Polyketides. Biosynthesis, Biological Activity, and Genetic Engineering

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Content: A plethora of polyketides: Structures, biological activities, and enzymes / S. R. Baerson ... [et al.] -- Hygromycin a biosynthesis / N. Palaniappan ... [et al.] -- The biosynthesis of polyketides, tetramic acids, and pyridones in fungi / R. J. Cox -- Searching for polyketides in insect pathogenic fungi / D. M. Gibson ... [et al.] -- Polyketide biosynthesis in fungi / K. C. Ehrlich -- Biochemical and molecular analysis of the biosynthesis of fumonisins / L. Du ... [et al.] -- Benzoic acid-specific type III polyketide synthases / L. Beerhues ... [et al.] -- Engineered biosynthesis of plant polyketides: Chain length control in novel type III polyketide synthases / I. Abe -- Expression and function of aromatic polyketide synthase genes in raspberries (Rubus idaeus) / G. Hrazdina ... [et al.] -- Molecular and biochemical characterization of novel polyketide synthases likely to be involved in the biosynthesis of sorgoleone / D. Cook ... [et al.] -- Polyketide biosynthesis beyond the type I, II, and III polyketide synthase paradigms: A progress report / B. Shen ... [et al.] -- Structural enzymology of aromatic polyketide synthase / T. P. Korman ... [et al.] -- Mechanisms of type iii polyketide synthase functional diversity: From 'steric modulation' to the 'reaction partitioning' model / M. B. Austin ... [et al.] -- Novel polyketides from genetic engineering (... and lessons we have learned from making them) / L. Katz ... [et al.] -- Biosynthesis of the antifungal polyketide antibiotic soraphen a in Sorangium cellulosum and Streptomyces lividans / I. Molnar ... [et al.] -- Engineering starter units in aromatic polyketides / W. Zhang ... [et al.] -- Aspergillus flavus genomics for discovering genes involved in aflatoxin biosynthesis / J. Yu ... [et al.]

Author(s): Agnes M. Rimando and Scott R. Baerson (Eds.)
Series: ACS Symposium Series 955
Publisher: American Chemical Society
Year: 2007

Language: English
Pages: 281