The tylosin resistance gene tlrB of Streptomyces fradiae encodes a methyltransferase that targets G748 in 23S rRNA

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 811-820

  Liu, Mingfu ^a   Kirpekar, Finn ^a   Van Wezel, Gilles P ^b   Douthwaite, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MACROLIDE; METHYL GROUP; METHYLTRANSFERASE; RIBOSOME RNA; S ADENOSYLMETHIONINE; TYLOSIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; DRUG SYNTHESIS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHYLATION; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOMYCES FRADIAE; STREPTOMYCES LIVIDANS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; METHYLTRANSFERASES; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; STREPTOMYCES; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

PROKARYOTA; STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES FRADIAE; STREPTOMYCES LIVIDANS;

EID: 0033857994     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.02046.x     Document Type: Article

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