Identification of the novobiocin biosynthetic gene cluster of Streptomyces spheroides NCIB 11891

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1214-1222

  Steffensky, Marion ^a   Mühlenweg, Agnes ^a   Wang, Zhao Xin ^a   Li, Shu Ming ^a   Heide, Lutz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NOVOBIOCIN;

ARTICLE; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOMYCES;

AMIDE SYNTHASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COSMIDS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; NOVOBIOCIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STREPTOMYCES;

EID: 0034048695     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.44.5.1214-1222.2000     Document Type: Article

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