Overexpression of the marA or soxS regulatory gene in clinical topoisomerase mutants of Escherichia coli

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 2089-2094

  Oethinger, Margret ^a,c   Podglajen, Isabelle ^a   Kern, Winfried V ^b   Levy, Stuart B ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CYCLOHEXANE; DNA TOPOISOMERASE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; STRUCTURAL GENE;

EID: 0031903258     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aac.42.8.2089     Document Type: Article

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