Co-ordinate regulation of antibiotic and pigment production by the Serratia Rap protein : evidence for a novel family of regulatory proteins

The enteric bacterium Serratia marcescens is an opportunistic human pathogen. The strain studied here makes the red pigment prodigiosin (Pig) and the ß-lactam antibiotic (5R)-carbapen-2-em-3 carboxylic acid. Mutants were isolated which were affected for pigment production. Approximately 20% of these...

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Main Author: Thomson, Nicholas Robert
Published: University of Warwick 1996
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.338673