Rare earth elements activate the secondary metabolite-biosynthetic gene clusters in Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2)

Journal of Antibiotics

Volumn 63, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 477-481

  Tanaka, Yukinori ^a,b   Hosaka, Takeshi ^c   Ochi, Kozo ^a,d  

^a NATIONAL FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d HIROSHIMA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

lanthanum; rare earth; scandium; silent genes; Streptomyces coelicolor

Indexed keywords

ELEMENT; LANTHANUM; SCANDIUM;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ACTINOMYCETALES; ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; METABOLITE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; STREPTOMYCETACEAE;

BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CULTURE MEDIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, BACTERIAL; LANTHANUM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; SCANDIUM; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR;

EID: 77956254493     PISSN: 00218820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ja.2010.53     Document Type: Article

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