A regulatory cascade involving AarG, a putative sensor kinase, controls the expression of the 2'-N-acetyltransferase and an intrinsic multiple antibiotic resistance (Mar) response in Providencia stuartii

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1345-1353

  Rather, Philip N ^a,b   Paradise, Michael R ^b   Parojcic, Milica M ^a   Patel, Shilpa ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CALCIUM ION; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; DIVALENT CATION; MAGNESIUM ION; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE AARG; TETRACYCLINE; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN AARP; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; GENE CONTROL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVIDENCIA STUARTII;

ACETYLTRANSFERASES; ALLELES; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN KINASES; PROVIDENCIA; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

NEGIBACTERIA; PROVIDENCIA STUARTII; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0031776753     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00900.x     Document Type: Article

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