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Background  Heterologous expression of biosynthetic gene clusters of natural microbial products has become an essential strategy for titer improvement and pathway engineering of various potentially-valuable natural products. A  Streptomyces  artificial chromosomal conjugation vector, pSBAC, was previously successfully applied for precise cloning and tandem integration of a large polyketide tautomycetin (TMC) biosynthetic gene cluster (Nah et al. in Microb Cell Fact 14(1):1,  2015 ), implying that this strategy could be employed to develop a custom overexpression scheme of natural product pathway clusters present in actinomycetes.    Results  To validate the pSBAC system as a generally-applicable heterologous overexpression system for a large-sized polyketide biosynthetic gene cluster in  Streptomyces , another model polyketide compound, the pikromycin biosynthetic gene cluster, was preciously cloned and heterologously expressed using the pSBAC system. A unique  Hind III restriction site was precisely inserted at one of the border regions of the pikromycin biosynthetic gene cluster within the chromosome of  Streptomyces venezuelae , followed by site-specific recombination of pSBAC into the flanking region of the pikromycin gene cluster. Unlike the previous cloning process, one  Hind III site integration step was skipped through pSBAC modification. pPik001, a pSBAC containing the pikromycin biosynthetic gene cluster, was directly introduced into two heterologous hosts,  Streptomyces lividans  and  Streptomyces coelicolor,  resulting in the production of 10-deoxymethynolide, a major pikromycin derivative. When two entire pikromycin biosynthetic gene clusters were tandemly introduced into the  S. lividans  chromosome, overproduction of 10-deoxymethynolide and the presence of pikromycin, which was previously not detected, were both confirmed. Moreover, comparative qRT-PCR results confirmed that the transcription of pikromycin biosynthetic genes was significantly upregulated in  S. lividans  containing tandem clusters of pikromycin biosynthetic gene clusters.    Conclusions  The 60 kb pikromycin biosynthetic gene cluster was isolated in a single integration pSBAC vector. Introduction of the pikromycin biosynthetic gene cluster into the pikromycin non-producing strains resulted in higher pikromycin production. The utility of the pSBAC system as a precise cloning tool for large-sized biosynthetic gene clusters was verified through heterologous expression of the pikromycin biosynthetic gene cluster. Moreover, this pSBAC-driven heterologous expression strategy was confirmed to be an ideal approach for production of low and inconsistent natural products such as pikromycin in  S. venezuelae , implying that this strategy could be employed for development of a custom overexpression scheme of natural product biosynthetic gene clusters in actinomycetes.    Electronic supplementary material  The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12934-017-0708-7) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

Heterologous expression of pikromycin biosynthetic gene cluster using Streptomyces artificial chromosome system