Polyketide biosynthesis: Understanding and exploiting modularity

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 362, Issue 1825, 2004, Pages 2671-2690

  Weissman, Kira J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Combinatorial biosynthesis; Drug discovery; Erythromycin A; Genetic engineering; Multi enzyme; Polyketide synthase

Indexed keywords

EID: 10844239054     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2004.1470     Document Type: Review

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