Enterococcal plasmid transfer: Sex pheromones, transfer origins, relaxases, and the Staphylococcus aureus issue

Plasmid

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 193-201

  Clewell, Don B ^a,b   Francia, M Victoria ^b   Flannagan, Susan E ^b   An, Florence Y ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CAD PROTEIN; LIPOPROTEIN; METALLOPROTEINASE; PLASMID DNA; PROTEIN CAD1; PROTEIN CAM373; PROTEIN CAME; PROTEIN PAD1; PROTEIN PAM ALPHA1; RELAXASE; SEX PHEROMONE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL VIABILITY; CHROMOSOME; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; GENE TRANSFER; HORMONE RESPONSE; INVERTED REPEAT; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0036926341     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0147-619X(02)00113-0     Document Type: Short Survey

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