Cloning and molecular characterization of the gene encoding the Aureobasidin A biosynthesis complex in Aureobasidium pullulans BP-1938

Gene

Volumn 431, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 67-79

  Slightom, Jerry L ^a   Metzger, Brian P ^a   Luu, Hang T ^a   Elhammer, Ake P ^a  

^a AureoGen Biosciences Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotic; Aureobasidin A; Functional analysis; Gene replacement; Homologous recombination; Non ribosomal peptide synthetase

Indexed keywords

AUREOBASIDIN A; HYGROMYCIN B; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE;

ADENYLATION; ARTICLE; AUREOBASIDIUM PULLULANS; BIOSYNTHESIS; DNA ISOLATION; GENE CASSETTE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRAIT; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA ISOLATION; RNA TRANSLATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASCOMYCOTA; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COSMIDS; DEPSIPEPTIDES; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, FUNGAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; GENES, FUNGAL; GENETIC VECTORS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHENOTYPE; PHYSICAL CHROMOSOME MAPPING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOLUBILITY;

AUREOBASIDIUM PULLULANS;

EID: 58149310896     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2008.11.011     Document Type: Article

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