The biosynthetic pathway for aurofusarin in Fusarium graminearum reveals a close link between the naphthoquinones and naphthopyrones

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1069-1080

  Frandsen, Rasmus J N ^a   Nielsen, Nikoline J ^a   Maolanon, Nicolai ^a   Sørensen, Jens C ^a   Olsson, Stefan ^a   Nielsen, John ^a   Giese, Henriette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,4 NAPHTHOQUINONE DERIVATIVE; AUROFUSARIN; LACCASE; PIGMENT; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASE; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASE 12; PROTEIN GIP1; PYRONE DERIVATIVE; RUBROFUSARIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AURR2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; DIMERIZATION; ENZYME MECHANISM; FUSARIUM GRAMINEARUM; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER;

FUNGAL PROTEINS; FUSARIUM; GENES, FUNGAL; MUTATION; NAPHTHALENES; NAPHTHOQUINONES; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; GIBBERELLA ZEAE;

EID: 33746523463     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2006.05295.x     Document Type: Article

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