An efficient approach for screening minimal PKS genes from Streptomyces

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 180, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-6

  Metsä Ketelä, Mikko ^a   Salo, Virpi ^a   Halo, Laura ^a   Hautala, Anne ^b   Hakala, Juha ^b   Mäntsälä, Pekka ^a   Ylihonko, Kristiina ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b Galilaeus Oy   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cell lysate as template; Genetic screening of polyketides; Polyketide synthase; Polymerase chain reaction; Streptomyces

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; POLYKETIDE; SYNTHETASE;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL MICROFLORA; STREPTOMYCES;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBIOTICS, ANTINEOPLASTIC; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; STREPTOMYCES;

EID: 0141511495     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00453-X     Document Type: Article

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