The MexGHI-OpmD multidrug efflux pump controls growth, antibiotic susceptibility and virulence in Pseudomonas aeruginosa via 4-quinolone-dependent cell-to-cell communication

Microbiology

Volumn 151, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1113-1125

  Aedekerk, Séverine ^a,b   Diggle, Stephen P ^b   Song, Zhijun ^c   Høiby, Niels ^c   Cornelis, Pierre ^a   Williams, Paul ^b   Cámara, Miguel ^b  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 HEPTYL 3 HYDROXY 4(1H) QUINOLONE; 4 QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; ANTHRANILIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARBENICILLIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; GENE PRODUCT; KANAMYCIN; LACTONE DERIVATIVE; MUTANT PROTEIN; N ACYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE; NALIDIXIC ACID; OPMD PROTEIN; PORIN; PROTEIN MEXI; PROTEIN PHNA; PROTEIN PQSA; RIFAMPICIN; SERINE DERIVATIVE; SPECTINOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

4-BUTYROLACTONE; 4-QUINOLONES; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, BACTERIAL; LETTUCE; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PLANT DISEASES; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; QUINOLONES; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VIRULENCE;

PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 17644369248     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.27631-0     Document Type: Article

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