Role for tandem duplication and lon protease in AcrAB-TolC-dependent multiple antibiotic resistance (Mar) in an Escherichia coli mutant without mutations in marRAB or acrRAB

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 188, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 4413-4423

  Nicoloff, Hervé ^a   Perreten, Vincent ^a,b   McMurry, Laura M ^a   Levy, Stuart B ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ENDOPEPTIDASE LA; PROTEIN ACRAB; PROTEIN MARA; REGULATOR PROTEIN; TETRACYCLINE; TOLC PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACRRAB GENE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BACTERIUM MUTANT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; MARRAB GENE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MULTIPLE ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; LIPOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MUTATION; PROTEASE LA; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TETRACYCLINE;

ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33744998721     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01502-05     Document Type: Article

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