Cloning and sequence analysis of an intron-containing domain from a peptide synthetase-encoding gene of the entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium anisopliae

Gene

Volumn 173, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 195-197

  Bailey, Andrew M ^a   Kershaw, Michael J ^a   Hunt, Bridget A ^a   Paterson, Ian C ^a   Charnley, A Keith ^a   Reynolds, Stuart E ^a   Clarkson, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Core sequence; Depsipeptide; Destruxin

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDE SYNTHASE; SPACER DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; FUNGUS; GENE SEQUENCE; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

EID: 0030590371     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(96)00212-0     Document Type: Article

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