Implication of the NorB efflux pump in the adaptation of Staphylococcus aureus to growth at acid ph and in resistance to moxifloxacin

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 3214-3219

  Truong Bolduc, Que Chi ^a   Bolduc, Gilles R ^b   Okumura, Ryo ^a,c   Celino, Brian ^b   Bevis, Jennifer ^b   Liao, Chun Hsing ^a   Hooper, David C ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Massasoit Community College   (United States)

^c DAIICHI SANKYO CO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GMK PROTEIN; MGRA PROTEIN; MOXIFLOXACIN; NORA PROTEIN; NORB PROTEIN; NORG PROTEIN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACIDITY; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE REPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AZA COMPOUNDS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; QUINOLINES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 79959262011     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00289-11     Document Type: Article

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