Characterization of a Gene Conferring Red Fluorescence Isolated from an Environmental DNA Library Constructed from Soil Bacteria

Novel Antibacterial Proteins from the Microbial Communities Associated with the Sponge Cymbastela concentrica and the Green Alga Ulva australis

“…To access the uncultured majority of the microbial world (43), functional metagenomic approaches that allow for the expression of environmental DNA from uncultured organisms in surrogate hosts have been developed (6,22,32,35,36,46). Functional screening of metagenomic libraries has led to the discovery of several novel bioactives and metabolic pathways (5,36,52), but the search for new antibiotics has focused mainly on soil-derived samples.…”