Isolation of a gene essential for biosynthesis of the lipopeptide antibiotics plipastatin B1 and surfactin in Bacillus subtilis YB8

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 165, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 243-251

  Tsuge, Kenji ^a   Ano, Takashi ^a   Shoda, Makoto ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bacillus subtilis; Lipopeptide antibiotics; Nucleotide sequence of lpa 8; Plipastatin B1; Surfactin

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; LIPOPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PLIPASTATIN B1; SURFACTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN PURIFICATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBIOTICS, ANTIFUNGAL; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; FATTY ACIDS; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PEPTIDES; PEPTIDES, CYCLIC; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0029886333     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002030050322     Document Type: Article

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