Stress-based identification and classification of antibacterial agents: Second-generation Escherichia coli reporter strains and optimization of detection

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 2490-2497

  Shapiro, Elyse ^a   Baneyx, François ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CARBENICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; ETHIDIUM BROMIDE; NALIDIXIC ACID; NEOMYCIN; NOVOBIOCIN; OFLOXACIN; POLYMYXIN B; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; BACTERIAL DNA; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; DNA REPLICATION; DRUG CLASSIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUSION GENE; GENE INACTIVATION; HYDROPHOBICITY; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; REPORTER GENE; RNA TRANSLATION; STRESS; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; LACTOSE OPERON; PERMEABILITY;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, QUINOLONE; ANTIBIOTICS; ANTIBIOTICS, AMINOGLYCOSIDE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CHLORAMPHENICOL; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; LAC OPERON; NALIDIXIC ACID; PERMEABILITY; STREPTOMYCIN; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS;

EID: 0035991865     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.46.8.2490-2497.2002     Document Type: Article

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