Compendium of secondary metabolite biosynthetic diversity encoded in bacterial genomes
Athina Gavriilidou, Satria Ardhe Kautsar, Nestor Zaburannyi, Daniel Krug, Rolf Mueller, Marnix H. Medema, Nadine Ziemert
The paper analyzes bacterial genomes and metagenome assembled genomes to assess the diversity of secondary metabolite biosynthesis, finding that only 3% of potential natural products are experimentally characterized.
bioRxiv · Aug 11, 2021 · PreprintGenomics