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Recovery and functional validation of hidden soil enzymes in metagenomic libraries.

Dayana Calderon, Luis Peña, Angélica Suarez, Carolina Villamil, Adan Ramirez-Rojas, Juan M Anzola, Juan C García-Betancur, Martha L Cepeda, Daniel Uribe, Patricia Del Portillo and 1 more

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Article in MicrobiologyOpen, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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11 authors.

Dayana CalderonMolecular Biotechnology Research Group, Corporación CorpoGen, Bogotá, Colombia.
Luis PeñaLeibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - Hans Knöll Institute, Friedrich-Schiller Universität, Jena, Germany.
Angélica SuarezMolecular Biotechnology Research Group, Corporación CorpoGen, Bogotá, Colombia.
Carolina VillamilMolecular Biotechnology Research Group, Corporación CorpoGen, Bogotá, Colombia.
Adan Ramirez-RojasMolecular Biotechnology Research Group, Corporación CorpoGen, Bogotá, Colombia.
Juan M AnzolaComputational Biology, Corporación CorpoGen, Bogotá, Colombia.
Juan C García-BetancurInstitute for Molecular Infection Biology, Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.
Martha L CepedaMolecular Biotechnology Research Group, Corporación CorpoGen, Bogotá, Colombia.
Daniel UribeBiotechnology Institute, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia.
Patricia Del PortilloMolecular Biotechnology Research Group, Corporación CorpoGen, Bogotá, Colombia.
Alvaro MonguiMolecular Biotechnology Research Group, Corporación CorpoGen, Bogotá, Colombia.ORCID 0000-0002-4834-2865

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The vast microbial diversity on the planet represents an invaluable source for identifying novel activities with potential industrial and therapeutic application. In this regard, metagenomics has emerged as a group of strategies that have significantly facilitated the analysis of DNA from multiple environments and has expanded the limits of known microbial diversity. However, the functional characterization of enzymes, metabolites, and products encoded by diverse microbial genomes is limited by the inefficient heterologous expression of foreign genes. We have implemented a pipeline that combines NGS and Sanger sequencing as a way to identify fosmids within metagenomic libraries. This strategy facilitated the identification of putative proteins, subcloning of targeted genes and preliminary characterization of selected proteins. Overall, the in silico approach followed by the experimental validation allowed us to efficiently recover the activity of previously hidden enzymes derived from agricultural soil samples. Therefore, the methodology workflow described herein can be applied to recover activities encoded by environmental DNA from multiple sources.

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Gene LibraryBacteriaBacterial ProteinsEnzymesHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingMetagenomicsSoilSoil MicrobiologyBacterial ProteinsEnzymesSoilEnvironmental microbiologyFunctional genomicsMetagenomicsMicrobial genomics

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PMCPMC6460280

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