Nonribosomal Peptide Synthesis

Amino Acids, Peptides and Proteins in Organic Chemistry

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 631-656

  Doyle, Sean ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

4' phosphopantetheinyl transferase; Adenylation; Functional domain; Nonribosomal peptide synthesis; Nonribosomal peptide synthetase; Secondary metabolite; Thiolation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886069468     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527631780.ch16     Document Type: Chapter

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