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A Genetic and Chemical Perspective on Symbiotic Recruitment of Cyanobacteria of the Genus Nostoc into the Host Plant Blasia pusilla L

scientific article (publication date: 2016)

A Type II Polyketide Synthase from the Gram-Negative BacteriumStigmatella aurantiaca Is Involved in Aurachin Alkaloid Biosynthesis

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A community resource for paired genomic and metabolomic data mining

scientific article published in 2021

A mannan binding lectin is involved in cell-cell attachment in a toxic strain of Microcystis aeruginosa

scientific article published in February 2006

A new rubisco-like protein coexists with a photosynthetic rubisco in the planktonic cyanobacteria Microcystis

scientific article published on 31 May 2006

A polyketide interferes with cellular differentiation in the symbiotic cyanobacterium Nostoc punctiforme

An extracellular glycoprotein is implicated in cell-cell contacts in the toxic cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa PCC 7806.

scientific article published on 15 February 2008

Bacterial type III polyketide synthases: phylogenetic analysis and potential for the production of novel secondary metabolites by heterologous expression in pseudomonads

scientific article published on 5 January 2006

Biochemical Dissection of the Natural Diversification of Microcystin Provides Lessons for Synthetic Biology of NRPS.

scientific article published in April 2016

Bioinformatic perspectives on NRPS/PKS megasynthases: advances and challenges

scientific article published on 7 April 2009

Biosynthesis and function of extracellular glycans in cyanobacteria

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Biosynthesis and structure of aeruginoside 126A and 126B, cyanobacterial peptide glycosides bearing a 2-carboxy-6-hydroxyoctahydroindole moiety

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Casting a net: fibres produced by Microcystis sp. in field and laboratory populations

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Combinatorial polyketide biosynthesis at higher stage

scientific article published on 22 November 2005

Cyanobacteria as a source of natural products

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Cyanobacterial toxins--occurrence, biosynthesis and impact on human affairs.

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Cyanobacterial toxins: biosynthetic routes and evolutionary roots

scientific article published on 10 October 2012

Cyanobakterielle Toxine — von der Biosynthese zur Funktion

Deciphering Chemical Mediators Regulating Specialized Metabolism in a Symbiotic Cyanobacterium

scientific article published on 11 April 2022

Distribution of microcystin-producing and non-microcystin-producing Microcystis sp. in European freshwater bodies: detection of microcystins and microcystin genes in individual colonies

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Diversity of microcystin genes within a population of the toxic cyanobacterium Microcystis spp. in Lake Wannsee (Berlin, Germany).

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Effects of cell-bound microcystins on survival and feeding of Daphnia spp

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Environmental conditions that influence toxin biosynthesis in cyanobacteria

scientific article published on 20 March 2012

Evolution of metabolic diversity: insights from microbial polyketide synthases

scientific article published on 18 July 2009

Evolutionary implications of bacterial polyketide synthases

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Evolutionary mechanisms underlying secondary metabolite diversity

scientific article published on January 2008

Exploiting the mosaic structure of trans-acyltransferase polyketide synthases for natural product discovery and pathway dissection

scientific article published on 27 January 2008

Exploiting the natural diversity of microviridin gene clusters for discovery of novel tricyclic depsipeptides

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Functional analysis of environmental DNA-derived microviridins provides new insights into the diversity of the tricyclic peptide family

scientific article published on 13 December 2013

Functional assessment of mycosporine-like amino acids in Microcystis aeruginosa strain PCC 7806.

scientific article published on 27 August 2014

Genetic contributions to the risk assessment of microcystin in the environment

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Harnessing the evolvability of tricyclic microviridins to dissect protease-inhibitor interactions

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Highly plastic genome of Microcystis aeruginosa PCC 7806, a ubiquitous toxic freshwater cyanobacterium

scientific article (publication date: 5 June 2008)

Horizontal gene transfer of two cytoskeletal elements from a eukaryote to a cyanobacterium.

scientific article published in September 2007

Inactivation of an ABC transporter gene, mcyH, results in loss of microcystin production in the cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa PCC 7806.

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Insights into the physiology and ecology of the brackish-water-adapted Cyanobacterium Nodularia spumigena CCY9414 based on a genome-transcriptome analysis

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Leader Peptide-Free In Vitro Reconstitution of Microviridin Biosynthesis Enables Design of Synthetic Protease-Targeted Libraries

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Leader peptide and a membrane protein scaffold guide the biosynthesis of the tricyclic peptide microviridin.

scientific article published in November 2011

Light and the transcriptional response of the microcystin biosynthesis gene cluster.

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Metabolomic analysis indicates a pivotal role of the hepatotoxin microcystin in high light adaptation of Microcystis

scientific article published on 20 August 2014

Microcyclamide biosynthesis in two strains of Microcystis aeruginosa: from structure to genes and vice versa

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Microcystin biosynthesis in planktothrix: genes, evolution, and manipulation

scientific article published on January 2003

Microcystin production revisited: conjugate formation makes a major contribution

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Microvirin, a novel alpha(1,2)-mannose-specific lectin isolated from Microcystis aeruginosa, has anti-HIV-1 activity comparable with that of cyanovirin-N but a much higher safety profile

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Molecular biology of peptide and polyketide biosynthesis in cyanobacteria.

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Multiple alternate transcripts direct the biosynthesis of microcystin, a cyanobacterial nonribosomal peptide

scientific article published on February 2002

Natural Product Biosynthetic Diversity and Comparative Genomics of the Cyanobacteria

scientific article published on October 2015

Natural biocombinatorics in the polyketide synthase genes of the actinobacterium Streptomyces avermitilis

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Natural product biosyntheses in cyanobacteria: A treasure trove of unique enzymes.

scientific article published on 5 December 2011

New developments in RiPP discovery, enzymology and engineering

scientific article published on 16 September 2020

Non-canonical localization of RubisCO under high-light conditions in the toxic cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa PCC7806

scientific article published on 10 November 2019

Non-colinear polyketide biosynthesis in the aureothin and neoaureothin pathways: an evolutionary perspective

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Nonribosomal peptide synthetase genes occur in most cyanobacterial genera as evidenced by their distribution in axenic strains of the PCC.

scientific article published on 27 September 2001

Nostopeptolide plays a governing role during cellular differentiation of the symbiotic cyanobacterium Nostoc punctiforme

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Phylogenomic Analysis of the Microviridin Biosynthetic Pathway Coupled with Targeted Chemo-Enzymatic Synthesis Yields Potent Protease Inhibitors

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Plasticity and evolution of aeruginosin biosynthesis in cyanobacteria

scientific article published on 05 February 2009

Prerequisites of Isopeptide Bond Formation in Microcystin Biosynthesis

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Protective tunicate endosymbiont with extreme genome reduction

scientific article published in 2015

Ribosomal synthesis of tricyclic depsipeptides in bloom-forming cyanobacteria

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Ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptide natural products: overview and recommendations for a universal nomenclature

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Salt Shock Responses of Microcystis Revealed through Physiological, Transcript, and Metabolomic Analyses

scientific article published on 18 March 2020

Structural organization of microcystin biosynthesis in Microcystis aeruginosa PCC7806: an integrated peptide-polyketide synthetase system.

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Synergistic in vitro anti-HIV type 1 activity of tenofovir with carbohydrate-binding agents (CBAs).

scientific article published on 8 April 2011

Tailoring Enzyme Stringency Masks the Multispecificity of a Lyngbyatoxin (Indolactam Alkaloid) Nonribosomal Peptide Synthetase

scientific article published in 2021

The cyanobacterial hepatotoxin microcystin binds to proteins and increases the fitness of microcystis under oxidative stress conditions

scientific article published on 18 March 2011

The genetics, biosynthesis and regulation of toxic specialized metabolites of cyanobacteria

scientific article published on April 2016

The languages spoken in the water body (or the biological role of cyanobacterial toxins)

scientific article published on 18 April 2012

The mcyF gene of the microcystin biosynthetic gene cluster from Microcystis aeruginosa encodes an aspartate racemase

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The microcystin composition of the cyanobacterium Planktothrix agardhii changes toward a more toxic variant with increasing light intensity

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Towards clarification of the biological role of microcystins, a family of cyanobacterial toxins.

scientific article published in April 2007

Transcriptomics-aided dissection of the intracellular and extracellular roles of microcystin in Microcystis aeruginosa PCC 7806.

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Unique Biosynthetic Pathway in Bloom-Forming Cyanobacterial Genus Microcystis Jointly Assembles Cytotoxic Aeruginoguanidines and Microguanidines

scientific article published on 28 December 2018

Unique properties of eukaryote-type actin and profilin horizontally transferred to cyanobacteria

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Unlocking the Spatial Control of Secondary Metabolism Uncovers Hidden Natural Product Diversity in Nostoc punctiforme

scientific article published on 24 May 2019

Variation between strains of the cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa isolated from a Portuguese river.

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