François‐Xavier Francou

Recombinant Environmental Libraries Provide Access to Microbial Diversity for Drug Discovery from Natural Products

Sophie Courtois, Carmela Cappellano, María M. Ball et al. · Applied and Environmental Microbiology · 2003 · 348 citations · Full text

Multiple biosynthetic and uptake systems mediate siderophore-dependent iron acquisition in Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) and Streptomyces ambofaciens ATCC 23877

Francisco Barona‐Gómez, Sylvie Lautru, François‐Xavier Francou et al. · Microbiology · 2006 · 143 citations

Evolution of the Terminal Regions of the Streptomyces Linear Chromosome

Frédéric Choulet, Bertrand Aigle, Alexandre Gallois et al. · Molecular Biology and Evolution · 2006 · 99 citations · Full text

Comparative Genomics, Genetics, Molecular Genetics +19

The unstable region of <i>Streptomyces ambofaciens</i> includes 210 kb terminal inverted repeats flanking the extremities of the linear chromosomal DNA

Pierre Leblond, Gilles Fischer, François‐Xavier Francou et al. · Molecular Microbiology · 1996 · 92 citations

An Iterative Nonribosomal Peptide Synthetase Assembles the Pyrrole-Amide Antibiotic Congocidine in Streptomyces ambofaciens

Maud Juguet, Sylvie Lautru, François‐Xavier Francou et al. · Chemistry & Biology · 2009 · 64 citations

Biosynthesis, Engineering, Biochemistry +11