The transcriptional repressor FarR is not involved in meningococcal fatty acid resistance mediated by the FarAB efflux pump and dependent on lipopolysaccharide structure

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 3160-3169

  Schielke, Stephanie ^a   Schmitt, Corinna ^a   Spatz, Carolin ^a   Frosch, Matthias ^a   Schubert Unkmeir, Alexandra ^a   Kurzai, Oliver ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYL CHAIN; ANTIMICROBIAL SUBSTANCE; CONSTITUTIVELY ACTIVES; CORE OLIGOSACCHARIDE; EFFLUX PUMPS; FREE FATTY ACID; LIPID A; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; LONG-CHAIN FATTY ACIDS; MEMBRANE ANCHORS; MUTANT STRAIN; NATURALLY OCCURRING; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; OUTER MEMBRANE; PERMEABILITY BARRIERS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATOR; TRANSCRIPTIONAL REPRESSORS;

ACIDS; FATTY ACIDS;

ACID RESISTANCE;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FATTY ACID; LIPID A; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; PALMITIC ACID;

ADAPTATION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIUM; FATTY ACID; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMEOSTASIS; LIPID; MUTATION; PERMEABILITY; POLYSACCHARIDE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FATTY ACIDS; LIPID A; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MUTATION; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PALMITIC ACID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

EID: 77952273533     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02833-09     Document Type: Article

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