A pathway-specific transcriptional activator regulates late steps of clavulanic acid biosynthesis in Streptomyces clavuligerus

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 831-843

  Paradkar, Ashish S ^a   Aidoo, Kwamena A ^a,b   Jensen, Susan E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; CLAVAMINIC ACID; CLAVULANIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC BIOSYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CISTRON; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; START CODON; STREPTOMYCES CLAVULIGERUS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CLAVULANIC ACID; MIXED FUNCTION OXYGENASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STREPTOMYCES; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0031891879     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00731.x     Document Type: Article

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