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  1. A Novel Semi-biosynthetic Route for Artemisinin Production Using Engineered Substrate-Promiscuous P450 BM3 (2009)
    Jeffrey A. Dietrich, Yasuo Yoshikuni et al. ACS Chemical Biology
  2. Production of amorphadiene in yeast, and its conversion to dihydroartemisinic acid, precursor to the antimalarial agent artemisinin (2012)
    Patrick J. Westfall, Douglas J. Pitera et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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