Revealing the first uridyl peptide antibiotic biosynthetic gene cluster and probing pacidamycin biosynthesis

Bioengineered Bugs

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Rackham, Emma J ^a   Grüschow, Sabine ^a   Goss, Rebecca J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antibiotic; Biosynthesis; Genome mining; Genome scan; MraY; Nonribosomal peptide synthetase; Nucleoside; Pacidamycin; Translocase I inhibitor; Uridyl peptide antibiotic

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; MOLECULAR SCAFFOLD; PACIDAMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COMPUTER MODEL; COSMID; DATA MINING; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOMICS; HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR PROBE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES COERULEORUBIDUS;

EID: 80051574755     PISSN: 19491018     EISSN: 19491026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/bbug.2.4.15877     Document Type: Article

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