Expanding Gene Families Helps Generate The Metabolic Robustness Required For Antibiotic Biosynthesis
J. K. Schniete, P. Cruz-Morales, N. Selem, L. T. Fernandez-Martinez, I. S. Hunter, F. Barona-Gomez, P. Hoskisson
The paper shows that gene family expansions in central carbon metabolism in Streptomyces bacteria contribute to metabolic robustness needed for antibiotic biosynthesis.
bioRxiv · Mar 22, 2017Microbiology