Responses of wild-type and resistant strains of the hyperthermophilic bacterium Thermotoga maritima to chloramphenicol challenge

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 5058-5065

  Montero, Clemente I ^a,b   Johnson, Matthew R ^a,c   Chou, Chung Jung ^a   Conners, Shannon B ^a,d   Geouge, Sarah G ^a   Tachdjian, Sabrina ^a   Nichols, Jason D ^a   Kelly, Robert M ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c PFIZER INC   (United States)

^d SAS INSTITUTE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; GROWTH KINETICS; RNA;

CHLORAMPHENICOL; GROWTH PHYSIOLOGIES; HYPERTHERMOPHILE THERMOTOGA MARITIMA;

BACTERIA;

CHLORAMPHENICOL; RNA 23S; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANTIBIOTICS; GROWTH RESPONSE; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM; WILD POPULATION;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; DRUG EXPOSURE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HYPERTHERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM; MESOPHILIC BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA; WILD TYPE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HEAT; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; POINT MUTATION; PROTEOME; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); THERMOTOGA MARITIMA;

EID: 34547760735     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00453-07     Document Type: Article

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