Identification and Characterization of the emhABC Efflux System for Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Pseudomonas fluorescens cLP6a

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 185, Issue 21, 2003, Pages 6233-6240

  Hearn, Elizabeth M ^a   Dennis, Jonathan J ^a   Gray, Murray R ^a   Foght, Julia M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHRACENE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; ERYTHROMYCIN; FLUORANTHENE; GENE PRODUCT; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE PROTEIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; NAPHTHALENE; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PHENANTHRENE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; RESISTANCE NODULATION CELL DIVISION PROTEIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; TOLUENE; TRIMETHOPRIM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; DRUG EXCRETION; DRUG SELECTIVITY; EMHA GENE; EMHABC GENE; EMHB GENE; EMHC GENE; GENE CASSETTE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE LOCATION; HYDROPHOBICITY; MEMBRANE FUSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS CLP6A; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; RND PUMP GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANTHRACENES; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; FLUORENES; GENE DELETION; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHENANTHRENES; PHYLOGENY; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS;

AZOTOBACTER; AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BURKHOLDERIA; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; INSERTION SEQUENCES; NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

EID: 0142183496     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.185.21.6233-6240.2003     Document Type: Article

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