Analysis of the pSK1 replicon, a prototype from the staphylococcal multiresistance plasmid family

Microbiology

Volumn 154, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3084-3094

  Kwong, Stephen M ^a   Lim, Ricky ^a   LeBard, Rebecca J ^a,b   Skurray, Ronald A ^a   Firth, Neville ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; HELICASE; HYBRID PROTEIN; KANAMYCIN; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE PROTEIN; PLASMID DNA; PLASMID SK1; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; TETRACYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN; TRIMETHOPRIM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE NUMBER; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REPLICON; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; DNA REPLICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DOSAGE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPLICON; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, BACTERIAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

EID: 55549116013     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2008/017418-0     Document Type: Article

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