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Complex Enzymes in Microbial Natural Product Biosynthesis, Part B: Polyketides, Aminocoumarins and Carbohydrates
1st Edition, Volume 459 - April 11, 2009
Editor: David A. Hopwood
Language: English
Hardback ISBN:9780123745910
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eBook ISBN:9780080923369
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Microbial natural products have been an important traditional source of valuable antibiotics and other drugs but interest in them waned in the 1990s when big pharma decided that…Read more
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Microbial natural products have been an important traditional source of valuable antibiotics and other drugs but interest in them waned in the 1990s when big pharma decided that their discovery was no longer cost-effective and concentrated instead on synthetic chemistry as a source of novel compounds, often with disappointing results. Moreover understanding the biosynthesis of complex natural products was frustratingly difficult. With the development of molecular genetic methods to isolate and manipulate the complex microbial enzymes that make natural products, unexpected chemistry has been revealed and interest in the compounds has again flowered. This two-volume treatment of the subject will showcase the most important chemical classes of complex natural products: the peptides, made by the assembly of short chains of amino acid subunits, and the polyketides, assembled from the joining of small carboxylic acids such as acetate and malonate. In both classes, variation in sub-unit structure, number and chemical modification leads to an almost infinite variety of final structures, accounting for the huge importance of the compounds in nature and medicine.
Gathers tried and tested methods and techniques from top players in the field
Provides an extremely useful reference for the experienced research scientist
Covers biosynthesis of Polyketides, Tarpenoids, Aminocoumarins and Crabohydrates
Researchers in cell, molecular and developmental biology; biochemists, pharmacologists, geneticists.
Macrolides as a paradigm Macrolides - skipping and stuttering of modules Trans-AT class Polyethers Polyenes Polyketides in mycobacteria Docking of subunits Novel polyketides by genetic engineering De novo synthesis of pathway genes Precursor biosynthesis
B) Type II
In vitro analysis and engineering of novel compounds Bacterial fatty acid biosynthesis
C) Type III
In vitro / in vivo biochemical studies Structural studies
Part 2: Terpenoids
Enzymology and structural biology of terpenoid biosynthesis
Part 3: Aminocoumarins
Part 4: Carbohydrates
Aminoglycosides Deoxysugar biosynthesis
No. of pages: 398
Language: English
Edition: 1
Volume: 459
Published: April 11, 2009
Imprint: Academic Press
Hardback ISBN: 9780123745910
eBook ISBN: 9780080923369
DH
David A. Hopwood
Affiliations and expertise
John Innes Centre and AFRC Institute of Plant Science Research, Norwich, UK
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