AVANÇOS RECENTES EM BIOSSÍNTESE COMBINATÓRIA DE POLICETÍDEOS: PERSPECTIVAS E DESAFIOS

Natural products continue to inspire scientists on the search for biological active structures. Recent advances in synthetic biology allow modifying genes to extend structural diversity present on natural products by changing important functional groups guided through genetic information. In this context, polyketides synthases (PKS) represent a class of enzymes from where the first applications and well succeed modifications were achieved. During the last two decades PKSs have been extensively studied, sequenced and deposited in data banks available to scientific community around the world. Th...