The Vibrio cholerae var regulon encodes a metallo-β-lactamase and an antibiotic efflux pump, which are regulated by VarR, a LysR-type transcription factor

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Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2017, Pages

  Lin, Hong Ting Victor ^a   Massam Wu, Teresa ^b   Lin, Chen Ping ^a   Wang, Yen Jen Anna ^a   Shen, Yu Chi ^a   Lu, Wen Jung ^a   Hsu, Pang Hung ^a   Chen, Yu Hou ^c   Borges Walmsley, Maria Ines ^b,d   Walmsley, Adrian Robert ^b,d  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY   (Taiwan)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; AZTREONAM; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; CEFALOTIN; CEFEPIME; CEFUROXIME; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; IMIPENEM; LATAMOXEF; MEROPENEM; METALLO BETA LACTAMASE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PIPERACILLIN; PROTEIN VARR; SPIRAMYCIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ABC TRANSPORTER; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BETA LACTAMASE; CARRIER PROTEIN; PROTEIN BINDING; SPACER DNA;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PROMOTER REGION; REGULON; VARA GENE; VARABCDEF GENE; VARBC GENE; VARC GENE; VARG GENE; VARGA GENE; VARRG GENE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; DRUG EFFECTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HYDROLYSIS; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-LACTAMASES; DNA, INTERGENIC; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HYDROLYSIS; KINETICS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; REGULON; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 85029443758     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0184255     Document Type: Article

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