Methylation-dependent acyl transfer between polyketide synthase and nonribosomal peptide synthetase modules in fungal

Yi Zou1, Wei Xu, Yuta Tsunematsu

  • 1Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and ‡Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California , Los Angeles, California 90095, United States.

Organic Letters
|December 11, 2014
PubMed

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