Discovery of cryptic polyketide metabolites from dermatophytes using heterologous expression in aspergillus nidulans

ACS Synthetic Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 629-634

  Yin, Wen Bing ^a   Chooi, Yit Heng ^a,d   Smith, Adam R ^c   Cacho, Ralph A ^a,b   Hu, Youcai ^a   White, Theodore C ^c   Tang, Yi ^a,b  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

heterologous expression; natural products; polyketide; prenyltransferase

Indexed keywords

POLYKETIDE;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CLONING; DERMATOPHYTE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; HOST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YEAST;

ARTHRODERMATACEAE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASES; POLYKETIDES; SECONDARY METABOLISM;

EID: 84887855441     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21615063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/sb400048b     Document Type: Article

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