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ReviewNature reviews. Microbiology2010

New insights into the formation of fungal aromatic polyketides.

Jason M Crawford, Craig A Townsend

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Review in Nature reviews. Microbiology, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 97 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

97 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Jason M CrawfordDepartment of Biological Chemistry & Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, 240 Longwood Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
Craig A Townsend

Funding

Iterative Polyketide Synthase Function, Structure and PathwaysR01ES001670 · NIEHS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI TOWNSEND, CRAIG ARTHUR · 1985 to 2023
$9.2M
NIEHS NIH HHS ES001670NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES001670
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fungal aromatic polyketides constitute a large family of bioactive natural products and are synthesized by the non-reducing group of iterative polyketide synthases (PKSs). Their diverse structures arise from selective enzymatic modifications of reactive, enzyme-bound poly-β-keto intermediates. How iterative PKSs control starter unit selection, polyketide chain initiation and elongation, intermediate folding and cyclization, selective redox or modification reactions during assembly, and product release are central mechanistic questions underlying iterative catalysis. This Review highlights recent insights into these questions, with a particular focus on the biosynthetic programming of fungal aromatic polyketides, and draws comparisons with the allied biosynthetic processes in bacteria.

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BacteriaBiosynthetic PathwaysFungiMacrolidesPolyketide SynthasesMacrolidesPolyketide Synthases

Identifiers

PMID21079635
PMCPMC3181163

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