Tetracycline resistance gene classification: Class I

© Service of Biosafety & Biotechnology - Author: Jean-Marc Collard
Last revised: January 8, 1998



MECHANISM

Efflux (?)
    Ribosomal protection  
    Enzymatic  
    Unknown  

MINOCYCLINE RESISTANCE

YES

 

NO



DISTRIBUTION


REPRESENTATIVES
GENETIC LOCATION
SOURCE
SEQUENCE ACCESS NB Unsequenced


PROTEIN WEIGHT
PROBES
PCR PRIMERS


  REFERENCES
1 Jones C. S., D. J. Osborne, and J. Stanley. 1992. Cloning of a probe for a previously undescribed enterobacterial tetracycline resistance gene. Lett. Appl. Microbiob. 15:106-108.
2 Roberts, M. C. 1996. Tetracycline resistance determinants: mechanisms of action, regulation of expression, genetic mobility, and distribution. FEMS Microbiol. Rev. 19:1-24.