Recent developments in the molecular genetics of the erythromycin-producing organism Saccharopolyspora erythraea

Advances in Applied Microbiology

Volumn 47, Issue , 2000, Pages 79-111

  Vanden Boom, Thomas J ^a  

^a ABBOTT LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CETHROMYCIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; DNA; ERYTHROMYCIN; HEMOGLOBIN; MACROLIDE; TELITHROMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA;

BIOSYNTHESIS; CHROMOSOME; ELECTROPORATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SACCHAROPOLYSPORA; STREPTOMYCES; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME MAP; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

SACCHAROPOLYSPORA; SACCHAROPOLYSPORA ERYTHRAEA; STREPTOMYCES;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC ENGINEERING; SACCHAROPOLYSPORA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0033778647     PISSN: 00652164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/s0065-2164(00)47002-4     Document Type: Review

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