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 …

The leucine-responsive regulatory proteins/feast-famine regulatory proteins: an ancient and complex class of transcriptional regulators in bacteria and archaea

CA Ziegler, PL Freddolino - Critical reviews in biochemistry and …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Since the discovery of the Escherichia coli leucine-responsive regulatory protein (Lrp)
almost 50 years ago, hundreds of Lrp homologs have been discovered, occurring in 45% of …

Metabolic engineering of main transcription factors in carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus metabolisms for enhanced production of bacitracin in Bacillus licheniformis

D Cai, J Zhu, S Zhu, Y Lu, B Zhang, K Lu, J Li… - ACS Synthetic …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Primary metabolism plays a key role in the synthesis of secondary metabolite. In this study,
the main transcription factors in carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus metabolisms (CcpA …

The leucine‐responsive regulatory protein SCAB_Lrp modulates thaxtomin biosynthesis, pathogenicity, and morphological development in Streptomyces scabies

J Liu, Y Wang, H He, S Dong, L Tang… - Molecular Plant …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Streptomyces scabies is the best‐characterized plant‐pathogenic streptomycete, which is a
special species among the large genus Streptomyces. The pathogenicity of S. scabies relies …

Transcriptional regulation of a leucine-responsive regulatory protein for directly controlling lincomycin biosynthesis in Streptomyces lincolnensis

Y Xu, Y Tang, N Wang, J Liu, X Cai, H Cai, J Li… - Applied microbiology …, 2020 - Springer
Leucine-responsive regulatory proteins (Lrps) are a family of transcription factors involved in
diverse biological processes in bacteria. So far, molecular mechanism of Lrps for regulating …

Polyketide starter and extender units serve as regulatory ligands to coordinate the biosynthesis of antibiotics in actinomycetes

P Wu, K Chen, B Li, Y Zhang, H Wu, Y Chen, S Ren… - Mbio, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Polyketides are one of the largest categories of secondary metabolites, and their
biosynthesis is initiated by polyketide synthases (PKSs) using coenzyme A esters of short …

Global regulator BldA regulates morphological differentiation and lincomycin production in Streptomyces lincolnensis

B Hou, L Tao, X Zhu, W Wu, M Guo, J Ye, H Wu… - Applied microbiology …, 2018 - Springer
Global regulator BldA, the only tRNA for a rare leucine codon UUA, is best known for its
ability to affect morphological differentiation and secondary metabolism in the genus …

Transcriptomics-guided investigation of the SLCG_Lrp regulon provides new insights into its role for lincomycin biosynthesis

Y Xu, W Xu, J Yi, B Li, M Liu, M Zhang, Y Zheng, R Liu… - Fermentation, 2023 - mdpi.com
Lincomycin industrially produced by Streptomyces lincolnensis can be adopted to treat
infections caused by Gram-positive bacteria. SLCG_Lrp, a transcriptional regulator of the Lrp …

Engineering of leucine-responsive regulatory protein improves spiramycin and bitespiramycin biosynthesis

Z Lu, X Zhang, J Dai, Y Wang, W He - Microbial Cell Factories, 2019 - Springer
Background Bitespiramycin (BT) is produced by recombinant spiramycin (SP) producing
strain Streptomyces spiramyceticus harboring a heterologous 4 ″-O-isovaleryltransferase …

Recent advances in natural products exploitation in Streptomyces via synthetic biology

Q Zhao, L Wang, Y Luo - Engineering in Life Sciences, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Natural products of microbial origin have proven to be the wellspring of clinically useful
compounds for human therapeutics. Streptomyces species are predominant sources of …