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Enhancer Binding Proteins Regulate Natural Product Biosynthesis in Photorhabdus laumondii

Rili, L.; Ali, M.; Findlay, B.

2023-11-01 microbiology
10.1101/2023.10.31.564978 bioRxiv
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Biosynthetic gene clusters are readily transferred between microbes through horizontal gene transfer, but to provide benefit to their host they must be induced to high levels during times of stress. Working with the insect pathogen Photorhabdus laumondii, here we study the effect of plasmid-induced stress on natural product biosynthesis. We find that the expression plasmid pARO190 alone was sufficient to induce production of an array of natural products, and that the induction could be increased with heterologous expression of either bacterial enhancer binding proteins or a random DNA sequence. Overall, this suggests that generalized stress may be an effective way to increase production of natural products in P. laumondii.

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