The biosynthetic pathway for a thousand-year-old natural food colorant and citrinin in Penicillium marneffei

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Woo, Patrick C Y ^a,b   Lam, Ching Wan ^a   Tam, Emily W T ^a   Lee, Kim Chung ^a   Yung, Karrie K Y ^a   Leung, Chris K F ^a   Sze, Kong Hung ^a,b   Lau, Susanna K P ^a,b   Yuen, Kwok Yung ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CITRININ; FOOD DYE; FUSED HETEROCYCLIC RINGS; MONASCORUBRIN;

BIOSYNTHESIS; CHROMOSOME MAP; FUNGAL GENOME; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PENICILLIUM;

AMINO ACIDS; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CITRININ; FOOD COLORING AGENTS; GENOME, FUNGAL; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS, 3-RING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PENICILLIUM;

EID: 84927097300     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep06728     Document Type: Article

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