Expression of the gap gene encoding glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase of Streptomyces aureofaciens requires GapR, a member of the AraC/XylS family of transcriptional activators

The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the sequence described in this paper is U21191.

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