The biopesticide Paenibacillus popilliae has a vancomycin resistance gene cluster homologous to the enterococcal VanA vancomycin resistance gene cluster

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 705-709

  Patel, Robin ^a   Piper, Kerryl ^a   Cockerill III, Franklin R ^a   Steckelberg, James M ^a   Yousten, Allan A ^b  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VANCOMYCIN;

AGRICULTURE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; ENTEROCOCCUS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PAENIBACILLUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARBON-OXYGEN LIGASES; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 0033994788     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.44.3.705-709.2000     Document Type: Article

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