The farAB-encoded efflux pump mediates resistance of gonococci to long-chained antibacterial fatty acids

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 839-845

  Lee, Eun Hee ^a   Shafer, William M ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ATLANTA VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CARRIER PROTEIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; FATTY ACID; LINOLEIC ACID; OLEIC ACID; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG TRANSPORT; GENE EXPRESSION; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEMS, NEUTRAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; DRUG RESISTANCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FATTY ACIDS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; RNA, MESSENGER; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 0032782869     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01530.x     Document Type: Article

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