Engineering of Secondary Metabolism

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 49, Issue , 2015, Pages 71-94

  O'Connor, Sarah E ^a  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Combinatorial biosynthesis; Compartmentalization; Natural product; Secondary metabolite; Synthetic biology

Indexed keywords

ARTEMISININ; BISBENZYLISOQUINOLINE ALKALOID; DITERPENE; ENZYME; ERYTHROMYCIN; GLUCOSINOLATE; INDOLE ALKALOID; ISOQUINOLINE ALKALOID; NATURAL PRODUCT; PACLITAXEL; POLYKETIDE; RETICULINE; SESQUITERPENE; STRICTOSIDINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ARTEMISININ DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYME ENGINEERING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HOST; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; NICOTIANA BENTHAMIANA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SECONDARY METABOLISM; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STREPTOMYCES; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; BACTERIUM; FUNGUS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN ENGINEERING;

ARTEMISININS; BACTERIA; ENZYMES; ERYTHROMYCIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGI; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; PACLITAXEL; PLANTS; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; SECONDARY METABOLISM; STREPTOMYCES;

EID: 84948807949     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: 15452948     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-genet-120213-092053     Document Type: Article

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