Natural Product Biosynthetic Diversity and Comparative Genomics of the Cyanobacteria

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 642-652

  Dittmann, Elke ^a   Gugger, Muriel ^b   Sivonen, Kaarina ^c   Fewer, David P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cyanobacteria; Diversity; Drug discovery; Evolution; Genome mining; Genomics; Natural products

Indexed keywords

CYANOBACTIN; INDOLE ALKALOID; MICROVIRIDIN; MYCOSPORINE LIKE AMINO ACID; NATURAL PRODUCT; NONRIBOSOMAL PEPTIDE SYNTHETASE; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASE; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; SCYTONEMIN; TERPENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCT;

BACTERIAL GENOME; BIODIVERSITY; BIOSYNTHESIS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CYANOBACTERIUM; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME MINING; GENOMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES;

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTS; CYANOBACTERIA; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS;

EID: 84943628633     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: 18784380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2015.07.008     Document Type: Review

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