Article
Sequence-based analysis of secondary-metabolite biosynthesis in marine actinobacteria.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Apr 2010
Gontang Erin A, Gaudêncio Susana P, Fenical William, Jensen Paul R
Abstract excerpt
A diverse collection of 60 marine-sediment-derived Actinobacteria representing 52 operational taxonomic units was screened by PCR for genes associated with secondary-metabolite biosynthesis. Three primer sets were employed to specifically target adenylation domains associated with nonribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPSs) and ketosynthase (KS) domains associated with type I modular, iterative, hybrid, and enediyne...
Topics
- Actinobacteria
- Cluster Analysis
- DNA Primers
- DNA, Bacterial
- Gene Transfer, Horizontal
- Genes, Bacterial
- Genotype
- Geologic Sediments
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Sequence Homology
