The Design-Build-Test-Learn cycle for metabolic engineering of Streptomycetes.

Streptomycetes are producers of a wide range of specialized metabolites of great medicinal and industrial importance, such as antibiotics, antifungals, or pesticides. Having been the drivers of the golden age of antibiotics in the 1950s and 1960s, technological advancements over the last two decades have revealed that very little of their biosynthetic potential has been exploited so far. Given the great need for new antibiotics due to the emerging antimicrobial resistance crisis, as well as the urgent need for sustainable biobased production of complex molecules, there is a great renewed interest in exploring and engineering the biosynthetic potential of streptomycetes. Here, we describe the Design-Build-Test-Learn (DBTL) cycle for metabolic engineering experiments in streptomycetes and how it can be used for the discovery and production of novel specialized metabolites. © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Portland Press Limited on behalf of the Biochemical Society.

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Christopher M Whitford, Pablo Cruz-Morales, Jay D Keasling, Tilmann Weber. The Design-Build-Test-Learn cycle for metabolic engineering of Streptomycetes. Essays in biochemistry. 2021 Jul 26;65(2):261-275

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