Streptomyces roseoverticillatus produces two different poly(aminoacid)s: Lariat-shaped γ-poly (L-glutamic acid) and ε-poly (L-lysine)

Microbiology

Volumn 155, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2988-2993

  Nishikawa, Masanobu ^a   Kobayashi, Kei ^a  

^a Research Institute for Biological Science OKAYAMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPSILON POLYLYSINE; GAMMA POLYGLUTAMIC ACID; POLYPEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CLUSTER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES ROSEOVERTICILLATUS;

BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GENE DELETION; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PEPTIDE BIOSYNTHESIS, NUCLEIC ACID-INDEPENDENT; POLYGLUTAMIC ACID; POLYLYSINE; STREPTOMYCES;

STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES ROSEOVERTICILLATUS;

EID: 69949130234     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.029694-0     Document Type: Article

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