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Issue Date
2012
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Myxobacteria are amongst the top producers of natural products. The diversity and unique structural properties of their secondary metabolites is what make these social microbes highly attractive for drug discovery. Screening of products derived from these bacteria has revealed a puzzling amount of hits against infectious and non-infectious human diseases. Preying mainly on other bacteria and fungi, why would these ancient hunters manufacture compounds beneficial for us? The answer may be the targeting of shared processes and structural features conserved throughout evolution.Citation
Myxobacteria: natural pharmaceutical factories. 2012, 11:52 Microb. Cell Fact.Affiliation
Helmholtz Centre for infection research, Inhoffenstr. 7, D-38124 Braunschweig, Germany.Journal
Microbial cell factoriesPubMed ID
22545867Type
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enISSN
1475-2859ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1186/1475-2859-11-52
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