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ReviewBiotechnology advances

Streptomycetes: Surrogate hosts for the genetic manipulation of biosynthetic gene clusters and production of natural products.

Keshav K Nepal, Guojun Wang

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Review in Biotechnology advances. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.

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32 citing papers in PubMed, 106 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Keshav K NepalHarbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, Florida Atlantic University, 5600 U.S. 1 North, Fort Pierce, FL 34946, USA.
Guojun WangHarbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, Florida Atlantic University, 5600 U.S. 1 North, Fort Pierce, FL 34946, USA. Electronic address: guojunwang@fau.edu.
Florida Atlantic University · USHarbor Branch Oceanographic Institute · US

Funding

Identifying the biosynthesis of a potent cytotoxic agent Lasonolide AR21CA209189 · NCI · FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY · PI WANG, GUOJUN · 2016 to 2017
$384k
NCI NIH HHS R21 CA209189
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Due to the worldwide prevalence of multidrug-resistant pathogens and high incidence of diseases such as cancer, there is an urgent need for the discovery and development of new drugs. Nearly half of the FDA-approved drugs are derived from natural products that are produced by living organisms, mainly bacteria, fungi, and plants. Commercial development is often limited by the low yield of the desired compounds expressed by the native producers. In addition, recent advances in whole genome sequencing and bioinformatics have revealed an abundance of cryptic biosynthetic gene clusters within microbial genomes. Genetic manipulation of clusters in the native host is commonly used to awaken poorly expressed or silent gene clusters, however, the lack of feasible genetic manipulation systems in many strains often hinders our ability to engineer the native producers. The transfer of gene clusters into heterologous hosts for expression of partial or entire biosynthetic pathways is an approach that can be used to overcome this limitation. Heterologous expression also facilitates the chimeric fusion of different biosynthetic pathways, leading to the generation of "unnatural" natural products. The genus Streptomyces is especially known to be a prolific source of drugs/antibiotics, its members are often used as heterologous expression hosts. In this review, we summarize recent applications of Streptomyces species, S. coelicolor, S. lividans, S. albus, S. venezuelae and S. avermitilis, as heterologous expression systems.

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Anti-Bacterial AgentsBiological ProductsBiosynthetic PathwaysMetabolic EngineeringMultigene FamilyStreptomycesAnti-Bacterial AgentsBiological ProductsBiosynthetic gene clustersCombinatorial biosynthesisHeterologous expressionNatural productsStreptomyces

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PMID30312648
PMCPMC6343487
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