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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2017

Comparative transcriptomics as a guide to natural product discovery and biosynthetic gene cluster functionality.

Gregory C A Amos, Takayoshi Awakawa, Robert N Tuttle, Anne-Catrin Letzel, Min Cheol Kim, Yuta Kudo, William Fenical, Bradley Moore, Paul R Jensen

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 64 papers.

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64 citing papers in PubMed.

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  15. Iron limitation triggers roseoceramide biosynthesis and membrane remodeling in marine roseobacter.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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9 authors.

Gregory C A AmosCenter for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093.
Takayoshi AwakawaCenter for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093.
Robert N TuttleCenter for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093.
Anne-Catrin LetzelCenter for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093.
Min Cheol KimCenter for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093.
Yuta KudoCenter for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093.
William FenicalCenter for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093.
Bradley MooreCenter for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093.
Paul R JensenCenter for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093; pjensen@ucsd.edu.

Funding

Natural Product Genome MiningR01GM085770 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI JENSEN, PAUL R, MOORE, BRADLEY S · 2009 to 2024
$5.8M
The USP Center for Drug Discovery and ConservationU19TW007401 · FIC · GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI HAY, MARK E · 2014 to 2018
$5.3M
An Accurate Mass TOF Mass Spectrometer - HPLC System for Marine Organic ChemistryS10OD010640 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI FENICAL, WILLIAM · 2012 to 2012
$325k
FIC NIH HHS U19 TW007401NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM085770NIH HHS S10 OD010640
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bacterial natural products remain an important source of new medicines. DNA sequencing has revealed that a majority of natural product biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) maintained in bacterial genomes have yet to be linked to the small molecules whose biosynthesis they encode. Efforts to discover the products of these orphan BGCs are driving the development of genome mining techniques based on the premise that many are transcriptionally silent during normal laboratory cultivation. Here, we employ comparative transcriptomics to assess BGC expression among four closely related strains of marine bacteria belonging to the genus

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ActinobacteriaGene Expression ProfilingBridged Bicyclo Compounds, HeterocyclicGene Expression Regulation, BacterialMultigene FamilyTranscriptomeBridged Bicyclo Compounds, Heterocyclicsalinipostin Abiosynthetic gene clusterSalinisporaspecialized metabolismtranscriptomics

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PMID29229817
PMCPMC5748202

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