Application of Metabolic Engineering to the Production of Scopolamine

Scopolamine is an alkaloid widely used in medicine for its anticholinergic activity. The aim of this review is to show that metabolic engineering techniques constitute a suitable tool to improve the production of tropane alkaloids, focusing in particular on scopolamine. We present an overview of res...

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Main Authors: Mohammad Hossein Mirjalili, Liliana Hernandez-Vazquez, Arturo Navarro-Ocaña, Javier Palazón
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2008-08-01
Series:Molecules
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/13/8/1722/