Elongation factor Tu3 (EF-Tu3) from the kirromycin producer Streptomyces ramocissimus is resistant to three classes of EF-Tu-specific inhibitors

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 189, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 3581-3590

  Olsthoorn Tieleman, Lian N ^a   Palstra, Robert Jan T S ^a,c   Van Wezel, Gilles P ^a,b   Bibb, Mervyn J ^b   Pleij, Cornelis W A ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ELONGATION FACTOR TU; ELONGATION FACTOR TU1; ELONGATION FACTOR TU2; ELONGATION FACTOR TU3; ENACYLOXIN IIA; GE 2270A; MOCIMYCIN; PULVOMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; RIBOSOME; STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; STREPTOMYCES RAMOCISSIMUS; TUF1 GENE; TUF2 GENE; TUF3 GENE;

AMINOGLYCOSIDES; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR TU; PYRIDONES; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; THIAZOLES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

PROKARYOTA; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; STREPTOMYCES RAMOCISSIMUS;

EID: 34247580876     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01810-06     Document Type: Article

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