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Arjo L de Boer1, Claudia Schmidt-Dannert
1Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology & Biophysics, University of Minnesota, 1479 Gortner Avenue, Saint Paul, MN 55108, USA.
Current Opinion in Chemical Biology
|April 26, 2003
Abstract:
In the process of evolution, variation and combination of basic building blocks has led to an astonishing wealth of secondary metabolites. Recently, the same evolutionary tools have been used to create novel compounds that have not been found in nature.