Discoveries of new natural antibiotics are now relatively rare, therefore the construction of strains producing hybrid substances seems to be a very promising opportunity to gain new interesting biologically active compounds. This work is part of a larger project focused on the preparation of new biologically active substances derived from the antibiotic lincomycin. Lincomycin is composed of saccharide (MTL) and amino acid (propylhygric acid) moieties condensed by amide bond. Various modifications of amino acid moiety, especially of the side alkyl chain, are known to improve the antibiotic properties of final molecule. The bottleneck of biosynthesis of such modified compounds is the condensing enzyme NDL-synthetase, and especially its A-domain, which, similarly to nonribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPS), specifically recognizes and activates the amino acid precursor. In this work a set of degenerate primers for PCR searching of NRPS A-domains was proposed and the conditions of PCR reaction were optimized. In the first step a collection approximately 800 isolates of soil actinomycetes will serve as a source of genetic information for search of interesting NRPS A-domains, applicable for the construction of hybrid biosynthetic clusters. The isolates of this collection have been also characterized taxonomically...

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Les communautés du coralligène dominées par des gorgonaires ont été sévèrement affectées par des évènements de mortalités massives liés au réchauffement de la Méditerranée. Pour évaluer la contribution des bactéries associées à l’holobionte Paramuricea clavata à son fonctionnement et sa santé, il est apparu primordial de caractériser le compartiment microbien naturel de ce gorgonaire tempéré.Dans ce contexte, l’objectif général de cette thèse était de décrire les interactions existant entre la gorgone rouge P. clavata et ses bactéries associées en Méditerranée nord-occidentale. Les analyses entreprises par des techniques culture-indépendantes basées sur l’analyse des ADN ribosomiques 16S bactériens ont inclus (i) la caractérisation de la variation spatio-temporelle des communautés bactériennes, (ii) la localisation des bactéries dans les tissus de l’hôte, (iii) l’évaluation de la stabilité des associations gorgones-bactéries en conditions de stress et (iv) la détermination de la spécificité d’hôte des bactéries dominantes entre différentes espèces de gorgonaires sympatriques (Eunicella singularis, Eunicella cavolini et Corallium rubrum). Les résultats obtenus ont établi que P. clavata et son microbiote forment un holobionte au sein duquel hôte et bactéries vivent en étroite association, stable dans le temps et l’espace ou en conditions de stress. Les communautés bactériennes associées sont principalement endosymbiotiques et dominées par un ribotype bactérien appartenant à un genre nouveau de la famille des Hahellaceae qui semble présenter une forte spécificité d’hôte. Ces résultats suggèrent un rôle particulier de ce genre bactérien chez les holobiontes gorgonaires. / Coralligenous communities dominated by gorgonian species have been severely affected by diseases and mass mortality events linked to the current warming trends reported for the Mediterranean Sea. The characterization of the natural microbial compartment of this temperate gorgonian species becomes a crucial step in the evaluation of the bacterial contribution to health and functioning of the Paramuricea clavata holobiont.Under these circumstances, the global aim of this PhD work was to describe the interactions existing between the red gorgonian P. clavata and its associated bacteria in the Northwestern Mediterranean basin. The culture-independent analyses based on the bacterial 16S ribosomal DNA included (i) the characterization of spatiotemporal variation of the bacterial communities, (ii) the localization of the bacteria within host tissues, (iii) the evaluation of the stability of gorgonian-bacterial associations under stress conditions and (iv) the determination of the host-specificity of dominant bacteria in different sympatric gorgonian species (Eunicella singularis, Eunicella cavolini and Corallium rubrum).The results of this study highlighted that P. clavata and its microbiota form a holobiont in which host and bacteria live in close association. This association is spatiotemporally stable and maintained under stress conditions. Associated bacterial communities are mostly endosymbiotic and dominated by a bacterial ribotype belonging to a new genus within the Hahellaceae family that seems to be host-specific. These results suggest a particular role of this bacterial genus in the gorgonian holobionts.