Versatility of polyketide synthases in generating metabolic diversity

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 736-743

  Gokhale, Rajesh S ^a,c   Sankaranarayanan, Rajan ^b   Mohanty, Debasisa ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOLOGY   (India)

^b CENTRE FOR CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (India)

^c JAWAHARLAL NEHRU CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID SYNTHASE; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASE;

BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME METABOLISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; DICTYOSTELIUM; LIPIDS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 36549060587     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2007.08.021     Document Type: Review

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