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Abstract

Marine microorganisms have proven to be a source of new natural products with a wide spectrum of biological activities relevant in different industrial sectors. The ever-increasing number of sequenced microbial genomes has highlighted a discrepancy between the number of gene clusters potentially encoding the production of natural products and the actual number of chemically characterized metabolites for a given microorganism. Homologous and heterologous expression of these biosynthetic genes, which are often silent under experimental laboratory culture conditions, may lead to the discovery of new cryptic natural products of medical and biotechnological interest. Several new genetic and cultivation-based strategies have been developed to meet this challenge. The OSMAC approach (one strain—many compounds), based on modification of growth conditions, has proven to be a powerful strategy for the discovery of new cryptic natural products. As a direct extension of this approach, the addition of chemical elicitors or epigenetic modifiers have also been used to activate silent genes. This review looks at the structures and biological activities of new cryptic metabolites from marine-derived microorganisms obtained using the OSMAC approach, the addition of chemical elicitors, and enzymatic inhibitors and epigenetic modifiers. It covers works published up to June 2021.

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Title
Cryptic Metabolites from Marine-Derived Microorganisms Using OSMAC and Epigenetic Approaches
Author
Pinedo-Rivilla, Cristina 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Aleu, Josefina 2   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Durán-Patrón, Rosa 2   VIAFID ORCID Logo 

 Departamento de Química Orgánica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Cádiz, Puerto Real, 11510 Cádiz, Spain; [email protected]; Instituto de Investigación en Biomoléculas (INBIO), Universidad de Cádiz, Puerto Real, 11510 Cádiz, Spain 
 Departamento de Química Orgánica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Cádiz, Puerto Real, 11510 Cádiz, Spain; [email protected]; Instituto de Investigación Vitivinícola y Agroalimentaria (IVAGRO), Universidad de Cádiz, Puerto Real, 11510 Cádiz, Spain 
First page
84
Publication year
2022
Publication date
2022
Publisher
MDPI AG
e-ISSN
16603397
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2632953538
Copyright
© 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.