A Streptomyces coelicolor antibiotic regulatory gene, absB, encodes an RNase III homolog

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 181, Issue 19, 1999, Pages 6142-6151

  Price, Brenda ^a,b   Adamidis, Trifon ^a   Kong, Renqui ^a   Champness, Wendy ^a  

^a Michigan State University ^*  (United States)

^b ABBOTT LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; RIBONUCLEASE III; RIBOSOME RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG MANUFACTURE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; STREPTOMYCES LIVIDANS;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); ANIMALIA; FUNGI; MYXOGASTRIA; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; STREPTOMYCES LIVIDANS; STREPTOMYCINEAE; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0032875632     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.181.19.6142-6151.1999     Document Type: Article

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