Loss of penicillin tolerance by inactivating the carbon catabolite repression determinant CcpA in Streptococcus gordonii

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 607-615

  Bizzini, A ^a   Entenza, J M ^a   Moreillon, Philippe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Arginine deiminase; Experimental endocarditis

Indexed keywords

CARBON CATABOLITE CONTROL PROTEIN A; ERYTHROMYCIN; PENICILLIN G; PROCAINE PENICILLIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; STREPTOMYCIN; SUGAR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARBON; CATABOLITE CONTROL PROTEIN, BACTERIA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PRIMER DNA; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CATABOLITE REPRESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EXPOSURE; DRUG TOLERANCE; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INACTIVATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RAT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS GORDONII; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEGETATION; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STREPTOCOCCUS; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CARBON; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GENES, BACTERIAL; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PENICILLINS; PHENOTYPE; PLASMIDS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

EID: 34249980190     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkm021     Document Type: Article

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