Natural Product Biosynthesis by Microorganisms and Plants Part B

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 second of 3 volumes covering Natural product biosynthesis by microorganisms and plants. This new volume continues the legacy of this premier serialContains quality chapters authored by leaders in the field The second of 3 volumes it has chapters on such topics as biological chlorination, bromination and iodination, and phylogenetic approaches to natural product structure prediction INDICE: In vivo production of thiopeptide variantsMicroviridin biosynthesisCyclotide isolation and characterizationRibosomally-encoded cyclic peptide toxins from mushroomsThe Pictet-Spengler mechanism involved in the biosynthesis of tetrahydroisoquinoline antitumor antibiotics: novel function for a non-ribosomal peptide synthetaseDiscovery and biosynthesis of phosphonate and phosphinate natural productsRlmN and AtsB as models for the overproduction and characterization of radical SAM proteins Fe(II)-dependent, uridine-5'-monophosphate a-ketoglutarate dioxygenases in the synthesis of 5'-modified nucleosidesHeme-dependent Tailoring Enzymes in Natural Product Biosynthesis: Spectroscopic Characterisation of the L-tryptophan-nitrating Cytochrome P450 TxtEOxidative Tailoring Reactions Catalysed by Non-heme Iron-dependent Enzymes: Streptorubin B Biosynthesis as an ExampleThe rare fluorinated natural products and biotechnological prospects for fluorine enzymologyEnzymatic chlorination and brominationPrenyltransferases of the dimethylallyltryptophan synthase superfamilySerine carboxypeptidase-like acyltransferases from plants4-Methylideneimidazole-5-one-containing aminomutases in enediyne biosynthesisTailoring enzymes acting on carrier protein-tethered substrates in natural product biosynthesisHigh-throughput colorimetric assays for nucleotide sugar formation and glycosyl transfer

• ISBN: 978-0-12-394291-3
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 462
• Fecha Publicación: 03/12/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés