Wide variation in antibiotic resistance proteins identified by functional metagenomic screening of a soil DNA library

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1708-1714

  McGarvey, Kelly M ^a   Queitsch, Konstantin ^a   Fields, Stanley ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLTRANSFERASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINOGLYCOSIDES; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; DIHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBES; KANAMYCINS; METAGENOMIC DNA; NOVEL PROTEINS; PAIR-WISE COMPARISON; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTIONS; PROTEIN SEQUENCES; PROTEIN STRUCTURES; SOIL DNA; SOIL MICROBES; TRIMETHOPRIM;

AMINO ACIDS; ANTIBIOTICS; BACTERIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; SOILS;

PROTEINS;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; DIVERGENCE; DNA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GENOMICS; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; PROTEIN; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL TYPE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; METAGENOME; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC VARIATION; METAGENOME; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84857881745     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.06759-11     Document Type: Article

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