Recent advances in awakening silent biosynthetic gene clusters and linking orphan clusters to natural products in microorganisms

Current Opinion in Chemical Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 137-143

  Chiang, Yi Ming ^a,b   Chang, Shu Lin ^a,b   Oakley, Berl R ^c   Wang, Clay C C ^b  

^a CHIA NAN UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY AND SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LECANORIC ACID; NATURAL PRODUCTS AND THEIR SYNTHETIC DERIVATIVES; ORSELLINIC ACID; PIPERIDAMYCIN; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; ASPERGILLUS ORYZAE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; EPIGENETICS; FUNGAL GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; METABOLITE; MONASCUS; NONHUMAN; PROKARYOTE; PROTEOMICS; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; SILENT GENE; SPECIES COMPARISON; STREPTOMYCES;

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTS; CHROMATIN; GENE SILENCING; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; RIBOSOMES;

EID: 79851515868     PISSN: 13675931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2010.10.011     Document Type: Review

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