Overproduction of a 37-kilodalton cytoplasmic protein homologous to NAD+-linked D-lactate dehydrogenase associated with vancomycin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 166-172

  Milewski, Wieslawa M ^a   Boyle Vavra, Susan ^a   Moreira, Beatriz ^a   Ebert, Christine C ^a   Daum, Robert S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOPLASM PROTEIN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; TEICOPLANIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ALCOHOL OXIDOREDUCTASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CYTOPLASM; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENES, BACTERIAL; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NAD; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VANCOMYCIN;

EID: 0030053634     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aac.40.1.166     Document Type: Article

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