Natural Product Biosynthesis by Microorganisms and Plants Part C

Edited by

David Hopwood, John Innes Centre and AFRC Institute of Plant Science Research, Norwich, UK

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.

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Hardbound, 512 Pages

Published: November 2012

Imprint: Academic Press

ISBN: 978-0-12-404634-4

1. Methods for the study of endophytic microorganisms from Chinese traditional medicine (TCM) plants
  Li-Xing Zhao, Li-Hua Xu and Cheng-Lin Jiang
2. Cyanobacteria as a Source of Natural Products
  Martin Welker, Elke Dittmann, and Hans von Döhren
3. 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
4. Gamma-butyrolactone and furan signalling systems in Streptomyces
  John D. Sidda and Christophe Corre
5. Small molecules that mediate interspecies interactions
  Mohammad R. Seyedsayamdost, Matthew F. Traxler, Jon Clardy, and Roberto Kolter
6. Finding and Analysing Plant Secondary Metabolic Gene Clusters
  Anne Osbourn, Kalliopi K. Papadopoulou, Xiaoquan Qi, Ben Field and Eva Wegel
7. 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
8. Phylogenetic approaches to natural product structure prediction
  Nadine Ziemert and Paul R. Jensen
9. Using a virus-derived system to manipulate plant natural product biosynthetic pathways
  Frank Sainsbury, Pooja Saxena, Katrin Geisler, Anne Osbourn and George P. Lomonossoff
10. DNA assembler: a synthetic biology tool for characterizing and engineering natural product gene clusters
  Zengyi Shao and Huimin Zhao
11. Reassembly of functionally intact environmental DNA-derived biosynthetic gene clusters
  Dimitris Kallifidas and Sean F. Brady
12. A toolkit for heterologous expression of metabolic pathways in Aspergillus oryzae
  Khomaizon A. Kadir, Katherine Williams and Colin M. Lazarus
13. De novo synthesis of high-value sesquiterpenoids in yeast
  Trinh-Don Nguyen, Gillian MacNevin and Dae-Kyun Ro
14. Streptomyces coelicolor as an expression host for heterologous gene clusters
  Juan Pablo Gomez-Escribano and Mervyn J. Bibb
15. Towards awakening cryptic secondary metabolite gene clusters in filamentous fungi
  Fang Yun Lim, James F. Sanchez, Clay C. C. Wang and N.P. Keller
16. Regulatory cross-talk and microbial induction of fungal secondary metabolite clusters
  Hans-Wilhelm Nützmann, Volker Schroeckh and Axel A. Brakhage
17. Waking up Streptomyces secondary metabolism by genetic disruption of repressors or constitutive expression of activators
  Bertrand Aigle and Christophe Corre
18. 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
19. Persister eradication: lessons from the world of natural products
  Iris Keren, Lawrence R. Mulcahy and Kim Lewis

Natural Product Biosynthesis by Microorganisms and Plants Part C

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