Review Article

An Insight into the “-Omics” Based Engineering of Streptomycetes for Secondary Metabolite Overproduction

Table 3

Methodologies used to overproduce drugs using engineered genomics approach.

StrainsDrugsApproachMethodologies

S. kanamyceticus KanamycinGenome guided overexpression of gene clusters in native and heterologous hostsOverexpression of extra copy of the gene cluster enhanced kanamycin production
S. ansochromogenes NikkomycinGenome guided overexpression of gene clusters in native and heterologous hostsOverexpression of extra copy of the gene cluster enhanced nikkomycins production
S. coelicolor ActinorhodinGenome guided overexpression of gene clusters in native and heterologous hostsTandem copies of the gene cluster increased actinorhodin production
S. avermitilis Streptomycin, cephamycin C, and pladienolideGenome guided overexpression of gene clusters in native and heterologous hostsHeterologous expression in genome-minimized strain
S. venezuelae YJ003Tylosin, kanamycin, spectinomycin, spectinamine, gentamicin, and epothilonesGenome guided overexpression of gene clusters in native and heterologous hostsHeterologous expression in pikromycin gene cluster deleted strain
S. lividans TK-23, TK-24, and TK-63Daptomycin and paromamineGenome guided overexpression of gene clusters in native and heterologous hostsHeterologous expression
S. lividans CapreomycinGenome guided overexpression of gene clusters in native and heterologous hostsHeterologous expression
S. albus J1074ThiocoralineGenome guided overexpression of gene clusters in native and heterologous hostsHeterologous expression
S. fradiae TylosinGenome shuffling guided enhancement of secondary metabolitesTwo rounds of genome shuffling
S. gilvosporeus SG1NatamycinGenome shuffling guided enhancement of secondary metabolitesFour rounds of genome shuffling
S. pristinaespiralis PristinamycinGenome shuffling guided enhancement of secondary metabolitesFour rounds of genome shuffling to increase the resistivity against pristinamycin enhanced pristinamycin production
S. sp. U121(2S, 3R)-HCAGenome shuffling guided enhancement of secondary metabolitesGenerating resistance mechanism for transepoxyaconitic acid by three rounds of shuffling
S. padanus,
S. griseofuscus,
S. graminearus,
S. hygroscopicus, and S. albulus
ε-Poly-l-lysineGenome shuffling guided enhancement of secondary metabolitesThrough glucose, sulfa guanidine, and succinic acid tolerance and genome shuffling