Cloning, sequencing, and characterization of the genetic region relevant to biosynthesis of the lipopeptides iturin A and surfactin in Bacillus subtilis

Current Microbiology

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 272-277

  Yao, Shiyi ^a,d   Gao, Xuewen ^a   Fuchsbauer, Norbert ^b   Hillen, Wolfgang ^b   Vater, Joachim ^c   Wang, Jinsheng ^a  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ITURIN A; LIPOPEPTIDE; PANTETHEINE PHOSPHATE; SURFACTIN; TRANSFERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ASPB3 GENE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOSYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUSARIUM GRAMINEARUM; GENE; GENE LIBRARY; HYPHOMYCETES; LPAB3 GENE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PLANT DISEASE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SFP GENE; SRFD GENE; SRFDB3 GENE; YCZEB3 GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBIOTICS, ANTIFUNGAL; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; FUNGI; GENE ORDER; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PEPTIDES; PEPTIDES, CYCLIC; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; THIOLESTER HYDROLASES;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CERATOBASIDIUM CEREALE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUSARIUM; GIBBERELLA ZEAE; HYPHOMYCETES; MAGNAPORTHE GRISEA; PYRICULARIA; RHIZOCTONIA; THANATEPHORUS CUCUMERIS;

EID: 0042863336     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-002-4008-y     Document Type: Article

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