Nature Communications (Aug 2019)

An anaerobic bacterium host system for heterologous expression of natural product biosynthetic gene clusters

  • Tingting Hao,
  • Zhoujie Xie,
  • Min Wang,
  • Liwei Liu,
  • Yuwei Zhang,
  • Weicang Wang,
  • Zhao Zhang,
  • Xuejin Zhao,
  • Pengwei Li,
  • Zhengyan Guo,
  • Shushan Gao,
  • Chunbo Lou,
  • Guodong Zhang,
  • Justin Merritt,
  • Geoff P. Horsman,
  • Yihua Chen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11673-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Anaerobic bacteria represent a rich source of biological and chemical diversity but are difficult to cultivate and there is a lack of heterologous expression systems. Here the authors develop an expression system based on S. mutans UA159 for biosynthetic gene clusters from anaerobic bacteria.