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Generation of Marked and Markerless Mutants in Model Cyanobacterial Species
Published on: May 29, 2016
Cyanobacteria as a source of natural products
Martin Welker1, Elke Dittmann, Hans von Döhren
1Technische Universität Berlin, FG Umweltmikrobiologie, Berlin, Germany.
Abstract:
Cyanobacteria or blue-green algae from various environments have been recognized as sources of a variety of bioactive metabolites. Strategies of strain isolation from aquatic habitats, and cultivation and harvesting for metabolite production are described. Strategies for screening of compounds are discussed, including their direct MALDI-TOF mass spectrometric detection in whole cells. Genetic approaches including genomic mining, mutagenesis including transcriptional activation, heterologous expression, and in vitro reconstitution of pathways are presented.
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