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Strain-specific proteogenomics accelerates the discovery of natural products via their biosynthetic pathways

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The use of proteomics for direct detection of expressed pathways producing natural products has yielded many new compounds, even when used in a screening mode without a bacterial genome sequence available. Here we quantify the advantages of having draft DNA-sequence available for strain-specific proteomics using the latest in ultrahigh-resolution mass spectrometry for both proteins and the small molecules they generate. Using the draft sequence of Streptomyces lilacinus NRRL B-1968, we show a >tenfold increase in the number of peptide identifications vs. using publicly available databases. Detected in this strain were six expressed gene clusters with varying homology to those known. To date, we have identified three of these clusters as encoding for the production of griseobactin (known), rakicidin D (an orphan NRPS/PKS hybrid cluster), and a putative thr and DHB-containing siderophore produced by a new non-ribosomal peptide sythetase gene cluster. The remaining three clusters show lower homology to those known, and likely encode enzymes for production of novel compounds. Using an interpreted strain-specific DNA sequence enables deep proteomics for the detection of multiple pathways and their encoded natural products in a single cultured bacterium.

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Acknowledgments

The Department of Chemistry at Northwestern University and the following grants from the National Institutes of Health supported this work: GM 067725 from NIGMS (NLK) and GM 077596 from NIGMS (WWM). We also acknowledge support from the Institute for Genomic Biology IGB Fellows Program at UIUC (JRD). The authors would also like to thank Claudia K. Jones for her scholarly work.

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  1. Departments of Chemistry, Molecular Biosciences, and the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 2170 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA

    Jessica C. Albright, Anthony W. Goering & Neil L. Kelleher

  2. Department of Microbiology and the Institute of Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA

    James R. Doroghazi & William W. Metcalf

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J. C. Albright and A. W. Goering contributed equally to this work.

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Albright, J.C., Goering, A.W., Doroghazi, J.R. et al. Strain-specific proteogenomics accelerates the discovery of natural products via their biosynthetic pathways. J Ind Microbiol Biotechnol 41, 451–459 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10295-013-1373-4

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