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Molecular analysis of a chromosome-carried erm(B) gene and its flanking insertion points in Lactobacillus johnsonii G41.

ABSTRACT: An erm(B) gene carried on the Lactobacillus johnsonii G41 chromosome and the upstream and downstream regions were fully sequenced. Apparently, a 1,495-bp segment of pRE25 from Enterococcus faecalis carrying the erm(B) gene became inserted, by an unknown mechanism, into the L. johnsonii chromosome.

SUBMITTER: Florez AB

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1694009 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Molecular analysis of a chromosome-carried erm(B) gene and its flanking insertion points in Lactobacillus johnsonii G41.

Flórez Ana Belén AB Ammor Mohammed Salim MS Delgado Susana S Mayo Baltasar B

Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 20060925 12

An erm(B) gene carried on the Lactobacillus johnsonii G41 chromosome and the upstream and downstream regions were fully sequenced. Apparently, a 1,495-bp segment of pRE25 from Enterococcus faecalis carrying the erm(B) gene became inserted, by an unknown mechanism, into the L. johnsonii chromosome. ...[more]

PMID: 17000744

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