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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2011
Bernhard Palsson, San Diego, CA (US);
Pep Charusanti, San Diego, CA (US);
Bernhard Palsson, San Diego, CA (US);
Pep Charusanti, San Diego, CA (US);
The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention describes a method to generate new chemical entities (NCEs) that have well-defined activities such as, but not limited to, anti-bacterial, antifungal and anthelmintic effects. The NCEs are generated through adaptive evolution of one microbe (the producer) against another organism or cell type (the target). The producer is made to compete against the target over time by co-culturing the two together and serially passing the producer organism until the producer adaptively evolves by synthesizing an NCE(s) that inhibits growth of or kills the target. The molecular structure of the chemical entity (or entities) is then elucidated using tools from genomics, molecular biology, computational biology, analytical chemistry, organic chemistry and related fields.