Cloning and Characterization of the DNA Region Responsible for 1 Megacin A - 216 Production in Bacillus megaterium 216

Cloning and Characterization of the DNA Region Responsible for 1 Megacin A-216 Production in Bacillus megaterium 216 2 3 Antal Kiss, Gabriella Balikó, Attila Csorba, Tungalag Chuluunbaatar, 4 Katalin F. Medzihradszky, and Lajos Alföldi 5 Institute of Biochemistry, Proteomics Research Group, Institute of Genetics, Biological 6 Research Center of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary; Department 7 of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 8 94143-2240, U.S.A. 9 10 11 12 Running title: Bacillus megaterium megacin A-216 region 13 14 15 16 *Corresponding author. Mailing address: Institute of Biochemistry, Biological 17 Research Center of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 6726 Szeged, Temesvári krt. 18 62., Hungary. Phone: +36 62 599 630, Fax: +36 62 433 506, E-mail: [email protected] 19 A. C. present address: Inst. of Medical Chemistry, Szeged University, 6720 20 Szeged, Dóm tér 8., Hungary 21 AC CE PT ED Copyright © 2008, American Society for Microbiology and/or the Listed Authors/Institutions. All Rights Reserved. J. Bacteriol. doi:10.1128/JB.00557-08 JB Accepts, published online ahead of print on 8 August 2008