Navigating the fungal polyketide chemical space: from genes to molecules

YH Chooi, Y Tang - The Journal of organic chemistry, 2012 - ACS Publications
The iterative type I polyketide synthases (IPKSs) are central to the biosynthesis of an
enormously diverse array of natural products in fungi. These natural products, known as …

Exploiting the mosaic structure of trans-acyltransferase polyketide synthases for natural product discovery and pathway dissection

TA Nguyen, K Ishida, H Jenke-Kodama… - Nature …, 2008 - nature.com
Modular polyketide synthases (PKSs) are giant bacterial enzymes that synthesize many
polyketides of therapeutic value. In contrast to PKSs that provide acyltransferase (AT) …

Comparative Genome Structure, Secondary Metabolite, and Effector Coding Capacity across Cochliobolus Pathogens

BJ Condon, Y Leng, D Wu, KE Bushley, RA Ohm… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
The genomes of five Cochliobolus heterostrophus strains, two Cochliobolus sativus strains,
three additional Cochliobolus species (Cochliobolus victoriae, Cochliobolus carbonum …

The evolution of fungal metabolic pathways

JH Wisecaver, JC Slot, A Rokas - PLoS genetics, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Fungi contain a remarkable range of metabolic pathways, sometimes encoded by gene
clusters, enabling them to digest most organic matter and synthesize an array of potent small …

Evolutionary implications of bacterial polyketide synthases

H Jenke-Kodama, A Sandmann… - Molecular biology …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Polyketide synthases (PKS) perform a stepwise biosynthesis of diverse carbon skeletons
from simple activated carboxylic acid units. The products of the complex pathways possess a …

Secondary metabolites from entomopathogenic Hypocrealean fungi

I Molnár, DM Gibson, SB Krasnoff - Natural product reports, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to the end of February 2010 This review surveys the natural products
described from entomopathogenic Hypocrealean fungi, including their structures, biological …

Two Separate Gene Clusters Encode the Biosynthetic Pathway for the Meroterpenoids Austinol and Dehydroaustinol in Aspergillus nidulans

HC Lo, R Entwistle, CJ Guo, M Ahuja… - Journal of the …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Meroterpenoids are a class of fungal natural products that are produced from polyketide and
terpenoid precursors. An understanding of meroterpenoid biosynthesis at the genetic level …

Metabolic diversity of lichen-forming ascomycetous fungi: culturing, polyketide and shikimate metabolite production, and PKS genes

E Stocker-Wörgötter - Natural product reports, 2008 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2001 to 2007 Lichens are composite and symbiotic organisms. Biologically, they
often have been interpreted as one organism (fungi and algae associated within a common …

Lateral gene transfer in eukaryotes

JO Andersson - Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences CMLS, 2005 - Springer
Lateral gene transfer–the transfer of genetic material between species–has been
acknowledged as a major mechanism in prokaryotic genome evolution for some time …

A Putative Polyketide Synthase/Peptide Synthetase from Magnaporthe grisea Signals Pathogen Attack to Resistant Rice

HU Böhnert, I Fudal, W Dioh, D Tharreau… - The Plant …, 2004 - academic.oup.com
Isolates of the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea that carry the gene encoding Avirulence
Conferring Enzyme1 (ACE1) are specifically recognized by rice (Oryza sativa) cultivars …