β-lactam induction of colanic acid gene expression in Escherichia coli

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 226, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 245-249

  Sailer, Frances C ^a   Meberg, Bernadette M ^a   Young, Kevin D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Capsule; Colanic acid; Escherichia coli; Penicillin binding protein; Peptidoglycan; lactam

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; BETA LACTAM; COLANIC ACID; POLYSACCHARIDE; ACID; AMPICILLIN; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CARBENICILLIN; CEFALORIDINE; CEFALOTIN; CEFOTETAN; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COLISTIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; NEOMYCIN; NITROFURANTOIN; NOVOBIOCIN; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN G; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFAFURAZOLE; SULTAMICILLIN; TETRACYCLINE; TICARCILLIN; TIMENTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BIOFILM; BIOSYNTHESIS; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME INDUCTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUSION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LACTOSE OPERON; METABOLISM; REPORTER GENE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; GENE EXPRESSION; LETHALITY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION;

ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; BACTERIAL CAPSULES; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BETA-LACTAMS; BIOFILMS; ENZYME INDUCTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; LAC OPERON; POLYSACCHARIDES;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0642285733     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(03)00616-5     Document Type: Article

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