Learning nature's strategies for making deoxy sugars: Pathways, mechanisms, and combinatorial applications

Accounts of Chemical Research

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 579-588

  Hallis, Tina M ^a   Hung Wen, Liu ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DAUNORUBICIN; DEOXYSUGAR; DESOSAMINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; HEXOSE; MACROLIDE; MYCAMINOSE; MYCAROSE; MYCINOSE; TYLOSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENE; OXYGENATION;

EID: 0344131951     PISSN: 00014842     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ar9602056     Document Type: Article

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