The sequence of a 1.8-Mb bacterial linear plasmid reveals a rich evolutionary reservoir of secondary metabolic pathways

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 212-224

  Medema, Marnix H ^a   Trefzer, Axel ^b   Kovalchuk, Andriy ^a   Van Den Berg, Marco ^b   Müller, Ulrike ^b   Heijne, Wilbert ^b   Wu, Liang ^b   Alam, Mohammad T ^a   Ronning, Catherine M ^c   Nierman, William C ^c   Bovenberg, Roel A L ^b,d   Breitling, Rainer ^a,e   Takano, Eriko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b DSM BIOTECHNOLOGY CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chromosomal evolution; Genome sequence; Natural products; Streptomyces clavuligerus

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; REPLICON; STREPTOMYCES;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, BACTERIAL; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; REPLICON; STREPTOMYCES;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES CLAVULIGERUS;

EID: 77958475358     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evq013     Document Type: Article

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