Tn6188 - A Novel Transposon in Listeria monocytogenes Responsible for Tolerance to Benzalkonium Chloride

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Müller, Anneliese ^a   Rychli, Kathrin ^a   Muhterem Uyar, Meryem ^a   Zaiser, Andreas ^a   Stessl, Beatrix ^a   Guinane, Caitriona M ^b   Cotter, Paul D ^b,c   Wagner, Martin ^a   Schmitz Esser, Stephan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^b TEAGASC FOOD RESEARCH CENTRE   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZALKONIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; DELETION MUTANT; DNA INTEGRATION; FIRMICUTES; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; QACH GENE; RADC GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROTYPE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TETR GENE; TNPA GENE; TNPB GENE; TNPC GENE; TRANSPOSON; TRANSPOSON TN5406; TRANSPOSON TN554; TRANSPOSON TN558; TRANSPOSON TN559; TRANSPOSON TN6188;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BENZALKONIUM COMPOUNDS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD HANDLING; HUMANS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 84884891596     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076835     Document Type: Article

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