Bacterial Signal Transduction Systems for Environmental Adaptation and Their Inhibitors

Microbes and Environments

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-5

  Utsumi, Ryutaro ^a  

^a KINKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

drug efflux pump; inhibitor; Mg2+ regulon; signal transduction; two component system

Indexed keywords

EID: 0142068182     PISSN: 13426311     EISSN: 13474405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1264/jsme2.2002.1     Document Type: Article

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