Temperature-regulated efflux pump/potassium antiporter system mediates resistance to cationic antimicrobial peptides in Yersinia

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 67-80

  Bengoechea, José Antonio ^a   Skurnik, Mikael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIPORTER; BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; POLYMYXIN B; POTASSIUM;

ACIDIFICATION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; CYTOPLASM; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; IMMUNITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TEMPERATURE; YERSINIA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; ANTIPORTERS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; CATIONS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MUTATION; POLYMYXIN B; POTASSIUM; PROTEINS; TEMPERATURE; YERSINIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INVERTEBRATA; NEGIBACTERIA; ROSA; VERTEBRATA; YERSINIA;

EID: 0033925707     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01956.x     Document Type: Review

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