Heat Shock Treatment Increases the Frequency of Loss of an Erythromycin Resistance-Encoding Transposable Element from the Chromosome of Lactobacillus crispatus CHCC3692

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 7173-7180

  Strøman, Per ^a,b   Müller, Christina C ^a   Sørensen, Kim I ^a  

^a CHR HANSEN A S   (Denmark)

^b Dept of Genom and Strain Devmt ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; BACTERIA; DNA SEQUENCES; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HEAT TREATMENT;

HEAT SHOCK TREATMENT; LACTIC ACID BACTERIA;

BACTERIOLOGY;

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA FRAGMENT; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENOMIC DNA; RNA; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; METHYLTRANSFERASE; RRNA (ADENOSINE O 2' )METHYLTRANSFERASE; RRNA (ADENOSINE-O-2'-)METHYLTRANSFERASE; TRANSPOSASE;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIUM CULTURE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HEAT SHOCK; LACTIC ACID BACTERIUM; LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOBACILLUS CRISPATUS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TRANSPOSON; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HEAT; HEAT SHOCK RESPONSE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SWINE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; INSERTION SEQUENCES; LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOBACILLUS CRISPATUS; LACTOBACILLUS REUTERI; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TRANSPOSONS; UNIDENTIFIED INSERTION SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HEAT; HEAT-SHOCK RESPONSE; LACTOBACILLUS; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SWINE; TRANSPOSASES;

EID: 2142854617     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.12.7173-7180.2003     Document Type: Article

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