The 79,370-bp conjugative plasmid pB4 consists of an IncP-1β backbone loaded with a chromate resistance transposon, the strA-strB streptomycin resistance gene pair, the oxacillinase gene blaNPS-1, and a tripartite antibiotic efflux system of the resistance-nodulation-division family

Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Volumn 268, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 570-584

  Tauch, A ^a   Schluter A ^a   Bischoff, N ^a   Goesmann, A ^a   Meyer, F ^a   Puhler A ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Horizontal gene transfer; IncP 1 plasmid; Multidrug efflux system; Plasmid evolution; Resistance nodulation division family

Indexed keywords

CHROMIC ACID; ERYTHROMYCIN; ISOPROTEIN; OXACILLINASE; PROTEIN BLA; PROTEIN INCP 1; PROTEIN STRA; PROTEIN STRB; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; ROXITHROMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC CODE; GENOME; INTEGRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INSERTION SEQUENCES; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS SP.; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 0037293014     PISSN: 16174615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00438-002-0785-z     Document Type: Article

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