Marine Bacterial Aromatic Polyketides From Host-Dependent Heterologous Expression and Fungal Mode of Cyclization

Chunshuai Huang1,2, Chunfang Yang1, Yiguang Zhu1

  • 1CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Marine Materia Medica, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, RNAM Center for Marine Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China.

Frontiers in Chemistry
|November 15, 2018
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