Different biosynthetic pathways to fosfomycin in Pseudomonas syringae and Streptomyces species

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 4175-4183

  Kim, Seung Young ^a   Ju, Kou San ^a   Metcalf, William W ^a   Evans, Bradley S ^a   Kuzuyama, Tomohisa ^b   Van Der Donk, Wilfred A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 HYDROXYPROPYLPHOSPHONATE; 3 (N ACETYL N HYDROXYAMINO)PROPYLPHOSPHONIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL ENZYME; CARBOXYLYASE; CITRATE SYNTHASE; FOSFOMYCIN; PHOSPHINOTHRICIN; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE; PHOSPHONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PHOSPHONOPYRUVATE; PSF2 PROTEIN; PYRUVIC ACID DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC BIOSYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; ASSAY; BACTERIAL GENOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SYNTHESIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PURIFICATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES FRADIAE; STREPTOMYCES WEDMORENSIS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; CYSTITIS; FOSFOMYCIN; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STREPTOMYCES;

EID: 84864389225     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.06478-11     Document Type: Article

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