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<str<strong>on</strong>g>Helmholtz</str<strong>on</strong>g>‐<str<strong>on</strong>g>Russian</str<strong>on</strong>g>‐<str<strong>on</strong>g>German</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Workshop</str<strong>on</strong>g> <strong>on</strong> <strong>Systems</strong> <strong>Biology</strong> 39<br />

Dr. Alexey Kazakov<br />

Instituti<strong>on</strong><br />

C<strong>on</strong>tact Address<br />

Institute for Informati<strong>on</strong> Transmissi<strong>on</strong> Problems RAS<br />

Street Address Bolshoy Karetny per. 19<br />

Zip /Postal Code 127994<br />

City <strong>Moscow</strong><br />

Country Russia<br />

Ph<strong>on</strong>e +7<br />

Fax +7 495 650 0579<br />

E‐Mail kazakov@iitp.ru<br />

Website<br />

Short CV<br />

http://www.rtcb.iitp.ru/<br />

Current degree Ph. D. in genetics (2000)<br />

Educati<strong>on</strong> 1996 ‐ 1999: PhD Student, Nati<strong>on</strong>al Research Center of Mental Health RAMS<br />

1990 ‐ 1996: Student, Department of Biochemistry, <str<strong>on</strong>g>Russian</str<strong>on</strong>g> State Medical<br />

University<br />

Professi<strong>on</strong>al<br />

employment<br />

2004 ‐ present: Senior Scientist Researcher, Institute for Informati<strong>on</strong><br />

Transmissi<strong>on</strong> Problems RAS<br />

2000 ‐ 2003: Scientist Researcher, Branch of corporati<strong>on</strong> “Integrated Genomics,<br />

Inc.”<br />

1999 ‐ 2000: Junior Scientist Researcher Nati<strong>on</strong>al Research Center for Mental<br />

Health RAMS<br />

Research Interests<br />

I am interested in transcripti<strong>on</strong>al regulati<strong>on</strong> of bacterial genes and organizati<strong>on</strong> of antimicrobial<br />

peptides biosynthetic systems. I use comparative genomics and bioinformatics to investigate different<br />

aspects of evoluti<strong>on</strong> of coding and regulatory sequences <strong>on</strong> a genome level. I also participate in<br />

development of database of bacterial regulatory motifs.<br />

Five most important publicati<strong>on</strong>s<br />

1. Novikova M, Metlitskaya A, Datsenko K, Kazakov T, Kazakov A, Wanner B, Severinov K. The<br />

Escherichia coli Yej Transporter Is Required for the Uptake of Translati<strong>on</strong> Inhibitor Microcin C. J<br />

Bacteriol, 2007 Nov;189(22):8361‐8365.<br />

2. Severinov K, Semenova E, Kazakov A, Kazakov T, Gelfand MS. Low‐molecular‐weight post‐<br />

translati<strong>on</strong>ally modified microcins. Mol Microbiol. 2007 Sep;65(6):1380‐94.<br />

3. Kazakov AE, Cipriano MJ, Novichkov PS, Minovitsky S, Vinogradov DV, Arkin A, Mir<strong>on</strong>ov AA, Gelfand<br />

MS, Dubchak I. RegTransBase – a database of regulatory sequences and interacti<strong>on</strong>s in a wide range of<br />

prokaryotic genomes. Nucleic Acids Res. 2007 Jan;35(Database issue):D407‐12.<br />

4. Permina EA, Kazakov AE, Kalinina OV, Gelfand MS. Comparative genomics of regulati<strong>on</strong> of heavy<br />

metal resistance in Eubacteria. BMC Microbiol. 2006 Jun 5;6:49.<br />

5. Kazakov AE, Shepelev VA, Tumeneva IG, Alexandrov AA, Yurov YB, Alexandrov IA. Interspersed<br />

repeats are found predominantly in the “old” alpha satellite families. Genomics. 2003 Dec;82(6):619‐<br />

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C<strong>on</strong>tributi<strong>on</strong> to <str<strong>on</strong>g>Helmholtz</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Russian</str<strong>on</strong>g>­<str<strong>on</strong>g>German</str<strong>on</strong>g> workshop <strong>on</strong> systems biology<br />

I will prepare<br />

(X) a poster<br />

( ) a talk<br />

Title of poster / talk<br />

Identificati<strong>on</strong> of microcin C‐like antibiotic systems<br />

Abstract<br />

Microcins are a class of small peptide antibiotics secreted by enterobacteria. Genes of microcins<br />

biosynthesis, maturati<strong>on</strong> and secreti<strong>on</strong> are often organized in oper<strong>on</strong>s. Taking into account the<br />

arrangement of genes encoding microcin precursor and microcin maturati<strong>on</strong> enzymes, we were able<br />

to identify 17 microcin C‐like antibiotic systems in 13 bacterial species bel<strong>on</strong>ging to beta‐, gamma‐ and<br />

epsil<strong>on</strong>‐Proteobacteria, Firmicutes and Cyanobacteria. Heptapeptides structurally similar to microcin<br />

C51 precursor were found in all gene clusters identified, except those from Bart<strong>on</strong>ella henselae and<br />

two Synechococcus strains. In Synechococcus, two (strain CC9605) or three (strain RS9916) direct<br />

repeats each encoding 56 or 57 aminoacid polypeptides, respectively, were observed. The ORFs are<br />

sufficiently similar between the two Synechococcus strains and the C‐terminal amino acids of all the<br />

ORFs are asparagines, that is typical for microcin C51‐like precursors. So, the cyanobacterial microcin<br />

precursors may c<strong>on</strong>stitute a novel subtype of C51‐related microcins, with potentially different<br />

properties. Our analysis dem<strong>on</strong>strates that peptides structurally similar to microcin C51 from E. coli<br />

may be produced by a variety of bacterial groups.<br />

Poster number: 17

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