Identification of a major cis-acting DNA element controlling the bidirectionally transcribed penicillin biosynthesis genes acvA (pcbAB) and ipnA (pcbC) of Aspergillus nidulans

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 178, Issue 13, 1996, Pages 3908-3916

  Bergh, Katharina Then ^a   Litzka, Olivier ^a   Brakhage, Axel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; GUANOSINE DERIVATIVE; PENICILLIN G;

ANTIBIOTIC BIOSYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CEPHALOSPORIUM ACREMONIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIUM CHRYSOGENUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; REGULATOR GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ACREMONIUM CHRYSOGENUM; ASPERGILLUS; CEPHALOSPORIUM; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGI; PENICILLIUM; PENICILLIUM CHRYSOGENUM;

EID: 0029888607     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.178.13.3908-3916.1996     Document Type: Article

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