New insights into the formation of fungal aromatic polyketides

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 879-889

  Crawford, Jason M ^a   Townsend, Craig A ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYKETIDE SYNTHASE;

CYCLIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; FUNGAL STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

BACTERIA; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; FUNGI; MACROLIDES; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASES;

EID: 78449290452     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro2465     Document Type: Review

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