Identification of the biosynthetic gene cluster for the herbicide phosphonothrixin in Saccharothrix sp. ST-888

Journal of Antibiotics

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 357-359

  Lin, Jianwen ^a   Nishiyama, Makoto ^a   Kuzuyama, Tomohisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; COCARBOXYLASE; HERBICIDE; PHOSPHONOTHRIXIN; PHOSPHORUS; TRANSKETOLASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL DNA; PHOSPHONIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ACTINOMYCETALES; ANION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY; BIOSYNTHESIS; COSMID; DECARBOXYLATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHORUS NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROTHRIX; STREPTOMYCES; ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIAL GENOME; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYSIOLOGY;

SACCHAROTHRIX;

ACTINOBACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HERBICIDES; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; OPEN READING FRAMES; ORGANOPHOSPHONATES;

EID: 84930203719     PISSN: 00218820     EISSN: 18811469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ja.2014.149     Document Type: Letter

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