Innovative Approach for Improvement of an Antibiotic-Overproducing Industrial Strain of Streptomyces albus

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 6412-6417

  Tamehiro, Norimasa ^a   Hosaka, Takeshi ^a   Xu, Jun ^a   Hu, Haifeng ^a   Otake, Noboru ^b   Ochi, Kozo ^a  

^a NATIONAL FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b Tianjin Institute for Biomedicinal Research   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENES; MUTAGENESIS; PROTEINS; YEAST;

DRUG RESISTANCE;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; GENTAMICIN; MAGNESIUM ION; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; RIFAMPICIN; RNA POLYMERASE; SALINOMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; DRUG MANUFACTURE; DRUG SYNTHESIS; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RPOB GENE; RPSL GENE; STRAIN IMPROVEMENT; STREPTOMYCES ALBUS; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; GENTAMICINS; MUTATION; PYRANS; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; RIFAMPIN; STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCIN;

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

EID: 0242405881     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.11.6412-6417.2003     Document Type: Article

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