Mechanism of uptake of a cationic water-soluble pyridinium zinc phthalocyanine across the outer membrane of Escherichia coli

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 522-527

  Minnock, Andrew ^a,b   Vernon, David I ^a,b   Schofield, Jack ^a,b   Griffiths, John ^a,b   Parish, J Howard ^a,b   Brown, Stanley B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CLOXACILLIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; FUSIDIC ACID; MAGNESIUM ION; NOVOBIOCIN; PHTHALOCYANINE ZINC; PYRIDINIUM DERIVATIVE; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG STRUCTURE; DRUG UPTAKE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSENSITIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INDOLES; MAGNESIUM; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; PROTOPORPHYRINS;

EID: 0033999152     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.44.3.522-527.2000     Document Type: Article

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