CesRK, a Two-Component Signal Transduction System in Listeria monocytogenes, Responds to the Presence of Cell Wall-Acting Antibiotics and Affects β-Lactam Resistance

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 3421-3429

  Kallipolitis, Birgitte H ^a   Ingmer, Hanne ^b   Gahan, Cormac G ^c   Hill, Colin ^c   Søgaard Andersen, Lotte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; AMPICILLIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CESK PROTEIN; CESR PROTEIN; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL DEATH; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INACTIVATION; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; CELL WALL; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ETHANOL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LAC OPERON; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MURAMIDASE; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROTEIN KINASES; RNA, BACTERIAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0242385535     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.47.11.3421-3429.2003     Document Type: Article

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