Discovery and characterization of terpenoid biosynthetic pathways of fungi

Methods in Enzymology

Volumn 515, Issue , 2012, Pages 83-105

  Wawrzyn, Grayson T ^a   Bloch, Sarah E ^a   Schmidt Dannert, Claudia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ascomycota; Basidiomycota; Biosynthetic gene cluster; Fungi; Genome; Secondary metabolism; Terpene synthase; Terpenoid

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CUPRENENE SYNTHASE; ARISTOLOCHENE SYNTHASE; FUNGAL ENZYME; SESQUITERPENE SYNTHASE; TERPENE SYNTHASE; TERPENOID; TRICHODIENE SYNTHASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS TERREUS; BIOSYNTHESIS; BOTRYTIS CINEREA; CATALYSIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CYCLIZATION; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; EPIGENETICS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGAL GENOME; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUSARIUM GRAMINEARUM; GENE CLUSTER; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLOMICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIUM ROQUEFORTI; PH; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMYXA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SOLID PHASE MICROEXTRACTION;

ASCOMYCOTA; BASIDIOMYCOTA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 84866494995     PISSN: 00766879     EISSN: 15577988     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-394290-6.00005-7     Document Type: Chapter

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