Interestingly, the proteins of the acarbose biosynthesis gene cluster are distributed over 5 different cluster (P5, P13, P15, P28 and P34), although the acb genes were found to be highly co-transcribed in transcriptomic clusters T31 and T32. This indicates a regulation of acb gene expression on a post-transcriptional level and at least different protein half-live times. These findings will be discussed in the next chapter more detailed