Unraveling polyketide synthesis in members of the genus Aspergillus

YM Chiang, BR Oakley, NP Keller… - Applied microbiology and …, 2010 - Springer
Aspergillus species have the ability to produce a wide range of secondary metabolites
including polyketides that are generated by multi-domain polyketide synthases (PKSs) …

New PCR primers for the screening of NRPS and PKS-I systems in actinomycetes: detection and distribution of these biosynthetic gene sequences in major taxonomic …

A Ayuso-Sacido, O Genilloud - Microbial ecology, 2005 - Springer
Nonribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPS) and type I polyketide synthases (PKS-I) are
biosynthetic systems involved in the synthesis of a large number of important biologically …

Diversity of type I polyketide synthase genes in the wood-decay fungus Xylaria sp. BCC 1067

A Amnuaykanjanasin, J Punya… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Fungal type I polyketide (PK) compounds are highly valuable for medical treatment and
extremely diverse in structure, partly because of the enzymatic activities of reducing domains …

[HTML][HTML] Predicting the chemical space of fungal polyketides by phylogeny-based bioinformatics analysis of polyketide synthase-nonribosomal peptide synthetase and …

A Minami, T Ugai, T Ozaki, H Oikawa - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Fungal polyketide synthase (PKS)–nonribosomal peptide synthetase (NRPS) hybrids are
key enzymes for synthesizing structurally diverse hybrid natural products (NPs) with …

Molecular diversity sculpted by fungal PKS–NRPS hybrids

D Boettger, C Hertweck - ChemBioChem, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Fungal polyketide synthase–nonribosomal peptide synthetase (PKS–NRPS) hybrids
manufacture a wide range of structurally diverse secondary metabolites that play an eminent …

Analysis of Intact and Dissected Fungal Polyketide Synthase-Nonribosomal Peptide Synthetase in Vitro and in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

W Xu, X Cai, ME Jung, Y Tang - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2010 - ACS Publications
The widely found fungal iterative PKS-NRPS hybrid megasynthetases are highly
programmed biosynthetic machines involved in the synthesis of 3-acyltetramic acids and …

[HTML][HTML] Evolutionary histories of type III polyketide synthases in fungi

JC Navarro-Muñoz, J Collemare - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Type III polyketide synthases (PKSs) produce secondary metabolites with diverse biological
activities, including antimicrobials. While they have been extensively studied in plants and …

Fungal type III polyketide synthases

M Hashimoto, T Nonaka, I Fujii - Natural Product Reports, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2005 to 2014 This article covers the literature on fungal type III polyketide
synthases (PKSs) published from 2005 to 2014. Since the first discovery of fungal type III …

Polyketide and non-ribosomal peptide synthases: falling together by coming apart

CR Hutchinson - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2003 - National Acad Sciences
Microorganisms have invented many devious ways to thwart their foes and survive in
adverse environments. Non-motile microbes, especially ones that inhabit soil and marine …

[HTML][HTML] Aryl-aldehyde formation in fungal polyketides: discovery and characterization of a distinct biosynthetic mechanism

M Wang, M Beissner, H Zhao - Chemistry & biology, 2014 - cell.com
Aryl-aldehydes are a common feature in fungal polyketides, which are considered to be
exclusively generated by the R domain of nonreducing polyketide synthases (NR-PKSs) …