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A single amino acid substitution in region 1.2 of the principal sigma factor of Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) results in pleiotropic loss of antibiotic production.
Molecular microbiology - 1 Sept 2000
Aigle B, Wietzorrek A, Takano E, Bibb M J
Abstract excerpt
Antibiotic production in streptomycetes generally occurs in a growth phase-dependent and developmentally co-ordinated manner, and is subject to pathway-specific and pleiotropic control. Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) produces at least four chemically distinct antibiotics, including actinorhodin (Act) and undecylprodigiosin (Red). afsB mutants of S. coelicolor are deficient in the production of both compounds and...
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