Althiomycin biosynthetic gene cluster: The potent broad-spectrum antibiotic althiomycin is a product of a nonribosomal peptide/polyketide assembly line. The biosynthetic gene cluster from the natural producer Myxococcus xanthus DK897 was identified and characterized.
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Cortina et al. (2011) studied this question.