Selection of an Antibiotic-Hypersusceptible Mutant of Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Identification of the GlmR Transcriptional Regulator

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 843-851

  Ramos Aires, Julio ^a,c   Plésiat, Patrick ^b   Kocjancic Curty, Lasta ^a   Köhler, Thilo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL JEAN MINJOZ   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZTREONAM; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CIPROFLOXACIN; COLISTIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; FUSIDIC ACID; GENTAMICIN; GLYCOPEPTIDE; IMIPENEM; LINCOMYCIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PROTEIN DEOR; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; RIFAMPICIN; TEICOPLANIN; TICARCILLIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; VANCOMYCIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GLMR GENE; GLMS GENE; GLMU GENE; HEAT SHOCK; LOW TEMPERATURE; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOLOGY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTAGENESIS; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; OSMOTIC STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSPOSON; WILD TYPE;

AMINO SUGARS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIOPHAGES; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PLASMIDS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 1442275671     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.48.3.843-851.2004     Document Type: Article

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