Inducing effect of diamines on transcription of the cephamycin C genes from the lat and pcbAB promoters in Nocardia lactamdurans

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 181, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 2379-2384

  Leitão, Ana Lucia ^a   Enguita, Francisco J ^b   De La Fuente, Juan Luis ^b   Liras, Paloma ^a,b   Martin, Juan F ^a,b  

^a Institute of Biotechnology   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEÓN   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADAVERINE; CEPHAMYCIN C; PUTRESCINE;

ARTICLE; CELL LEVEL; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA SYNTHESIS; NOCARDIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); AMYCOLATOPSIS LACTAMDURANS; NOCARDIA; NOCARDIA LACTAMDURANS; PROKARYOTA; STREPTOMYCES LIVIDANS; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0032931611     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.181.8.2379-2384.1999     Document Type: Article

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