A reinvigorated era of bacterial secondary metabolite discovery.

A reinvigorated era of bacterial secondary metabolite discovery. Curr Opin Chem Biol. 2014 Dec 1;24C:104-111 Authors: Sidebottom AM, Carlson EE Abstract Secondary metabolite discovery from bacteria has become increasingly successful in the last decade due to the advancement of integrated genetic-based, spectrometric-based and informatics-based techniques. Microbes and their unique metabolic outputs have been widely studied since the beginning of modern medicine; however, it is well known that the current repertoire of secondary metabolites, or more commonly natural products, is incomplete and the understanding of natural product-mediated intracellular dialog is in its infancy. Here, we highlight the present state of bacterial metabolomics including compound discovery approaches and new strategies for probing the role of these molecules within communication networks. PMID: 25461728 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Current Opinion in Chemical Biology - Category: Biochemistry Authors: Tags: Curr Opin Chem Biol Source Type: research