Recent efforts in engineering microbial cells to produce new chemical compounds

Current Opinion in Chemical Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 273-278

  De Boer, Arjo L ^a   Schmidt Dannert, Claudia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 HYDROXYPROLYLRAPAMYCIN; 4,5 DEEPOXYPIMARICIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CALICHEAMICIN; CAROTENOID; ERYTHROMYCIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; MACROLIDE; MICROBIAL ENZYME; NEW DRUG; PIKROMYCIN; POLYHYDROXYALKANOIC ACID; POLYKETIDE; RAPAMYCIN DERIVATIVE; STREPTOMYCIN; TYLOSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URDAMYCIN P;

ANTIBIOTIC BIOSYNTHESIS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY; GENE DISRUPTION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GLYCOSYLATION; MICROORGANISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; REVIEW;

BACTERIA; DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; GENETIC ENGINEERING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0037396311     PISSN: 13675931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1367-5931(03)00023-1     Document Type: Review

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