A single Streptomyces symbiont makes multiple antifungals to support the fungus farming ant acromyrmex octospinosus

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Seipke, Ryan F ^a   Barke, Jörg ^a   Brearley, Charles ^a   Hill, Lionel ^b   Yu, Douglas W ^a,c   Goss, Rebecca J M ^a   Hutchings, Matthew I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b NORWICH RESEARCH PARK   (United Kingdom)

^c KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANDICIDIN; CITRININ; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIMYCIN A1; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ACROMYRMEX OCTOSPINOSUS; ANT; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DETERMINATION; DRUG STRUCTURE; DRUG SYNTHESIS; ESCOVOPSIS; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; STREPTOMYCES; SYMBIONT; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HYPOCREALES; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

ACROMYRMEX OCTOSPINOSUS; ACTINOBACTERIA; AMYCOLATOPSIS; ESCOVOPSIS; FORMICIDAE; FUNGI; PSEUDONOCARDIA; STREPTOMYCES;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ANTIMYCIN A; ANTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CANDICIDIN; FUNGI; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HYPOCREALES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MUTATION; STREPTOMYCES; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 79961040245     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022028     Document Type: Article

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