Cyanobacterial toxins: Biosynthetic routes and evolutionary roots

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 23-43

  Dittmann, Elke ^a   Fewer, David P ^b   Neilan, Brett A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anatoxin; Cyanobacteria; Cylindrospermopsin; Microcystin; Saxitoxin

Indexed keywords

ANATOXIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; CYANOBACTERIUM TOXIN; CYLINDROSPERMOPSIN; LYNGBYATOXIN; MICROCYSTIN; NODULARIN; SAXITOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOSYNTHESIS; CYANOBACTERIUM; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; CYANOBACTERIA; HARMFUL ALGAL BLOOM; HUMANS; MARINE TOXINS; MICROCYSTINS; MULTIGENE FAMILY;

ANIMALIA; CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 84870854383     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: 15746976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6976.2012.12000.x     Document Type: Review

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