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CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 15, Issue 4, Pages 285-290Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2004.05.006
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Modern biotechnology has a steadily increasing demand for vitamins, antibiotics and, in particular, novel biocatalysts for use in the production of flavors, agrochemicals, pharmaceuticals and high-value fine chemicals. Novel experimental approaches are being developed in attempts to identify such molecules. However, it is known that up to 99.8% of the microbes present in many environments are not readily culturable; hence, they cannot be exploited for biotechnology. The 'metagenome technology' offers a solution to this problem by developing culture-independent methods to isolate, clone and express environmental DNA. So far, metagenome-based approaches have led to the isolation of many novel biocatalysts and a variety of other molecules with a high potential for downstream applications.
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