Biogenic ammonia modifies antibiotic resistance at a distance in physically separated bacteria

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 705-716

  Bernier, Steve P ^a,b   Létoffé, Sylvie ^a   Delepierre, Muriel ^a   Ghigo, Jean Marc ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AMMONIA; AMPICILLIN; ASPARTIC ACID; CHLORAMPHENICOL; OFLOXACIN; POLYAMINE; TETRACYCLINE; TICARCILLIN; VANCOMYCIN;

AMMONIA FORMATION; AMMONIUM UPTAKE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELL LEVEL; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME DEGRADATION; ENZYME MODIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI K 12; GAS TRANSPORT; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

AMMONIA; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ASPARTIC ACID; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS; OXIDANTS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; POLYAMINES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 79960402853     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2011.07724.x     Document Type: Article

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