Natural products from filamentous fungi and production by heterologous expression

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 493-500

  Alberti, Fabrizio ^a   Foster, Gary D ^b   Bailey, Andy M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fungi; Gene clusters; Heterologous expression; Natural products; Secondary metabolites

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOMOLECULES; BIOSYNTHESIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; FUNGI; GENE EXPRESSION;

COST-EFFECTIVE APPROACH; GENE CLUSTERS; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; HETEROLOGOUS PRODUCTION; NATURAL PRODUCTS; NATURALLY OCCURRING; SECONDARY METABOLITES; UNICELLULAR ORGANISMS;

METABOLITES;

NATURAL PRODUCT; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCT; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

AGROCHEMICAL; BIOACTIVITY; COMPLEXITY; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HETEROGENEITY; NATURAL RESOURCE; SECONDARY METABOLITE;

BIOSYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FILAMENTOUS FUNGUS; GENE CLUSTER; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; HOST; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; YEAST; BIOTECHNOLOGY; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHARMACEUTICS; PROCEDURES;

FUNGI;

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTS; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FUNGI; GENE EXPRESSION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TECHNOLOGY, PHARMACEUTICAL;

EID: 85004115725     PISSN: 01757598     EISSN: 14320614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00253-016-8034-2     Document Type: Review

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