Pickles, pectin, and penicillin

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 58, Issue , 2004, Pages 1-42

  Demain, Arnold L ^a  

^a DREW UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Biotechnology; Fermentation; Industrial microbiology; Nutrition

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CELLULASE; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CYANOCOBALAMIN; FOSFOMYCIN; FUMAGILLIN; GLUTAMIC ACID; GRAMICIDIN; GUANOSINE PHOSPHATE; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; INDOLMYCIN; INOSINE PHOSPHATE; LACTIC ACID; MICROCIN B17; MYCOTOXIN; PANTOTHENIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PECTIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PENICILLIN G; POLYGALACTURONASE; PROTEINASE; RAPAMYCIN; RIBOFLAVIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRAMETHYLPYRAZINE; TRYPTOPHAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VACCINE; XANTHAN;

AUXOTROPHY; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CEPHALOSPORIUM ACREMONIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERMENTATION; GERMINATION; METABOLITE; MICROBIAL METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROGRAVITY; MONASCUS; PENICILLIUM CHRYSOGENUM; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPOROGENESIS; STRAIN IMPROVEMENT; STREPTOMYCES GRISEUS; VACCINE PRODUCTION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; MICROBIOLOGY; PENICILLINS; PORTRAITS; UNITED STATES;

ACREMONIUM CHRYSOGENUM; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CEPHALOSPORIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MONASCUS; PENICILLIUM; PENICILLIUM CHRYSOGENUM; PSEUDOMONAS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STREPTOMYCES GRISEUS;

EID: 9244248688     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.58.030603.123757     Document Type: Review

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