Engineering polyketide synthases and nonribosomal peptide synthetases

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 603-612

  Williams, Gavin J ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONRIBOSOMAL PEPTIDE SYNTHETASE; PEPTIDYL CARRIER PROTEIN; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME ENGINEERING; ENZYME MODIFICATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION; SEMI RATIONAL MUTAGENESIS; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; WHOLE GENE RANDOM MUTAGENESIS;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; GENE EXPRESSION; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PEPTIDE BIOSYNTHESIS, NUCLEIC ACID-INDEPENDENT; PEPTIDE SYNTHASES; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASES; POLYKETIDES; PROTEIN ENGINEERING;

EID: 84881089361     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: 1879033X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2013.06.012     Document Type: Review

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