nalB-type mutations causing the overexpression of the MexAB-OprM efflux pump are located in the mexR gene of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa chromosome

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 179, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 67-72

  Saito, Kohjiro ^a   Yoneyama, Hiroshi ^a   Nakae, Taiji ^a  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Efflux pump; Gene regulation; Multidrug resistance; Pseudomonas

Indexed keywords

AZTREONAM; CARBENICILLIN; CEFSULODIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; MEROPENEM; NALIDIXIC ACID; OFLOXACIN;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; ION TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; OPERON; POINT MUTATION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 0032821426     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00394-8     Document Type: Article

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