Group IIC intron with an unusual target of integration in Enterobacter cloacae

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 194, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 150-160

  Rodríguez Martínez, Josŕ Manuel ^a   Nordmann, Patrice ^a   Poirel, Laurent ^a  

^a Associated French National Reference Center for Antibiotic Resistance: Carbapenemase producing Enterobacteriaceae   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA LACTAMASE; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; ENZYME; MATURASE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AADA1 GENE; AADB GENE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CASSETTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENOMICS; INTRON; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; INTEGRONS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PHYLOGENY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84855881432     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.05786-11     Document Type: Article

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