The A-factor regulatory cascade leading to streptomycin biosynthesis in Streptomyces griseus: Identification of a target gene of the A-factor receptor

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 102-111

  Ohnishi, Yasuo ^a   Kameyama, Shogo ^a   Onaka, Hiroyasu ^a,b   Horinouchi, Sueharu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOYAMA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FACTOR A; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; NUCLEASE S1; RECEPTOR PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; REGULATOR GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STREPTOMYCES GRISEUS;

4-BUTYROLACTONE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STREPTOMYCES GRISEUS; STREPTOMYCIN; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA; STREPTOMYCES GRISEUS; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0032847109     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01579.x     Document Type: Article

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