Expression in Escherichia coli of a new multidrug efflux pump, MexXY, from Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 415-417

  Mine, Tomoyuki ^a   Morita, Yuji ^a   Kataoka, Atsuko ^a   Mizushima, Tohru ^a   Tsuchiya, Tomofusa ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHIDIUM; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032994954     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aac.43.2.415     Document Type: Article

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