Essential role of endogenously synthesized tylosin for induction of ermSF in Streptomyces fradiae

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1203-1205

  Memili, Erdogan ^a   Weisblum, Bernard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

6 N METHYLADENINE; 6 N,N DIMETHYLADENINE; GENE PRODUCT; LACTONE; LINCOSAMIDE; MACROLIDE; METHYLTRANSFERASE; MIKAMYCIN B; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 23S; TYLOSIN;

ANTIBIOTIC BIOSYNTHESIS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; AUTOCRINE EFFECT; FERMENTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOMYCES FRADIAE;

EID: 0030945957     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aac.41.5.1203     Document Type: Article

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