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Continuous bioactivity-dependent evolution of an antibiotic biosynthetic pathway
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Johnston, Chad W; Badran, Ahmed H; Collins, James J
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© 2020, The Author(s). Antibiotic biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) produce bioactive metabolites that impart a fitness advantage to their producer, providing a mechanism for natural selection. This selection drives antibiotic evolution and adapts BGCs for expression in different organisms, potentially providing clues to improve heterologous expression of antibiotics. Here, we use phage-assisted continuous evolution (PACE) to achieve bioactivity-dependent adaptation of the BGC for the antibiotic bicyclomycin (BCM), facilitating improved production in a heterologous host. This proof-of-principle study demonstrates that features of natural bioactivity-dependent evolution can be engineered to access unforeseen routes of improving metabolic pathways and product yields.
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2020Journal
Nature Communications
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC