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Method for Awakening Silent Gene Clusters in Bacteria and Discovery of Cryptic Metabolites
Method for Awakening Silent Gene Clusters in Bacteria and Discovery of Cryptic Metabolites
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机译:唤醒细菌沉默基因簇的方法及隐性代谢产物的发现
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The majority of clinically used antibiotics and anticancer agents are derived from bacterial small molecules. These molecules are produced by dedicated biosynthetic gene clusters, sets of genes that are responsible for the step-wise generation of the target small molecule. Recent investigations have indicated, to the surprise of many experts, that the majority of these biosynthetic genes are inactive or ‘silent’ for unknown reasons. Thus under typical bacterial culturing conditions, these genes are not expressed and consequently the bioactive small molecule products are not synthesized. Disclosed is a method for high throughput screening of elicitors of cryptic metabolites, a method for producing cryptic metabolites, and a new family of cryptic metabolites, the acybolins, as well as their complete structural elucidation.
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