Structural organization of microcystin biosynthesis in Microcystis aeruginosa PCC7806: An integrated peptide-polyketide synthetase system

Chemistry and Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 753-764

  Tillett, Daniel ^a   Dittmann, Elke ^b   Erhard, Marcel ^c   Von Döhren, Hans ^c   Börner, Thomas ^b   Neilan, Brett A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cyanobacterium; Microcystin; Microcystis aeruginosa; Nonribosomal peptide synthetase; Polyketide synthase

Indexed keywords

ADDA POLYKETIDE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL TOXIN; BETA AMINO POLYKETIDE; CYANOBACTERIUM; CYANOGINOSIN; ENZYME INHIBITOR; ENZYME STRUCTURE; GENETIC STRAIN; METABOLITE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASE;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; GENES, BACTERIAL; MICROCYSTINS; MICROCYSTIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; OPERON; PEPTIDE SYNTHASES; PEPTIDES, CYCLIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

EID: 0033780306     PISSN: 10745521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1074-5521(00)00021-1     Document Type: Article

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