Biological Resource Center, National Institute of Technology and Evaluation (NBRC), 2-49-10 Nishihara, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 151-0006, Japan.
Nucleic Acids Res. 2013 Jan;41(Database issue):D408-14. doi: 10.1093/nar/gks1177. Epub 2012 Nov 26.
This article introduces DoBISCUIT (Database of BIoSynthesis clusters CUrated and InTegrated, http://www.bio.nite.go.jp/pks/), a literature-based, manually curated database of gene clusters for secondary metabolite biosynthesis. Bacterial secondary metabolites often show pharmacologically important activities and can serve as lead compounds and/or candidates for drug development. Biosynthesis of each secondary metabolite is catalyzed by a number of enzymes, usually encoded by a gene cluster. Although many scientific papers describe such gene clusters, the gene information is not always described in a comprehensive manner and the related information is rarely integrated. DoBISCUIT integrates the latest literature information and provides standardized gene/module/domain descriptions related to the gene clusters.
本文介绍了 DoBISCUIT(生物合成簇数据库的编目和整合,http://www.bio.nite.go.jp/pks/),这是一个基于文献的、人工编目的细菌次生代谢产物生物合成基因簇数据库。细菌次生代谢产物通常具有重要的药理活性,可以作为先导化合物和/或药物开发的候选物。每种次生代谢产物的生物合成都由一系列酶催化,这些酶通常由一个基因簇编码。尽管许多科学论文都描述了这些基因簇,但基因信息并不总是全面描述的,相关信息也很少整合。DoBISCUIT 整合了最新的文献信息,并提供了与基因簇相关的标准化基因/模块/结构域描述。