A new pathway for polyketide synthesis in microorganisms

Nature

Volumn 400, Issue 6747, 1999, Pages 897-899

  Funa, Nobutaka ^a   Ohnishi, Yasuo ^a   Fujli, Isao ^b   Shibuya, Masaaki ^b   Ebizuka, Yutaka ^b   Horinouchi, Sueharu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHALCONE SYNTHASE; MALONYL COENZYME A; MELANIN; POLYKETIDE;

ARTICLE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STREPTOMYCES;

ACYLTRANSFERASES; CATALYSIS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FURANS; MALONYL COENZYME A; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NAPHTHOLS; STREPTOMYCES GRISEUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOMYCES GRISEUS;

EID: 0033606986     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/23748     Document Type: Article

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