Redundant synthesis of a conidial polyketide by two distinct secondary metabolite clusters in Aspergillus fumigatus

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 246-259

  Throckmorton, Kurt ^a   Lim, Fang Yun ^a   Kontoyiannis, Dimitrios P ^b   Zheng, Weifa ^a,c   Keller, Nancy P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c JIANGSU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHRACENE DERIVATIVE; ANTHRONE; CARBOXYLYASE; ENDOCROCIN; OXIDOREDUCTASE; POLYKETIDE; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASE;

ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; FUNGUS SPORE; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MULTIGENE FAMILY;

ANTHRACENES; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CARBOXY-LYASES; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OXIDOREDUCTASES; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASES; POLYKETIDES; SEQUENCE DELETION; SPORES, FUNGAL;

EID: 84956586423     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.13007     Document Type: Article

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