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ReviewMicrobiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR2001

Biosynthesis of polyketides in heterologous hosts.

B A Pfeifer, C Khosla

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Review in Microbiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR, 2001. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 63 papers.

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63 citing papers in PubMed.

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  11. A roadmap for metagenomic enzyme discovery.Natural product reports · 2021
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

B A PfeiferDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-5025, USA.
C Khosla

Funding

BACTERIAL AROMATIC POLYKETIDE SYNTHASESR01CA077248 · NCI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI KHOSLA, CHAITAN · 1998 to 2011
$3.4M
ENGINEERED BIOSYNTHESIS OF NOVEL MACROLACTONE POLYKETIDER01CA066736 · NCI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI KHOSLA, CHAITAN · 1995 to 2008
$3.0M
NCI NIH HHS CA 66736NCI NIH HHS CA 77248NCI NIH HHS R01 CA066736NCI NIH HHS R01 CA077248
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Polyketide natural products show great promise as medicinal agents. Typically the products of microbial secondary biosynthesis, polyketides are synthesized by an evolutionarily related but architecturally diverse family of multifunctional enzymes called polyketide synthases. A principal limitation for fundamental biochemical studies of these modular megasynthases, as well as for their applications in biotechnology, is the challenge associated with manipulating the natural microorganism that produces a polyketide of interest. To ameliorate this limitation, over the past decade several genetically amenable microbes have been developed as heterologous hosts for polyketide biosynthesis. Here we review the state of the art as well as the difficulties associated with heterologous polyketide production. In particular, we focus on two model hosts, Streptomyces coelicolor and Escherichia coli. Future directions for this relatively new but growing technological opportunity are also discussed.

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BiotechnologyCarrier ProteinsEscherichia coliFungiGenetic EngineeringMultienzyme ComplexesPlantsProtein Processing, Post-TranslationalRecombinant ProteinsStreptomycesSubstrate SpecificityCarrier ProteinsMultienzyme ComplexesRecombinant Proteins

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PMID11238987
PMCPMC99020

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