Resistance to bacitracin as modulated by an Escherichia coli homologue of the bacitracin ABC transporter BcrC subunit from Bacillus licheniformis

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 181, Issue 19, 1999, Pages 6176-6178

  Harel, Yael Meller ^a   Bailone, Adriana ^a   Bibi, Eitan ^b  

^a INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; BACITRACIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACILLUS LICHENIFORMIS; BACTERIAL GENE; CHROMOSOME; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; BACILLUS LICHENIFORMIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0032857239     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.181.19.6176-6178.1999     Document Type: Article

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