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SUBMITTER: Engene N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3163041 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Engene Niclas N Choi Hyukjae H Esquenazi Eduardo E Byrum Tara T Villa Francisco A FA Cao Zhengyu Z Murray Thomas F TF Dorrestein Pieter C PC Gerwick Lena L Gerwick William H WH
Journal of natural products 20110713 8
The evolutionary relationships of cyanobacteria, as inferred by their SSU (16S) rRNA genes, were used as predictors of their potential to produce varied secondary metabolites. The evolutionary relatedness in geographically distant cyanobacterial specimens was then used as a guide for the detection and isolation of new variations of predicted molecules. This phylogeny-guided isolation approach for new secondary metabolites was tested in its capacity to direct the search for specific classes of ne ...[more]