Investigating the Biosynthesis of Natural Products from Marine Proteobacteria: A Survey of Molecules and Strategies
Department of Chemistry, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada
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Mar. Drugs 2017, 15(8), 235; https://doi.org/10.3390/md15080235
Received: 28 May 2017
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Revised: 21 July 2017
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Accepted: 24 July 2017
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Published: 1 August 2017
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Connecting Marine Microbial Natural Products to Biosynthetic Pathways)
The phylum proteobacteria contains a wide array of Gram-negative marine bacteria. With recent advances in genomic sequencing, genome analysis, and analytical chemistry techniques, a whole host of information is being revealed about the primary and secondary metabolism of marine proteobacteria. This has led to the discovery of a growing number of medically relevant natural products, including novel leads for the treatment of multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and cancer. Of equal interest, marine proteobacteria produce natural products whose structure and biosynthetic mechanisms differ from those of their terrestrial and actinobacterial counterparts. Notable features of secondary metabolites produced by marine proteobacteria include halogenation, sulfur-containing heterocycles, non-ribosomal peptides, and polyketides with unusual biosynthetic logic. As advances are made in the technology associated with functional genomics, such as computational sequence analysis, targeted DNA manipulation, and heterologous expression, it has become easier to probe the mechanisms for natural product biosynthesis. This review will focus on genomics driven approaches to understanding the biosynthetic mechanisms for natural products produced by marine proteobacteria.
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Keywords:
biosynthesis; proteobacteria; natural products; genomics
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Timmermans, M.L.; Paudel, Y.P.; Ross, A.C. Investigating the Biosynthesis of Natural Products from Marine Proteobacteria: A Survey of Molecules and Strategies. Mar. Drugs 2017, 15, 235. https://doi.org/10.3390/md15080235
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Timmermans ML, Paudel YP, Ross AC. Investigating the Biosynthesis of Natural Products from Marine Proteobacteria: A Survey of Molecules and Strategies. Marine Drugs. 2017; 15(8):235. https://doi.org/10.3390/md15080235
Chicago/Turabian StyleTimmermans, Marshall L., Yagya P. Paudel, and Avena C. Ross. 2017. "Investigating the Biosynthesis of Natural Products from Marine Proteobacteria: A Survey of Molecules and Strategies" Marine Drugs 15, no. 8: 235. https://doi.org/10.3390/md15080235
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