Multidrug resistance pump AcrAB-TolC is required for high-level, Tet(A)-mediated tetracycline resistance in Escherichia coli

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 31-36

  de Cristóbal, Ricardo E ^a   Vincent, Paula A ^a   Salomón, Raúl A ^a  

^a Instituto Superior de Investigaciones Biologicas   (Argentina)

Author keywords

E. coli; Tet(A) AcrAB interplay; Tetracycline susceptibility; tolC mutation

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CHLORTETRACYCLINE; KANAMYCIN; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE PROTEIN; PROTEIN ACRA; PROTEIN ACRB; PROTEIN TETA; TETRACYCLINE; TOLC PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUSION; GENE LOSS; GENE MUTATION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANTIPORTERS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MUTATION; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE;

EID: 33748042281     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkl172     Document Type: Article

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