Two new tailoring enzymes, a glycosyltransferase and an oxygenase, involved in biosynthesis of the angucycline antibiotic urdamycin A in Streptomyces fradiae Tu2717

Microbiology

Volumn 146, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 147-154

  Faust, B ^a   Hoffmeister, D ^a   Weitnauer, G ^a   Westrich, L ^a   Haag, S ^b   Schneider, P ^a   Decker, H ^b   Kunzel E ^c   Rohr, J ^c   Bechthold, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b SANOFI   (France)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Angucycline; Glycosyltransferase; Oxygenase; Streptomyces; Urdamycin A

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL ENZYME; CARRIER PROTEIN; CYCLASE; DEOXYSUGAR; GENE PRODUCT; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; OXYGENASE; RABELOMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URDAMYCIN A; URDAMYCIN I; URDAMYCIN J; URDAMYCIN K;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; DRUG MANUFACTURE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE INACTIVATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OXYGENATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STREPTOMYCES FRADIAE;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES FRADIAE; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0033977621     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-146-1-147     Document Type: Article

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