Investigating the impact of bisphosphonates and structurally related compounds on bacteria containing conjugative plasmids

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 424, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 697-703

  Nash, Rebekah P ^a   McNamara, Dan E ^a,d   Keith Ballentine III, W ^a   Matson, Steven W ^b   Redinbo, Matthew R ^a,c  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Bisphosphonate; Conjugative plasmid transfer; F plasmid; Relaxase

Indexed keywords

BISPHOSPHONIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; CELL FRACTIONATION; CELL POPULATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL TRANSFER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CHELATING AGENTS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DIPHOSPHONATES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; F FACTOR; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PLASMIDS; R FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84864822276     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2012.07.012     Document Type: Article

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