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ReviewBiotechnology advances2019

On top of biosynthetic gene clusters: How epigenetic machinery influences secondary metabolism in fungi.

Brandon T Pfannenstiel, Nancy P Keller

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Review in Biotechnology advances, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 75 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

75 citing papers in PubMed.

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  11. Comparative Proteomic Analysis ofJournal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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  18. Effect of Curcumin Pretreatment on the Susceptibility ofPharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Brandon T PfannenstielDepartment of Genetics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, United States.
Nancy P KellerDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, United States; Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, United States. Electronic address: nancypulane@gmail.com.

Funding

PREDOCTORAL TRAINING PROGRAM IN GENETICST32GM007133 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI PERNA, NICOLE T · 1985 to 2023
$16.5M
Comprehensive analysis of NRPS-derived metabolomes of three Aspergillus speciesR01GM112739 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI KELLER, NANCY P · 2015 to 2023
$2.8M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM112739NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007133
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fungi produce an abundance of bioactive secondary metabolites which can be utilized as antibiotics and pharmaceutical drugs. The genes encoding secondary metabolites are contiguously arranged in biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs), which supports co-regulation of all genes required for any one metabolite. However, an ongoing challenge to harvest this fungal wealth is the finding that many of the BGCs are 'silent' in laboratory settings and lie in heterochromatic regions of the genome. Successful approaches allowing access to these regions - in essence converting the heterochromatin covering BGCs to euchromatin - include use of epigenetic stimulants and genetic manipulation of histone modifying proteins. This review provides a comprehensive look at the chromatin remodeling proteins which have been shown to regulate secondary metabolism, the use of chemical inhibitors used to induce BGCs, and provides future perspectives on expansion of epigenetic tools and concepts to mine the fungal metabolome.

Indexed as

Multigene FamilySecondary MetabolismEpigenesis, GeneticFungiHistonesHistonesAcetylationActivationChromatinCrypticGenome miningHistoneMethylationNatural productsRepression

Identifiers

PMID30738111
PMCPMC6685777

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