A phosphoglucomutase-like gene essential for the optimal expression of methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus: Molecular cloning and DNA sequencing

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 277-286

  Wu, Shangwei ^a,b   De Lencastre, Herminia ^a,c   Sali, Andrej ^a   Tomasz, Alexander ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; DNA; HEXOSE; METICILLIN; PENTAPEPTIDE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHOGLUCOMUTASE; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BIOSYNTHESIS; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; ISOMERISM; METABOLISM; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0030055855     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/mdr.1996.2.277     Document Type: Article

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