An antibiotic factory caught in action

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 888-893

  Keatinge Clay, Adrian T ^a   Maltby, David A ^a   Medzihradszky, Katalin F ^a   Khosla, Chaitan ^b   Stroud, Robert M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTINORHODINE; ACYLTRANSFERASE; AMPHOPHILE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DOXORUBICIN; KETO SYNTHASE CHAIN LENGTH FACTOR; POLYKETIDE; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASE; POLYMER; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC BIOSYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CYCLIZATION; DRUG DESIGN; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSLATION; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BINDING SITES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DIMERIZATION; MACROLIDES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; POLYMERS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; STREPTOMYCES;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 4344578939     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb808     Document Type: Article

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