Identification of a Polyketide synthase required for alternariol (AOH) and alternariol-9-methyl ether (AME) formation in alternaria alternata

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Saha, Debjani ^a   Fetzner, Ramona ^a   Burkhardt, Britta ^a   Podlech, Joachim ^a   Metzler, Manfred ^a   Dang, Ha ^b   Lawrence, Christopher ^b   Fischer, Reinhard ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b VIRGINIA BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNARIOL; ALTERNARIOL 9 METHYL ETHER; MYCOTOXIN; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNARIA ALTERNATA; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; FUNGAL GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; NONHUMAN; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASE GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ALTERNARIA; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; LACTONES; METABOLOME; MULTIGENE FAMILY; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASES; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ALTERNARIA ALTERNATA;

EID: 84863701287     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040564     Document Type: Article

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