Role of VltAB, an ABC transporter complex, in viologen tolerance in Streptococcus mutans

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1460-1469

  Biswas, Saswati ^a   Biswas, Indranil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; ACRIFLAVINE; ETHIDIUM BROMIDE; PARAQUAT; PROTEIN VLTA; PROTEIN VLTB; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; SUPEROXIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG TOLERANCE; GENE INSERTION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; VIOLOGENS;

EID: 79953178236     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01094-10     Document Type: Article

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