Carnosic acid biosynthesis elucidated by a synthetic biology platform

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 13, 2016, Pages 3681-3686

  Ignea, Codruta ^a   Athanasakoglou, Anastasia ^a   Ioannou, Efstathia ^b   Georgantea, Panagiota ^b   Trikka, Fotini A ^c   Loupassaki, Sofia ^d   Roussis, Vassilios ^b   Makris, Antonios M ^e   Kampranis, Sotirios C ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^d INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES INSTITUTE   (Greece)

^e MEDITERRANEAN AGRONOMIC INSTITUTE OF CHANIA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cytochrome P450; Metabolic engineering; Terpene; Yeast

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; CARNOSIC ACID; CYTOCHROME P450; PLANT EXTRACT; SALVIA POMIFERA EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ABIETANE DERIVATIVE; PLANT PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROSEMARY; SALVIA; SALVIA POMIFERA; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; ROSMARINUS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ANTIOXIDANTS; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CYTOCHROME P-450 ENZYME SYSTEM; DITERPENES, ABIETANE; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; PLANT PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; ROSMARINUS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SALVIA; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 84959194098     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1523787113     Document Type: Article

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