Enhancement of the mexAB-oprM Efflux Pump Expression by a Quorum-Sensing Autoinducer and Its Cancellation by a Regulator, MexT, of the mexEF-oprN Efflux Pump Operon in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1320-1328

  Maseda, Hideaki ^a,b   Sawada, Isao ^a   Saito, Kohjiro ^b   Uchiyama, Hiroo ^a   Nakae, Taiji ^b   Nomura, Nobuhiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CHLORAMPHENICOL; DNA; HOMOSERINE; IMIPENEM; LACTONE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; GENE; GENE MUTATION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REGULATORY MECHANISM; WESTERN BLOTTING;

4-BUTYROLACTONE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA, RECOMBINANT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LAC OPERON; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; OPERON; PLASMIDS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 1642543119     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.48.4.1320-1328.2004     Document Type: Article

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