Analysis of a Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) locus containing the nucleoside diphosphate kinase (ndk) and folylpolyglutamate synthetase (folC) genes

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 159, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 283-291

  Burger, Annette ^a   Brandt, Birgit ^a   Süsstrunk, Urs ^b   Thompson, Charles J ^b   Wohlleben, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Folate metabolism; Folylpolyglutamate synthetase; Nucleoside diphosphate kinase; Streptomyces

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL ENZYME; DNA FRAGMENT; FOLYLPOLYGLUTAMATE SYNTHASE; GENE PRODUCT; NUCLEOSIDE DIPHOSPHATE KINASE; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOLATE METABOLISM; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOSIDE-DIPHOSPHATE KINASE; PEPTIDE SYNTHASES; STREPTOMYCES;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0032519433     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(97)00540-5     Document Type: Article

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