Cloning of the gene encoding 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase from terpenoid antibiotic-producing Streptomyces strains

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 262, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 957-964

  Dairi, T ^a   Motohira, Y ^a   Itoh, N ^a   Kuzuyama, T ^b   Takahashi, S ^b   Seto, H ^b  

^a TOYAMA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

HMG CoA reductase; Mevalonate pathway; Prokaryote; Streptomyces; Terpentecin

Indexed keywords

HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE; ISOPENTENYL DIPHOSPHATE; MEVALONIC ACID; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; TERPENOID;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBIOTIC BIOSYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; COCKROACH; DATA BASE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA URCHIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STREPTOMYCES;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DITERPENES; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HUMANS; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COA REDUCTASES; MEVALONIC ACID; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NAPHTHOQUINONES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STREPTOMYCES;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BLATTARIA; BLATTELLA GERMANICA; CAMPTOTHECA ACUMINATA; ECHINOIDEA; KITASATOSPORA GRISEOLA; PROKARYOTA; STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES SP.; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0033965047     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00008664     Document Type: Article

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