Mutations in a new Streptomyces coelicolor locus which globally block antibiotic biosynthesis but not sporulation.

Abstract excerpt

Streptomyces coelicolor produces four known antibiotics. To define genetic elements that regulate antibiotic synthesis, we screened for mutations that visibly blocked synthesis of the two pigmented antibiotics and found that the mutant strains which we recovered were of two classes--double mutant...

Topics

• Anti-Bacterial Agents
• Chromosome Mapping
• Drug Resistance, Microbial
• Genes, Bacterial
• Mutation
• Phenotype
• Spores, Bacterial
• Streptomyces