Isolation and characterization of a putative multidrug resistance pump from Vibrio cholerae

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 63-72

  Colmer, Jane A ^a   Fralick, Joe A ^a   Hamood, Abdul N ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONYL CYANIDE CHLOROPHENYLHYDRAZONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CRYSTAL VIOLET; DEOXYCHOLIC ACID; DNA FRAGMENT; ERYTHROMYCIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; PHENYLMERCURIC ACETATE; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DNA TRANSFER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MUTANT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OPEN READING FRAMES; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIOLA (ANGIOSPERM);

EID: 0031983410     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00657.x     Document Type: Article

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