Project description:BldC is a transcriptional regulator essential for morphological development Streptomyces venezuelae. Although bldC deletion strain is unable to produce aerial hyphae, electron microscopy reveals that almost all of the colony biomass is in the form of spores rather than undifferentiated vegetative hyphae. This ChIP-chip experiment was carried out to determine the binding sites, and thence the regulon, of BldC in Streptomyces venezuelae. Cy3(IP):Cy5(Total) signal ratios in the wild type were compared to those in a bldC knockout strain.
Project description:WhiA is an unusual transcriptional regulator found in Streptomyces species related to eukaryotic homing endonucleases. It plays a central role in sporulation in these bacteria. The aim of this transcription profiling experiment was to measure genome wide transcript levels in the wild type and the whiA deletion mutant at 7 time points from 8 to 20 hours during the growth cycle of Streptomyces venezuelae.
Project description:WhiG is a sigma factor found in Streptomyces species. It has a central role in sporulation in these bacteria. Although mutants in whiG are able to form aerial mycelia, these fail to differentiate into spores. The aim of this transcription profiling experiment was to measure genome wide transcript levels in the wild type and the whiG deletion mutant at 7 time points from 8 to 20 hours during the growth cycle of Streptomyces venezuelae.
Project description:WhiH is a transcription factor found in Streptomyces species. It has a role in sporulation in these bacteria. Although mutants in whiH are able to form aerial mycelia, these fail to differentiate into spores. The aim of this transcription profiling experiment was to measure genome wide transcript levels in the wild type and the whiH deletion mutant at 7 time points from 8 to 20 hours during the growth cycle of Streptomyces venezuelae.
Project description:WhiB is the founding member of a family of proteins (the WhiB-like [Wbl] family) that carry a [4Fe-4S] iron-sulfur cluster and play key roles in diverse aspects of the biology of actinomycetes, including pathogenesis, antibiotic resistance, and the control of development. In Streptomyces, WhiB is essential for the process of developmentally controlled cell division that leads to sporulation. The aim of this transcription profiling experiment was to measure genome wide transcript levels in the wild type and the whiB deletion mutant at 7 time points from 8 to 20 hours during the growth cycle of Streptomyces venezuelae.
Project description:The whiH gene is required for the differentiation of aerial hyphae into spores in Streptomyces species. It is a predicted member of the GntR family of transcription factors and has been shown to bind specifically to a sequence in its own promoter. This ChIP-Seq experiment was carried out to determine all the binding sites whiH binds to in the genome of Streptomyces venezuelae. A whiH deletion strain was made and a FLAG tagged whiH protein was expressed in it from a genome-integrated plasmid. Then anti-FLAG antibodies were used for chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by high throughput sequencing. The wild type Streptomyces venezuelae strain (ATCC 10712) was used as a negative control. For both the FLAG-WhiH strain and the WT strain, non-immunoprecipitated (total) DNA was also sequenced to arrive at a background enrichment which could be subtracted from the enrichment in the immunoprecipated sample.
Project description:Bacterial populations face the constant threat of viral predation exerted by bacteriophages (or phages). In response, bacteria have evolved a wide range of defense mechanisms against phage challenges. Here, we show that aminoglycosides, a well-known class of antibiotics produced by Streptomyces, are potent inhibitors of phage infection. We observed a broad phage inhibition by aminoglycosides. We demonstrate that aminoglycosides do not prevent the injection of phage DNA into bacterial cells but instead block an early step of the viral life cycle. In this context, we used RNA sequencing of S. venezuelae cells infected with phage Alderaan to comparatively investigate the influence of apramycin on phage DNA tanscription at two different time points after inital infection.
