The 27.8-kb R-plasmid pTET3 from Corynebacterium glutamicum encodes the aminoglycoside adenyltransferase gene cassette aadA9 and the regulated tetracycline efflux system Tet 33 flanked by active copies of the widespread insertion sequence IS6100

Plasmid

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 117-129

  Tauch, Andreas ^a,b   Götker, Susanne ^b   Pühler, Alfred ^b   Kalinowski, Jörn ^b   Thierbach, Georg ^a  

^a EVONIK INDUSTRIES AG   (Germany)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Class 1 integron; Corynebacterium glutamicum; Gene cassette; Horizontal gene transfer; Plasmid genome; Tetracycline efflux system

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE DERIVATIVE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; SPECTINOMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE; TRANSFERASE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA TRANSPOSITION; GENE CASSETTE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC CODE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CORYNEBACTERIUM; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; OPEN READING FRAMES; R FACTORS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECTINOMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; INSERTION SEQUENCES; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; UNIDENTIFIED INSERTION SEQUENCE;

EID: 0036417217     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0147-619X(02)00120-8     Document Type: Article

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