Mutants blocked in penicillin biosynthesis show a deletion of the entire penicillin gene cluster at a specific site within a conserved hexanucleotide sequence

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 597-604

  Fierro, F ^a   Montenegro, E ^a   Gutierrez S ^a   Martin J F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEÓN   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PENICILLIN G;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE CLUSTER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PENICILLIUM CHRYSOGENUM;

EID: 0030070112     PISSN: 01757598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00172491     Document Type: Article

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