Triggering the production of the cryptic blue pigment indigoidine from Photorhabdus luminescens

Journal of Biotechnology

Volumn 157, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 96-99

  Brachmann, Alexander O ^a   Kirchner, Ferdinand ^a   Kegler, Carsten ^a   Kinski, Sebastian C ^a   Schmitt, Imke ^a   Bode, Helge B ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biosynthesis gene cluster activation; Heterologous expression; Promoter exchange; Secondary metabolite

Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHESIS GENE CLUSTER; BIOSYNTHESIS GENES; BLUE PIGMENT; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; SECONDARY METABOLITES;

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOSYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; METABOLITES;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION;

INDIGOIDINE; NATURAL PRODUCT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CRYSTALLIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHOTORHABDUS LUMINESCENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BAYES THEOREM; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHOTORHABDUS; PHYLOGENY; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; PIPERIDONES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; PHOTORHABDUS LUMINESCENS;

EID: 84855236038     PISSN: 01681656     EISSN: 18734863     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2011.10.002     Document Type: Article

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