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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, July 2003, p. 4256-4259, Vol. 69, No. 7
0099-2240/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.7.4256-4259.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Development of Antibiotic-Overproducing Strains by Site-Directed Mutagenesis of the rpsL Gene in Streptomyces lividans

Yoshiko Okamoto-Hosoya, Susumu Okamoto, and Kozo Ochi*

National Food Research Institute, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8642, Japan

Received 27 December 2002/ Accepted 23 April 2003

Certain rpsL (which encodes the ribosomal protein S12) mutations that confer resistance to streptomycin markedly activate the production of antibiotics in Streptomyces spp. These rpsL mutations are known to be located in the two conserved regions within the S12 protein. To understand the roles of these two regions in the activation of silent genes, we used site-directed mutagenesis to generate eight novel mutations in addition to an already known (K88E) mutation that is capable of activating antibiotic production in Streptomyces lividans. Of these mutants, two (L90K and R94G) activated antibiotic production much more than the K88E mutant. Neither the L90K nor the R94G mutation conferred an increase in the level of resistance to streptomycin and paromomycin. Our results demonstrate the efficacy of the site-directed mutagenesis technique for strain improvement.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: National Food Research Institute, 2-1-12 Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8642, Japan. Phone: 81-29-838-8125. Fax: 81-29-838-7996. E-mail: kochi{at}affrc.go.jp.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, July 2003, p. 4256-4259, Vol. 69, No. 7
0099-2240/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.7.4256-4259.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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