Cloning and heterologous transcription of a polyketide synthase gene from the lichen Solorina crocea

Mycological Research

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 354-363

  Gagunashvili, Andrey N ^a   Davídsson, Snorri P ^a   Jónsson, Zophonías O ^a   Andrésson, Ólafur S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Lichen; Polyketide synthases; Polyketides; Secondary metabolites

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; MACROLIDE; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASE;

CLONE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGUS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH; HOMOLOGY; LICHEN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; ASPERGILLUS ORYZAE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; FUNGAL GENE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; LICHENS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASCOMYCOTA; ASPERGILLUS ORYZAE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; LICHENS; MACROLIDES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ASCOMYCOTA; ASPERGILLUS ORYZAE; FUNGI; SOLORINA CROCEA;

EID: 60849085691     PISSN: 09537562     EISSN: 14698102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mycres.2008.11.011     Document Type: Article

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