1. La bioinformatique au service de l’industrie
Sébastien Rigali
InBioS – Center for Protein Engineering
Luxembourg Creative 15 June 2017
2. How to Transform a Plant-pathogen into a Crop Helper
La bioinformatique au service de l’industrie
Sébastien Rigali
InBioS – Center for Protein Engineering
Luxembourg Creative 15 June 2017
5. Actinobacteria
Other bacteria
Fungi
Useful Compounds from Actinobacteria
S. cavuligerus
clavulanic acid
S. avermitilis
S. griseus
Nobel prize 1952
Selman Waksman
“The time has come to close the book on
infectious diseases"
Gen. William H. Stewart
U. S. Surgeon General, 1969
Actinobacteria
7. Actinobacteria
Other bacteria
Fungi
Useful Compounds from Actinobacteria
S. cavuligerus
clavulanic acid
S. avermitilis
S. griseus
Nobel prize 1952
Selman Waksman
new
golden
Age
Actinobacteria
In 2050, Infections by resistant bacteria could be responsible
for an additional 8,500,000 deaths per year, more than those
due to all combined cancer forms.
Jim O’Neill
"If we fail to act, we are looking
at an almost unthinkable
scenario where antibiotics no
longer work and we are cast
back into the dark ages of
medicine"
David Cameron, former UK
Prime Minister
14. 15.2 11.2
- 36 - 112
gen1
Sugar metabolism
ACTGGTCTAGACCAGT
AGTGGTGTAGACGAGT
Methods for Predicting Regulons
How to create a weight matrix?
Which algorithm to chose?
pi
f
pi
Npin
weight
ijij
ij ln~
1/
ln
a priori
frequency
fij > pi → ‘+’
fij < pi → ‘-’
fij = pi = 0
= 4.3
18. How to Transform a Plant-pathogen into a Crop Helper
La bioinformatique au service de l’industrie
Sébastien Rigali
InBioS – Center for Protein Engineering
Luxembourg Creative 15 June 2017
19. Herbicide & Algicide
How to get thaxtomin
onto the market ?
thaxtomin
Proof of Concept
Thaxtomin A production by Streptomyces scabies
20. S. scabies
chromosome
Prediction of Thaxtomin Production Control
txtBA-txtR
Database of
Regulatory
protein
binding sites
CebR
TGGGAGCGCTCCCA
cbs, CebR binding site
Cellobiose
KO
repressor