Identification of an arsenic resistance and arsenic-sensing system in Campylobacter jejuni

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 5064-5073

  Wang, Liping ^a,b   Jeon, Byeonghwa ^a   Sahin, Orhan ^a   Zhang, Qijing ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL PRODUCTION; ARSENIC RESISTANCE; CAMPYLOBACTER; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CAMPYLOBACTER SPP; FEED ADDITIVES; HUMAN PATHOGENS; MOLECULAR MECHANISM; NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS; PCR ANALYSIS; SENSING SYSTEMS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL REPRESSORS;

ARSENIC; GENES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; SENSORS; TRANSCRIPTION;

ARSENIC COMPOUNDS;

AMPICILLIN; ARSENATE REDUCTASE; ARSENIC ACID; ARSENIC TRIOXIDE; CEFTIOFUR; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; KANAMYCIN; OXYTETRACYCLINE; POLYMYXIN B; ROXARSONE; STREPTOMYCIN; TILMICOSIN;

ARSENIC; BACTERIUM; DNA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; INHIBITION; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POULTRY;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGION;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ARSENATE REDUCTASES; ARSENIC; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; GENE ORDER; GENES, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POULTRY; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ANIMALIA; CAMPYLOBACTER; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI;

EID: 67651248041     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00149-09     Document Type: Article

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