An elongation factor Tu (EF-Tu) resistant to the EF-Tu inhibitor GE2270 in the producing organism Planobispora rosea

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 43-51

  Sosio, Margherita ^a   Amati, Giuseppe ^a   Cappellano, Carmela ^a   Sarubbi, Edoardo ^a   Monti, Federica ^a   Donadio, Stefano ^a  

^a Gruppo Lepetit SpA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION FACTOR TU; GE 2270A; MOCIMYCIN;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

ACTINOMYCETALES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENES, BACTERIAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONOSACCHARIDE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MUTATION; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR TU; PERIPLASMIC BINDING PROTEINS; PYRIDONES; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; THIAZOLES;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACILLUS SUBTILIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PLANOBISPORA ROSEA; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0029835797     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1996.tb02654.x     Document Type: Article

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