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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, April 2004, p. 2452-2463, Vol. 70, No. 4
0099-2240/04/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.4.2452-2463.2004
Copyright © 2004, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Genetically Modified Bacterial Strains and Novel Bacterial Artificial Chromosome Shuttle Vectors for Constructing Environmental Libraries and Detecting Heterologous Natural Products in Multiple Expression Hosts

Asuncion Martinez,* Steven J. Kolvek, Choi Lai Tiong Yip, Joern Hopke, Kara A. Brown,{dagger} Ian A. MacNeil,{dagger} and Marcia S. Osburne{dagger}

Cambridge Genomics Center, Aventis Pharmaceuticals Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

Received 17 September 2003/ Accepted 3 January 2004

The enormous diversity of uncultured microorganisms in soil and other environments provides a potentially rich source of novel natural products, which is critically important for drug discovery efforts. Our investigators reported previously on the creation and screening of an Escherichia coli library containing soil DNA cloned and expressed in a bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) vector. In that initial study, our group identified novel enzyme activities and a family of antibacterial small molecules encoded by soil DNA cloned and expressed in E. coli. To continue our pilot study of the utility and feasibility of this approach to natural product drug discovery, we have expanded our technology to include Streptomyces lividans and Pseudomonas putida as additional hosts with different expression capabilities, and herein we describe the tools we developed for transferring environmental libraries into all three expression hosts and screening for novel activities. These tools include derivatives of S. lividans that contain complete and unmarked deletions of the act and red endogenous pigment gene clusters, a derivative of P. putida that can accept environmental DNA vectors and integrate the heterologous DNA into the chromosome, and new BAC shuttle vectors for transferring large fragments of environmental DNA from E. coli to both S. lividans and P. putida by high-throughput conjugation. Finally, we used these tools to confirm that the three hosts have different expression capabilities for some known gene clusters.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Aventis Pharmaceuticals Inc., Cambridge Genomics Center, 26 Landsdowne St., Cambridge, MA 02139. Phone: (617) 768-4023. Fax: (617) 374-8811. E-mail: Asuncion.martinez{at}aventis.com.

{dagger} Present address: ActivBiotics, Inc., Lexington, MA 02421.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, April 2004, p. 2452-2463, Vol. 70, No. 4
0099-2240/04/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.4.2452-2463.2004
Copyright © 2004, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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