Discovery of microbial natural products by activation of silent biosynthetic gene clusters

PJ Rutledge, GL Challis - Nature reviews microbiology, 2015 - nature.com
Microorganisms produce a wealth of structurally diverse specialized metabolites with a
remarkable range of biological activities and a wide variety of applications in medicine and …

Heterologous expression of bacterial natural product biosynthetic pathways

L Huo, JJ Hug, C Fu, X Bian, Y Zhang… - Natural product reports, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2013 to June 2018 Heterologous expression of natural product biosynthetic
pathways is of increasing interest in microbial biotechnology, drug discovery and …

Recent Advances in Silent Gene Cluster Activation in Streptomyces

Z Liu, Y Zhao, C Huang, Y Luo - Frontiers in Bioengineering and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Natural products (NPs) are critical sources of drug molecules for decades. About two-thirds
of natural antibiotics are produced by Streptomyces. Streptomyces have a large number of …

Genetic platforms for heterologous expression of microbial natural products

JJ Zhang, X Tang, BS Moore - Natural product reports, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2005 up to 2019 Natural products are of paramount importance in human
medicine. Not only are most antibacterial and anticancer drugs derived directly from or …

Synthetic biology and metabolic engineering of actinomycetes for natural product discovery

E Palazzotto, Y Tong, SY Lee, T Weber - Biotechnology Advances, 2019 - Elsevier
Actinomycetes are one of the most valuable sources of natural products with industrial and
medicinal importance. After more than half a century of exploitation, it has become …

Genetic manipulation of secondary metabolite biosynthesis for improved production in Streptomyces and other actinomycetes

RH Baltz - Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Actinomycetes continue to be important sources for the discovery of secondary metabolites
for applications in human medicine, animal health, and crop protection. With the maturation …

Formicamycins, antibacterial polyketides produced by Streptomyces formicae isolated from African Tetraponera plant-ants

Z Qin, JT Munnoch, R Devine, NA Holmes… - Chemical …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
We report a new Streptomyces species named S. formicae that was isolated from the African
fungus-growing plant-ant Tetraponera penzigi and show that it produces novel pentacyclic …

Genetic engineering of modular PKSs: from combinatorial biosynthesis to synthetic biology

KJ Weissman - Natural product reports, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to 2015 Multienzyme polyketide synthases (PKSs) are molecular-scale
assembly lines which construct complex natural products in bacteria. The underlying …

Heterologous expression of natural product biosynthetic gene clusters in Streptomyces coelicolor: from genome mining to manipulation of biosynthetic pathways

JP Gomez-Escribano, MJ Bibb - Journal of Industrial …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Heterologous gene expression is one of the main strategies used to access the full
biosynthetic potential of actinomycetes, as well as to study the metabolic pathways of natural …

[HTML][HTML] Synthetic biology tools for novel secondary metabolite discovery in Streptomyces

N Lee, S Hwang, Y Lee, S Cho, B Palsson, BK Cho - 2019 - jmb.or.kr
Streptomyces are attractive microbial cell factories that have industrial capability to produce
a wide array of bioactive secondary metabolites. However, the genetic potential of the …