Plug-and-Play Benzylisoquinoline Alkaloid Biosynthetic Gene Discovery in Engineered Yeast

Methods in Enzymology

Volumn 575, Issue , 2016, Pages 143-178

  Morris, J S ^a   Dastmalchi, M ^a   Li, J ^a   Chang, L ^a   Chen, X ^a   Hagel, J M ^a   Facchini, P J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Benzylisoquinoline alkaloid; Biochemical genomics; High resolution liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry

Indexed keywords

BISBENZYLISOQUINOLINE ALKALOID; REAGENT; RECOMBINANT ENZYME; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SOLVENT; TRANSCRIPTOME; ALKALOID; BENZYLISOQUINOLINE DERIVATIVE; PLANT PROTEIN;

ANALYTIC METHOD; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CLONING; DEVICES; DNA SEQUENCE; FEEDING; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; FUNGAL CELL CULTURE; GENE; IN VITRO STUDY; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; PLANT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RNA EXTRACTION; SCREENING; SOFTWARE; TISSUES; TRANSIENT EXPRESSION; YEAST; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; METABOLISM; PLANT GENE; PROCEDURES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ALKALOIDS; BENZYLISOQUINOLINES; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; GENES, PLANT; GENOMICS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTOME; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84964258842     PISSN: 00766879     EISSN: 15577988     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/bs.mie.2016.03.023     Document Type: Chapter

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