Roles of TolC-dependent multidrug transporters of Escherichia coli in resistance to β-lactams

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 3030-3033

  Nishino, Kunihiko ^a,b,c   Yamada, Junko ^a,b   Hirakawa, Hidetada ^a,b   Hirata, Takahiro ^a,b   Yamaguchi, Akihito ^a,b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZTREONAM; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CARBENICILLIN; CEFAMANDOLE; CEFUROXIME; CLOXACILLIN; DEOXYCHOLIC ACID; DODECYL SULFATE SODIUM; ERYTHROMYCIN; FROPENEM; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NAFCILLIN; NOVOBIOCIN; OXACILLIN; SULBENICILLIN; TETRAPHENYLPHOSPHONIUM; TOLC PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TRANSPORT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MEMBRANE CHANNEL; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; P-GLYCOPROTEINS; PLASMIDS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0041922491     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.47.9.3030-3033.2003     Document Type: Article

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