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Streptomyces in nature and medicine : the antibiotic makers / David A. Hopwood.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hopwood, D. A., author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Streptomyces--Genetics.
- Streptomyces.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 250 pages, [8] pages of plates ) illustrations. (some color), portraits.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Highlighting the lives of a group of soil microbes that make most of the antibiotics used in medicine, this book describes how genetics tells us how these microscopic chemists compete in the soil and how their genes can be rearranged to make new antibiotics to fight re-emerging diseases.
- Contents:
- Actinomycetes and antibiotics
- Antibiotic discovery and resistance
- Microbial sex
- Towards gene cloning
- From chromosome map to DNA sequence
- Bacteria that develop
- The switch to antibiotic production
- Unnatural natural products
- Functional genomics
- Genomics against tuberculosis and leprosy.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2007.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-028784-5
- 0-19-770872-2
- 1-281-15895-X
- 0-19-972228-5
- 1-4294-9310-0
- OCLC:
- 923712624
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