Heterologous expression and product identification of colletotrichum lagenarium polyketide synthase encoded by the pks1 gene involved in melanin biosynthesis

Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry

Volumn 63, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1445-1452

  Fujii, Isao ^a   Mori, Yuichiro ^a   Watanabe, Akira ^a   Kubo, Yasuyuki ^b   Tsuji, Gento ^b   Ebizuka, Yutaka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

1,3,6,8 tetrahydroxynaphthalene; Colletotrichum lagenarium; Heterologous expression; Melanin biosynthesis; Polyketide synthase

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; MELANIN; MULTIENZYME COMPLEX; PHOSPHOPROTEIN; PKS1 PROTEIN, PLANT; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS ORYZAE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; COLLETOTRICHUM; FUNGAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ASPERGILLUS ORYZAE; CARRIER PROTEINS; COLLETOTRICHUM; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GENETIC CODE; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MELANINS; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PLANT PROTEINS; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0033173472     PISSN: 09168451     EISSN: 13476947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1271/bbb.63.1445     Document Type: Article

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