RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Sehin, Yuliia A1 Koshla, Oksana A1 Dacyuk, Yuriy A1 Zhao, Ruoxia A1 Ross, Robert A1 Myronovskyi, Maksym A1 Limbach, Patrick A. A1 Luzhetskyy, Andriy A1 Walker, Suzanne A1 Fedorenko, Victor A1 Ostash, BohdanYR 2019 T1 Gene ssfg_01967 (miaB) for tRNA modification influences morphogenesis and moenomycin biosynthesis in Streptomyces ghanaensis ATCC14672 JF Microbiology, VO 165 IS 2 SP 233 OP 245 DO https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.000747 PB Microbiology Society, SN 1465-2080, AB Streptomyces ghanaensis ATCC14672 is remarkable for its production of phosphoglycolipid compounds, moenomycins, which serve as a blueprint for the development of a novel class of antibiotics based on inhibition of peptidoglycan glycosyltransferases. Here we employed mariner transposon (Tn) mutagenesis to find new regulatory genes essential for moenomycin production. We generated a library of 3000 mutants which were screened for altered antibiotic activity. Our focus centred on a single mutant, HIM5, which accumulated lower amounts of moenomycin and was impaired in morphogenesis as compared to the parental strain. HIM5 carried the Tn insertion within gene ssfg_01967 for putative tRNA (N6-isopentenyl adenosine(37)-C2)-methylthiotransferase, or MiaB, and led to a reduced level of thiomethylation at position 37 in the anticodon of S. ghanaensis transfer ribonucleic acid (tRNA). It is likely that the mutant phenotype of HIM5 stems from the way in which ssfg_01967::Tn influences translation of the rare leucine codon UUA in several genes for moenomycin production and life cycle progression in S. ghanaensis . This is the first report showing that quantitative changes in tRNA modification status in Streptomyces have physiological consequences., UL https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/micro/10.1099/mic.0.000747