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Study of the unique signaling pathway of Ser/Thr protein kinase StkP and phosphatase PhpP in Streptococcus pneumoniae
Keil, Jan ; Ulrych, Aleš (advisor) ; Bobková, Šárka (referee)
The major human pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae is a unique model for the study of eukaryotic-type serine/threonine protein kinases and its cognate phosphatases in bacteria, since it encodes only a single signaling pair composed of the StkP protein kinase and PhpP phosphatase. This signaling pair plays a role in several cellular processes, mainly in cell wall biosynthesis and cell division. StkP and PhpP proteins with a pleiotropic effect appear to regulate a complex signaling cascade by phosphorylation of many substrates. However, only a few have been characterized so far. Using MS analysis, we have identified about 90 phosphopeptides that are potential substrates for the StkP kinase and PhpP phosphatase. This diploma thesis is focused on the characterization of the new substrate Spr0929 and its role in pneumococcal physiology. One of the objectives was to investigate cell morphology of strains carrying deletion of the spr0929 gene in different genetic backgrounds. It turned out that the role of Spr0929 in cell morphology is strain specific. The growth curves of strains with this deletion were compared to that of the wild type in various physiological conditions as well. As Spr0929 contains a nucleoid-associated domain called NdpA, determination of its cell localization was an important...
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Secondary metabolism and its regulation in Streptomyces ambofaciens: the study of cryptic secondary metabolite biosynthetic gene clusters
Bobková, Šárka
I. ABSTRACT in English The presented work is focused on secondary metabolism and its regulation in Streptomyces ambofaciens and Streptomyces lividans with special interest in new biosynthetic pathways. The sequencing of bacterial and fungal genomes revealed that the number of their secondary metabolite biosynthetic gene clusters greatly exceeds the number of produced secondary metabolites. Further studies showed that at least some of the newly discovered clusters, called cryptic since no product had been associated to them, were expressed in certain conditions and that they directed the biosynthesis of exploitable secondary metabolites (Gottelt et al., 2010; Gross et al., 2007; Pang et al., 2004). Therefore, these cryptic clusters have been considered as one of the promising reservoirs of new bioactive molecules. Using different approaches I studied the cryptic secondary metabolite biosynthetic gene clusters of Streptomyces ambofaciens, a strain exploited industrially for the production of the antibiotic spiramycin. In the second part of this work, I was interested in the regulation of secondary metabolite biosynthesis and in manipulating genes encoding regulatory proteins (Rep and DasR) in order to activate the expression of cryptic clusters. The third part of this work studied the effect of the...
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Secondary metabolism and its regulation in Streptomyces ambofaciens: the study of cryptic secondary metabolite biosynthetic gene clusters
Bobková, Šárka
I. ABSTRACT in English The presented work is focused on secondary metabolism and its regulation in Streptomyces ambofaciens and Streptomyces lividans with special interest in new biosynthetic pathways. The sequencing of bacterial and fungal genomes revealed that the number of their secondary metabolite biosynthetic gene clusters greatly exceeds the number of produced secondary metabolites. Further studies showed that at least some of the newly discovered clusters, called cryptic since no product had been associated to them, were expressed in certain conditions and that they directed the biosynthesis of exploitable secondary metabolites (Gottelt et al., 2010; Gross et al., 2007; Pang et al., 2004). Therefore, these cryptic clusters have been considered as one of the promising reservoirs of new bioactive molecules. Using different approaches I studied the cryptic secondary metabolite biosynthetic gene clusters of Streptomyces ambofaciens, a strain exploited industrially for the production of the antibiotic spiramycin. In the second part of this work, I was interested in the regulation of secondary metabolite biosynthesis and in manipulating genes encoding regulatory proteins (Rep and DasR) in order to activate the expression of cryptic clusters. The third part of this work studied the effect of the...
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