[HTML][HTML] Phylogenetic study of polyketide synthases and nonribosomal peptide synthetases involved in the biosynthesis of mycotoxins

A Gallo, M Ferrara, G Perrone - Toxins, 2013 - mdpi.com
Polyketide synthase (PKSs) and nonribosomal peptide synthetase (NRPSs) are large
multimodular enzymes involved in biosynthesis of polyketide and peptide toxins produced …

Insect-specific polyketide synthases (PKSs), potential PKS-nonribosomal peptide synthetase hybrids, and novel PKS clades in tropical fungi

A Amnuaykanjanasin, S Phonghanpot… - Applied and …, 2009 - Am Soc Microbiol
Polyketides draw much attention because of their potential use in pharmaceutical and
biotechnological applications. This study identifies an abundant pool of polyketide synthase …

Multiple hybrid polyketide synthase/non-ribosomal peptide synthetase gene clusters in the myxobacterium Stigmatella aurantiaca

B Silakowski, B Kunze, R Müller - Gene, 2001 - Elsevier
Many bacterial and fungal secondary metabolites are produced by polyketide synthases
(PKS) and non-ribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPS). Recently, it has been discovered …

Advances in cloning, functional analysis and heterologous expression of fungal polyketide synthase genes

J Schümann, C Hertweck - Journal of biotechnology, 2006 - Elsevier
Fungal polyketides comprise a diverse group of secondary metabolites that play an
important role for drug discovery, as pigments, and as mycotoxins. Their biosynthesis is …

[HTML][HTML] Functional analysis of fungal polyketide biosynthesis genes

I Fujii - The Journal of Antibiotics, 2010 - nature.com
Fungal polyketides have huge structural diversity from simple aromatics to highly modified
complex reduced-type compounds. Despite such diversty, single modular iterative type I …

Bioactive compounds synthesized by non-ribosomal peptide synthetases and type-I polyketide synthases discovered through genome-mining and metagenomics

K Nikolouli, D Mossialos - Biotechnology letters, 2012 - Springer
Non-ribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPS) and type-I polyketide synthases (PKS-I) are
multimodular enzymes involved in biosynthesis of oligopeptide and polyketide secondary …

Diversity of polyketide synthase gene sequences in Aspergillus species

J Varga, K Rigó, S Kocsubé, B Farkas, K Pál - Research in Microbiology, 2003 - Elsevier
Fungal polyketide synthases are responsible for the biosynthesis of several mycotoxins and
other secondary metabolites. The aim of our work was to investigate the diversity of …

Polyketide synthases and nonribosomal peptide synthetases: the emerging view from bacterial genomics

S Donadio, P Monciardini, M Sosio - Natural product reports, 2007 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: bacterial genome sequences to 2005 and post-genomic literature to June 2006 A
total of 223 complete bacterial genomes are analyzed, with 281 citations, for the presence of …

Type III polyketide synthases in natural product biosynthesis

D Yu, F Xu, J Zeng, J Zhan - IUBMB life, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Polyketides represent an important class of biologically active and structurally diverse
compounds in nature. They are synthesized from acyl‐coenzyme A substrates by polyketide …

[HTML][HTML] Classification, prediction, and verification of the regioselectivity of fungal polyketide synthase product template domains

Y Li, W Xu, Y Tang - The Journal of biological chemistry, 2010 - ASBMB
The fungal iterative nonreducing polyketide synthases (NRPKSs) synthesize aromatic
polyketides, many of which have important biological activities. The product template …