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The MtrAB two-component system controls antibiotic production in Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2)

Nicolle F Som1, Daniel Heine2, Neil Holmes1

  • 1School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK.

Microbiology (Reading, England)
|September 9, 2017
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Keywords:
Streptomycesantibioticscryptic gene clusterssporulation

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