MexAB-OprM hyperexpression in NalC-type multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Identification and characterization of the nalC gene encoding a repressor of PA3720-PA3719

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1423-1436

  Cao, Lily ^a   Srikumar, Ramakrishnan ^a   Poole, Keith ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARBENICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE PROTEIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; NOVOBIOCIN; PROTEIN MEXAB OPRM; PROTEIN MEXR; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM MUTANT; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REPRESSOR GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSPOSON; WILD TYPE;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INSERTION SEQUENCES; NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 4444317855     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04210.x     Document Type: Article

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