HipA-mediated antibiotic persistence via phosphorylation of the glutamyl-tRNA-synthetase

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Kaspy, Ilana ^a   Rotem, Eitan ^b   Weiss, Noga ^b   Ronin, Irine ^b   Balaban, Nathalie Q ^b   Glaser, Gad ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANTITOXIN; GLUTAMATE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; HIPA PROTEIN; NORFLOXACIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; TOXIN; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BINDING SITE; BIOFILM; COLD SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE LIBRARY; GLUTAMATE-TRNA LIGASE; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHORYLATION; SERINE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84890639139     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4001     Document Type: Article

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