A chain initiation factor common to both modular and aromatic polyketide synthases

Nature

Volumn 401, Issue 6752, 1999, Pages 502-505

  Bisang, Christian ^a   Long, Paul F ^a,d   Cortés, Jesús ^a,e   Westcott, James ^b   Crosby, John ^b   Matharu, Anne Lise ^b   Cox, Russell J ^b   Simpson, Thomas J ^b   Staunton, James ^c   Leadlay, Peter F ^a  

^a Department of Biochemistry ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^e GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYL CARRIER PROTEIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; AROMATIC COMPOUND; BACTERIAL ENZYME; ERYTHROMYCIN; INITIATION FACTOR; MACROLIDE; MALONIC ACID; MITHRAMYCIN; POLYKETIDE; SYNTHETASE;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHIMERA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PURIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSED PHASE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; STREPTOMYCES;

ACYL CARRIER PROTEIN; ANTHRAQUINONES; BINDING SITES; CARBOXY-LYASES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GLUTAMINE; MACROLIDES; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; MUTATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STREPTOMYCES;

EID: 0033619244     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/46829     Document Type: Article

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