Coinciding with the increase in sequenced bacteria, mining of bacterial genomes for
biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) has become a critical component of natural product discovery. …

Myxobacteria are excellent model organisms for investigation of predator–prey interactions
and predatory shaping of microbial communities. This review covers interdisciplinary topics …

Currently considered an excellent candidate source of novel chemical diversity, the existence
of marine myxobacteria was in question less than 20 years ago. This review aims to serve …

Predation contributes to the structure and diversity of microbial communities. Predatory
myxobacteria are ubiquitous to a variety of microbial habitats and capably consume a broad …

Gephyronic acid, a cytostatic polyketide produced by the myxobacterium Cystobacter
violaceus Cb vi76, exhibits potent and selective eukaryotic protein synthesis inhibition. Next-…

Heterologous expression of biosynthetic pathways is an indispensable tool in the discovery,
production, engineering, and characterization of bacterial polyketides and the complex …

New natural products for drug discovery may be accessed by heterologous expression of
bacterial biosynthetic pathways in metagenomic DNA libraries. However, a “universal” host is …

Discoveries of novel myxobacteria have started to unveil the potentially vast phylogenetic
diversity within the family Myxococcaceae and have brought about an updated approach to …

Multiomic analysis of transcriptional and metabolic responses from the predatory myxobacteria
Myxococcus xanthus and Cystobacter ferrugineus exposed to prey signalling molecules …

Chemical exchanges between plants and microbes within rhizobiomes are critical to the
development of community structure. Volatile root exudates such as the phytohormone …