Phenothiazinium antimicrobial photosensitizers are substrates of bacterial multidrug resistance pumps

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 196-203

  Tegos, George P ^a,b   Hamblin, Michael R ^a,b,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,9 DIMETHYL METHYLENE BLUE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CATION; FREE RADICAL; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; METHYLENE BLUE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE INHIBITOR; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE PROTEIN PUMP; PHENOTHIAZINIUM; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENT; POLYLYSINE CHLORINE CONJUGATE; ROSE BENGAL; SINGLET OXYGEN; TOLONIUM CHLORIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL KILLING; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DRUG POTENTIATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LIGHT; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RED LIGHT; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; P-GLYCOPROTEINS; PHENOTHIAZINES; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 29944432302     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.50.1.196-203.2006     Document Type: Article

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