Origin-of-transfer sequences facilitate mobilisation of non-conjugative antimicrobial-resistance plasmids in Staphylococcus aureus

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 43, Issue 16, 2015, Pages 7971-7983

  O'Brien, Frances G ^a,b   Eto, Karina Yui ^a   Murphy, Riley J T ^a   Fairhurst, Heather M ^a   Coombs, Geoffrey W ^a,b,c   Grubb, Warren B ^a,b   Ramsay, Joshua P ^a,b  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c FIONA STANLEY HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; ERYTHROMYCIN; RELAXASE; STREPTOMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOTE; INVERTED REPEAT; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; ORIGIN OF TRANSFER GENE; ORIGIN OF TRANSFER SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMPO GENE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; CHEMISTRY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; INVERTED REPEAT SEQUENCES; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84942279619     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv755     Document Type: Article

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