Correlating chemical diversity with taxonomic distance for discovery of natural products in myxobacteria

Autor: Thomas Hoffmann, Daniel Krug, Nisa Bozkurt, Srikanth Duddela, Rolf Jansen, Ronald Garcia, Klaus Gerth, Heinrich Steinmetz, Rolf Müller
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Nature Communications, Vol 9, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2018)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-03184-1
Popis: It is thought that the chances for discovery of novel natural products increase by screening rare organisms. Here the authors analyse metabolites produced by over 2300 myxobacterial strains and, indeed, find a correlation between taxonomic distance and production of distinct secondary metabolite families.
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