Mycobacterium smegmatis Erm(38) is a reluctant dimethyltransferase

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 3803-3809

  Madsen, Christian Toft ^a,b   Jakobsen, Lene ^a   Douthwaite, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINDAMYCIN; ERM DIMETHYLTRANSFERASE; ERYTHROMYCIN; LINCOSAMIDE; MACROLIDE; MIKAMYCIN B; QUINUPRISTIN; RIBOSOME RNA; TELITHROMYCIN; TRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; DRUG TOLERANCE; ERM GENE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHYLATION; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; PHENOTYPE; PLASMIDS; RIBOSOMES; RNA; RNA, BACTERIAL; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; STREPTOGRAMIN B;

EID: 24144502088     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.49.9.3803-3809.2005     Document Type: Article

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