Activation and characterization of a cryptic polycyclic tetramate macrolactam biosynthetic gene cluster

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Luo, Yunzi ^a   Huang, Hua ^a   Liang, Jing ^a   Wang, Meng ^a   Lu, Lu ^b   Shao, Zengyi ^a   Cobb, Ryan E ^a   Zhao, Huimin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDE SYNTHASE; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASE;

BACTERIUM; BIOACTIVITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; PHYLOGENETICS;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE DELETION; HYBRID; METABOLITE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STREPTOMYCES GRISEUS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI; STREPTOMYCES GRISEUS;

GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LACTAMS, MACROCYCLIC; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PEPTIDE SYNTHASES; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STREPTOMYCES GRISEUS; STREPTOMYCES LIVIDANS;

EID: 84890086658     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3894     Document Type: Article

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