• A Genetic and Chemical Perspective on Symbiotic Recruitment of Cyanobacteria of the Genus Nostoc into the Host Plant Blasia pusilla L. 

      Liaimer, Anton; Jensen, John Beck; Dittmann, Elke (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016-11-01)
      Liverwort Blasia pusilla L. recruits soil nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria of genus Nostoc as symbiotic partners. In this work we compared Nostoc community composition inside the plants and in the soil around them from two distant locations in Northern Norway. STRR fingerprinting and 16S rDNA phylogeny reconstruction showed a remarkable local diversity among isolates assigned to several Nostoc ...
    • High-density cultivation of terrestrial Nostoc strains leads to reprogramming of secondary metabolome 

      Guljamow, Arthur; Kreische, Marco; Ishida, Keishi; Liaimer, Anton; Altermark, Bjørn; Bähr, Lars; Hertweck, Christian; Dittmann, Elke (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-09-22)
      Terrestrial symbiotic cyanobacteria of the genus <i>Nostoc</i> exhibit a large potential for the production of bioactive natural products of the nonribosomal peptide, polyketide, and ribosomal peptide classes, and yet most of the biosynthetic gene clusters are silent under conventional cultivation conditions. In the present study, we utilized a high-density cultivation approach recently developed ...