Expression of biosynthetic gene clusters in heterologous hosts for natural product production and combinatorial biosynthesis

Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 409-437

  Galm, Ute ^a   Shen, Ben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

biosynthetic gene cluster; combinatorial biosynthesis; heterologous expression; natural products; nonribosomal peptide synthetase; polyketide synthase

Indexed keywords

EID: 34447524208     PISSN: 17460441     EISSN: 1746045X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1517/17460441.1.5.409     Document Type: Review

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