Spontaneous amplification of the actinorhodin gene cluster in Streptomyces coelicolor involving native insertion sequence IS466

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 190, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 4754-4758

  Widenbrant, E M ^a   Tsai, Hsiu Hui ^b   Chen, Carton W ^b   Kao, C M ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTINORHODINE; ENZYME;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE INSERTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; TRANSPOSON;

ANTHRAQUINONES; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE AMPLIFICATION; MODELS, GENETIC; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR;

STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR;

EID: 46049086377     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00131-08     Document Type: Article

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