Exploration and exploitation of the environment for novel specialized metabolites

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 50, Issue , 2018, Pages 206-213

  Loureiro, Catarina ^a   Medema, Marnix H ^a   van der Oost, John ^a   Sipkema, Detmer ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLONING; CULTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; KETONES; METABOLITES; PLANTS (BOTANY);

BIOSYNTHETIC GENE CLUSTER; EXPLORATION AND EXPLOITATION; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; NONRIBOSOMAL PEPTIDE SYNTHETASES; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASES; REPEAT SEQUENCES; STATE OF THE ART;

GENE ENCODING;

NONRIBOSOMAL PEPTIDE SYNTHETASE; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASE; PEPTIDE SYNTHASE;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS; BIOSYNTHESIS; BIOSYNTHETIC GENE CLUSTER; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPLOITATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; METABOLITE; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL SPECIALIZED METABOLITE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; REVIEW; SEDIMENT; SOIL; STREPTOMYCES; BACTERIUM; ENVIRONMENT; FUNGUS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METABOLOME;

BACTERIA; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; ENVIRONMENT; FUNGI; METABOLOME; PEPTIDE SYNTHASES;

EID: 85042030104     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: 18790429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2018.01.017     Document Type: Review

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