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    Distribution and diversity of natural product genes in marine and freshwater cyanobacterial cultures and genomes

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    Date
    2005-11
    Author
    Ehrenreich, Ian M.  Concept link
    Waterbury, John B.  Concept link
    Webb, Eric A.  Concept link
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    Citable URI
    https://hdl.handle.net/1912/190
    As published
    https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.71.11.7401-7413.2005
    DOI
    10.1128/AEM.71.11.7401-7413.2005
    Keyword
     Nonribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPSs); Modular polyketide synthases (PKSs); Cyanobacteria 
    Abstract
    Natural products are a functionally diverse class of biochemically synthesized compounds, which include antibiotics, toxins, and siderophores. In this paper, we describe both the detection of natural product activities and the sequence identification of gene fragments from two molecular systems that have previously been implicated in natural product production, i.e., nonribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPSs) and modular polyketide synthases (PKSs), in diverse marine and freshwater cyanobacterial cultures. Using degenerate PCR and the sequencing of cloned products, we show that NRPSs and PKSs are common among the cyanobacteria tested. Our molecular data, when combined with genomic searches of finished and progressing cyanobacterial genomes, demonstrate that not all cyanobacteria contain NRPS and PKS genes and that the filamentous and heterocystous cyanobacteria are the richest sources of these genes and the most likely sources of novel natural products within the phylum. In addition to validating the use of degenerate primers for the identification of PKS and NRPS genes in cyanobacteria, this study also defines numerous gene fragments that will be useful as probes for future studies of the synthesis of natural products in cyanobacteria. Phylogenetic analyses of the cyanobacterial NRPS and PKS fragments sequenced in this study, as well as those from the cyanobacterial genome projects, demonstrate that there is remarkable diversity and likely novelty of these genes within the cyanobacteria. These results underscore the potential variety of novel products being produced by these ubiquitous organisms.
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    Author Posting. © American Society for Microbiology, 2005. This article is posted here by permission of American Society for Microbiology for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology 71 (2005): 7401-7413, doi:10.1128/AEM.71.11.7401-7413.2005.
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    Applied and Environmental Microbiology 71 (2005): 7401-7413
     
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