WhiB7, an Fe-S-dependent transcription factor that activates species-specific repertoires of drug resistance determinants in actinobacteria

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 288, Issue 48, 2013, Pages 34514-34528

  Ramón García, Santiago ^a   Ng, Carol ^a   Jensen, Pernille R ^b   Dosanjh, Manisha ^a   Burian, Jan ^a   Morris, Rowan P ^c   Folcher, Marc ^b   Eltis, Lindsay D ^a   Grzesiek, Stephan ^b   Nguyen, Liem ^d   Thompson, Charles J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^d CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; IRON-SULFUR CLUSTERS; MULTIDRUG TRANSPORTERS; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; SECONDARY METABOLISM; STREPTOMYCES LIVIDANS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATIONS;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; AMINO ACIDS; ANTIBIOTICS; BACTERIA; CELL PROLIFERATION; PROTEINS; SULFUR;

GENE EXPRESSION;

AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; APRAMYCIN; BACITRACIN; CERULENIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; CYCLOSERINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; ETHAMBUTOL; GATIFLOXACIN; HYGROMYCIN; IRON SULFUR PROTEIN; ISONIAZID; KANAMYCIN; MITOMYCIN; MOXIFLOXACIN; NOVOBIOCIN; OFLOXACIN; RESAZURIN; SPECTINOMYCIN; SPIRAMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR WHIB7; TRICLOSAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; AT RICH SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING MOTIF; DNA SEQUENCE; ERM GENE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULON; RHODOCOCCUS; RHODOCOCCUS JOSTII; STREPTOMYCES LIVIDANS; TAP GENE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; WHIB7 GENE;

EID: 84888986254     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M113.516385     Document Type: Article

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