A general approach for cloning and characterizing dNDP-glucose dehydratase genes from actinomycetes

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 141, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 195-201

  Decker, Heinrich ^a,b   Gaisser, Sibylle ^a   Pelzer, Stefan ^a   Schneider, Peter ^a   Westrich, Lucia ^a   Wohlleben, Wolfgang ^a   Bechthold, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b SANOFI   (France)

Author keywords

6 Deoxyhexose; Actinomyces; Genetic screening of dNDP glucose dehydratases; Polymerase chain reaction; Streptomyces

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AVILAMYCIN; DEOXYSUGAR; DNA FRAGMENT; ERYTHROMYCIN; HYDROLYASE; MOENOMYCIN A; PROTEIN; STREPTOMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN DERIVATIVE; TYLOSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTINOBACTERIA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; GENE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOMYCES;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); ACTINOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0030221812     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1097(96)00221-2     Document Type: Article

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