Characterization of spaA, a Streptomyces coelicolor gene homologous to a gene involved in sensing starvation in Escherichia coli

Gene

Volumn 177, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 243-251

  Schneider, Dominique ^a   Bruton, Celia J ^a   Chater, Keith F ^a  

^a NORWICH RESEARCH PARK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antibiotic production; Cell density; Genetic instability; Regulator; Signal molecule; Stationary phase

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PRODIGIOSIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA INTEGRATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC STABILITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REGULATOR GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STARVATION; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; STREPTOMYCES AMBOFACIENS; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR;

EID: 0030600466     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(96)00310-1     Document Type: Article

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