Engineered biosynthesis of bacterial aromatic polyketides in Escherichia coli

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

Volumn 105, Issue 52, 2008, Pages 20683-20688

  Zhang, Wenjun ^a   Li, Yanran ^a   Tang, Yi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cyclase; Ketosynthase; Megasynthase

Indexed keywords

ACYL CARRIER PROTEIN; ACYL CARRIER PROTEIN ACETYLTRANSFERASE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; CYCLASE; MALONYL COENZYME A; MEGASYNTHASE; POLYKETIDE; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASE; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASE 4; SYNTHETASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYCLIZATION; ENZYME KINETICS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERMENTATION; GIBBERELLA FUJIKUROI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GIBBERELLA; MACROLIDES; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; GIBBERELLA FUJIKUROI;

EID: 58549085193     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0809084105     Document Type: Article

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