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Crit Rev Microbiol ; 45(3): 255-277, 2019 May.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30985219

ABSTRACT

Intense competition between microbes in the environment has directed the evolution of antibiotic production in bacteria. Humans have harnessed these natural molecules for medicinal purposes, magnifying them from environmental concentrations to industrial scale. This increased exposure to antibiotics has amplified antibiotic resistance across bacteria, spurring a global antimicrobial crisis and a search for antibiotics with new modes of action. Genetic insights into these antibiotic-producing microbes reveal that they have evolved several resistance strategies to avoid self-toxicity, including product modification, substrate transport and binding, and target duplication or modification. Of these mechanisms, target duplication or modification will be highlighted in this review, as it uniquely links an antibiotic to its mode of action. We will further discuss and propose a strategy to mine microbial genomes for these genes and their associated biosynthetic gene clusters to discover novel antibiotics using target directed genome mining.


Subject(s)
Anti-Bacterial Agents/pharmacology , Bacteria/genetics , Drug Resistance, Bacterial , Genome, Bacterial , Animals , Bacteria/classification , Bacteria/drug effects , Bacteria/metabolism , Bacterial Proteins/genetics , Bacterial Proteins/metabolism , Drug Discovery , Humans
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J Nat Prod ; 80(3): 588-597, 2017 03 24.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28335604

ABSTRACT

In order to expedite the rapid and efficient discovery and isolation of novel specialized metabolites, while minimizing the waste of resources on rediscovery of known compounds, it is crucial to develop efficient approaches for strain prioritization, rapid dereplication, and the assessment of favored cultivation and extraction conditions. Herein we interrogated bacterial strains by systematically evaluating cultivation and extraction parameters with LC-MS/MS analysis and subsequent dereplication through the Global Natural Product Social Molecular Networking (GNPS) platform. The developed method is fast, requiring minimal time and sample material, and is compatible with high-throughput extract analysis, thereby streamlining strain prioritization and evaluation of culturing parameters. With this approach, we analyzed 146 marine Salinispora and Streptomyces strains that were grown and extracted using multiple different protocols. In total, 603 samples were analyzed, generating approximately 1.8 million mass spectra. We constructed a comprehensive molecular network and identified 15 molecular families of diverse natural products and their analogues. The size and breadth of this network shows statistically supported trends in molecular diversity when comparing growth and extraction conditions. The network provides an extensive survey of the biosynthetic capacity of the strain collection and a method to compare strains based on the variety and novelty of their metabolites. This approach allows us to quickly identify patterns in metabolite production that can be linked to taxonomy, culture conditions, and extraction methods, as well as informing the most valuable growth and extraction conditions.


Subject(s)
Bacteria/genetics , Biological Products , Genetic Variation , Bacteria/chemistry , Biological Products/chemistry , Biological Products/isolation & purification , Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid , Metabolomics , Molecular Structure , Salinity , Streptomyces/chemistry , Streptomyces/genetics
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J Nat Prod ; 80(4): 1200-1204, 2017 04 28.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28333450

ABSTRACT

The transformation-associated recombination cloning methodology facilitates the genomic capture and heterologous expression of natural product biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs). We have streamlined this procedure by introduction of synthetic DNA gene blocks for the efficient capture of BGCs. We show the successful capture and expression of the aromatic polyketide antitumor agent cosmomycin from streptomycete bacteria and the discovery of new cosmomycin analogues by mass spectral molecular networking.


Subject(s)
Multigene Family , Polyketides/metabolism , Polymerase Chain Reaction , Streptomyces/chemistry , Biological Products/metabolism , Genomics , Molecular Structure , Oceans and Seas , Streptomyces/genetics
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Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22919576

ABSTRACT

Brucella abortus is a Gram-negative, facultative intracellular pathogen for several mammals, including humans. Live attenuated B. abortus strain RB51 is currently the official vaccine used against bovine brucellosis in the United States and several other countries. Overexpression of protective B. abortus antigen Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD) in a recombinant strain of RB51 (strain RB51SOD) significantly increases its vaccine efficacy against virulent B. abortus challenge in a mouse model. An attempt has been made to better understand the mechanism of the enhanced protective immunity of RB51SOD compared to its parent strain RB51. We previously reported that RB51SOD stimulated enhanced Th1 immune response. In this study, we further found that T effector cells derived from RB51SOD-immunized mice exhibited significantly higher cytotoxic T lymphocyte activity than T effector cells derived from RB51-immunized mice against virulent B. abortus-infected target cells. Meanwhile, the macrophage responses to these two strains were also studied. Compared to RB51, RB51SOD cells had a lower survival rate in macrophages and induced lower levels of macrophage apoptosis and necrosis. The decreased survival of RB51SOD cells correlates with the higher sensitivity of RB51SOD, compared to RB51, to the bactericidal action of either Polymyxin B or sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS). Furthermore, a physical damage to the outer membrane of RB51SOD was observed by electron microscopy. Possibly due to the physical damage, overexpressed Cu/Zn SOD in RB51SOD was found to be released into the bacterial cell culture medium. Therefore, the stronger adaptive immunity induced by RB51SOD did not correlate with the low level of innate immunity induced by RB51SOD compared to RB51. This unique and apparently contradictory profile is likely associated with the differences in outer membrane integrity and Cu/Zn SOD release.


Subject(s)
Brucella Vaccine/genetics , Brucella Vaccine/immunology , Brucella abortus/genetics , Brucella abortus/immunology , Adaptive Immunity , Animals , Apoptosis , Bacterial Proteins/genetics , Brucella abortus/enzymology , Brucella abortus/pathogenicity , Brucellosis/immunology , Brucellosis/prevention & control , Cattle , Cell Membrane/ultrastructure , Detergents/pharmacology , Disease Models, Animal , Drug Resistance, Bacterial , Humans , Immunity, Innate , Macrophages/immunology , Macrophages/microbiology , Mice , Microscopy, Electron, Transmission , Polymyxin B/pharmacology , Recombination, Genetic , Superoxide Dismutase/genetics , T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic/immunology , T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic/microbiology , Vaccines, Synthetic/genetics , Vaccines, Synthetic/immunology
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Nucleic Acids Res ; 36(Database issue): D923-8, 2008 Jan.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-18025042

ABSTRACT

Vaccines are among the most efficacious and cost-effective tools for reducing morbidity and mortality caused by infectious diseases. The vaccine investigation and online information network (VIOLIN) is a web-based central resource, allowing easy curation, comparison and analysis of vaccine-related research data across various human pathogens (e.g. Haemophilus influenzae, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and Plasmodium falciparum) of medical importance and across humans, other natural hosts and laboratory animals. Vaccine-related peer-reviewed literature data have been downloaded into the database from PubMed and are searchable through various literature search programs. Vaccine data are also annotated, edited and submitted to the database through a web-based interactive system that integrates efficient computational literature mining and accurate manual curation. Curated information includes general microbial pathogenesis and host protective immunity, vaccine preparation and characteristics, stimulated host responses after vaccination and protection efficacy after challenge. Vaccine-related pathogen and host genes are also annotated and available for searching through customized BLAST programs. All VIOLIN data are available for download in an eXtensible Markup Language (XML)-based data exchange format. VIOLIN is expected to become a centralized source of vaccine information and to provide investigators in basic and clinical sciences with curated data and bioinformatics tools for vaccine research and development. VIOLIN is publicly available at http://www.violinet.org.


Subject(s)
Databases, Factual , Vaccines , Animals , Humans , Information Services , Internet , PubMed , Sequence Alignment , User-Computer Interface , Vaccines/genetics , Vaccines/immunology
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