Distinction between the cfr methyltransferase conferring antibiotic resistance and the housekeeping rlmn methyltransferase

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 4019-4026

  Atkinson, Gemma C ^a   Hansen, Lykke H ^b   Tenson, Tanel ^a   Rasmussen, Anette ^b   Kirpekar, Finn ^b   Vester, Birte ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; CARBON; CLINDAMYCIN; CYSTEINE; DALFOPRISTIN PLUS QUINUPRISTIN; FLORFENICOL; LINEZOLID; METHYLTRANSFERASE; PEPTIDYLTRANSFERASE; RNA; RNA 23S; S ADENOSYLMETHIONINE; TIAMULIN; TRANSFER RNA;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; ATOM; CROSS LINKING; GENE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOME; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SCIURI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DATABASES, PROTEIN; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; METHYLATION; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

EID: 84880268294     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00448-13     Document Type: Article

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