A computational framework to explore large-scale biosynthetic diversity

Autor: Anthony W. Goering, Marley Yeong, Michael W. Mullowney, William W. Metcalf, Pablo Cruz-Morales, Regan J. Thomson, James H. Tryon, Arne Roeters, Neil L. Kelleher, Nelly Selem-Mojica, Satria A. Kautsar, Antonio Fernandez-Guerra, Emmanuel L. C. de los Santos, Wouter Lokhorst, Jorge C. Navarro-Muñoz, Elizabeth I. Parkinson, Marnix H. Medema, Sahar Abubucker, Francisco Barona-Gómez, Luciana Teresa Dias Cappelini
Přispěvatelé: Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Nature chemical biology
Nature Chemical Biology, 16(1), 60-+. Nature Publishing Group
Nature Chemical Biology 16 (2019)
Nature Chemical Biology, 16, 60-68
ISSN: 1552-4450
Popis: Genome mining has become a key technology to exploit natural product diversity. Although initially performed on a single-genome basis, the process is now being scaled up to mine entire genera, strain collections and microbiomes. However, no bioinformatic framework is currently available for effectively analyzing datasets of this size and complexity. In the present study, a streamlined computational workflow is provided, consisting of two new software tools: the ‘biosynthetic gene similarity clustering and prospecting engine’ (BiG-SCAPE), which facilitates fast and interactive sequence similarity network analysis of biosynthetic gene clusters and gene cluster families; and the ‘core analysis of syntenic orthologues to prioritize natural product gene clusters’ (CORASON), which elucidates phylogenetic relationships within and across these families. BiG-SCAPE is validated by correlating its output to metabolomic data across 363 actinobacterial strains and the discovery potential of CORASON is demonstrated by comprehensively mapping biosynthetic diversity across a range of detoxin/rimosamide-related gene cluster families, culminating in the characterization of seven detoxin analogues. Two bioinformatic tools, BiG-SCAPE and CORASON, enable sequence similarity network and phylogenetic analysis of gene clusters and their families across hundreds of strains and in large datasets, leading to the discovery of new natural products.
Databáze: OpenAIRE