Engineered intermodular and intramodular polyketide synthase fusions

Chemistry and Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 667-674

  McDaniel, Robert ^a   Kao, Camilla M ^b   Hwang, Sue J ^b   Khosla, Chaitan ^b,c  

^a KOSAN BIOSCIENCES INC   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Erythromycin; Hybrid polyketide synthase; Protein engineering; Rapamycin

Indexed keywords

EUKARYOTA; STREPTOMYCES;

EID: 0031239838     PISSN: 10745521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1074-5521(97)90222-2     Document Type: Article

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