The tetAB genes of the Corynebacterium striatum R-plasmid pTP10 encode an ABC transporter and confer tetracycline, oxytetracycline and oxacillin resistance in Corynebacterium glutamicum

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 173, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 203-209

  Tauch, Andreas ^a,b   Krieft, Susanne ^b   Pühler, Alfred ^b   Kalinowski, Jörn ^b  

^a EVONIK INDUSTRIES AG   (Germany)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

ABC transporter; Antibiotic export; Corynebacterium; Multidrug resistance

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; BACITRACIN; CEFALOTIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME; CHLORTETRACYCLINE; DODECYL SULFATE SODIUM; DOXYCYCLINE; ETHIDIUM BROMIDE; FUSIDIC ACID; MINOCYCLINE; OXACILLIN; OXYTETRACYCLINE; PENICILLIN G; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM STRIATUM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; IN VITRO STUDY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; R PLASMID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STREPTOMYCES;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIPORTERS; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXACILLIN; OXYTETRACYCLINE; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PENICILLINS; R FACTORS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TETRACYCLINE; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE;

EID: 0033000487     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00074-9     Document Type: Article

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