Medicinally important secondary metabolites in recombinant microorganisms or plants: Progress in alkaloid biosynthesis

Biotechnology Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1684-1703

  Schäfer, Holger ^a   Wink, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alkaloids; Biosynthesis; In vitro production; Metabolic engineering; Terpenoids

Indexed keywords

ABIOTIC STRESS; ALKALOID BIOSYNTHESIS; ANTICANCER DRUG; BIOLOGICAL PROPERTIES; CAMPTOTHECINS; CROP PLANTS; DITERPENES; IN-PLANTS; IN-VITRO; LONG-TERM PERSPECTIVE; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; MICROBIAL PATHOGENS; MONOTERPENES; NATURAL PRODUCTS; PACLITAXEL; PHENOLICS; PROOF OF CONCEPT; RECOMBINANT ESCHERICHIA COLI; RECOMBINANT MICROORGANISM; SECONDARY METABOLITES; TAXANES; TERPENOIDS; VINBLASTINE;

ANIMALS; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOMOLECULES; BIOSYNTHESIS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CROPS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; METABOLITES; MICROORGANISMS; OLEFINS; PHENOLS; YEAST;

METABOLISM;

ACRIDONE ALKALOID; ALKALOID; ALKALOID DERIVATIVE; BETALAIN; BISBENZYLISOQUINOLINE ALKALOID; CAFFEINE; DITERPENE; ERGOT ALKALOID; HOMOSPERMIDINE SYNTHASE; MONOTERPENE INDOLE ALKALOID; NICOTINE; PACLITAXEL; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; PURINE ALKALOID; PYRROLIZIDINE ALKALOID; SCOPOLAMINE; STRICTOSIDINE; STRICTOSIDINE SYNTHASE; SYNTHETASE; TAXADIENE SYNTHASE; TERPENOID; TROPANE ALKALOID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VINBLASTINE;

ALKALOID BIOSYNTHESIS; APOCYNACEAE; ARABIDOPSIS; ASPEN; ASTERACEAE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BORAGINACEAE; CATHARANTHUS ROSEUS; CLAVICEPS PURPUREA; COPTIS; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG SYNTHESIS; DRUG TRANSFORMATION; ENZYME ISOLATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHSCHOLTZIA; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLITE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PAPAVER SOMNIFERUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPESEED; REVIEW; SECONDARY METABOLITE; TAXUS BREVIFOLIA; TOBACCO; YEAST;

ALKALOIDS; DNA, RECOMBINANT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 73849152200     PISSN: 18606768     EISSN: 18607314     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/biot.200900229     Document Type: Review

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