Functional characterization of a cassette-specific promoter in the class 1 integron-associated qnrVC1 gene

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 3392-3394

  Da Fonseca, Érica Lourenço ^a   Vicente, Ana Carolina Paulo ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAMASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FLUORESCEIN ISOTHIOCYANATE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CLONING; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CASSETTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VITRO STUDY; INTEGRON; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; QNRVC1 GENE; REPORTER GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIBRIO PARAHAEMOLYTICUS;

DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INTEGRONS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC;

EID: 84861151983     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00113-12     Document Type: Article

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