Enabling synthetic biology through single cell functional genomics

项目摘要。在复杂的生态系统中，微生物利用次级新陈代谢作为沟通的手段。 在他们的当地环境内和控制。其中一些产品对治疗有深远的作用。 人类疾病，特别是传染病，在这些疾病中，目前处方的抗生素占很大比例 是以微生物来源的天然产品为基础或从其衍生而来。该计划开发、评估和 实施一种新的基于活动的单细胞基因组学方法，用于从 寄主相关的海洋微生物。在这个合作项目中的研究涉及样本收集，单一 细胞基因组学，基因组数据的生物信息学分析，重点是产生抗生素的基因簇， 将最有希望的集群改造成宿主菌株，并基于流式细胞术指导生产这些 化合物。使用三种海洋软体大型有机体作为模型(裸肢动物、被囊动物和 海绵)，我们的团队将使用一种新的合成酶选择的方法来鉴定未探索的产生共生体的PKS 微生物，评估他们的基因组用于PKS系统，并使用这些基因组数据来指导重建 在实验室易驯化的宿主中生产PKS。预期的结果将推动小说的发现 来自海洋动物微生物群的抗生素候选者。

Project Summary. In complex ecosystems, microbes use secondary metabolism as a means to communicate within and control their local environment. Some of these products have had profound utility for the treatment of human diseases, particularly infectious disease, where a large percentage of currently prescribed antibiotics are based on or derived from natural products of microbial origin. This program develops, evaluates and implements a new activity-based single cell genomics approach for the discovery of antibiotic candidates from host-associated marine microbes. The research in this collaborative program involves sample collection, single cell genomics, bioinformatics analysis of genomic data with focus on antibiotic producing gene clusters, engineering the most promising clusters into host strains, and flow cytometry-based guided production of these compounds. Using three marine soft-bodied macroorgansims as models (nudibranchs, tunicates and sponges), our team will use a new synthase-selected approach to identify unexplored PKS producing symbiotic microbes, evaluate their genomes for PKS systems and use this genomic data to guide the reconstruction of PKS production in laboratory tractable hosts. The expected results will advance the discovery of novel antibiotic candidates from the microbiomes of marine animals.