Approaches to capturing and designing biologically active small molecules produced by uncultured microbes

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue , 2011, Pages 431-453

  Piel, Jörn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biosynthesis; Community; Metagenomics; Single cell analysis; Symbiotic bacteria; Uncultivated bacteria

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BRYOSTATIN; INDIRUBIN; NATURAL PRODUCT; RHIZOXIN; ULITHIACYCLAMIDE;

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; DRUG DESIGN; DRUG SCREENING; GENE CLUSTER; METABOLOME; METABOLOMICS; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; SYMBIONT;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL FACTORS; DRUG DESIGN; DRUG DISCOVERY; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; METAGENOMICS;

ANIMALIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 80053243567     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: 15453251     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-micro-090110-102805     Document Type: Review

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