Amplification of bacitracin transporter genes in the bacitracin producing Bacillus licheniformis

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 157, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 201-205

  Podlesek, Zdravko ^a   Herzog, Blagajana ^a   Comino, Aleksandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

ABC transporters; Bacillus licheniformis; Bacitracin resistance; Gene amplification

Indexed keywords

BACITRACIN; CARRIER PROTEIN;

ANTIBIOTIC BIOSYNTHESIS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS LICHENIFORMIS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BACILLUS; BACITRACIN; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; PLASMIDS;

BACILLUS LICHENIFORMIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0031425436     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(97)00477-1     Document Type: Article

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