Nature Communications (Feb 2020)

Improved betulinic acid biosynthesis using synthetic yeast chromosome recombination and semi-automated rapid LC-MS screening

  • G.-O. F. Gowers,
  • S. M. Chee,
  • D. Bell,
  • L. Suckling,
  • M. Kern,
  • D. Tew,
  • D. W. McClymont,
  • T. Ellis

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14708-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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SCRaMbLE can lead to great genetic diversity for product biosynthesis but is limited by screening methods. Here the authors develop a rapid workflow using automation, ultra-fast LC/MS and barcoded nanopore sequencing to identify best performing strains.