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Wenjun Zhang1, Kenji Watanabe, Xiaolu Cai

  • 1Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA.

Journal of the American Chemical Society
|April 22, 2008
PubMed
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研究者は,アンヒドロテトラサイクリン (ATC) 生物合成のための最小の酵素セット (OxyL,OxyQ,OxyT) を特定しました. この発見により,新型のテトラサイクリン類似剤の製造が可能になる.

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