[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 …

A natural product chemist's guide to unlocking silent biosynthetic gene clusters

BC Covington, F Xu… - Annual review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Microbial natural products have provided an important source of therapeutic leads and
motivated research and innovation in diverse scientific disciplines. In recent years, it has …

The Application of Regulatory Cascades in Streptomyces: Yield Enhancement and Metabolite Mining

H Xia, X Li, Z Li, X Zhan, X Mao, Y Li - Frontiers in microbiology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Streptomyces is taken as an important resource for producing the most abundant antibiotics
and other bio-active natural products, which have been widely used in pharmaceutical and …

[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 …

A γ‐butyrolactone‐sensing activator/repressor, JadR3, controls a regulatory mini‐network for jadomycin biosynthesis

Z Zou, D Du, Y Zhang, J Zhang, G Niu… - Molecular …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Two regulatory genes, jadR2 and jadR3, in the jadomycin (jad) biosynthetic gene cluster of
S treptomyces venezuelae encode homologues of γ‐butyrolactone receptor. JadR2 was …

Molecular mechanism of mureidomycin biosynthesis activated by introduction of an exogenous regulatory gene ssaA into Streptomyces roseosporus

N Liu, H Guan, G Niu, L Jiang, Y Li, J Zhang… - Science China Life …, 2021 - Springer
Mureidomycins (MRDs), a group of unique uridyl-peptide antibiotics, exhibit antibacterial
activity against the highly refractory pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Our previous study …

JadR*‐mediated feed‐forward regulation of cofactor supply in jadomycin biosynthesis

Y Zhang, G Pan, Z Zou, K Fan, K Yang… - Molecular …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Jadomycin production is under complex regulation in S treptomyces venezuelae. Here,
another cluster‐situated regulator, JadR*, was shown to negatively regulate jadomycin …

Regulatory genes and their roles for improvement of antibiotic biosynthesis in Streptomyces

F Lu, Y Hou, H Zhang, Y Chu, H Xia, Y Tian - 3 Biotech, 2017 - Springer
The numerous secondary metabolites in Streptomyces spp. are crucial for various
applications. For example, cephamycin C is used as an antibiotic, and avermectin is used as …

Positive and negative regulation of GlnR in validamycin A biosynthesis by binding to different loci in promoter region

S Qu, Q Kang, H Wu, L Wang, L Bai - Applied microbiology and …, 2015 - Springer
Abstract Validamycin A (VAL-A) is a C 7 N aminocyclitol antibiotic produced by
Streptomyces hygroscopicus var. jinggangensis 5008, which has been widely used as …

GouR, a TetR family transcriptional regulator, coordinates the biosynthesis and export of gougerotin in Streptomyces graminearus

J Wei, Y Tian, G Niu, H Tan - Applied and Environmental …, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
Gougerotin is a peptidyl nucleoside antibiotic. It functions as a specific inhibitor of protein
synthesis by binding ribosomal peptidyl transferase and exhibits a broad spectrum of …