Relative strengths of promoters provided by common mobile genetic elements associated with resistance gene expression in Gram-negative bacteria

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 59, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 5088-5091

  Kamruzzaman, Muhammad ^a   Patterson, Jason D ^a   Shoma, Shereen ^a   Ginn, Andrew N ^a   Partridge, Sally R ^a   Iredell, Jonathan R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; IMIPENEM; MESSENGER RNA; BETA LACTAMASE; TRANSPOSON;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BINDING SITE; CLONING; COLONY FORMING UNIT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CASSETTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; INTEGRON; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RESTRICTION SITE; BIOSYNTHESIS; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; PLASMID; TRANSPOSON;

BETA-LACTAMASES; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC;

EID: 84939865007     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00420-15     Document Type: Article

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