The tetracycline resistance protein Tet(O) perturbs the conformation of the ribosomal decoding centre

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1463-1472

  Connell, Sean R ^a,b   Trieber, Catharine A ^a   Stelzl, Ulrich ^b   Einfeldt, Edda ^b   Taylor, Diane E ^a   Nierhaus, Knud H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMETHYL SULFATE; PROTEIN; RIBOSOME RNA; TETRACYCLINE; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BINDING SITE; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CONFORMATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DRUG RELEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RIBOSOME;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CARRIER PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RIBOSOMES; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAMPYLOBACTER; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI;

EID: 0036035221     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2002.03115.x     Document Type: Article

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