Drug efflux proteins in multidrug resistant bacteria

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 378, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 769-777

  Van Veen, Hendrik W ^a   Konings, Wil N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; ATP binding cassette transporter; P glycoprotein; Prokaryotes; Secondary transporter; Transport mechanism

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; DRUG TRANSPORT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0030862586     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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