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Kenneth C Ehrlich1, Beverly Montalbano, Stephen M Boué, Deepak Bhatnagar.
Abstract
Disruption of the aflatoxin biosynthesis cluster gene aflY (hypA) gave Aspergillus parasiticus transformants that accumulated versicolorin A. This gene is predicted to encode the Baeyer-Villiger oxidase necessary for formation of the xanthone ring of the aflatoxin precursor demethylsterigmatocystin.Entities:
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Year: 2005 PMID: 16332900 PMCID: PMC1317430 DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.12.8963-8965.2005
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Appl Environ Microbiol ISSN: 0099-2240 Impact factor: 4.792