Tetracycline (Tet)
An
antibiotic that inhibits
protein synthesis by preventing aminoacyl t
RNA from binding to
ribosomes. There are several possible mechanisms of
Tetracycline resistance.
Full article >>>Tetracyclines
These are natural products derived from soil
actinomycetes or their semi-synthetic derivatives. Examples:
chlor
tetracycline (trade name = "aureomycin")
oxy
tetracycline (trade name = "terramycin")
doxycycline ...
Full article >>>Tetracyclines
Demeclocycline
Syphilis, chlamydial infections, Lyme disease, mycoplasmal infections, rickettsial infections ...
Full article >>>Tetracyclines; aminoglycosides including gentamicin
Drugs which inhibit folate synthesis
Sulfonamides and trimethoprim ...
Full article >>>So what they did was feed some wasps food that contained
tetracycline, which kills microorganisms, and cross the wasps again.
Full article >>>The
tetracycline gene confers sensitivity to nickel, while the sacB
gene confers sensitivity to sucrose.
Full article >>>Kanamycin, streptomycin and
tetracycline resistance genes found in gram negative and gram positive
bacteria are essentially identical in
nucleotide sequence.
Full article >>>Levy is a professor of Molecular and
Microbiology and a professor of Medicine at Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts where he researches the
Tetracycline Efflux
Protein.
Full article >>>If such a
plasmid is present in a
host, that
host will not be killed by (moderate levels of) ampicillin or
tetracycline.
Full article >>>Tetracycline. An
antibiotic that interferes with
protein synthesis in
prokaryotes. Thymidine
kinase (tk). An
enzyme that allows a
cell to utilize an alternate metabolic pathway for incorporating thymidine into
DNA.
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