Natural combinatorial peptide libraries in cyanobacterial symbionts of marine ascidians

Nature Chemical Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 729-735

  Donia, Mohamed S ^a   Hathaway, Brian J ^a   Sudek, Sebastian ^b   Haygood, Margo G ^c   Rosovitz, M J ^d   Ravel, Jacques ^d   Schmidt, Eric W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPEPTIDE; PATELLAMIDE; PEPTIDE LIBRARY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; BIOSYNTHESIS; COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY; COMBINATORIAL LIBRARY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CASSETTE; GENE SYNTHESIS; METABOLITE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PACIFIC OCEAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCHLORON; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; SYMBIONT; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION; TROPICS;

ASCIDIACEA; CYANOBACTERIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROCHLORON;

EID: 33751096434     PISSN: 15524450     EISSN: 15524469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchembio829     Document Type: Article

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