Glutamate residues located within putative transmembrane helices are essential for tetA(P)-mediated tetracycline efflux

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 179, Issue 22, 1997, Pages 7011-7015

  Kennan, Ruth M ^a   Mcmurry, Laura M ^b   Levy, Stuart B ^b   Rood, Julian I ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; RESIDUE ANALYSIS; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SUGAR TRANSPORT;

CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS;

EID: 0030780608     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.179.22.7011-7015.1997     Document Type: Article

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