Targeting modular polyketide synthases with iteratively acting acyltransferases from metagenomes of uncultured bacterial consortia

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 921-927

  Piel, Jörn ^a   Hui, Dequan ^a   Fusetani, Nobuhiro ^b   Matsunaga, Shigeki ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MULTIENZYME COMPLEX; PEDERIN; PRIMER DNA; PYRAN DERIVATIVE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BEETLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GENOMICS; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPONGE (PORIFERA); STATISTICAL MODEL; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BEETLES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA PRIMERS; GENOMICS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; PHYLOGENY; PORIFERA; PYRANS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TURKEY;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COLEOPTERA; PORIFERA;

EID: 4344675456     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2004.00531.x     Document Type: Article

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