RamA is an alternate activator of the multidrug resistance cascade in Enterobacter aerogenes

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 2518-2523

  Chollet, Renaud ^a   Chevalier, Jacqueline ^a   Bollet, Claude ^a   Pages, Jean Marie ^a   Davin Regli, Anne ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACRA PROTEIN; ACRAB PROTEIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CEFEPIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; GENE PRODUCT; MARA PROTEIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; NORFLOXACIN; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; PORIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RAMA PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; TETRACYCLINE; TOLC PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; ENTEROBACTER AEROGENES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN INDUCTION; REGULON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ENTEROBACTER AEROGENES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, MDR; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PLASMIDS; PORINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 3042673248     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.48.7.2518-2523.2004     Document Type: Article

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