Article
Self cloning in Micromonospora olivasterospora of fms genes for fortimicin A (astromicin) biosynthesis.
Molecular & general genetics : MGG - 1 Mar 1992
Dairi T, Ohta T, Hashimoto E, Hasegawa M
Abstract excerpt
We have cloned the seven genes that are responsible for biosynthesis of the antibiotic fortimicin A (FTM A) using a recently developed self-cloning system that employes the plasmid vector pMO116 for Micromonospora olivasterospora. Five chimeric plasmids that restored FTM A production in M. olivasterospora mutants blocked at different biosynthetic steps were isolated by shotgun cloning. Secondary transformation...
Topics
- Aminoglycosides
- Anti-Bacterial Agents
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA, Bacterial
- Genes, Bacterial
- Genes, fms
- Micromonospora
- Mutation
- Plasmids
- Protoplasts
- Restriction Mapping
