Mechanism of the incidental production of a melanin-like pigment during 6-demethylchlortetracycline production in Streptomyces aureofaciens

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1400-1404

  Nakano, Tetsuo ^a   Miyake, Koichiro ^a   Ikeda, Masato ^a   Mizukami, Toru ^a   Katsumata, Ryoichi ^a,b  

^a KYOWA HAKKO KOGYO CO LTD   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMECLOCYCLINE; DNA; MELANIN; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CATALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES AUREOFACIENS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CULTURE MEDIA; DEMECLOCYCLINE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MELANINS; METHYLATION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; STREPTOMYCES AUREOFACIENS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOMYCES AUREOFACIENS;

EID: 0034126350     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.66.4.1400-1404.2000     Document Type: Article

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