Characterization of MarR, the repressor of the multiple antibiotic resistance (mar) operon in Escherichia coli.

doi:10.1128/jb.177.12.3414-3419.1995

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Characterization of MarR, the repressor of the multiple antibiotic resistance (mar) operon in Escherichia coli.

Journal of bacteriology - 1 Jun 1995

Seoane A S, Levy S B

Abstract excerpt

The marRAB operon is one of two operons in the mar locus of Escherichia coli that are divergently transcribed from a central regulatory region, marO. The marRAB operon, transcribed from marOII, controls intrinsic resistance or susceptibility to multiple antibiotics and is inducible by structurall...

Topics

Bacterial Proteins
Cloning, Molecular
DNA-Binding Proteins
Drug Resistance, Multiple
Escherichia coli
Escherichia coli Proteins
Mutation
Operon
Repressor Proteins
Temperature
beta-Galactosidase

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