Synthetic biology to access and expand nature's chemical diversity

Bacterial genomes encode the biosynthetic potential to produce hundreds of thousands of complex molecules with diverse applications, from medicine to agriculture and materials. Accessing these natural products promises to reinvigorate drug discovery pipelines and provide novel routes to synthesize c...

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Main Authors: Smanski, Michael J., Zhou, Hui, Claesen, Jan, Shen, Ben, Fischbach, Michael A., Voigt, Christopher A.
Other Authors: MIT Synthetic Biology Center
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/107490
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0844-4776