Draft Genome Sequence of Amycolatopsis mediterranei DSM 40773, a Tangible Antibiotic Producer
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Udita Mukherjee1, Anjali Saxena1, Rashmi Kumari1
1Department of Zoology, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007, India.
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|August 2, 2014
Abstract:
Amycolatopsis mediterranei DSM 40773 has been of special interest as successors of this strain are in use for the commercial production of rifamycin B. Here we present the draft genome sequence (~10 Mb) of this strain, which contains 108 contigs, 9,198 genes, and has a G+C content of 71.3%.
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