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Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE A (Applied Physics & Engineering)  2004, Vol. 5 Issue (2): 173-179    DOI: 10.1631/jzus.2004.0173
Bioscience & Biotechnology     
A pair of two-component regulatory genes ecrA1/A2 in S. coelicolor
LI Yong-quan, CEN Pei-lin, CHEN Shi-fei, WU Dan, ZHENG Jing
College of Life Science, Zhejiang University, Hongzhou 310027, China; Institute of Bioengineering, Zhejiang University, Hongzhou 310027, China; Drug Adiministration of Zhejiang Province, Hongzhou 310012, China
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Abstract  Two-component genes are kinds of genetic elements involved in regulation of antibiotic production in Streptomyces coelicolor. DNA microarray analysis revealed thatecr A1/A2, which mapped at distant sites from red locus and encode respectively the kinase and regulator, expressed coordinately with genes of Red specific biosynthetic pathway. ecrA1 and ecrA2 gene-disruptive mutants were constructed using homogenotisation by reciprocal double crossover. Fermentation data showed that the undecylprodigiosin (Red) level of production was lower than that of wild-type strain. However, the change of the actinorhodin (Act) production level was not significant compared with wild type. Thus, these experiment results confirmed that the two-component system ecrA1/A2 was positive regulatory element for red gene cluster.

Key wordsStreptomyces coelicolor      Two-component system      Antibiotic gene cluster      ecrA1/A2     
Received: 24 January 2003     
CLC:  Q813.4  
  Q78  
  Q939.13  
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LI Yong-quan, CEN Pei-lin, CHEN Shi-fei, WU Dan, ZHENG Jing. A pair of two-component regulatory genes ecrA1/A2 in S. coelicolor. Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE A (Applied Physics & Engineering), 2004, 5(2): 173-179.

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