A genome-wide transcriptomic analysis reveals diverse roles of the two-component system DraR-K in the physiological and morphological differentiation of Streptomyces coelicolor

Appl Microbiol Biotechnol. 2014 Nov;98(22):9351-63. doi: 10.1007/s00253-014-6102-z. Epub 2014 Oct 15.

Abstract

A novel two-component system (TCS) of DraR-K was previously identified as playing differential roles in the biosynthesis of antibiotics (blue-pigmented type II polyketide actinorhodin (ACT), red-pigmented tripyrrole undecylprodigiosin (RED), and yellow-pigmented type I polyketide (yCPK)) in Streptomyces coelicolor M145 under the conditions of minimal medium (MM) supplemented with a high concentration of different nitrogen sources (e.g., 75 mM glutamine). To assess whether DraR-K has more globalized roles, a genome-wide transcriptomic analysis of the parental strain M145 and a ΔdraR-K mutant under the condition of MM supplemented with 75 mM glutamine was performed using DNA microarray analysis combined with real-time reverse transcriptase PCR (RT-qPCR). The analyses showed that deletion of the draR-K genes led to the differential expression not only of the biosynthetic gene clusters of ACT, RED, and yCPK but also of other five secondary metabolite biosynthetic clusters. In addition, a number of primary metabolism-related genes in the ΔdraR-K mutant, such as ureA/B/C/D/G/F, the pstSCAB operon, and the chb gene, exhibited altered expression, which might enable the organism to balance the C/N/P ratio under the condition of a high concentration of glutamine. We also found that the expression of many developmental genes, including ramR, chpA/D/E, and the whiE gene cluster, was affected by the draR-K deletion. Furthermore, the direct role of DraR-K on the transcription of several genes, including chb and pepA/pepA2, was validated using electrophoretic mobility shift assays (EMSAs). In summary, our transcriptomic analyses revealed that DraR-K plays global regulatory roles in the physiological and morphological differentiation of S. coelicolor.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Bacterial Proteins / genetics
  • Bacterial Proteins / metabolism*
  • Culture Media / chemistry
  • Gene Deletion
  • Gene Expression Profiling
  • Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial*
  • Glutamine / metabolism
  • Microarray Analysis
  • Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction
  • Streptomyces coelicolor / genetics*
  • Streptomyces coelicolor / growth & development*
  • Transcription Factors / genetics
  • Transcription Factors / metabolism*

Substances

  • Bacterial Proteins
  • Culture Media
  • Transcription Factors
  • Glutamine