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Org. Biomol. Chem., 2008, 6, 1895 - 1897, DOI: 10.1039/b804701d


Epigenetic remodeling of the fungal secondary metabolome

Russell B. Williams, Jon C. Henrikson, Ashley R. Hoover, Andrlynn E. Lee and Robert H. Cichewicz


Fungi treated with DNA methyltransferase and histone deacetylase inhibitors exhibited natural product profiles with enhanced chemical diversity demonstrating that small-molecule epigenetic modifiers are effective tools for rationally controlling the native expression of fungal biosynthetic pathways and generating new biomolecules.

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