Journal article

Publication year: 2014

Pages: 641-648

Journal: Biotechnology Letters

Volume number: 36

Issue number: 3

ISSN: 0141-5492

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10529-013-1406-0

Publisher: Springer

Abstract: 
Prolific producers of natural products like streptomycetes and myxobacteria live in complex natural frameworks consisting of many microorganisms. Presumably intricate physiological and metabolic regulatory networks have evolved to enable the organisms to respond to intra- and interspecies interactions, e.g. biosynthesis of specific natural products is up-regulated due to competitors in the surrounding area. The soil-dwelling bacterium, Streptomyces coelicolor, produces the biologically-active compound, undecylprodigiosin (Red). Co-incubation with the corallopyronin A-producer, Corallococcus coralloides, was performed to explore the hypothesis that Red production can be enhanced by a myxobacterial competitor. Co-cultivation resulted in earlier onset and increased production of Red (60-fold increase of the intra-cellular concentration). Using different Corallococcus-derived extracts for elicitation, revealed that water-soluble factors triggered the enhanced production of Red which shows antimicrobial, immunosuppressive and anticancer properties.

Harvard Citation style: Schäberle, T., Orland, A. and König, G. (2014) Enhanced production of undecylprodigiosin in Streptomyces coelicolor by co-cultivation with the corallopyronin A-producing myxobacterium, Corallococcus coralloides, Biotechnology Letters, 36(3), pp. 641-648. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10529-013-1406-0

APA Citation style: Schäberle, T., Orland, A., & König, G. (2014). Enhanced production of undecylprodigiosin in Streptomyces coelicolor by co-cultivation with the corallopyronin A-producing myxobacterium, Corallococcus coralloides. Biotechnology Letters. 36(3), 641-648. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10529-013-1406-0