Cloning and Expression of Siderophore Biosynthetic Gene Clusters from Marine Metagenome

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More than 50 siderophore producing clones were found from the marine metagenomic library. Among them, DNA sequences of the four clones were determined. By chemical and spectroscopic methods, vibrioferrin and bisucaberin were identified as active products from the obtained clones. Especially, isolation yield of vibrioferrin was 40 times higher than that of the original producer. The other clone had a biosynthetic gene cluster whose total size was about 25 kbp which is one of the largest one found by functional metagenomic screening. These results suggested the promising potential of the functional metagenomic technique for cloning of biosynthetic genes and heterologous production of active molecules.