Production of meiosis-activating sterols from metabolically engineered yeast.

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Published in J Am Chem Soc on February 13, 2002

Authors

Ran Xu1, William K Wilson, Seiichi P T Matsuda

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA.

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