Identification of the CysB-regulated gene, hslJ, related to the Escherichia coli novobiocin resistance phenotype

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 224, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 239-246

  Lilic, Mirjana ^a,b   Jovanovic, Milija ^a   Jovanovic, Goran ^a   Savic, Dragutin J ^a,c  

^a Institute of Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering   (Yugoslavia)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

cysB; hslJ; Negative regulation; Resistance to novobiocin

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; NOVOBIOCIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; LACZ GENE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATOR GENE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; WILD TYPE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; SALMONELLA;

EID: 0043210397     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(03)00441-5     Document Type: Article

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