Analysis of seven genes from the eryAI-eryK region of the erythromycin biosynthetic: Gene cluster in Saccharopolyspora erythraea

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 256, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 239-251

  Gaisser, S ^a   Bohm G A ^a   Cortes J ^a   Leadlay, P F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Desosamine; Erythromycin biosynthetic genes; Mycarose; S adenosylmethionine methyltransferase; Saccharopolyspora eruthraea

Indexed keywords

AMINOSUGAR; BACTERIAL ENZYME; DEOXYSUGAR; ERYTHROMYCIN; ERYTHRONOLIDE B; OXYGENASE; POLYKETIDE; SYNTHETASE;

ANTIBIOTIC BIOSYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE CLUSTER; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROPOLYSPORA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENES, BACTERIAL; HEXOSES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTAGENESIS; OPEN READING FRAMES; SACCHAROPOLYSPORA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SACCHAROPOLYSPORA; SACCHAROPOLYSPORA ERYTHRAEA;

EID: 0030720976     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050566     Document Type: Article

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