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Using genomics to deliver natural products from symbiotic bacteria
Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, 240 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Genome Biology 2005, 6:232 doi:10.1186/gb-2005-6-9-232
Published: 31 August 2005Abstract
The availability of some natural products with promising anticancer activity has been limited because they are synthesized by symbiotic bacteria associated with specific animals. Recent research has identified the clusters of bacterial genes responsible for their synthesis, so that the molecules can be synthesized in alternative, easily cultured bacteria.
