Elicitation for activation of the actinomycete genome's cryptic secondary metabolite gene clusters
Seham S El-Hawary1, Marwa H A Hassan2, Ahmed O Hudhud3
1Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University Cairo Egypt.
Abstract:
This review summarizes the recent advances in the elicitation approaches used to activate the actinomycete genome's cryptic secondary metabolite gene clusters and shows the diversity of natural products obtained by various elicitation methods up to June 2022, such as co-cultivation of actinomycetes with actinomycetes, other non-actinomycete bacteria, fungi, cell-derived components, and/or algae. Chemical elicitation and molecular elicitation as transcription factor decoys, engineering regulatory genes, the promoter replacement strategy, global regulatory genes, and reporter-guided mutant selection were also reported. For researchers interested in this field, this review serves as a valuable resource for the latest studies and references.
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