FIGURE 1.
Intact BGC capturing for natural products discovery. (A) Direct cloning method based on enzyme digestion and ligation, including ligation or Gibson assembly-based cloning of BGCs, such as CATCH. (B) Direct cloning method based on long-amplicon PCR and ligation, such as the DiPaC method. (C) Linear–linear homologous recombination (LLHR) mediated by full RecET in E. coli or transformation-associated recombination (TAR) in yeast for cloning BGCs. (D) Site-direct recombination for cloning BGC in vivo, including ϕBT1 integrase-mediated in vivo site-specific recombination, Cre/loxP plus BAC. (E) Site-direct recombination for cloning BGC in vitro, including iCatch, ϕBT1 integrase-mediated in vitro recombination.