Aspergillus fumigatus alb1 encodes naphthopyrone synthase when expressed in Aspergillus oryzae

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 192, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 39-44

  Watanabe, Akira ^a   Fujii, Isao ^a   Tsai, Huei Fung ^b   Chang, Yun C ^b   Kwon Chung, K J ^b   Ebizuka, Yutaka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Biosynthesis; Melanin; Naphthopyrone; Polyketide synthase; Tetrahydroxynaphthalene

Indexed keywords

MELANIN; NAPHTHOPYRONE SYNTHASE; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASE; SYNTHETASE; TETRAHYDROXYNAPHTHALENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; ASPERGILLUS ORYZAE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; ASPERGILLUS ORYZAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MELANINS; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; ASPERGILLUS ORYZAE;

EID: 0034333341     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(00)00402-X     Document Type: Article

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