The epipolythiodiketopiperazine gene cluster in Claviceps purpurea: Dysfunctional cytochrome P450 enzyme prevents formation of the previously unknown clapurines

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2016, Pages

  Dopstadt, Julian ^a   Neubauer, Lisa ^a   Tudzynski, Paul ^a   Humpf, Hans Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME P450; DITHIOCLAPURINE; EPIPOLYTHIODIKETOPIPERAZINE TOXIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; MYCOTOXIN; TETRATHIOCLAPURINE; TRITHIOCLAPURINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; EPIPOLYTHIODIKETOPIPERAZINE; PIPERAZINE DERIVATIVE; PURINE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BOND; CLAVICEPS PURPUREA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISULFIDE BOND; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HYDROXYLATION; LEPTOSPHAERIA MACULANS; MALE PLANT; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLITE; NITROGEN SULFUR BOND; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SIRC GENE; TOXIN SYNTHESIS; UPREGULATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; CLAVICEPS; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYSIOLOGY;

CLAVICEPS; CYTOCHROME P-450 ENZYME SYSTEM; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PIPERAZINES; PURINES;

EID: 84978828809     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0158945     Document Type: Article

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