An environmental bacterial taxon with a large and distinct metabolic repertoire

Abstract excerpt

Cultivated bacteria such as actinomycetes are a highly useful source of biomedically important natural products. However, such ‘talented’ producers represent only a minute fraction of the entire, mostly uncultivated, prokaryotic diversity. The uncultured majority is generally perceived as a large, untapped resource of new drug candidates, but so far it is unknown whether taxa containing talented bacteria indeed...

Topics

Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.

• Share to Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
• Share to Marine Sponges and Natural Products
• Share to Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis