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SUBMITTER: Cary JW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6989186 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cary Jeffrey W JW Gilbert Matthew K MK Lebar Matthew D MD Majumdar Rajtilak R Calvo Ana M AM
Food safety (Tokyo, Japan) 20180330 1
<i>Aspergillus flavus</i> is best known for producing the family of potent carcinogenic secondary metabolites known as aflatoxins. However, this opportunistic plant and animal pathogen also produces numerous other secondary metabolites, many of which have also been shown to be toxic. While about forty of these secondary metabolites have been identified from <i>A. flavus</i> cultures, analysis of the genome has predicted the existence of at least 56 secondary metabolite gene clusters. Many of the ...[more]