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Cloning, sequencing, and characterization of the iturin A operon.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Nov 2001
Tsuge K, Akiyama T, Shoda M
Abstract excerpt
Bacillus subtilis RB14 is a producer of the antifungal lipopeptide iturin A. Using a transposon, we identified and cloned the iturin A synthetase operon of RB14, and the sequence of this operon was also determined. The iturin A operon spans a region that is more than 38 kb long and is composed of four open reading frames, ituD, ituA, ituB, and ituC. The ituD gene encodes a putative malonyl coenzyme A...
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