Synthetic biology of fungal natural products

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue JUL, 2015, Pages

  Mattern, Derek J ^a,b   Valiante, Vito ^c   Unkles, Shiela E ^d   Brakhage, Axel A ^a,b  

^a HANS KNÖLL INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c Leibniz Junior Research Group Biobricks of Microbial Natural Product Syntheses   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Engineering of biosynthetic enzymes; Fungal natural products; Heterologous expression; Regulation of natural products; Synthetic biology

Indexed keywords

AFLATOXIN; CRISPR ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; CYTOCHROME P450; FUNGAL NATURAL PRODUCT; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; MEVINOLIN; NATURAL PRODUCT; NONRIBOSOMAL PEPTIDE SYNTHETASE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASE; PROTEIN KINASE; RUBROFUSARIN 6 BETA GENTIOBIOSIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; FILAMENTOUS FUNGUS; GENE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PEROXISOME; PPTASE GENE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SHORT SURVEY; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; TALAROMYCES;

EUKARYOTA; FUNGI;

EID: 84938836541     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00775     Document Type: Short Survey

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