Doxorubicin overproduction in Streptomyces peucetius: Cloning and characterization of the dnrU ketoreductase and dnrV genes and the doxA cytochrome P-450 hydroxylase gene

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 181, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 305-318

  Lomovskaya, Natalie ^a   Otten, Sharee L ^a   Doi Katayama, Yukiko ^a   Fonstein, Leonid ^a   Liu, Xiao Chun ^a   Takatsu, Toshio ^a,c   Inventi Solari, Augusto ^b   Filippini, Silvia ^b   Torti, Francesca ^b   Colombo, Anna Luisa ^b   Hutchinson, C Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b PFIZER INC   (United States)

^c DAIICHI SANKYO CO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME P450 REDUCTASE; DOXORUBICIN; OXIDOREDUCTASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOMYCES;

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

EID: 0032899534     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.181.1.305-318.1999     Document Type: Article

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