Penicillin and cephalosporin biosynthesis: Mechanism of carbon catabolite regulation of penicillin production

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 21-31

  Martín, Juan F ^a,b   Casqueiro, Javier ^a,b   Kosalková, Katarina ^a,b   Marcos, Ana T ^a,b   Gutiérrez, Santiago ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEÓN   (Spain)

^b Institute of Biotechnology INBIOTEC Parque Científico de León   (Spain)

Author keywords

CreA; Glucose repression; Penicillin genes; Promoters; Regulatory proteins; Signal transduction

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CEPHALOSPORIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; GLUCOSE; ISOPENICILLIN N SYNTHETASE; PENICILLIN G; PHOSPHATE; TRIPEPTIDE;

ALKALINITY; ANTIBIOTIC BIOSYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CATABOLISM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MYCELIUM; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIUM CHRYSOGENUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; PENICILLIUM CHRYSOGENUM; PENICILLIUM NALGIOVENSE;

EID: 0033057423     PISSN: 00036072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1001820109140     Document Type: Article

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