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Tetracycline (Tet)
An antibiotic that inhibits protein synthesis by preventing aminoacyl tRNA from binding to ribosomes. There are several possible mechanisms of Tetracycline resistance.
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Tetracyclines
These are natural products derived from soil actinomycetes or their semi-synthetic derivatives. Examples:
chlortetracycline (trade name = "aureomycin")
oxytetracycline (trade name = "terramycin")
doxycycline ...
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Tetracyclines
Demeclocycline
Syphilis, chlamydial infections, Lyme disease, mycoplasmal infections, rickettsial infections ...
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Tetracyclines; aminoglycosides including gentamicin
Drugs which inhibit folate synthesis
Sulfonamides and trimethoprim ...
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So what they did was feed some wasps food that contained tetracycline, which kills microorganisms, and cross the wasps again.
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The tetracycline gene confers sensitivity to nickel, while the sacB gene confers sensitivity to sucrose.
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Kanamycin, streptomycin and tetracycline resistance genes found in gram negative and gram positive bacteria are essentially identical in nucleotide sequence.
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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.
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If such a plasmid is present in a host, that host will not be killed by (moderate levels of) ampicillin or tetracycline.
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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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