Cloning of a gene from Escherichia coli that confers resistance to fosmidomycin as a consequence of amplification

Gene

Volumn 175, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 83-87

  Fujisaki, Shingo ^a   Ohnuma, Shin ichi ^b   Horiuchi, Takayuki ^a   Takahashi, Isao ^a   Tsukui, Sadashi ^a   Nishimura, Yukinobu ^a   Nishino, Tokuzo ^b   Kitabatake, Makoto ^c   Inokuchi, Hachiro ^c  

^a TOHO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antibiotic; Antiporter; Isopentenyl diphosphate; Isoprenoid biosynthesis; Symporter; Transmembrane protein

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL; FOSMIDOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; UBIQUINONE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE MAPPING; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0030579174     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(96)00128-X     Document Type: Article

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