Novel tetracycline resistance determinant isolated from an environmental strain of Serratia marcescens

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2199-2206

  Thompson, Stuart A ^a   Maani, Elizabeth V ^a   Lindell, Angela H ^b   King, Catherine J ^b   McArthur, J Vaun ^b  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DELETION ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; TETRACYCLINE;

DRUG DELIVERY; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; MERCURY (METAL); MUTAGENESIS; PROTEINS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

AMINO ACID; CARRIER PROTEIN; GLYCOPROTEIN P; HEAVY METAL; KANAMYCIN; MERCURY; PROTEIN TETA; PROTEIN TETR; SPACER DNA; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIUM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DNA; GENE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HEAVY METAL; MERCURY (ELEMENT); PHYLOGENETICS; PLASMID; WATER POLLUTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; LACZ GENE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PREDICTION; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; STREAM (RIVER); TETA GENE; TRANSPOSON; WATER POLLUTANT;

BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; MERCURY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SERRATIA MARCESCENS; TETRACYCLINE; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE;

ACINETOBACTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SERRATIA MARCESCENS;

EID: 34247547843     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02511-06     Document Type: Article

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