Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China.
College of Plant Protection, Hebei Agricultural University, Technological Innovation Center for Biological Control of Crop Diseases and Insect Pests of Hebei Province, National Engineering Research Center for Agriculture in Northern Mountainous Areas, Baoding, China.
Appl Environ Microbiol. 2021 Apr 27;87(10). doi: 10.1128/AEM.03157-20.
A group of polyene macrolides mainly composed of two constituents was isolated from the fermentation broth of Men-myco-93-63, which was isolated from soil where potato scabs were repressed naturally. One of these macrolides was roflamycoin, which was first reported in 1968, and the other was a novel compound named Men-myco-A, which had one methylene unit more than roflamycoin. Together, they were designated RM. This group of antibiotics exhibited broad-spectrum antifungal activities against 17 plant-pathogenic fungi, with 50% effective concentrations (EC) of 2.05 to 7.09 μg/ml and 90% effective concentrations (EC) of 4.32 to 54.45 μg/ml, which indicates their potential use in plant disease control. Furthermore, their biosynthetic gene cluster was identified, and the associated biosynthetic assembly line was proposed based on a module and domain analysis of polyketide synthases (PKSs), supported by findings from gene inactivation experiments. Men-myco-93-63 is a biocontrol strain that has been studied in our laboratory for many years and exhibits a good inhibitory effect in many crop diseases. Therefore, the identification of antimicrobial metabolites is necessary and our main objective. In this work, chemical, bioinformatic, and molecular biological methods were combined to identify the structures and biosynthesis of the active metabolites. This work provides a new alternative agent for the biological control of plant diseases and is helpful for improving both the properties and yield of the antibiotics via genetic engineering.
从天然抑制马铃薯疮痂病土壤中分离得到的放线菌 Men-myco-93-63 的发酵液中分离得到一组主要由两个成分组成的多烯大环内酯,其中一个大环内酯是罗伐美菌素,于 1968 年首次报道,另一个是新型化合物 Men-myco-A,比罗伐美菌素多一个亚甲基单元。这两种抗生素统称为 RM。这组抗生素对 17 种植物病原真菌表现出广谱抗真菌活性,对 50%有效浓度(EC)为 2.05 至 7.09μg/ml,对 90%有效浓度(EC)为 4.32 至 54.45μg/ml,表明它们在植物病害防治方面有潜在的应用价值。此外,还鉴定了它们的生物合成基因簇,并基于聚酮合酶(PKS)的模块和结构域分析提出了相关的生物合成装配线,这一结论得到了基因失活实验的支持。Men-myco-93-63 是我们实验室多年来研究的一种生防菌株,在许多作物病害中表现出良好的抑制效果。因此,鉴定抗菌代谢产物是必要的,也是我们的主要目标。在这项工作中,结合了化学、生物信息学和分子生物学方法来鉴定活性代谢物的结构和生物合成。这项工作为植物病害的生物防治提供了一种新的替代药剂,并有助于通过遗传工程提高抗生素的性质和产量。