Characterization of the biosynthetic genes for 10,11- dehydrocurvularin, a heat shock response-modulating anticancer fungal polyketide from Aspergillus terreus

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2038-2047

  Xu, Yuquan ^a   Espinosa Artiles, Patricia ^a   Schubert, Vivien ^b   Xu, Ya ming ^a   Zhang, Wei ^c   Lin, Min ^c   Leslie Gunatilaka, A A ^a,d   Süssmuth, Roderich ^b   Molnár, István ^a,d  

^a Environmental Research Laboratory   (United States)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDOL CONDENSATION; ASPERGILLUS TERREUS; BIOINFORMATIC ANALYSIS; BIOSYNTHETIC GENE; GENES ENCODING; GENOMIC LOCUS; HEAT SHOCK RESPONSE; HEAT-SHOCK; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; HEXAKETIDE; LACTONE RINGS; PHYTOTOXINS; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASES; POLYKETIDES; PUTATIVE PROTEINS; RADICICOL; REGIOSPECIFICITY; STRUCTURAL SIMILARITY; SYNTHASES; THIOESTERS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATION; ZEARALENONE;

ASPERGILLUS; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOINFORMATICS; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); ESTERS; GENES; KETONES; PLANTS (BOTANY); STARTERS; YEAST;

BIOSYNTHESIS;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; DEHYDROCURVULARIN; DRUG DERIVATIVE; FUNGAL DNA; POLYKETIDE; ZEARALENONE;

BIOASSAY; BIOINFORMATICS; GENE; PROTEIN; TOXIN; YEAST;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; BIOLOGY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; HEAT SHOCK RESPONSE; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; ASPERGILLUS; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA, FUNGAL; HEAT-SHOCK RESPONSE; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYKETIDES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; ZEARALENONE;

EID: 84874805716     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.03334-12     Document Type: Article

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