The way to uncovering and utilizing marine microbial resources

Abstract

Recently, Chen et al. published their breakthrough results on a marine microbial genomic catalog and genetic potentials in bioprospecting in Nature, providing unprecedented opportunities for development and utilization of genetic resources of marine microorganisms. To highlight this article, we summarized and highlighted their breakthroughs seriatim

Keywords

Metagenome / MAG / Global ocean microbiome genome catalogue / CRISPR-Cas9 / Antimicrobial peptide / PETases

Declaration of Competing Interest

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

CRediT authorship contribution statement

Zhi-Feng Zhang: Writing - original draft. Meng Li: Writing - review & editing, Supervision, Funding acquisition.

Acknowledgments

This work was financially supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2022YFA0912200), National Natural Science Foundation of China (32225003, 32393970, 32393971), Guangdong Major Project of Basic and Applied Basic Research (2023B0303000017), Shenzhen Medical Research Fund (no. B2301005), Shenzhen University 2035 Program for Excellent Research (2022B002), and research funds from Key Laboratory of Marine Microbiome Engineering of Guangdong Higher Education Institutes and the Synthetic Biology Research Center of Shenzhen University.

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