Systems and synthetic biology to elucidate secondary metabolite biosynthetic gene clusters encoded in Streptomyces genomes

N Lee, S Hwang, W Kim, Y Lee, JH Kim, S Cho… - Natural Product …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2010 to 2020 Over the last few decades, Streptomyces have been extensively
investigated for their ability to produce diverse bioactive secondary metabolites. Recent …

The re-emerging role of microbial natural products in antibiotic discovery

O Genilloud - Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek, 2014 - Springer
New classes of antibacterial compounds are urgently needed to respond to the high
frequency of occurrence of resistances to all major classes of known antibiotics. Microbial …

[HTML][HTML] The extremophilic actinobacteria: from microbes to medicine

MLY Hui, LTH Tan, V Letchumanan, YW He, CM Fang… - Antibiotics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Actinobacteria constitute prolific sources of novel and vital bioactive metabolites for
pharmaceutical utilization. In recent years, research has focused on exploring actinobacteria …

Exploitation of the Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) genome sequence for discovery of new natural products and biosynthetic pathways

GL Challis - Journal of industrial microbiology and …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Streptomyces, and related genera of Actinobacteria, are renowned for their ability to produce
antibiotics and other bioactive natural products with a wide range of applications in medicine …

Strain improvement in actinomycetes in the postgenomic era

RH Baltz - Journal of industrial microbiology and Biotechnology, 2011 - academic.oup.com
With the recent advances in DNA sequencing technologies, it is now feasible to sequence
multiple actinomycete genomes rapidly and inexpensively. An important observation that …