The avilamycin resistance determinants AviRa and AviRb methylate 23S rRNA at the guanosine 2535 base and the uridine 2479 ribose

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 309-318

  Treede, Irina ^a   Jakobsen, Lene ^b   Kirpekar, Finn ^b   Vester, Birte ^b   Weitnauer, Gabriele ^a   Bechthold, Andreas ^a   Douthwaite, Stephen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AVILAMYCIN; AVILAMYCIN A; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; EVERNIMICIN; GROWTH PROMOTOR; GUANOSINE; METHYL GROUP; METHYLTRANSFERASE; ORTHOSOMYCIN; PROTEIN AVIRA METHYLATE; PROTEIN AVIRB METHYLATE; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 23S; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URIDINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANIMAL FOOD; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOSYNTHESIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DRUG BINDING; DRUG MECHANISM; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC CODE; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN METHYLATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; R FACTOR; RIBOSOME SUBUNIT; STREPTOMYCES;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GUANOSINE; METHYLATION; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OLIGOSACCHARIDES; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; STREPTOMYCES; URIDINE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES VIRIDOCHROMOGENES;

EID: 0038045324     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03558.x     Document Type: Article

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