Isolating antifungals from fungus-growing ant symbionts using a genome-guided chemistry approach

Methods in Enzymology

Volumn 517, Issue , 2012, Pages 47-70

  Seipke, Ryan F ^a   Grüschow, Sabine ^a   Goss, Rebecca J M ^a   Hutchings, Matthew I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antifungals; Genome guided chemistry; Insect bacterial symbioses

Indexed keywords

CANDICIDIN; CITRININ; GENOMIC DNA; NYSTATIN;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOASSAY; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHEMISTRY; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG SYNTHESIS; FRACTIONATION; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; HUMAN; INOCULATION; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDONOCARDIACEAE; ROOM TEMPERATURE; STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES LIVIDANS; SUPERNATANT; SYMBIONT;

EID: 84867644221     PISSN: 00766879     EISSN: 15577988     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-404634-4.00003-6     Document Type: Chapter

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