Genome mining reveals the evolutionary origin and biosynthetic potential of basidiomycete polyketide synthases

Fungal Genetics and Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 996-1003

  Lackner, Gerald ^a   Misiek, Mathias ^a   Braesel, Jana ^a   Hoffmeister, Dirk ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Basidiomycetes; Evolution; Genome mining; Orsellinic acid; Polyketide; Secondary metabolism

Indexed keywords

POLYKETIDE SYNTHASE;

ARMB GENE; ARMILLARIA; ARMILLARIA MELLEA; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; BASIDIOMYCETES; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL GENOME; GENE; METABOLOMICS; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASE GENE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

BASIDIOMYCOTA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA PRIMERS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ARMILLARIA MELLEA; ASCOMYCOTA; BASIDIOMYCOTA; FUNGI;

EID: 84869875360     PISSN: 10871845     EISSN: 10960937     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2012.09.009     Document Type: Article

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