Undecaprenyl pyrophosphate phosphatase confers low-level resistance to bacitracin in Enterococcus faecalis

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 68, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1583-1593

  Shaaly, Aishath ^a   Kalamorz, Falk ^a,b   Gebhard, Susanne ^a,c   Cook, Gregory M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antimicrobials; Cell wall inhibitors; Gene expression

Indexed keywords

BACITRACIN; CEFOXITIN; CYCLOSERINE; ENROFLOXACIN; GENTAMICIN; LYSOZYME; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PHOSPHATASE; PYROPHOSPHATE; TEICOPLANIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNDECAPRENYL PYROPHOSPHATE PHOSPHATASE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BINDING SITE; BIOFILM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE FUSION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GROWTH RATE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PH; PROMOTER REGION; STOP CODON; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

EID: 84879470795     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkt048     Document Type: Article

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