Identification and analysis of the bacterial endosymbiont specialized for production of the chemotherapeutic natural product ET-743

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 3964-3975

  Schofield, Michael M ^a,b   Jain, Sunit ^b   Porat, Daphne ^b   Dick, Gregory J ^b   Sherman, David H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,3 DIOXOLANE DERIVATIVE; BACTERIAL DNA; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCT; TETRAHYDROISOQUINOLINE DERIVATIVE; TRABECTEDIN;

ANIMAL; BACTERIAL GENOME; CARIBBEAN; DNA SEQUENCE; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SYMBIOSIS; UROCHORDATA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTS; CARIBBEAN REGION; DIOXOLES; DNA, BACTERIAL; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS; TETRAHYDROISOQUINOLINES; UROCHORDATA;

EID: 84937598793     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12908     Document Type: Article

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