The optimization of penicillin biosynthesis in fungi.

doi:10.1016/s0167-7799(98)01229-3

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The optimization of penicillin biosynthesis in fungi.

Trends in biotechnology - 1 Nov 1998

Peñalva M A, Rowlands R T, Turner G

Abstract excerpt

Penicillin production by Penicillium chrysogenum is not only commercially important but arguably the most intensively investigated secondary-metabolic pathway in fungi. Isolation of the structural genes encoding the three main penicillin-biosynthetic enzymes has stimulated the use of molecular ap...

Topics

Aspergillus nidulans
Gene Expression Regulation, Fungal
Mutation
Oxidation-Reduction
Penicillins
Penicillium chrysogenum
Species Specificity

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