Tetracycline resistance gene classification: Class Z

© Service of Biosafety & Biotechnology - Author: Jean-Marc Collard
Last revised: June 28, 1999




MECHANISM Efflux
  Ribosomal protection
    Enzymatic
    Unknown

MINOCYCLINE RESISTANCE

YES

NO



DISTRIBUTION Corynebacterium


REPRESENTATIVES tetA(Z)
GENETIC LOCATION pAG1 plasmid
SOURCE Corynebacterium glutamicum
SEQUENCE ACCESS NB AF121000


PROTEIN WEIGHT
PROBES
PCR PRIMERS

  REFERENCE
1 Tauch, A., A. Puehler, and J. Kalinowski. DNA sequence and genetic organization of pAG1, a 19.8-kb R-plasmid of Corynebacterium glutamicum encoding a new class of tetracycline efflux and repressor proteins. Unpublished.