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SUBMITTER: Iqbal HA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4028719 | biostudies-literature | 2014 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
FEMS microbiology letters 20140410 1
Phenotype-based screening of bacterial metagenomic libraries provides an avenue for the discovery of novel genes, enzymes, and metabolites that have a variety of potential clinical and industrial uses. Here, we report the identification of a functionally diverse collection of antibacterially active enzymes from the phenotypic screening of 700 000 cosmid clones prepared from Arizona soil DNA and hosted in Ralstonia metallidurans. Environmental DNA clones surrounded by zones of growth inhibition i ...[more]