolite gene clusters

D Kallifidas, G Jiang, Y Ding, H Luesch - Microbial Cell Factories, 2018 - Springer
Background Genome sequencing revealed that Streptomyces sp. can dedicate up to~ 10%
of their genomes for the biosynthesis of bioactive secondary metabolites. However, the …

Eliciting the silent lucensomycin biosynthetic pathway in Streptomyces cyanogenus S136 via manipulation of the global regulatory gene adpA

O Yushchuk, I Ostash, E Mösker, I Vlasiuk, M Deneka… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Actinobacteria are among the most prolific sources of medically and agriculturally important
compounds, derived from their biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) for specialized …

Secondary nucleotide messenger c-di-GMP exerts a global control on natural product biosynthesis in streptomycetes

R Makitrynskyy, O Tsypik, D Nuzzo… - Nucleic Acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Cyclic dimeric 3′-5′ guanosine monophosphate, c-di-GMP, is a ubiquitous
second messenger controlling diverse cellular processes in bacteria. In streptomycetes, c-di …

WblA, a global regulator of antibiotic biosynthesis in Streptomyces

HJ Nah, J Park, S Choi, ES Kim - Journal of Industrial …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Streptomyces species are soil-dwelling bacteria that produce vast numbers of
pharmaceutically valuable secondary metabolites (SMs), such as antibiotics …