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DR. ARNOLD DEMAIN – 60 YEARS IN A SCIENTIFIC CAREER

Carbon source regulation of antibiotic production FREE

Sergio Sánchez, Adán Chávez, Angela Forero, Yolanda García-Huante, Alba Romero, Mauricio Sánchez, Diana Rocha, Brenda Sánchez, Mariana Ávalos, Silvia Guzmán-Trampe, Romina Rodríguez-Sanoja, Elizabeth Langley and Beatriz Ruiz

J Antibiot 63: 442-459; advance online publication, July 28, 2010; doi:10.1038/ja.2010.78

Bioprospecting microbial natural product libraries from the marine environment for drug discovery FREE

Xiangyang Liu, Elizabeth Ashforth, Biao Ren, Fuhang Song, Huanqin Dai, Mei Liu, Jian Wang, Qiong Xie and Lixin Zhang

J Antibiot 63: 415-422; advance online publication, July 7, 2010; doi:10.1038/ja.2010.56

Staphylococcus aureus promoter-lux reporters for drug discovery FREE

Lili R Mesak, Shuhua Qi, Ivan Villanueva, Vivian Miao and Julian Davies

J Antibiot 63: 492-498; advance online publication, July 7, 2010; doi:10.1038/ja.2010.74

Genomics and the ancient origins of the daptomycin biosynthetic gene cluster FREE

Richard H Baltz

J Antibiot 63: 506-511; advance online publication, July 21, 2010; doi:10.1038/ja.2010.82

Manipulation of pathway regulation in Streptomyces globisporus for overproduction of the enediyne antitumor antibiotic C-1027 FREE

Yihua Chen, Min Yin, Geoff P Horsman, Shengxiong Huang and Ben Shen

J Antibiot 63: 482-485; advance online publication, June 16, 2010; doi:10.1038/ja.2010.55

Microbial drug discovery: 80 years of progress FREE

Arnold L Demain and Sergio Sanchez

J Antibiot 62: 5-16; advance online publication, January 9, 2009; doi:10.1038/ja.2008.16