Characterization of an inducible vancomycin resistance system in Streptomyces coelicolor reveals a novel gene (vanK) required for drug resistance

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1107-1121

  Hong, Hee Jeon ^a   Hutchings, Matthew I ^a   Neu, John M ^b   Wright, Gerard D ^b   Paget, Mark S B ^a,c   Buttner, Mark J ^a  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A47934; ALANINE; AMINO ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHLOROEREMOMYCIN; GLYCOPEPTIDE; KANAMYCIN; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; RISTOCETIN; TEICOPLANIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOASSAY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL WALL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRECURSOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; VANK GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARBON-OXYGEN LIGASES; CELL WALL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE ORDER; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; KANAMYCIN RESISTANCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OPERON; PROTEIN KINASES; SERINE-TYPE D-ALA-D-ALA CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STREPTOMYCES; TEICOPLANIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VANCOMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR;

EID: 3142743426     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04032.x     Document Type: Article

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