DESCRIPTION:
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.
CONTENTS:
1. Methods for the study of endophytic microorganisms from Chinese traditional medicine (TCM) plants
2. Cyanobacteria as a Source of Natural Products
3. Isolating antifungals from fungus-growing ant symbionts using a genome-guided chemistry approach
4. Gamma-butyrolactone and furan signalling systems in Streptomyces
5. Small molecules that mediate interspecies interactions
6. Finding and Analysing Plant Secondary Metabolic Gene Clusters
7. Genomic approaches for interrogating the biochemistry of medicinal plant species
8. Phylogenetic approaches to natural product structure prediction
9. Using a virus-derived system to manipulate plant natural product biosynthetic pathways
10. DNA assembler: a synthetic biology tool for characterizing and engineering natural product gene clusters
11. Reassembly of functionally intact environmental DNA-derived biosynthetic gene clusters
12. A toolkit for heterologous expression of metabolic pathways in Aspergillus oryzae
13. De novo synthesis of high-value sesquiterpenoids in yeast
14. Streptomyces coelicolor as an expression host for heterologous gene clusters
15. Towards awakening cryptic secondary metabolite gene clusters in filamentous fungi
16. Regulatory cross-talk and microbial induction of fungal secondary metabolite clusters
17. Waking up Streptomyces secondary metabolism by genetic disruption of repressors or constitutive expression of activators
18. Use and discovery of chemical elicitors that stimulate biosynthetic gene clusters in Streptomyces bacteria
19. Persister eradication: lessons from the world of natural products
