Diversity oriented biosynthesis via accelerated evolution of modular gene clusters

Reengineering polyketide synthase encoding genes to produce analogues of natural products can be slow and low-yielding. Here the authors use accelerated evolution to recombine the gene cluster for rapid production of rapamycin-related products.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Aleksandra Wlodek, Steve G. Kendrew, Nigel J. Coates, Adam Hold, Joanna Pogwizd, Steven Rudder, Lesley S. Sheehan, Sarah J. Higginbotham, Anna E. Stanley-Smith, Tony Warneck, Mohammad Nur-E-Alam, Markus Radzom, Christine J. Martin, Lois Overvoorde, Markiyan Samborskyy, Silke Alt, Daniel Heine, Guy T. Carter, Edmund I. Graziani, Frank E. Koehn, Leonard McDonald, Alexander Alanine, Rosa María Rodríguez Sarmiento, Suzan Keen Chao, Hasane Ratni, Lucinda Steward, Isobel H. Norville, Mitali Sarkar-Tyson, Steven J. Moss, Peter F. Leadlay, Barrie Wilkinson, Matthew A. Gregory
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017-10-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01344-3