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Antibiotic production from the ground up

The sequence of the soil bacterium that synthesizes erythromycin A will aid efforts to boost antibiotic production.

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Figure 1: The genome sequence of S. erythraea provides insight into the biosynthesis of the antibiotic erythromycin A.

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Katz, L., Khosla, C. Antibiotic production from the ground up. Nat Biotechnol 25, 428–429 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt0407-428

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