Heterologous production of fungal secondary metabolites in Aspergilli

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue FEB, 2015, Pages

  Anyaogu, Diana Chinyere ^a   Mortensen, Uffe Hasbro ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Aspergillus; Fungi; Gene clusters; Heterologous expression; Polyketide synthase; Secondary metabolite

Indexed keywords

POLYKETIDE SYNTHASE;

ASPERGILLUS ORYZAE; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; METABOLITE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ASPERGILLUS; FUNGI;

EID: 84927509844     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00077     Document Type: Short Survey

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