Role of multiple efflux pumps in Escherichia coli in indole expulsion

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 179, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 345-352

  Kawamura Sato, Kumiko ^a   Shibayama, Keigo ^b   Horii, Toshinobu ^a   Iimuma, Yoshitsugu ^a   Arakawa, Yoshichika ^b   Ohta, Michio ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Drug resistance; Escherichia coli; Indole; Multidrug transporter; Site directed mutagenesis

Indexed keywords

ACRIDINE ORANGE; ACRIFLAVINE; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CRYSTAL VIOLET; DEOXYCHOLATE SODIUM; DODECYL SULFATE SODIUM; ERYTHROMYCIN; ETHACRIDINE LACTATE; ETHIDIUM; GLYCOPROTEIN P; INDOLE; KANAMYCIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; NOVOBIOCIN; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE; TRYPTOPHAN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ION TRANSPORT; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

CARRIER PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INDOLES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0032880725     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00433-4     Document Type: Article

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