Overproduction, purification and characterization of FtmPT1, a brevianamide F prenyltransferase from Aspergillus fumigatus

Microbiology

Volumn 151, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 2199-2207

  Grundmann, Alexander ^a   Li, Shu Ming ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIDE; DIMETHYLALLYLTRANSFERASE; DIPEPTIDE DERIVATIVE; ERGOT ALKALOID; METAL ION; PROTEIN FTMPT1; PYROPHOSPHATE; TRYPTOPHAN; TRYPTOPHAN SYNTHASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BINDING SITE; DNA ISOLATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME DEGRADATION; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS CULTURE; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECTROSCOPY;

ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; ERGOT ALKALOIDS; PIPERAZINES; TRANSFERASES;

ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 22144479730     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.27962-0     Document Type: Article

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