Strength and regulation of the different promoters for chromosomal β- lactamases of Klebsiella oxytoca

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 850-855

  Fournier, Bénédicte ^a,b,c   Gravel, Annie ^a   Hooper, David C ^b   Roy, Paul H ^a  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAMASE; CHLORAMPHENICOL ACETYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE NUMBER; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032892871     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aac.43.4.850     Document Type: Article

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