Combined inactivation of lon and ycgE decreases multidrug susceptibility by reducing the amount of OmpF porin in Escherichia coli

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 53, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 4944-4948

  Duval, Valérie ^a   Nicoloff, Hervé ^a,b   Levy, Stuart B ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN F;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; DRUG SENSITIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LON GENE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON; YCGE GENE;

DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; LIPOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; PORINS; PROTEASE LA;

EID: 70350290472     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00787-09     Document Type: Article

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