Multidrug resistance mechanisms: Drug efflux across two membranes

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 219-225

  Zgurskaya, Helen I ^a   Nikaido, Hiroshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DETERGENT; LIPOPROTEIN; ORGANIC SOLVENT;

BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHOLIPID BILAYER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL MEMBRANE; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; ION CHANNELS; PERIPLASM;

EID: 0033912430     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01926.x     Document Type: Review

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