Reconstructing the chemical diversity of labdane-type diterpene biosynthesis in yeast

Metabolic Engineering

Volumn 28, Issue , 2015, Pages 91-103

  Ignea, Codruta ^a,b   Ioannou, Efstathia ^c   Georgantea, Panagiota ^c   Loupassaki, Sofia ^b   Trikka, Fotini A ^d   Kanellis, Angelos K ^d,e   Makris, Antonios M ^d   Roussis, Vassilios ^c   Kampranis, Sotirios C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b MEDITERRANEAN AGRONOMIC INSTITUTE OF CHANIA   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^d INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES INSTITUTE   (Greece)

^e ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Combinatorial biosynthesis; Cytochrome P450; Isoprenoids; Metabolic engineering; Protein engineering

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; OLEFINS; PROTEINS; TERPENES; URANIUM; YEAST;

CHEMICAL DIVERSITY; COMBINATORIAL BIOSYNTHESIS; CYTOCHROME P450; DITERPENE SYNTHASES; EFFICIENT CATALYSTS; ISOPRENOIDS; MUTANT LIBRARIES; PROTEIN ENGINEERING;

METABOLIC ENGINEERING;

CYTOCHROME P450; DITERPENE; SYNTHETASE; TERPENE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CATALYST; GENE; HYDROXYLATION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; YEAST; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

CYTOCHROME P-450 ENZYME SYSTEM; DITERPENES; HYDROXYLATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

EID: 84920742548     PISSN: 10967176     EISSN: 10967184     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2014.12.001     Document Type: Article

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