Natural merodiploidy involving duplicated rpoB alleles affects secondary metabolism in a producer actinomycete

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 396-412

  Vigliotta, Giovanni ^a   Tredici, Salvatore Maurizio ^a   Damiano, Fabrizio ^a   Montinaro, Maria Rosa ^a   Pulimeno, Rita ^a   Di Summa, Roberta ^a   Massardo, Domenica Rita ^b   Gnoni, Gabriele V ^a   Alifano, Pietro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND BIOPHYSICS ADRIANO BUZZATI TRAVERSO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A 40926; AMINO ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; GLYCOPEPTIDE; MESSENGER RNA; RIFAMPICIN; RNA POLYMERASE; TEICOPLANIN; THIOSTREPTON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ACTINOMADURA; ALLELE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTIBIOTIC BIOSYNTHESIS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BETA CHAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPLOIDY; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HALF LIFE TIME; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MISSENSE MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACTINOMYCETALES; ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CULTURE MEDIA; DIPLOIDY; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RIFAMPIN; TEICOPLANIN; THIOSTREPTON; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); ACTINOMADURA; ACTINOMADURA SP.; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NONOMURAEA SP. ATCC 39727; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 13144260672     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04406.x     Document Type: Article

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