Enzymatic formation of G-group aflatoxins and biosynthetic relationship between G- and B-group aflatoxins

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 3867-3872

  Yabe, Kimiko ^a   Nakamura, Miki ^a   Hamasaki, Takashi ^b  

^a NATIONAL FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFLATOXIN B; AFLATOXIN B1; AFLATOXIN B2; AFLATOXIN G1; AFLATOXIN G2; CYTOCHROME P450; ETHOXYQUIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; IMIDAZOLE; METYRAPONE; MICROSOME ENZYME; PROADIFEN; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE; STERIGMATOCYSTIN; UNSPECIFIC MONOOXYGENASE;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS PARASITICUS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MICROSOME; NONHUMAN;

ASPERGILLUS PARASITICUS;

EID: 0032875828     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.9.3867-3872.1999     Document Type: Article

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