Principal Investigator,Professor : Molecular Biology of Streptomyces

TAN Huarong
Address:NO.1 West Beichen Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China
Telephone/fax:010-64807461
E-mail:Tanhr@sun.im.ac.cn
Education/degrees
Prof. Dr. Huarong Tan, Principal Investigator and Deputy Director of Institute of Microbiology, CAS, Ph. D. (1991, University of East Anglia and John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK).He is also a vice President of Chinese Society for Microbiology. The laboratory is mainly interested in molecular biology of Streptomyces. Especially, expression and regulation of genes involved in the differentiation and secondary metabolism of Streptomyces.
Publication

 

 

1.Gangming Xu#, Juan Wang#, Linqi Wang, Xiuyun Tian, Haihua Yang, Keqiang Fan, Keqian Yang*, and Huarong Tan*. 2010. 'Pseudo' gamma-butyrolactone receptors respond to antibiotic signals to coordinate antibiotics biosynthesis. Journal of Biological Chemistry (online) doi:10.1074/jbc.M110.143081 (# shared the first author) (IF 5.328)

2.Haihua Yang, Yang An, Linqi Wang, Shuli Zhang, Yue Zhang, Yuqing Tian, Gang Liu, Huarong Tan*. 2010. Autoregulation of hpdR and its effect on CDA biosynthesis in Streptomyces coelicolorMicrobiology-SGM. [Epub ahead of print] (IF 3.025)

3.Guohua Zhang, Yuqing Tian, Kun Hu, Chi Feng and Huarong Tan*. 2010. SCO3900, co-transcripted with three downstream genes, is involved in the differentiation of Streptomyces coelicolorCurrent Microbiology. 60(4): 268-273 (IF 1.330)

4.Xihong He, Rui Li, Yuanyuan Pan, Gang Liu* and Huarong Tan*. 2010. SanG, a transcriptional activator, controls nikkomycin biosynthesis through binding to the sanN-sanO intergenic region in Streptomyces ansochromogenes.  Microbioogy-SGM. 156:828 (IF 2.841)

5.Guojian Liao, Jin’e Li, Lei Li, Haihua Yang, Yuqing Tian, Huarong Tan*. 2010. Cloning, reassembling and integration of the entire nikkomycin biosynthetic gene cluster into Streptomyces ansochromogenes lead to an improved nikkomycin production. Microbial Cell Factories. 9:6, doi:10.1186/1475- 2859-9-6 (IF 3.338)

6.Rui Li, Gang Liu, Zhoujie Xie, Xihong He, Wenqing Chen, Zixin  Deng and Huarong Tan*. 2010. PolY, a transcriptional regulator with ATPase activity, directly activates transcription of polR in polyoxin biosynthesis in Streptomyces cacaoi. Molecular Microbiology. 75(2): 349-364. (IF 5.213)

7.Shuli Zhang#, Bo Liu#, Haihua Yang*, Yuqing Tian, Gang Liu, Lei Li and Huarong Tan*. 2010. Characterization of EndoTT, a novel single-stranded DNA specific endonuclease from Thermoanaerobacter tengcongensis. Nucleic Acids Research. (accepted). (IF 6.878)

8.Guojian Liao, Jin’e Li, Lei Li, Haihua Yang, Yuqing Tian and Huarong Tan*. 2009. Selectively improving nikkomycin Z production by blocking the imidazolone biosynthetic pathway of nikkomycin X and uracil feeding in Streptomyces ansochromogenes. Microbial Cell Factories. 8:61, doi:10.1186/1475-2859-8-61. (IF 3.338)

9.Rui Li#, Zhoujie Xie#, Yuqing Tian, Haihua Yang, Wenqing Chen, Delin You, Gang Liu, Zixin Deng*, and Huarong Tan*. (2009). polR, a pathway-specific transcriptional regulatory gene, positively controls polyoxin biosynthesis in Streptomyces cacaoi var. Asoensis. Microbiology-SGM 155:1819-1831 (IF 2.841)

10.Yuanyuan Pan#, Gang Liu#, Haihua Yang, Yuqing Tian and Huarong Tan*. (2009). The pleiotropic regulator AdpA-L directly controls the pathway-specific activator of nikkomycin biosynthesis in Streptomyces ansochromogenes. Molecular Microbiology (#shared the first author) 72(3): 710-723. (IF 5.462)

11.Linqi Wang#, Xiuyun Tian#, Juan Wang, Haihua Yang, Keqiang Fan, Gangming Xu, Keqian Yang*, and Huarong Tan*. (2009). Autoregulation of antibiotic biosynthesis: direct binding of jadomycin to an atypical response regulator. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (#shared the first author) 106(21): 8617-8622. (IF 9.598)

12.Wenqing Chen, Tingting Huang, Xinyi He, Qingqing Meng, Delin You, Linquan Bai, Jialiang Li, Mingxuan Wu, Rui li, Zhoujie Xie, Huchen Zhou, Xiufen Zhou, Huarong Tan*, and Zixin Deng*. (2009).Characterization of the polyoxin biosynthetic gene cluster from Streptomyces cacaoi and engineered production of polyoxin H. The Journal of Biological Chemistry 284(16): 10627-10638 (IF 5.581)

13.Yanhua LiJihui Zhang , Huarong Tan*.2008. Identification of a Nitroalkane oxidase gene: naoA related to the growth of Streptomyces ansochromogenes.Current Microbiology 57: 588-592. (IF 1.167)

14.Hongbo Ling, Guojun Wang, Jin’e Li, Huarong Tan*. 2008. sanN encoding a dehydrogenase is essential for nikkomycin biosynthesis in Streptomyces ansochromogenesJournal of Microbiology and Biotechnology 18(3):397-403. PDF (IF 2.062)

15.Yue Zhang, Linqi Wang, Shuli Zhang, Haihua Yang* and Huarong Tan. hmgA, transcriptionally activated by HpdA, influences the biosynthesis of actinorhodin in Streptomyces coelicolorFEMS Microbiology Letters 280:219-225.2008. PDF (IF 2.274)

16.Liang Liang, Xihong He, Gang Liu* and Huarong Tan*. The role of a purine-specific nucleoside hydrolase in spore germination of Bacillus thuringiensis. Microbiology-SGM 154:1333-1340. 2008. PDF (IF 3.110)

17.Haihua Yang, Linqi Wang, Zhoujie Xie, Yuqing Tian, Gang Liu, Huarong Tan*. The tyrosine degradation gene hppD is transcriptionally activated by HpdA and repressed by HpdR in Streptomyces coelicolor, while hpdA is negatively autoregulated and repressed by HpdR. Molecular Microbiology. 65 : 1064-1077, 2007.

18.Yuqing Tian, Kay Fowler, Kim Findlay, Huarong Tan* & Keith F. Chater*. An unusual response regulator influences sporulation at early and late stages in Streptomyces coelicolorJournal of Bacteriology. 189 : 2873-2885, 2007.

19.Hongbo Ling, Guojun Wang, Yuqing Tian, Gang Liu and Huarong Tan*. SanM catalyzes the formation of 4-pyridyl-2-oxo-4-hydroxyiso- valerate in nikkomycin biosynthesis by interacting with SanN. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 361: 196-201, 2007.

20.Jia Lianghui , TianYuqing, Tan Huarong*. SanT, a bidomain protein, is essential for nikkomycin biosynthesis of S. an sochromogenesBiochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 362: 1031-1036, 2007.

21.Zhoujie Xie, Wenli Li, Yuqing Tian, Gang Liu & Huarong Tan*. Identification and characterization of sawC, a whiA-like gene, essential for sporulation in Streptomyces ansochromogenesArchives of Microbiology. 188: 575-582, 2007

Patent

谭华荣 刘 钢 尼可霉素生物合成调控基因及其编码蛋白与表达工程菌. 2007. 授权号: ZL 2004 1 0058411.2.