Lon protease inactivation, or translocation of the lon gene, potentiate bacterial evolution to antibiotic resistance

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1233-1248

  Nicoloff, Hervé ^a   Andersson, Dan I ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACRAB PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ENDOPEPTIDASE LA; MARA PROTEIN; SOXS PROTEIN; TOLC PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACRAB GENE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL EVOLUTION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INACTIVATION; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DUPLICATION; LON GENE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STABILITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROTEASE LA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 84890127117     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12429     Document Type: Article

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