Defining the Product Chemical Space of Monoterpenoid Synthases

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2016, Pages

  Tian, Boxue ^a,b   Poulter, C Dale ^c   Jacobson, Matthew P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPIDS; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM;

CARBOCATIONS; CARBON SKELETON; CHEMICAL SPACE; COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH; ENZYME FUNCTIONS; FUNCTION PREDICTION; MONOTERPENOIDS; NATURAL PRODUCTS; SYNTHASES; TERPENOIDS;

ENZYMES;

DITERPENE; MONOTERPENOID SYNTHASE; SESQUITERPENE; SESTERTERPENE; TERPENE; TERPENOID DERIVATIVE; TRITERPENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; TERPENE SYNTHASE; TRANSFERASE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PREDICTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STEREOCHEMISTRY; VALIDATION STUDY; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR MODEL;

ALKYL AND ARYL TRANSFERASES; CHEMISTRY, PHARMACEUTICAL; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MONOTERPENES;

EID: 84988972584     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005053     Document Type: Article

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