Analysis of the cercosporin polyketide synthase CTB1 reveals a new fungal thioesterase function.
Adam G Newman, Anna L Vagstad, Katherine Belecki, Jonathan R Scheerer, Craig A Townsend
Index: Chem. Commun. (Camb.) 48(96) , 11772-4, (2012)
Full Text: HTML
Abstract
The polyketide synthase CTB1 is demonstrated to catalyze pyrone formation thereby expanding the known biosynthetic repertoire of thioesterase domains in iterative, non-reducing polyketide synthases.
Related Compounds
Related Articles:
2013-01-01
[BMC Plant Biol. 13 , 50, (2013)]
Antiproliferative activity of epi-cercosporin in human solid tumor cell lines.
2013-02-01
[Nat. Prod. Commun. 8(2) , 187-9, (2013)]
Reactive oxygen species in plant pathogenesis: the role of perylenequinone photosensitizers.
2013-09-20
[Antioxid. Redox Signal. 19(9) , 970-89, (2013)]
2007-05-01
[Fungal Genet. Biol. 44(5) , 444-54, (2007)]
Expression of the yeast cpd1 gene in tobacco confers resistance to the fungal toxin cercosporin.
2007-05-01
[Biomol. Eng. 24(2) , 245-51, (2007)]