Antibiotic-inducible promoter regulated by the cell envelope stress-sensing two-component system LiaRS of Bacillus subtilis

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 2888-2896

  Mascher, Thorsten ^a,b   Zimmer, Sara L ^a   Smith, Terry Ann ^a   Helmann, John D ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACITRACIN; BAMBERMYCIN; CEPHALOSPORIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CYCLOSERINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; FOSFOMYCIN; KANAMYCIN; LINCOMYCIN; LINCOSAMIDE; MACROLIDE; NEOMYCIN; NISIN; POLYMYXIN B; RAMOPLANIN; STREPTOGRAMIN; TUNICAMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SOIL MICROFLORA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CELL MEMBRANE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; LAC OPERON; LIPID METABOLISM; MEMBRANE LIPIDS; OPERON; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 3342908566     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.48.8.2888-2896.2004     Document Type: Article

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