Cloning and sequence analysis of the highly expressed melanin-synthesizing gene operon from Streptomyces castaneoglobisporus

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 45, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 80-85

  Ikeda, K ^a   Masujima, T ^a   Suzuki, K ^b   Sugiyama, M ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b ASAHI CHEMICAL INDUSTRY CO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELANIN; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; PIGMENT;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; STREPTOMYCES;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHIMERA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, BACTERIAL; MELANINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; OPEN READING FRAMES; OPERON; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STREPTOMYCES;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; STREPTOMYCES ANTIBIOTICUS; STREPTOMYCES CASTANEOGLOBISPORUS; STREPTOMYCES LIVIDANS;

EID: 0029994563     PISSN: 01757598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002530050652     Document Type: Article

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