Penicillin tolerance genes of Streptococcus pneumoniae: The ABC-type manganese permease complex psA

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1285-1296

  Novak, Rodger ^a   Braun, Johann S ^a   Charpentier, Emmanuelle ^a,b   Tuomanen, Elaine ^a  

^a ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; AUTOLYSIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MANGANESE; PENICILLIN G; PERMEASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG TOLERANCE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHOLINE; DRUG TOLERANCE; GENE DELETION; GENES, BACTERIAL; LIPOPROTEINS; MANGANESE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; N-ACETYLMURAMOYL-L-ALANINE AMIDASE; OPERON; PENICILLINS; REC A RECOMBINASES; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0031689661     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.01016.x     Document Type: Article

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