Recent advances in genome mining of secondary metabolite biosynthetic gene clusters and the development of heterologous expression systems in Aspergillus nidulans

Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 433-442

  Yaegashi, Junko ^a   Oakley, Berl R ^b   Wang, Clay C C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Aspergillus; Gene cluster; Nonribosomal peptide synthetase; Polyketide synthase; Secondary metabolite

Indexed keywords

ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTS; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; GENOME, FUNGAL; SECONDARY METABOLISM;

EID: 84895107216     PISSN: 13675435     EISSN: 14765535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10295-013-1386-z     Document Type: Review

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