Engineering of modular polyketide synthases to produce novel polyketides

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 403-411

  Carreras, Christopher W ^a   Santi, Daniel V ^a,b  

^a KOSAN BIOSCIENCES INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYLIC ACID; COENZYME A; POLYKETIDE; SYNTHETASE;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BIOSYNTHESIS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STEREOCHEMISTRY;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0032145383     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0958-1669(98)80015-3     Document Type: Article

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