TY - JOUR A1 - Welker, Martin A1 - Dittmann-Thünemann, Elke A1 - von Doehren, Hans A2 - Hopwood, DA T1 - Cyanobacteria as a source of natural products T2 - Methods in enzymology T2 - Methods in Enzymology N2 - Cyanobacteria or blue-green algae from various environments have been recognized as sources of a variety of bioactive metabolites. Strategies of strain isolation from aquatic habitats, and cultivation and harvesting for metabolite production are described. Strategies for screening of compounds are discussed, including their direct MALDI-TOF mass spectrometric detection in whole cells. Genetic approaches including genomic mining, mutagenesis including transcriptional activation, heterologous expression, and in vitro. reconstitution of pathways are presented. Y1 - 2012 UR - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/36220 SN - 978-0-12-404634-4 SN - 0076-6879 VL - 517 IS - 1 SP - 23 EP - 46 PB - Elsevier CY - San Diego ER -