Axe-Txe, a broad-spectrum proteic toxin-antitoxin system specified by a multidrug-resistant, clinical isolate of Enterococcus faecium

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1419-1432

  Grady, Ruth ^a   Hayes, Finbarr ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTITOXIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CYTOTOXICITY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUBACTERIUM; GENE CASSETTE; GENE SEGREGATION; GROWTH INHIBITION; HOST; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR STABILITY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CHLORAMPHENICOL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ERYTHROMYCIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; R FACTORS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STREPTOMYCIN; STREPTOTHRICINS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0037338682     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03387.x     Document Type: Article

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