Characterization of a small erythromycin resistance plasmid pLFE1 from the food-isolate Lactobacillus plantarum M345

Plasmid

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 159-170

  Feld, Louise ^a   Bielak, Eliza ^a   Hammer, Karin ^a   Wilcks, Andrea ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Erythromycin resistance gene; Host range; Lactobacillus plantarum; Mobilization; Plasmid; Sequence

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; NUCLEIC ACID BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN MOB; REPLICATION INITIATION PROTEIN REPB; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR COPG; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HOST RANGE; LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DISK DIFFUSION ANTIMICROBIAL TESTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ERYTHROMYCIN; LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; REPLICATION ORIGIN; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM; LACTOBACILLUS RHAMNOSUS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; LISTERIA INNOCUA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

EID: 64549104593     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: 10959890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plasmid.2009.01.002     Document Type: Article

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