Key Features
- This new volume continues the legacy of this premier serial
- Contains quality chapters authored by leaders in the field
- The third of 3 volumes, it has chapters on such topics as metabolic pathways in Aspergillus oryzae, heterologous gene clusters and cyanobacteria as a source of natural products
Description
This new volume of Methods in Enzymology continues the legacy of this premier serial by containing quality chapters authored by leaders in the field. The third of 3 volumes covering Natural product biosynthesis by microorganisms and plants.
Natural Product Biosynthesis by Microorganisms and Plants Part C, 1st Edition
- Methods for the study of endophytic microorganisms from Chinese traditional medicine (TCM) plants
Li-Xing Zhao, Li-Hua Xu and Cheng-Lin Jiang
Cyanobacteria as a Source of Natural Products
Martin Welker, Elke Dittmann, and Hans von Döhren
Isolating antifungals from fungus-growing ant symbionts using a genome-guided chemistry approach
Ryan F. Seipke, Sabine Grüschow, Rebecca J. M. Goss, and Matthew I. Hutchings
Gamma-butyrolactone and furan signalling systems in Streptomyces
John D. Sidda and Christophe Corre
Small molecules that mediate interspecies interactions
Mohammad R. Seyedsayamdost, Matthew F. Traxler, Jon Clardy, and Roberto Kolter
Finding and Analysing Plant Secondary Metabolic Gene Clusters
Anne Osbourn, Kalliopi K. Papadopoulou, Xiaoquan Qi, Ben Field and Eva Wegel
Genomic approaches for interrogating the biochemistry of medicinal plant species
Elsa Góngora-Castillo, Greg Fedewa, Yunsoo Yeo, Joe Chappell, Dean DellaPenna and C. Robin Buel
Phylogenetic approaches to natural product structure prediction
Nadine Ziemert and Paul R. Jensen
Using a virus-derived system to manipulate plant natural product biosynthetic pathways
Frank Sainsbury, Pooja Saxena, Katrin Geisler, Anne Osbourn and George P. Lomonossoff
DNA assembler: a synthetic biology tool for characterizing and engineering natural product gene clusters
Zengyi Shao and Huimin Zhao
Reassembly of functionally intact environmental DNA-derived biosynthetic gene clusters
Dimitris Kallifidas and Sean F. Brady
A toolkit for heterologous expression of metabolic pathways in Aspergillus oryzae
Khomaizon A. Kadir, Katherine Williams and Colin M. Lazarus
De novo synthesis of high-value sesquiterpenoids in yeast
Trinh-Don Nguyen, Gillian MacNevin and Dae-Kyun Ro
Streptomyces coelicolor as an expression host for heterologous gene clusters
Juan Pablo Gomez-Escribano and Mervyn J. Bibb
Towards awakening cryptic secondary metabolite gene clusters in filamentous fungi
Fang Yun Lim, James F. Sanchez, Clay C. C. Wang and N.P. Keller
Regulatory cross-talk and microbial induction of fungal secondary metabolite clusters
Hans-Wilhelm Nützmann, Volker Schroeckh and Axel A. Brakhage
Waking up Streptomyces secondary metabolism by genetic disruption of repressors or constitutive expression of activators
Bertrand Aigle and Christophe Corre
Use and discovery of chemical elicitors that stimulate biosynthetic gene clusters in Streptomyces bacteria
Jane M. Moore, Elizabeth Bradshaw, Ryan F. Seipke, Matt I. Hutchings and Michael McArthur
Persister eradication: lessons from the world of natural products
Iris Keren, Lawrence R. Mulcahy and Kim Lewis