Mining the Metabiome: Identifying Novel Natural Products from Microbial Communities

Chemistry & Biology - Tập 21 Số 9 - Trang 1211-1223 - 2014
Aleksandr Milshteyn1, Joel P. Schneider1, Sean F. Brady2
1Laboratory of Genetically Encoded Small Molecules, Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA
2Laboratory of Genetically Encoded Small Molecules, Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].

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