Combined treatment with the antibiotics kanamycin and streptomycin promotes the conjugation of Escherichia coli

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 348, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 149-156

  Zhang, Peng Yi ^a   Xu, Pei Pei ^a   Xia, Zhi Jie ^a   Wang, Jing ^a   Xiong, Juan ^a   Li, Yue Zhong ^a  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Conjugative transfer; Dual selective antibiotics; Escherichia coli; Promotion

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; KANAMYCIN; OLIGOPEPTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; RIBOSE BINDING PROTEIN; STREPTOMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIABILITY; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; CELL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG EFFECT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; GROWTH INHIBITION; LOW DRUG DOSE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TWO DIMENSIONAL ELECTROPHORESIS; UPREGULATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

CONJUGATIVE TRANSFER; DUAL-SELECTIVE ANTIBIOTICS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROMOTION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; KANAMYCIN; PLASMIDS; STREPTOMYCIN;

EID: 84886441912     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1574-6968.12282     Document Type: Article

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