Accessing Nature's diversity through metabolic engineering and synthetic biology

F1000Research

Volumn 5, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Stephanopoulos, Gregory ^a   King, Jason R ^a   Edgar, Steven ^a   Qiao, Kangjian ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CALICHEAMICIN; EPIRUBICIN; GERANYLGERANYL PYROPHOSPHATE; ISOPRENOID; LEVODOPA; LEVOPIMARADIENE SYNTHASE; MEVALONIC ACID; NONRIBOSOMAL PEPTIDE SYNTHETASE; PACLITAXEL; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASE; SYNTHETASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN;

ARTEMISIA ANNUA; ARTICLE; BACILLUS LICHENIFORMIS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BIOLOGICAL RETROSYNTHESIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DERIVATIZATION; DIVERSIFICATION; ENZYME ENGINEERING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERMENTATION; IN VIVO STUDY; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROBIOSYNTHESIS; STEREOCHEMISTRY; STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES HALSTEDII; STREPTOMYCES HYGROSCOPICUS; STREPTOMYCES PEUCETIUS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 84964690926     PISSN: 20461402     EISSN: 1759796X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.7311.1     Document Type: Article

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