Sequencing and mutagenesis of genes from the erythromycin biosynthetic gene cluster of Saccharapolyspora erythraea that are involved in L-mycarose and D-desosamine production

Microbiology

Volumn 143, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 3251-3262

  Summers, Richard G ^a   Donadio, Stefano ^a,b   Staver, Michael J ^a   Wendt Pienkowski, Evelyn ^c   Hutchinson, C Richard ^c   Katz, Leonard ^a  

^a ABBOTT LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b BioSearch Italia Spa   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Desosamine; Erythromycin; Mycarose; Saccharopolyspora; Sugar biosynthesis

Indexed keywords

AMINE; DEOXYSUGAR; EPIMERASE; ERYTHROMYCIN; HYDROLYASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; POLYKETIDE; SYNTHETASE;

ARTICLE; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROPOLYSPORA; STREPTOMYCES; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MAMMALIA; SACCHAROPOLYSPORA; SACCHAROPOLYSPORA ERYTHRAEA; STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES PEUCETIUS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0030831132     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-143-10-3251     Document Type: Article

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