Fluorinated natural products: The biosynthesis of fluoroacetate and 4-fluorothreonine in Streptomyces cattleya

Chemosphere

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 455-461

  Murphy, Cormac D ^a,b   Schaffrath, Christoph ^a   O'Hagan, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Aldehyde dehydrogenase; Biohalogenation; Secondary metabolite; Transaldolase

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDES; BIOSYNTHESIS; ENZYMES; METABOLITES; MICROORGANISMS; PLANTS (BOTANY);

NATURAL PRODUCTS;

FLUORINE;

4 FLUOROTHREONINE; ACETALDEHYDE; ALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE; FLUOROACETALDEHYDE; FLUOROACETIC ACID; ORGANOFLUORINE DERIVATIVE; THREONINE; TRANSALDOLASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOCHEMISTRY; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; FLUORINE; ORGANOHALOGEN;

BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL FREE SYSTEM; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYMOLOGY; ISOTOPE LABELING; NONHUMAN; STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES CATTLEYA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CATTLEYA; STREPTOMYCES CATTLEYA;

EID: 0038413902     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-6535(03)00191-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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