Accessing natural product biosynthetic processes by mass spectrometry

Current Opinion in Chemical Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 475-482

  Bumpus, Stefanie B ^a   Kelleher, Neil L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENEDIYNE; NATURAL PRODUCT; NONRIBOSOMAL PEPTIDE SYNTHASE; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASE; SYNTHETASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOGENESIS; ENZYME STRUCTURE; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PROTEOMICS; REVERSED PHASE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; REVIEW;

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PEPTIDE SYNTHASES; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASES;

EID: 53849105402     PISSN: 13675931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2008.07.022     Document Type: Review

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