Reconstruction of the biosynthetic pathway for the core fungal polyketide scaffold rubrofusarin in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Microbial Cell Factories

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Rugbjerg, Peter ^a,b   Naesby, Michael ^a   Mortensen, Uffe H ^b   Frandsen, Rasmus J N ^b  

^a EVOLVA SA   (Switzerland)

^b not available   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Aurofusarin; Heterologous production; Iterative polyketide synthase; Nor rubrofusarin; Pigment; YWA1

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; METHYLTRANSFERASE; PHOSPHOPANTETHEINYL TRANSFERASE; POLYKETIDE; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASE; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASE 12; RUBROFUSARIN; TRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HYDROLYASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PYRONE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUSARIUM GRAMINEARUM; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PROMOTER REGION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; ASPERGILLUS; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; FUNGAL GENE; FUSARIUM; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PLASMID;

ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GIBBERELLA ZEAE; MONASCUS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ASPERGILLUS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; FUSARIUM; GENES, FUNGAL; HYDRO-LYASES; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PLASMIDS; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASES; PYRONES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSFERASES (OTHER SUBSTITUTED PHOSPHATE GROUPS);

EID: 84875688760     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2859-12-31     Document Type: Article

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