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Functional analysis of filipin tailoring genes from Streptomyces filipinensis reveals alternative routes in filipin III biosynthesis and yields bioactive derivatives
5 Aug 2015
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BACKGROUND: Streptomyces filipinensis is the industrial producer of filipin, a pentaene macrolide, archetype of non-glycosylated polyenes, and widely used for the detection and the quantitation of cholesterol in biological membranes and as a tool for the diagnosis of Niemann-Pick type C disease. Genetic manipulations of polyene biosynthetic pathways have proven useful for the discovery of products with improved...
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