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Identified members of the Streptomyces lividans AdpA regulon involved in differentiation and secondary metabolism

BMC Microbiology volume 14, Article number: 81 (2014) Cite this article

Abstract

Background

AdpA is a key transcriptional regulator involved in the complex growth cycle of Streptomyces. Streptomyces are Gram-positive bacteria well-known for their production of secondary metabolites and antibiotics. Most work on AdpA has been in S. griseus, and little is known about the pathways it controls in other Streptomyces spp. We recently discovered interplay between ClpP peptidases and AdpA in S. lividans. Here, we report the identification of genes directly regulated by AdpA in S. lividans.

Results

Microarray experiments revealed that the expression of hundreds of genes was affected in a S. lividans adpA mutant during early stationary phase cultures in YEME liquid medium. We studied the expression of the S. lividans AdpA-regulated genes by quantitative real-time PCR analysis after various times of growth. In silico analysis revealed the presence of potential AdpA-binding sites upstream from these genes; electrophoretic mobility shift assays indicated that AdpA binds directly to their promoter regions. This work identifies new pathways directly controlled by AdpA and that are involved in S. lividans development (ramR, SLI7885 also known as hyaS and SLI6586), and primary (SLI0755-SLI0754 encoding CYP105D5 and Fdx4) or secondary (cchA, cchB, and hyaS) metabolism.

Conclusions

We characterised six S. lividans AdpA-dependent genes whose expression is directly activated by this pleiotropic regulator. Several of these genes are orthologous to bldA-dependent genes in S. coelicolor. Furthermore, in silico analysis suggests that over hundred genes may be directly activated or repressed by S. lividans AdpA, although few have been described as being part of any Streptomyces AdpA regulons. This study increases the number of known AdpA-regulated pathways in Streptomyces spp.

Background

Streptomycetes are Gram-positive soil bacteria that display a complex morphological and metabolic differentiation. Streptomyces develop branched hyphae that expand by tip extension to form a vegetative mycelium meshwork. In response to as yet unidentified signals and to nutritient depletion, aerial branches emerge from the surface of colonies and may produce spores. As the aerial mycelium develops, Streptomyces colonies produce diverse secondary metabolites and synthesise antibiotics [1]. This differentiation cycle can be reproduced in laboratory conditions by growing Streptomyces cells on solid media. Most Streptomyces species do not form aerial mycelium or spores when in liquid media (e.g. S. coelicolor and S. lividans), and antibiotic production occurs in submerged cultures [2].

AdpA, also known as BldH, has been identified as a conserved major transcriptional regulator involved in the formation of aerial mycelia in various Streptomyces species [3–6]. AdpA is a member of the family of AraC/XylS regulator proteins that contain a C-terminal domain with two helix-turn-helix DNA-binding motifs; these features are strictly conserved in all Streptomyces AdpAs in the StrepDB database [7]. The N-terminal domain of AdpA is responsible for its dimerization and regulation [8, 9]. Protein/DNA interaction experiments identified the following consensus AdpA-binding site in S. griseus: 5′-TGGCSNGWWY-3′ (with S: G or C; W: A or T; Y: T or C; N: any nucleotide) [10].

AdpA was discovered and has mostly been studied in S. griseus, in which it was first shown to activate expression of about thirty genes directly. They include genes encoding secreted proteins (e.g. proteases), a sigma factor (AdsA), a subtilisin inhibitor (SgiA), SsgA which is essential for spore septum formation and the AmfR transcriptional regulator involved in production of AmfS (known as SapB in S. coelicolor), a small hydrophobic peptide involved in the emergence of aerial hyphae [11, 12]. AdpA also plays a role in secondary metabolism and directly activates streptomycin biosynthesis [3].

Proteomic, transcriptomic and ChIP-sequencing analyses revealed that, in fact, several hundred genes are under the control of S. griseus AdpA and that AdpA acts as transcriptional activator as well as repressor [12–15]. In S. coelicolor, few genes have been identified as being directly regulated by AdpA: sti1 (sgiA orthologs), ramR (amfR orthologs), clpP1 (encoding a peptidase) [16] and wblA (encoding a transcriptional regulator) [15].

The regulation of adpA gene expression is complex and various mechanisms have been described [17]. AdpA represses its own gene expression in S. griseus[18] whereas it activates its own transcription in S. coelicolor[16]. In several Streptomyces species, the binding of γ-butyrolactones to a γ-butyrolactone receptor represses the adpA promoter [19, 20]. In S. coelicolor, BldD represses adpA expression [21]. At the translational level, a feedback-control loop regulates levels of AdpA and AbsB (a RNAse III) in S. coelicolor[22, 23]. A positive feedback loop between AdpA and BldA, the only tRNA able to read the UUA codon present in all adpA mRNA, has been demonstrated in S. griseus[22, 23]. In S. coelicolor, adpA expression is constant during growth in liquid media [4] whereas on solid media, adpA is strongly expressed before aerial hyphae formation and AdpA is most abundant during the early aerial mycelium stage [4, 16].

Even though AdpA plays a major role in development of Streptomyces spp., little is known about the pathways it controls in S. lividans, a species closely related to S. coelicolor and whose genome has recently been sequenced [24]. We have recently shown that in S. lividans AdpA directly controls sti1 and the clpP1clpP2 operon, encoding important factors for Streptomyces differentiation; we also found interplay between AdpA and ClpP1 [25]. Here, we report microarray experiments, quantitative real-time PCR (qRT-PCR), in silico analysis and protein/DNA interaction studies that identify other genes directly regulated by AdpA in S. lividans. Finally, in silico genome analysis allowed the identification of over hundred genes that are probably directly activated or repressed by AdpA in S. lividans. These findings and observations reveal new AdpA-dependent pathways in S. lividans.

Methods

Bacterial strains, growth conditions and media

S. lividans 1326 was obtained from the John Innes Culture Collection. In this S. lividans background, we constructed an adpA mutant in which adpA was replaced with an apramycin-resistance cassette [25].

Streptomyces was grown on NE plates [26] and in YEME liquid medium [27] in baffled flasks. MS medium was used for sporulation experiments [27]. Apramycin was added to final concentrations of 25 μg mL-1 to solid media and 20 μg mL-1 to liquid media as appropriate.

Microarray experiments

S. lividans microarrays were not available, so S. coelicolor oligonucleotide arrays covering most open reading frames (ORFs) of the genome (for array coverage and design, see [28, 29]) were used. Aliquots of 60 mL of liquid YEME medium were inoculated with about 108 spores and incubated at 30°C with shaking at 200 rpm until early stationary phase (about 30 h of growth). Samples of 12 mL of culture (at OD450nm = 2.3, corresponding to time point T on Figure 1a) were then collected and RNA extracted as previously described [30]. RNA quality was assessed with an Agilent 2100 Bioanalyser (Agilent Technologies). RNA indirect labelling and array hybridization were performed as described [31] and hybridized microarrays were scanned with a Genepix 4000A scanner (Molecular Devices).

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Effects of S. lividans adpA mutation on expression of selected genes. a. Growth curve of wild-type S. lividans (dashed line) and adpA mutant (solid line) in YEME liquid medium at 30°C with shaking at 200 rpm as followed by measuring absorbance at 450 nm. A, B, C, D and T indicate the time points when cultures were harvested for RNA extraction. Microarray experiments were performed on RNA samples extracted at time T. b. Change in gene expression S. lividans adpA mutant compared to the wild-type at each time point of growth. RNA was extracted from S. lividans wild-type 1326 and adpA mutant cells cultivated in liquid YEME medium after various times of growth (OD450nm of 0.3, 0.8, 1.5, 1.9 and 2.3, respectively, at time points A, B, C, D and T). Relative amounts of SLI0755, SLI6586, hyaS, cchA, cchB, ramR PCR product were measured by qRT-PCR. At each time point of growth, gene expression levels were normalized using hrdB as an internal reference and are indicated in this figure as the n-fold change in adpA mutant compared to the wild type. Results are expressed as means and standard deviations of at least three replicates. Data are representative of at least two independent experiments for each strain at each growth time. Note that a different scale is used for hyaS.

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Statistical analysis of array data

R software [32] was used for normalization and differential analysis. A Loess normalization [33] was performed on a slide-by-slide basis (BioConductor package marray; [34]). A paired t-test was used for differential analysis. Variance estimates for each gene were computed under the hypothesis of homoscedasticity, together with the Benjamini and Yekutieli P-value adjustment method [35]. Only genes with a significant (P-value < 0.05) fold change (Fc) were taken into consideration. Empty and flagged spots were excluded, and only genes with no missing values were analysed. A few genes which displayed excessive variation were analysed using the Vmixt method from the VarMixt package [36]. We defined our cut-off for microarray data acquisition as Fc <0.625 or Fc > 1.6 with P-value < 0.05. The genome of S. lividans 1326 was sequenced only recently [24], so we used the StrepDB database [7], and in some cases a basic local alignment search tool (Blast), to identify S. lividans orthologs (SLI gene number) of S. coelicolor genes. We also used the protein classification scheme for the S. coelicolor genome available on the Welcome Trust Sanger Institute database [37].

qRT-PCR analysis

Oligonucleotide pairs specific for cchA (SLI0459), cchB (SLI0458), SLI0755, SLI6586, ramR (SLI7029), hyaS (SLI7885) and hrdB (SLI6088, MG16-17) (Additional file 1: Table S1) were designed using the BEACON Designer software (Premier BioSoft). RNA samples were extracted from cultures in YEME liquid medium at OD450nm values of about 0.3, 0.8, 1.5, 1.9 and 2.3 (time points A, B, C, D and T, respectively). Aliquots of 20 μg of RNA were treated twice with 2 Units of DNase I with the TURBO DNA-free reagent (Ambion) for 30 min at 37°C. Reverse transcription and quantitative real-time PCR were performed as previously described [25]. PCRs involved a hybridization step of 55°C, except for ramR, SLI0755 and cchB where a temperature of 58°C was used. Each assay was performed in triplicate and repeated with at least two independent RNA samples. The critical threshold cycle (C T ) was defined for each sample. The relative amounts of cDNA for the tested genes were normalized to that of the hrdB gene transcript which did not vary under our experimental conditions (and thus served as an internal standard). The change (n-fold) in a transcript level was calculated using the following equations: ΔC T  = C T(test DNA) - C T(reference cDNA), ΔΔC T  = ΔC T(target gene) - ΔC T(hrdB), and ratio =  2 - Δ Δ C T [38]. Student’s t test was used to evaluate the significance of differences between the expression level of tested genes and that of a reference gene. A P-value < 0.05 was considered significant.

In silicoanalysis and electrophoretic mobility shift assays (EMSA)

Several AdpA-binding site sequences, identified in S. griseus by DNase I footprinting experiments [10, 13, 18, 23], were used with the PREDetector software (version 1.2.3.0) [39] to generate a S. griseus matrix [25]. This matrix was used with the S. coelicolor genome sequence (the S. lividans genome sequence was not available during the course of this study and is still not available on PREDetector software) to identify putative AdpA-binding sites upstream from S. lividans AdpA-dependent genes (scores > 3). The StrepDB database [7] and Blast were used to identify S. lividans, S. coelicolor and S. griseus ortholog gene names.

Radioactively labelled DNA fragments (180 bp to 496 bp) corresponding to promoter regions of putative S. lividans AdpA-regulated genes were obtained by PCR. Primers (named GSgene in Additional file 1: Table S1) were used to amplify the promoter regions of cchA (opposite orientation to cchB), SLI0755, SLI6586 (opposite orientation to SLI6587), ramR and hyaS as described elsewhere [25]. Purified radiolabelled fragments (10,000 cpm) were then used with purified AdpA histidine-tagged protein (AdpA-His6) in EMSA as previously described [25, 40].

Results

Deletion of adpAaffects the expression of hundreds of genes during early stationary phase

We had previously inactivated adpA in S. lividans and found that this adpA mutant failed to produce aerial mycelium on rich media and that its growth was comparable to that of the parental strain 1326 in liquid YEME medium at 30°C [25]. Expression studies with this S. lividans adpA mutant cultivated in liquid medium identified two differentiation-regulating factors (STI1 and the ClpP1ClpP2 peptidases) whose ORFs were under the direct control of AdpA [25]. We used transcriptome analysis of this adpA mutant to identify other AdpA-dependent pathways in S. lividans; however, this analysis was performed using S. coelicolor microarrays [29] because the S. lividans genome sequence was not yet available [24] and the two species are very closely related [41]. Total RNA was isolated from S. lividans 1326 and adpA cells during early stationary phase (time point T in Figure 1a) because at this growth phase, S. coelicolor adpA is expressed [4]; also the expression of genes involved in secondary metabolism in a S. coelicolor bldA mutant [42], a strain defective for AdpA translation, starts to diverge from that in the wild-type.

Global gene expression in the mutant was compared to that in the parental strain. The expression of more than 300 genes was affected in the adpA mutant at early stationary phase (Table 1 and Additional file 2: Table S2): 193 genes were significantly down-regulated (1.6-to 30-fold i.e. 0.033 < Fc < 0.625), and 138 were up-regulated (1.6-to 3.6-fold) with a P-value < 0.05 (see Additional file 2: Table S2 for the complete data set). Theses genes encode proteins of several different classes according to the Welcome Trust Sanger Institute S. coelicolor genome database [37]: 72 of the genes are involved in metabolism of small molecules, including seven playing a role in electron transport (e.g. SLI0755-SLI0754, cydAB operons) (Table 1); 18 encode proteins involved in secondary metabolism, for example the cchA-cchF gene cluster (SLI0459-0454) involved in coelichelin biosynthesis [43] and the SLI0339-0359 cluster encoding the putative deoxysugar synthase/glycosyltransferase. Deletion of adpA in S. lividans also affected the expression of 32 genes involved in regulation including ramR (SLI7029), wblA (SLI3822), bldN (SLI3667), hrdD (SLI3556) and cutRS (SLI6134-35) [1, 6]. Sixty-two genes involved in the cell envelope [37] were differentially expressed in the adpA mutant; they include hyaS (SLI7885) [44], chpE, chpH[1], SLI6586 and SLI6587 which were strongly down-regulated in the adpA mutant (Table 1). Thirty-nine genes encoding proteins involved in various cellular processes (osmotic adaptation, transport/binding proteins, chaperones, and detoxification) [37] were also deregulated in the absence of AdpA (Additional file 2: Table S2). The expression of 111 genes coding for proteins with unidentified or unclassified function was altered in the adpA mutant. Thus, deletion of adpA influenced the expression of a large number of genes involved in a broad range of metabolic pathways, and indeed other functions, in S. lividans.

Table 1 Genes differentially expressed in S. lividans adpA mutant at early stationary phase in YEME medium a
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Identification of new AdpA-controlled genes

To confirm that S. lividans AdpA controls the expression of genes identified as differentially expressed in microarray experiments, six genes were studied in more detail by qRT-PCR. The six genes were selected as having biological functions related to Streptomyces development or the cell envelope (ramR[1], hyaS[44] and SLI6586 [37]) or primary or secondary metabolism (SLI0755, cchA, and cchB[43]), and for having very large fold-change values (Table 1). The genes in S. coelicolor and griseus orthologous to SLI6586 and SLI6587 encode secreted proteins [12, 42]. The expression levels of these genes in S. lividans wild-type and adpA strains were measured after various times of growth in liquid YEME media (Figure 1b), as shown in Figure 1a.

The S. lividans hyaS gene was strongly down-regulated in the adpA mutant compared to the wild-type (Fc < 0.03) (Figure 1b) as previously observed for the SCO0762 homolog also known as sti1[25]. This suggests that hyaS expression is strongly dependent on S. lividans AdpA or an AdpA-dependent regulator. SLI0755, SLI6586 and ramR, were also expressed at a lower level in the adpA mutant than wild-type, particularly after mid-exponential phase (Figure 1b, times C, D and T); cchB seemed to be mostly affected by AdpA during stationary phase (Figure 1b, time T). The expression of cchA was strongly down-regulated by the absence of AdpA at times D and T (Figure 1b): note that despite repeated efforts, cchA expression could not be detected in samples corresponding to times A to C for unknown reasons. The findings for gene expression as determined by microarrays and by qRT-PCR were consistent, with the exception of those for ramR. The expression of ramR observed by qRT-PCR at time T differed from that determined in microarray experiments (Table 1), suggesting that some of our microarray data are flattened. Nevertheless, these qRT-PCR experiments confirmed that the expression of the six selected genes is indeed AdpA-dependent in S. lividans at every growth time studied.

Direct binding of AdpA to the promoter regions of S. lividansAdpA regulon members

To determine whether S. lividans AdpA directly controls these genes, we searched for potential AdpA-binding sites in their promoter regions in silico. A consensus AdpA-binding sequence (5′TGGCSNGWWY3′) has been established in S. griseus, and AdpA can bind up to five sites between positions -260 bp and +60 bp with respect to the transcriptional start point of the target gene [10]. BLAST analysis revealed that the S. griseus AdpA DNA-binding domain is conserved in S. coelicolor and S. lividans AdpAs (data not shown) suggesting that all three species share the same AdpA-binding consensus sequence.

The DNA sequences upstream from the S. coelicolor ramR and hyaS genes and the intergenic region between the divergently transcribed genes cchA/cchB, SCO0774/SCO0775 and SCO6197/SCO6198 were analyzed using PREDetector software [39] and a matrix was generated with identified S. griseus AdpA-binding sequences [10, 23, 25]. Between three and nine putative AdpA-binding sites were detected within the promoter region of the S. coelicolor genes and by analogy in orthologous S. lividans AdpA-dependent genes (Table 2, location with respect to translation start point). During the course of this study, the S. lividans 1326 genome sequence became available [24] (but not in a form suitable for analysis with PREDetector (version 1.2.3.0) [39]) and its analysis suggested that the position and composition of AdpA-binding sites were different from those predicted. The putative AdpA-binding sites of S. lividans cchA/cchB at -101 nt and -86 nt are GGGCCGGTTC and TGGCTGGAAC, respectively. The AdpA-binding sites located upstream of SLI0755, SLI6586, and hyaS differ from their S. coelicolor orthologs (see Table 2, changes in the location from translation start site are indicated in bracket).

Table 2 AdpA-binding sites identified in silico in the promoter regions of S. lividans AdpA-dependent genes a
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We used EMSA to test whether S. lividans AdpA binds to predicted S. lividans AdpA-binding sequence. Recombinant purified AdpA-His6 bound to the promoter region of S. lividans sti1 (SCO0762 homolog), an AdpA-dependent gene, whereas an excess of AdpA-His6 (up to 34 pmoles) did not bind to the promoter of SLI4380 (SCO4141 homolog), a gene that is not controlled by S. lividans AdpA. This suggests that the binding of AdpA with the promoter of genes tested in our previous study was specific [25]. AdpA-His6 was able to bind to the promoter regions of all S. lividans AdpA-dependent genes tested (Table 2, Figure 2), although with different affinities. For SLI6586/SLI6587, ramR and hyaS, displacement of the DNA fragment to the slower migrating protein-DNA complex was nearly complete with amounts of AdpA of less than 11 pmoles (Figure 2, lane 2). For cchA/cchB and SLI0755/SLI0756, larger amounts of AdpA were necessary for near complete displacement of the DNA probe to a protein-DNA complex. In a competition EMSA performed on SLI6586/6587 with an excess of the corresponding unlabelled probe, AdpA-binding to the labelled probe decreased (data not shown). We also tested a hyaS promoter in which one (highest score) of the three putative AdpA-binding sites was mutated (at position -134 to -129, see Additional file 3: Figure S1a): the affinity of AdpA for this promoter region was reduced and one protein-DNA complex disappeared (Additional file 3: Figure S1b). These results suggest that one dimer of AdpA binds the adjacent sites -129 and -123 of S. lividans hyaS promoter and another dimer binds the -100 site resulting in the formation of the two DNA-AdpA complexes depicted in Figure 2.

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AdpA binds in vitro to promoter DNA regions of S. lividans AdpA-dependent genes. Electrophoretic mobility shift assays performed with 0 (lane 1), 5.7 (lane 2), 11.4 (lane 3) or 17.1 (lane 4) pmoles of purified AdpA-His6 and 32P-labelled probes (10,000 cpm) corresponding to the regions upstream of the S. lividans genes indicated, in the presence of competitor DNA (1 μg poly dI-dC).

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These EMSA experiments demonstrated that S. lividans AdpA directly binds to five intergenic regions and confirmed the in silico prediction presented in Table 2. S. lividans AdpA directly regulates at least the six AdpA-dependent genes listed above and identified by microarrays and qRT-PCR analysis. These newly identified targets highlight the pleiotropic role of S. lividans AdpA: it is involved in primary (SLI0755) and secondary (cchA, cchB and hyaS) metabolisms, in regulation (ramR), and in cell development (hyaS, ramR and SLI6586).

Discussion

AdpA, a transcriptional regulator of the AraC/XylS family, is involved in the development and differentiation of various Streptomyces[3–5, 25]. We report here the first identification of several pathways directly regulated by AdpA in S. lividans cultivated in liquid rich medium.

Inactivation of adpA in S. lividans affected the expression of approximately 300 genes. This large number was expected in the light of the size of the S. griseus AdpA regulon [14]. Although adpA mutant growth was comparable to that of the parental strain in YEME liquid medium, the expression of around 200 genes involved in primary metabolism was influenced by adpA deletion. These genes encode proteins involved in the major biosynthesis pathways for amino acids (class 3.1. in Additional file 2: Table S2) [37], and in energy metabolism (class 3.5.) including glycolysis, pentose phosphate, pyruvate dehydrogenase pathways, as well as in electron transport (e.g. CydAB cytochrome oxidase, CYP105D5 and Fdx4 involved in fatty acid hydroxylation and encoded by SLI0755-0754 [45]). Other S. lividans AdpA-regulated genes influence Streptomyces development on solid media (e.g. those for RamR, chaplins Chp, BldN, WblA, WblE, HyaS and ClpP1ClpP2 peptidases) (Table 1) [1, 6, 16, 25, 44]. S. lividans AdpA also influences the expression of 18 genes involved in secondary metabolism such as coelichelin biosynthesis (cch genes in Table 1) [43] and also genes described to affect metabolic differentiation (HyaS, CutRS, WblA, DesE, and CdtCBA) (Table 1) [15, 17, 42, 44]. Consistently with transcriptomic studies in S. griseus, these observations suggest that AdpA is a pleiotropic transcriptional regulator in S. lividans.

We demonstrate that S. lividans AdpA directly activates cchB, SLI0755 and hyaS. As a result of their co-transcription with these genes, the expression of cchCD, SLI0754 and SCO7658-ortholog genes is AdpA-dependent in S. lividans (Table 1). SLI0756 is probably a directly AdpA-regulated gene because its promoter DNA region is shared with SLI0755-SLI0754 operon, which is transcribed in the opposite direction and directly regulated by AdpA (Table 1, Figure 2).

AdpA directly regulates the genes ramR and sti1 in S. lividans (this study) [25] and in the closely related species S. coelicolor[16]. In an S. coelicolor adpA mutant, levels of sti1 and ramR expression were lower than in the wild-type strain following growth for 48 h in a minimal agar medium [16]. In vitro experiments showed a high affinity of AdpA with a S. coelicolor sti1 probe [16], consistent with our results with S. lividans sti1[25]. However, AdpA had a lower affinity to S. coelicolor ramR (with promoter region -302 nt to +73 nt with respect to the translation start site) than S. lividans ramR (Figure 2, with the promoter region -440 nt to -181 nt). When we used a S. lividans ramR probe carrying the promoter region from -201 nt to +66 nt, we observed that less than half the probe was shifted (data not shown). Therefore, the predicted sites for ramR promoter at positions -384 and -358 (Table 2) may have the greatest affinity for AdpA (Figure 2). Of the genes analysed by qRT-PCR, the ramR gene was that for which the observed expression was the least consistent with the microarray findings, even through the same sample was used for these analyses. This suggests that the expression of genes close to the cut-off we applied to the microarray data will need further investigation by qRT-PCR.

Among the 28 genes identified as direct targets of AdpA in S. griseus, 13 have no orthologous gene in S. lividans and the orthologous genes of six are not under the control of S. lividans AdpA in our conditions. In addition to ramR (amfR) and sti1 (sgiA), hyaS (SGR3840) is also a directly AdpA-regulated gene that is conserved in the S. lividans and S. griseus AdpA regulons [12, 25]. In S. lividans, hyaS affects hypha aggregation and the amount of mycelium-associated undecylprodigiosin [44]; its function in S. griseus is unknown. The expression of all of bldN, SLI6392, SLI1868 and the SCO2921 ortholog (gene detected in S. lividans genome but not named in StrepDB [7]) is influenced by adpA deletion in S. lividans. It remains to be determined whether AdpA directly controls S. lividans adpA and bldA as described in S. coelicolor and griseus[16, 23].

S. coelicolor adpA is one of 145 identified TTA-containing genes; the production of the proteins encoded by these genes is dependent on bldA, encoding the only tRNA for the rare leucine codon TTA [46]. Our study has revealed that expression of 11 TTA-containing genes and of 24 genes regulated by S. coelicolor bldA[42, 47, 48] was affected by adpA deletion in S. lividans (Additional files 4: Table S3). We show that cchA, cchB, sti1, hyaS, SLI6586 and SLI6587, previously identified in S. coelicolor as bldA-dependent genes, are direct targets of S. lividans AdpA [25]. Of the 29 other bldA-dependent genes, 19 are probable direct S. lividans AdpA targets: in silico analysis indicated the presence of putative AdpA-binding sites upstream from these genes (most of them with score above 4, see Additional file 5: Table S4). By analogy, this suggests that the deregulation of certain genes observed in the S. coelicolor bldA mutant may have been the consequence of S. coelicolor AdpA down-regulation, as previously suggested [49].

To predict probable direct targets of AdpA in S. lividans and contribute to knowledge of the AdpA regulon, we carried out in silico analysis of the entire S. coelicolor genome using PREDetector [39], and also restricted to the S. lividans genes identified as being AdpA-dependent (see Additional file 5: Table S4 and Table 3). We identified 95 genes probably directly activated by S. lividans AdpA and 67 genes that could be directly repressed (Additional file 5: Table S4). Most of the putative AdpA-binding sites identified by this analysis are coherent with the findings of Yao et al., demonstrating the importance of G and C nucleotides at positions 2 and 4, respectively [50]. Six genes have been identified as directly regulated by AdpA in other species (adpA, bldN, wblA, SLI6392, SCO2921 orthologs, and glpQ1, as indicated in Table 3 in bold) [10, 12, 15, 16, 18], and 27 more in S. griseus are also probable AdpA-direct targets (e.g. cchB, SLI0755-0754 operon, rarA operon, scoF4, groEL1, SLI6587, SLI4345, cydAB, and ectABD, as indicated in Table 3 and Additional file 2: Table S2, underlined) [7, 12–14]. Sixty-three of the 162 probable direct targets of AdpA in S. lividans have no ortholog in the S. griseus genome (Additional file 5: Table S4).

Table 3 Genes putatively directly regulated by S. lividans AdpA in liquid rich medium a
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Conclusions

In conclusion, this study has extended our knowledge of the S. lividans AdpA regulon. We identified S. lividans AdpA-regulated genes by transcriptomic analysis, and used in silico analysis to identify over a hundred probable direct targets of AdpA in S. lividans. Most of them are absent from the current predicted S. griseus AdpA regulon. Discovering new S. lividans genes directly regulated by AdpA and that are involved in primary and secondary metabolism will provide valuable information about Streptomyces development and differentiation in liquid culture.

Availability of supporting data

Microarray data are available in the ArrayExpress database [51, 52] under accession number A-MEXP-2383.

Authors’ information

AG performed qRT-PCR and EMSA experiments while working at Pasteur Institute. Her current address is Centre for Bacterial Cell Biology, Institute for Cell and Molecular Biosciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE2 4HH, UK.

Abbreviations

qRT-PCR:

Quantitative real-time PCR

ORF:

Open reading frame

Fc:

Fold change

CT:

Critical threshold cycle

BLAST:

Basic local alignment search tool

EMSA:

Electrophoretic mobility shift assay

AdpA-His6:

Recombinant AdpA protein with a six-histine tag at the C-terminus

CDS:

Coding DNA sequence

CS:

Coding strand

NCS:

Non coding strand

u. f.:

Unknown function

c. p.:

Cell process

m. m.:

Macromolecule metabolism

s. m.:

Small molecule metabolism

c. e.:

Cell envelope

e.:

Extrachromosomal

r.:

Regulation

n. c.:

Not classified.

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Acknowledgements

We thank T. Msadek, S. Dubrac, E. Johnson and J.-L. Pernodet for helpful discussion and critical reading of the manuscript, and O. Poupel for assistance with qRT-PCR analysis. We are grateful to G. Bucca for her advice and help with microarray handling. We thank Alex Edelman & Associates for correcting the manuscript.

This work was supported by research funds from the Institut Pasteur and Centre National de Recherche Scientifique. A. Guyet was the recipient of fellowships from the Ministère de l’Education Nationale, de la Recherche et de la Technologie, the Pasteur-Weizmann foundation and the ERA-IB European grant. AG thanks BBSRC and R. Daniel for his constant support during the preparation of this manuscript.

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AG, NB and PM wrote and revised the manuscript. CP and JYC have given final approval for this version to be published. PM helped AG to design the project. AG performed qRT-PCR, EMSA and in silico analysis; and prepared Figures, Tables and Additional files. NB purified AdpA-His6 protein. CP carried out the microarray experiments. JYC helped CP with the statistical analysis of microarray results and wrote the associated Methods sections. AG interpreted the microarrays data. MG help with qRT-PCR experiments and provided technical support. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Additional file 1: Table S1: Oligonucleotides used in this study. (PDF 114 KB)

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Additional file 2: Table S2: Complete set of genes differentially expressed in the S. lividans adpA mutant. S. coelicolor microarrays were used to test for genes differentially expressed in the S. lividans adpA mutant and wild-type 1326, at growth time point T, in liquid YEME medium. Annotated function, Fc, P-values, and classification of the proteins are presented according to the microarray SCO genes, by increasing SCO gene number. (PDF 3 MB)

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Additional file 3: Figure S1: Effect of the mutation of one AdpA-binding site in the S. lividans hyaS promoter on AdpA-binding specificity. Mutation of an AdpA-binding site in the S. lividans hyaS promoter region prevents formation of an AdpA-DNA complex in vitro. Sequence of the mutated AdpA-binding site (at -129 nt) and EMSA performed with the mutated hyaS promoter region are shown. (PDF 554 KB)

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Additional file 4: Table S3: Comparison of gene expression profiles between S. coelicolor bldA-dependent and S. lividans AdpA-dependent genes. Comparison of the gene expression profiles of some S. coelicolor bldA-dependent genes whose S. lividans orthologs are AdpA-dependent (see Additional file 2: Table S2). Putative AdpA-binding sites were identified in silico (see Additional file 5: Table S4), suggesting that in the S. coelicolor bldA mutant, the adpA translation defect leads to bldA-dependence of the genes identified previously [42, 47, 48]. (PDF 180 KB)

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Additional file 5: Table S4: Putative S. coelicolor AdpA-binding sites upstream from the S. lividans AdpA-dependent genes. We identified putative AdpA-binding sites in silico using the S. coelicolor genome and we analysed orthologs of S. lividans AdpA-dependent genes (based on our microarray data); the sequences and positions of the sites with the highest scores according to PREDetector are shown. S. coelicolor, S. lividans and S. griseus ortholog genes are indicated and previously identified direct or probably direct S. griseus AdpA-dependent genes are highlighted. (PDF 2 MB)

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