Microbial production of plant benzylisoquinoline alkaloids

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 7393-7398

  Minami, Hiromichi ^a   Kim, Ju Sung ^a   Ikezawa, Nobuhiro ^b   Takemura, Tomoya ^b   Katayama, Takane ^a   Kumagai, Hidehiko ^a   Sato, Fumihiko ^b  

^a ISHIKAWA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

(S) reticuline; Magnoflorine; Scoulerine

Indexed keywords

3 HYDROXYCOCLAURINE; 3' HYDROXY N METHYLCOCLAURINE; APORPHINE DERIVATIVE; BENZYLISOQUINOLINE DERIVATIVE; CORYTUBERINE; DOPAMINE; MAGNOFLORINE; MICROBIAL ENZYME; NORRETICULINE; PROTOBERBERINE; RETICULINE; SCOULERINE; TETRAHYDROPAPAVEROLINE; BERBERINE DERIVATIVE; DISCRETAMINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CULTURE MEDIUM; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG STRUCTURE; DRUG SYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT METABOLISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM; BIOTECHNOLOGY; COPTIS; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROCOCCUS LUTEUS; TRANSGENE;

BERBERIDACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MAGNOLIACEAE; PAPAVERACEAE; RANUNCULACEAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

APORPHINES; BENZYLISOQUINOLINES; BERBERINE ALKALOIDS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; COPTIS; DOPAMINE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, PLANT; MICROCOCCUS LUTEUS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSGENES;

EID: 44949247292     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0802981105     Document Type: Article

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