Initiation, elongation, and termination strategies in polyketide and polypeptide antibiotic biosynthesis

Current Opinion in Chemical Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 598-606

  Keating, Thomas A ^a   Walsh, Christopher T ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATURAL PRODUCT; POLYKETIDE; POLYPEPTIDE; SYNTHETASE;

BIOSYNTHESIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032829915     PISSN: 13675931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1367-5931(99)00015-0     Document Type: Review

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