Biosynthesis of nonribosomal peptides

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 58, Issue , 2004, Pages 453-488

  Finking, Robert ^a   Marahiel, Mohamed A ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

4 phosphopantetheinyl transferases; Biosynthetic strategies; Hybrid genes; Nonribosomal peptide synthetases; Tailoring enzymes

Indexed keywords

4' PHOSPHOPANTETHEINYL TRANSFERASE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; FATTY ACID SYNTHASE; FUNGAL ENZYME; HYBRID PROTEIN; NONRIBOSOMAL PEPTIDE SYNTHETASE; PEPTIDE; PEPTIDE SYNTHASE; PEPTIDYL CARRIER PROTEIN; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASE; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; THIOL ESTER HYDROLASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CARRIER PROTEIN; MULTIENZYME COMPLEX;

ADENYLATION DOMAIN; BACTERIUM; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONDENSATION DOMAIN; CORE DOMAIN; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DRUG ACTIVITY; ENZYME HYBRIDIZATION; FUNGUS; NONHUMAN; NRPS DOMAIN; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; RNA EDITING; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TAILORING DOMAIN; THIOESTERASE DOMAIN; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONRIBOSOMAL PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CARRIER PROTEINS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; PEPTIDE BIOSYNTHESIS, NUCLEIC ACID-INDEPENDENT; PEPTIDE SYNTHASES; PEPTIDES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 9244234513     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.58.030603.123615     Document Type: Review

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