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. 2021 Apr;105(7):2911-2924.
doi: 10.1007/s00253-021-11228-8. Epub 2021 Mar 24.

Joint engineering of SACE_Lrp and its target MarR enhances the biosynthesis and export of erythromycin in Saccharopolyspora erythraea

Jing Liu  1 , Long Li  2 , Yunxia Wang  2 , Bowen Li  3 , Xinlu Cai  3 , Lijuan Tang  2 , Shengnan Dong  2 , Endong Yang  2 , Hang Wu  4 , Buchang Zhang  5
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Joint engineering of SACE_Lrp and its target MarR enhances the biosynthesis and export of erythromycin in Saccharopolyspora erythraea

Jing Liu et al. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol. 2021 Apr.

Abstract

The Lrp and MarR families are two groups of transcriptional regulators widely distributed among prokaryotes. However, the hierarchical-regulatory relationship between the Lrp family and the MarR family remains unknown. Our previous study found that an Lrp (SACE_Lrp) from Saccharopolyspora erythraea indirectly repressed the biosynthesis of erythromycin. In this study, we characterized a novel MarR family protein (SACE_6745) from S. erythraea, which is controlled by SACE_Lrp and plays a direct regulatory role in erythromycin biosynthesis and export. SACE_Lrp directly regulated the expression of marR by specifically binding a precise site OM (5'-CTCCGGGAACCATT-3'). Gene disruption of marR increased the production of erythromycin by 45% in S. erythraea A226. We found that MarR has direct DNA-binding activity for the promoter regions of the erythromycin biosynthetic genes, as well as an ABC exporter SACE_2701-2702 which was genetically proved to be responsible for erythromycin efflux. Disruption of SACE_Lrp in industrial S. erythraea WB was an efficient strategy to enhance erythromycin production. Herein, we jointly engineered SACE_Lrp and its target MarR by deleting marR in WBΔSACE_Lrp, resulting in 20% increase in erythromycin yield in mutant WBΔLrpΔmarR compared to WBΔSACE_Lrp, and 39% to WB. Overall, our findings provide new insights into the hierarchical-regulatory relationship of Lrp and MarR proteins and new avenues for coordinating antibiotic biosynthesis and export by joint engineering regulators in actinomycetes. KEY POINTS: • The hierarchical-regulatory relationship between SACE_Lrp and MarR was identified. • MarR directly controlled the expression of erythromycin biosynthesis and export genes. • Joint engineering of SACE_Lrp-MarR regulatory element enhanced erythromycin production.

Keywords: Erythromycin biosynthesis and export; Hierarchical regulation; Joint engineering; Lrp; MarR; Saccharopolyspora erythraea.

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