Article
Genes involved in the regulation of beta-lactamase production in enterococci and staphylococci.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 1 Sept 1993
Zscheck K K, Murray B E
Abstract excerpt
In enterococci, the structural gene for beta-lactamase (blaZ) is identical to blaZ from Staphylococcus aureus. However, in the enterococci studied to date, beta-lactamase is produced constitutively, whereas in staphylococci it is often inducible. Recent reports have revealed the presence of two adjacent genes upstream of the staphylococcal blaZ thought to be the antirepressor (blaR1) and repressor (blaI) genes....
Topics
- Base Sequence
- Chromosome Mapping
- DNA Transposable Elements
- DNA, Bacterial
- Enterococcus
- Genes, Suppressor
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Plasmids
- Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid
- Staphylococcus aureus