Deciphering regulatory mechanisms for secondary metabolite production in the myxobacterium Sorangium cellulosum so ce56

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1783-1796

  Rachid, Shwan ^a   Gerth, Klaus ^b   Kochems, Irene ^a   Müller, Rolf ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BIOMAGNETISM; BIOSYNTHESIS; FERMENTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOMICS; KINETICS; METABOLITE; MYXOCOCCALES; NONHUMAN; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SORANGIUM CELLULOSUM;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MACROLIDES; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MYXOCOCCALES;

EUKARYOTA; MYXOCOCCALES; POLYANGIUM CELLULOSUM;

EID: 33947276249     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.05627.x     Document Type: Article

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