ICESluvan, a 94-kilobase mosaic integrative conjugative element conferring interspecies transfer of VanB-type glycopeptide resistance, a novel bacitracin resistance locus, and a toxin-antitoxin stabilization system

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 195, Issue 23, 2013, Pages 5381-5390

  Bjørkeng, Eva K ^a   Hjerde, Erik ^a   Pedersen, Torunn ^b   Sundsfjord, Arnfinn ^a,b   Hegstad, Kristin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTITOXIN; BACITRACIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; RECOMBINASE; TEICOPLANIN; TRANSFER RNA METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FAECALIBACTERIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENE STRUCTURE; INTEGRATIVE CONJUGATIVE ELEMENT; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PAENIBACILLUS; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS LUTETIENSIS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTITOXINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GLYCOPEPTIDES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PLASMIDS; STREPTOCOCCUS; VANCOMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 84887515807     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.02165-12     Document Type: Article

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