Tetracycline (Tet)
An antibiotic that inhibits protein synthesis by preventing aminoacyl tRNA from binding to ribosomes. There are several possible mechanisms of Tetracycline resistance.
Tetracyclines
These are natural products derived from soil actinomycetes or their semi-synthetic derivatives. Examples:
chlortetracycline (trade name = "aureomycin")
oxytetracycline (trade name = "terramycin")
doxycycline ...
Tetracycline. An antibiotic that interferes with protein synthesis in prokaryotes.
Bactrim
Tetracyclines
Demeclocycline
Syphilis, chlamydial infections, Lyme disease, mycoplasmal infections, acne rickettsial infections ...
So what they did was feed some wasps food that contained tetracycline, which kills microorganisms, and cross the wasps again.
The tetracycline gene confers sensitivity to nickel, while the sacB gene confers sensitivity to sucrose.
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.
If the plasmid pBR322 is present in a host, that host will not be killed by (moderate levels of) ampicillin or tetracycline.
risk factors include an exposure to rabbits or recent tick bite. A vaccine is available for high risk workers. Treatment is with streptomycin or tetracycline. Tularaemia is fatal in 5% of untreated cases and in less than 1% of treated cases.
Online Medical Dictionary and glossary with medical definitions ... Another antibiotic, for example, is tetracycline (brand names: Achromycin and ...
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 See also: Trans, Bacteria, Antibiotic, Protein, Gene
  
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