Bioprospect of lovastatin in Aspergillus spp. from University of Indonesia Culture Collection (UICC)

World Applied Sciences Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 183-188

  Mangunwardoyo, Wibowo ^a   Rafliyanti, Yanti ^b   Kusmana, Dadang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INDONESIA   (Indonesia)

^b Al Izhar Senior High School   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

Aspergilllus spp; Extraction; HPLC; Lovastatin; Screening; TLC

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856207132     PISSN: 18184952     EISSN: 19916426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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