Organic solvent tolerance and antibiotic resistance increased by overexpression of marA in Escherichia coli

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1428-1433

  Asako, Hiroyuki ^a   Nakajima, Harushi ^a   Kobayashi, Kei ^a   Kobayashi, Masato ^a   Aono, Rikizo ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ORGANIC SOLVENT;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; DRUG TOLERANCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0031003863     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.4.1428-1433.1997     Document Type: Article

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