Here we present a detailed protocol of (A) the identification of a natural product with antibiotic activity, (B) the purification of the compound, (C) the first model of its biosynthesis, (D) genome sequencing/-mining and the (E) verification of the biosynthetic gene cluster.
Greule, A., Zhang, S., Paululat, T., Bechthold, A. From a Natural Product to Its Biosynthetic Gene Cluster: A Demonstration Using Polyketomycin from Streptomyces diastatochromogenes Tü6028. J. Vis. Exp. (119), e54952, doi:10.3791/54952 (2017).