A new reducing polyketide synthase gene from the lichen-forming fungus Cladonia metacorallifera

Mycologia

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 362-370

  Kim, Jung A ^a   Hong, Soon Gyu ^b   Cheong, Yong Hwa ^a   Koh, Young Jin ^a   Hur, Jae Seoun ^a  

^a Sunchon National University   (South Korea)

^b Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cladonia metacorallifera; Culture; Fungal reducing PKS; Lichen forming fungus; Polyketide synthase

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; POLYKETIDE; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASE;

BIOCHEMISTRY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNCTIONAL ROLE; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION; LICHEN; PHYLOGENETICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SECONDARY METABOLITE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LICHEN (ORGANISM); METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ACYLTRANSFERASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASCOMYCOTA; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENOMIC LIBRARY; LICHENS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASES; POLYKETIDES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

CLADONIA; CLADONIA METACORALLIFERA; FUNGI;

EID: 84862335195     PISSN: 00275514     EISSN: 15572536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3852/11-001     Document Type: Article

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