The mithramycin gene cluster of Streptomyces argillaceus contains a positive regulatory gene and two repeated DNA sequences that are located at both ends of the cluster

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 181, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 642-647

  Lombó, Felipe ^a   Braña, Alfredo F ^a   Méndez, Carmen ^a   Salas, José A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; MITHRAMYCIN; POLYKETIDE;

ACTINOMYCES; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION; REGULATOR GENE; STREPTOMYCES;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); ACTINOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES ARGILLACEUS; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; STREPTOMYCES LIVIDANS; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0032902411     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.181.2.642-647.1999     Document Type: Article

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