Structure and biosynthesis of the BT peptide antibiotic from Brevibacillus texasporus

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 8519-8530

  Wu, Xiaofeng ^a   Ballard, Johnathan ^a   Jiang, Yi Wei ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELLS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NUTRITION;

BACTERIUM; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BACTERIA;

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BT 1583; LYSINE; NONRIBOSOMAL PEPTIDE SYNTHETASE; ORNITHINE; PEPTIDE SYNTHASE; TYROSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALINE;

ANTIBIOTICS;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; ANTIBIOTIC BIOSYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; BREVIBACILLUS; BREVIBACILLUS TEXASPORUS; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACILLUS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC LIBRARY; ISOMERISM; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGOPEPTIDES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BREVIBACILLUS; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 29144453850     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.12.8519-8530.2005     Document Type: Article

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