Identification and analysis of the balhimycin biosynthetic gene cluster and its use for manipulating glycopeptide biosynthesis in Amycolatopsis mediterranei DSM5908

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1565-1573

  Pelzer, S ^a   Sußmuth R ^a   Heckmann, D ^a,b   Recktenwald, J ^a   Huber, P ^a   Jung, G ^a   Wohlleben, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 VANCOSAMINYL; AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BALHIMYCIN; CYTOCHROME P450; DNA FRAGMENT; ENZYME; GLYCOPEPTIDE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; HALOGEN; HEPTAPEPTIDE; OXYGENASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG STRUCTURE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE ISOLATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ISOLATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0345643323     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aac.43.7.1565     Document Type: Article

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