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Review
. 2019 Feb 26:10:294.
doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.00294. eCollection 2019.

Exploring Structural Diversity of Microbe Secondary Metabolites Using OSMAC Strategy: A Literature Review

Rui Pan  1 , Xuelian Bai  2 , Jianwei Chen  1 , Huawei Zhang  1 , Hong Wang  1
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Exploring Structural Diversity of Microbe Secondary Metabolites Using OSMAC Strategy: A Literature Review

Rui Pan et al. Front Microbiol. .

Abstract

Microbial secondary metabolites (MSMs) have played and continue to play a highly significant role in the drug discovery and development process. Genetically, MSM chemical structures are biologically synthesized by microbial gene clusters. Recently, however, the speed of new bioactive MSM discovery has been slowing down due to consistent employment of conventional cultivation and isolation procedure. In order to alleviate this challenge, a number of new approaches have been developed. The strategy of one strain many compounds (OSMAC) has been shown as a simple and powerful tool that can activate many silent biogenetic gene clusters in microorganisms to make more natural products. This review highlights important and successful examples using OSMAC approaches, which covers changing medium composition and cultivation status, co-cultivation with other strain(s), adding enzyme inhibitor(s) and MSM biosynthetic precursor(s). Available evidences had shown that variation of cultivation condition is the most effective way to produce more MSMs and facilitate the discovery of new therapeutic agents.

Keywords: OSMAC strategy; co-cultivation; epigenetic modification; medium composition; microbe secondary metabolite; structural diversity.

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