Developmental regulation of transcription of whiE, a locus specifying the polyketide spore pigment in Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2)

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 180, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 2515-2521

  Kelemen, Gabriella H ^a   Brian, Paul ^a,b   Flärdh, Klas ^a   Chamberlin, Leony ^a   Chater, Keith F ^a   Buttner, Mark J ^a  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b Cromaxome Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PIGMENT; POLYKETIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PIGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPOROGENESIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0031968766     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.180.9.2515-2521.1998     Document Type: Article

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