Analysis of the gene cluster involved in production and immunity of the peptide antibiotic AS-48 in Enterococcus faecalis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 347-358

  Martínez Bueno, Manuel ^a,b   Valdivia, Eva ^a   Gálvez, Antonio ^c   Coyette, Jacques ^b   Maqueda, Mercedes ^a,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^e Dpto Microbiologíe

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; ANTIBIOTIC AS 48; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; IMMUNITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; PEPTIDES; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 0031962435     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00682.x     Document Type: Article

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