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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, September 1998, p. 3383-3388, Vol. 64, No. 9
Center of Marine Biotechnology, University of
Maryland Biotechnology Institute, Baltimore, Maryland
212021;
Fachbereich Biologie/Chemie,
Universität Osnabrück, 49069 Osnabrück,
Germany2; and
Australian Institute
of Marine Science, Townsville, Queensland 4810, Australia3
Received 19 February 1998/Accepted 29 June 1998
The Streptomyces strains CHR3 and CHR28, isolated from
the Baltimore Inner Harbor, contained two and one, respectively, giant linear plasmids which carry terminally bound proteins. The plasmids pRJ3L (322 kb), from CHR3, and pRJ28 (330 kb), from CHR28, carry genes
homologous to the previously characterized chromosomal
Streptomyces lividans 66 operon encoding resistance against
mercuric compounds. Both plasmids are transmissible (without any
detectable rearrangement) to the chloramphenicol-resistant S. lividans TK24 strain lacking plasmids and carrying a chromosomal
deletion of the mer operon. S. lividans TK24
conjugants harboring pRJ3L or pRJ28 exhibited profiles of mercury
resistance to mercuric compounds similar to those of
Streptomyces strains CHR3 and CHR28.
Streptomycetes are gram-positive
bacteria with a high G+C content (70 to 74%) (6) which grow
as substrate hyphae and form, upon depletion of nutrients, aerial
mycelia and spores. Members of the genus Streptomyces
produce an extensive range of secondary metabolites of industrial
importance, including enzymes and approximately 60% of all naturally
occurring antibiotics (2). Streptomyces species are generally isolated from terrestrial habitats. In addition to other representatives of actinomycetales, their ubiquitous presence
in marine and estuarine sediments is now well documented (16,
37), not only as dormant spores but also as metabolically active
substrate mycelia (28).
Estuarine sediments are frequently severely polluted by heavy metals,
including mercury compounds. From sediments next to a site of an
abandoned ore-processing plant in the Baltimore Inner Harbor, two
mercury-resistant Streptomyces strains, CHR3 and CHR28, were
isolated. Chemotaxonomical studies and classification of 16S rRNA genes
revealed that CHR3 and CHR28 are Streptomyces strains which
form a cluster and are closely related to S. pseudogriseolus (32). Additional analyses showed that both strains were
resistant to HgCl2 and the organomercuric compound
phenylmercuric acetate. In S. lividans 66, this resistance
is mediated by six open reading frames (ORFs) arranged in two
divergently transcribed operons. The regulatory and transport genes
form one operon, and the second one is composed of the genes for the
mercuric reductase (merA) and for the organolyase
(merB) (36). The combination of both merA and merB confers a broad-spectrum mercury
resistance to the isolate, as opposed to a narrow-spectrum resistance
conferred by merA alone (36).
The mechanism of mercury resistance of S. lividans 66 thus
resembles those described for several other gram-negative and
gram-positive bacteria, including Escherichia coli
(12), Bacillus subtilis (38), and
Staphylococcus aureus (24). Hybridization studies indicated that both marine Streptomyces strains, CHR3 and
CHR28, carry DNA stretches which are linked and appeared homologous to the two S. lividans operons required for broad-spectrum
mercury resistance (32).
Mercury resistance genes have been encountered on transposons and/or
circular plasmids within various bacteria. Among streptomycetes, in
addition to a wide range of circular plasmids, the discovery of
pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) (35) has facilitated the molecular examination of giant linear plasmids. The presence of
linear plasmids in Streptomyces spp. was first described by Hayakawa et al. (13), and work by Kinashi et al. (20,
21) has demonstrated the presence of large linear plasmids (>100
kb) in several antibiotic-producing Streptomyces spp. Linear
plasmids ranging in size from 12 kb to 1 Mb have now been reported in
more than 10 Streptomyces spp. (7, 11, 14, 41,
45), and they have also been found in other actinomycete genera
such as Nocardia, Rhodococcus, and
Mycobacterium (8, 17, 18, 31). Large linear
plasmids have been shown to carry genes encoding antibiotic
biosynthesis, resistance to heavy metal, and ability to break down
xenobiotics (for a review, see reference 26).
We report here that the mercury resistance genes of
Streptomyces strains CHR3 and CHR28 are present on
transmissible giant linear plasmids.
Strains.
Streptomyces strains CHR3 and CHR28 were
isolated from a heavily polluted site in the Baltimore Inner Harbor and
have been described previously (32). S. lividans
TK24 and S. lividans 66 were gifts from D. A. Hopwood,
Norwich, United Kingdom. The strains are described in Table
1.
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Mercury Resistance Is Encoded by Transferable Giant
Linear Plasmids in Two Chesapeake Bay Streptomyces
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TABLE 1.
Strains used in this study
PFGE. DNA plugs for PFGE analysis were prepared by a modification of the procedure used by Kieser et al. (19). Mycelia were embedded in 0.75% InCert Agarose (FMC BioProducts, Rockland, Maine) and treated with lysozyme for 2 h at 37°C, followed by 48 h at 55°C in a 1-mg/ml concentration of proteinase K in NDS solution (0.5 mM EDTA, 10 mM Tris-HCl [pH 9.0], 1% Sarkosyl). In cases where plugs were to be digested with restriction enzymes, proteinase K activity was inhibited by treating the plugs with 1.5 mM Pefabloc SC (Boehringer Mannheim Biochemicals, Indianapolis, Ind.), a nontoxic serine-proteinase inhibitor, for 90 min in TE buffer (pH 7.6) at 37°C (1). Plugs were rinsed with T20E50 (20 mM Tris-HCl, 50 mM EDTA; pH 8.0) three times for 1 h at 4°C.
Plugs were subjected to PFGE by using a clamped homogenous electric field system (CHEF DR-III; Bio-Rad, Melville, N.Y.) in 0.5× TBE buffer (1× TBE is 98 mM Tris-HCl, 89 mM boric acid, and 62 mM EDTA) containing 100 µM of thiourea at 14°C (33). Ramping times are indicated in legends of Fig. 1, 2, and 4. Pulse times of 30 and 90 s were used to determine whether plasmids were linear or circular. Ladders of
DNA concatamers and Saccharomyces
cerevisiae YNN 295 chromosomes (Bio-Rad Laboratories, Hercules,
Calif.) were used as molecular-weight standards.
DNA was stained with SYBR Green I (Molecular Probes, Inc., Eugene,
Oreg.) prior to photography with 302-nm UV light illumination by using
an SYBR Green gel stain photographic filter (Molecular Probes). The
gels were digitized with a FluorImager 573 (Molecular Dynamics,
Sunnyvale, Calif.), and molecular weights were estimated with
FragmentNT analysis software (Molecular Dynamics).
SDS-PFGE conditions. Plugs were prepared without the proteinase K treatment and loaded onto a 1% (wt/vol) Seakem GTG (FMC) agarose gel with a 1× TBE buffer containing 0.2% sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) as described by Kinashi and Shimaji-Murayama (22). The gel was run in 0.5× TBE buffer containing 0.2% SDS.
Plasmid restriction mapping. Plasmid bands or restriction fragments were excised from the gel and incubated in T20E50 buffer for 12 h. Agarose plugs were rinsed in the appropriate restriction buffer for 6 to 12 h at 4°C, transferred to 300 µl of ice-cold buffer containing 50 U of restriction enzyme and 50 mg of acetylated bovine serum albumin (Promega Co., Madison, Wis.), and kept at 4°C for 2 h prior to incubation for 12 to 16 h at 37°C. Double restriction digests were performed under the same conditions, with 50 U of each restriction enzyme. Enzymes and buffers were purchased from Promega and used according to the manufacturer's recommendations.
DNA labeling and Southern hybridization.
An 816-bp
PvuII fragment (MER-A) of the S. lividans 66 mercuric reductase gene merA and a 716-bp
SalI-EcoRV fragment (MER-B) of the organolyase
gene merB were prepared from plasmid pJOE851.2 (36), generously provided by J. Altenbuchner, Stuttgart,
Germany. Probes were labeled with [
-32P]dCTP by using
a random priming kit from Pharmacia Biotech, Inc. (Piscataway, N.J.).
PFGE gels were UV irradiated for 90 s with a 254-nm light source
and then transferred to a Magnagraph membrane filter (Micron
Separations, Inc., Westborough, Mass.) by alkaline capillary transfer
(4). Membranes were hybridized at 65°C and washed at high
stringency (68°C) in 0.1× SSC (1× SSC is 0.15 M NaCl plus 0.015 M
sodium citrate) according to the manufacturer's recommendations.
Plasmid transfer. Spores (2 × 106) of S. lividans TK24 were mixed with 107 spores of CHR3 or CHR28 and plated onto YME medium (ISP2) (Difco Laboratories, Detroit, Mich.). Crosses were incubated at 26°C for 7 days until sporulation occurred. Spores were harvested according to the method of Hopwood et al. (15) and plated onto YME medium containing mercuric chloride (0.05 mM) and chloramphenicol (25 µg/ml). The transfer frequencies were expressed as transconjugants per donor genome. From each cross, five individual colonies were screened for the presence of linear plasmids by using PFGE as described above.
Determination of mercury resistance by agar diffusion assay.
The sensitivity of the strains was tested by agar diffusion assay
(40). Disks (6 mm in diameter) were saturated with
HgCl2 or phenylmercuric acetate solutions as follows: 2, 10, 20, 40, 100, and 200 nmol or 0.5, 2, 4, 10, 20, and 50 nmol,
respectively. Disks were placed on the surface of the agar plates
previously inoculated with 108 spores of the strain to be
tested. The zone of inhibition was measured after incubation at 26°C
for 3 days. Sensitive strains had zones of inhibition of 
10 mm and
resistant strains had zones of inhibition of <7 mm with 100 nmol of
HgCl2 or 20 nmol of PMA. The growth of all strains was
compared to that of the control laboratory strains S. lividans TK24 (mercury sensitive) and S. lividans 66 (mercury resistant).
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Identification and characterization of giant linear plasmids. Two plasmids, designated pRJ3H (370 kb) and pRJ3L (322 kb) were detected in the Streptomyces strain CHR3 and a 330-kb plasmid, pRJ28, was found in the Streptomyces strain CHR28 (Fig. 1A). The relative migrations of plasmids pRJ3H, pRJ3L, and pRJ28, determined by using two different pulse times, were found to correspond to linear concatamers of lambda DNA under both running conditions, indicating that all three plasmids are linear and not circular. The linear plasmids migrated into the gel only when the DNA-containing plugs had been treated with proteinase K (Fig. 2A). It was therefore concluded that proteins were bound to the plasmids. When SDS (0.2%) was added to the running buffer, the chromosomal and plasmid DNAs migrated into the gel, independent of whether or not pretreatment with proteinase K had occurred (Fig. 2B). This finding is in agreement with previous data (22) showing that SDS leads to unfolding of the protein. To localize the protein binding site, each of the linear plasmids, derived from plugs treated or not treated with proteinase K and after separation on SDS-containing PFGE gels, was analyzed by restriction with the enzyme XbaI; the results are shown for pRJ28 (Fig. 2C). In the absence of protein, two fragments (89.5 and 11.5 kb) were partially retained in the gel well, shown by the reduced intensity (confirmed by densitometry) of the lowest and second highest bands in lane 3 compared to lane 4 (Fig. 2C). Similarly, fragments of 91 and 16.5 kb were retained for pRJ3L (results not shown). These data suggested that the corresponding fragments are bound to protein. Restriction maps were established by using enzymes XbaI and HindIII, both individually and in combination (Fig. 3). Restriction fragments were accurately sized by conventional agarose gel electrophoresis, since DNA fragment migration in PFGE is dependent on G+C content and cannot be used to size small (20- to 50-kb) fragments accurately.
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Mercury resistance genes are encoded by linear plasmids. The strains CHR3 and CHR28 had previously been found to be resistant to mercury compounds (32). Hybridizations had shown that both strains carry mercury resistance genes homologous to those in the wild-type strain S. lividans 66 (32). In the present study, hybridization with probe MER-A from the merA gene, MER-B from merB gene, and MER-RTP from genes merR, merT, and merP and from ORF IV demonstrated that the mer genes are located on the large linear plasmids pRJ3L and pRJ28 in strains CHR3 and CHR28, respectively (Fig. 1B) but not on the corresponding chromosomal DNAs. The mer genes were located on a 13-kb HindIII-XbaI and a 36-kb HindIII fragment of the plasmid pRJ28 and on HindIII-XbaI fragments of 11.5 and 191.5 kb of pRJ3L (Fig. 3).
Conjugation experiments.
To identify a suitable recipient,
S. lividans strains were tested for their sensitivity to
mercuric compounds. S. lividans TK24 was, contrary to its
progenitor wild-type strain S. lividans 66 (36),
found to be sensitive. Hybridizations confirmed that S. lividans 66 carries the six ORFs required for mercury resistance that are deleted in TK24 (15). Additionally, former findings that TK24 lacks circular and linear plasmids were substantiated. Comparative analyses of resistance patterns to antibiotics showed that
TK24 is, like S. lividans 66, resistant to chloramphenicol (9). Thus, TK24 was selected to serve as a possible
recipient during conjugation with the expected donors CHR3 and CHR28.
After corresponding matings, the harvested spores were inspected for outgrowth into colonies resistant to mercuric chloride and
chloramphenicol. The appearance of all chloramphenicol- and mercuric
chloride-resistant colonies was similar to that of TK24 colonies; they
had developed gray spores. In contrast, CHR3 and CHR28 had light-brown
and green spores, respectively. Transfer frequencies of 1.5 × 10
2 and 1.9 × 103 transconjugants per
donor genome were calculated for pRJ3L and pRJ28, respectively. For
further characterization, the DNA of two of the randomly selected
conjugants from the two crosses was analyzed in more detail. One group
of conjugants contained the plasmid pRJ3L, the size and restriction
pattern of which were identical to those of pRJ3L isolated from CHR3
(Fig. 4A and 4C). None of them contained
the plasmid pRJ3H present in CHR3. Representatives of the second cross
harbored the plasmid pRJ28, which corresponded in size and the
distribution of restriction enzyme sites to the one initially
identified in CHR28 (Fig. 4A and C). merA and
merB genes were present on plasmids in conjugants (Fig. 4B).
In order to assess whether the conjugants are TK24 strains, their
unsheared total DNAs were cleaved with restriction enzyme
AseI, and the PFGE-separated fragments were compared to
those of TK24, CHR3, and CHR28 (Fig. 4D). The DNA of the inspected
transconjugants displayed many breaks when thiourea had not been added
to the buffer in the course of PFGE analysis. This is a typical
characteristic of DNA from S. lividans 66 and its
derivatives but not of DNA from CHR3 and CHR28. The data clearly showed
that all the conjugants contain, in addition to the transferred linear
plasmid, the TK24 genome. Plasmids from conjugants were designated
pRJ3LT and pRJ28T.
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and CHR28 (
) and conjugants CHR3T (
) and CHR28T (
) are as
marked. The control strains were S. lividans 66 (
) and
S. lividans TK24 (
). The horizontal line indicates the
inhibition zone diameter used as a resistance criterion.
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Previously, two Streptomyces strains, CHR3 and CHR28, were found to be resistant to HgCl2 and organic mercuric compounds (35). The strain CHR28 was found to harbor one large linear plasmid pRJ28 (330 kb). Streptomyces strain CHR3 carries two plasmids, pRJ3H and pRJ3L, of 390 and 322 kb, respectively. pRJ28 and pRJ3L appeared to be closely related as they showed homologous regions in cross-hybridization experiments. However, pRJ3L and pRJ3H shared no region of homology, indicating that they did not derive from each other. In the absence of mercury, plasmids were not lost. The plasmids were not found to integrate into the chromosomal DNAs as it has been reported for other Streptomyces plasmids, such as pSAM2 (29), pSLP1 (3), and pSCP1 (23).
The linear plasmids pRJ3L and pRJ28 were transferable to the chloramphenicol-resistant (9), mercury-sensitive S. lividans strain TK24 during conjugation. Physiological and hybridization studies clearly showed that the corresponding TK24 conjugants carry the mercuric resistance pattern of CHR3 and CHR28 and also contain the mercury resistance genes on their acquired plasmids.
Within various gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria, mercury resistance genes have frequently been found on plasmids and/or transposable elements (42). Among actinomycetes, the synthesis of a mercuric reductase was associated with the presence of the giant linear plasmid pBD2 in Rhodococcus erythropolis (8). The plasmid pBD2 additionally encodes genes required for the catabolism of isopropylbenzene and trichloroethylene. Although giant linear plasmids are frequently encountered in Streptomyces strains, most of their functions are still not known. Several linear plasmids have been linked with specific phenotypes, including restriction and modification systems (44), antibiotic production, heavy-metal resistance, and the ability to break down xenobiotics (for a review, see reference 26).
All linear plasmids from streptomycetes identified to date contain
terminal inverted repeats with proteins linked to their 5' ends, like
some fungi and yeast linear plasmids (26) or some bacteriophage and adenovirus genomes (10, 25, 34). The
replication mechanism of linear genomes has been well studied for the
linear Bacillus phage 
29 (5, 39) and the
adenovirus (30). For these linear DNAs, the linked proteins
have been shown to be required for the initiation of replication. The
newly described linear plasmids from CHR3 and CHR28 also contain
terminally bound proteins. The role of terminal proteins in linear
chromosomes or plasmids of streptomycetes is still unknown, but it is
speculated to protect the extremities from exonuclease activities
and/or be part of the replication machinery, as described above for
bacteriophage and adenovirus genomes.
Like some other giant linear plasmids, pRJ3L and pRJ28 are transmissible in the course of conjugation. Both transferred plasmids were shown to be structurally identical to those in the parent strains (Fig. 4C), indicating that no rearrangement occurred during conjugation. In addition, the conjugants were shown to have the same level of resistance to mercuric chloride or phenylmercuric acetate as the donor strains, indicating that the complete set of the mercury resistance genes was transmissible (Fig. 5).
So far, the transfer functions of linear Streptomyces plasmids have scarcely been investigated. Transfer functions were found located on pBL1, a 43-kb linear plasmid derivative of giant linear plasmid pBS1 from Streptomyces bambergiensis (43). By insertion and deletion mutagenesis, five genes were identified that are required for efficient transfer and its regulation (43).
The finding that mercury resistance genes are encoded on transmissible linear plasmids in marine streptomycetes has important ecological implications. Horizontal gene transfer might occur in the sediment microbial population, at least among the Streptomyces assemblage. Although no intergeneric transfer of large plasmids has been demonstrated to date, it can be envisaged between Streptomyces, Rhodococcus, or other actinomycetes where large linear plasmids have already been found (8, 17, 27, 31). Thus, it is important to learn more about the genes involved in the mobilization of linear plasmids and to elucidate the implications of the spread of genes within natural habitats of actinomycetes. Little is known about the evolutionary origin or ecological function of giant linear plasmids in actinomycetes, but these plasmids may play an important role in the spread of genes in the natural environment.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |
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This study was supported by the Schering-Plough Research Institute.
We thank Ann Horan for helpful discussions and Frank Robb for advice and encouragement.
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* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Australian Institute of Marine Science, PMB No. 3, Townsville, MC 4810 Queensland, Australia. Phone: 61-7-4753-4418. Fax: 61-7-4753-4285. E-mail: R.Hill{at}aims.gov.au
Contribution no. 302 from the Center of Marine Biotechnology.
Contribution no. 907 from the Australian Institute of Marine Science.
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