Tetracycline resistance gene classification: Class J

© Service of Biosafety & Biotechnology - Author: Jean-Marc Collard
Last revised: January 8, 1999



MECHANISM

Efflux
    Ribosomal protection  
    Enzymatic  
    Unknown  

MINOCYCLINE RESISTANCE

YES

 

NO



DISTRIBUTION


REPRESENTATIVES tetA (J)
GENETIC LOCATION Chromosome
SOURCE Proteus mirabilis
SEQUENCE ACCESS NB AF038993


PROTEIN WEIGHT
PROBES
PCR PRIMERS


  REFERENCES
1 Magalhaes, V. D., W. Schuman and B. A. Castilho. 1998. A new tetracycline resistance determinant cloned from Proteus mirabilis. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1443(1-2):262-266.