Biosynthetic pathways and engineering for bioactive natural products

Current Organic Chemistry

Volumn 14, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 1433-1446

  Wei, Maochen ^a   Wang, Shuzhen ^a   Shang, Guangdong ^b  

^a CHINA PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bioactive compound; Biosynthetic pathway; Gene cluster; Natural product; NRPS; PKS; Secondary metabolism

Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHESIS; GENES; KETONES; PHYSIOLOGY;

BIOACTIVE COMPOUNDS; BIOACTIVES; BIOSYNTHETIC ENGINEERINGS; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAY; GENE CLUSTERS; NATURAL PRODUCTS; NONRIBOSOMAL PEPTIDE SYNTHETASES; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASES; SECONDARY METABOLISM; SYNTHESISED;

METABOLISM;

EID: 77954915996     PISSN: 13852728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/138527210791616759     Document Type: Article

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