Coevolution of ABC transporters and two-component regulatory systems as resistance modules against antimicrobial peptides in Firmicutes bacteria

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 193, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 3851-3862

  Dintner, Sebastian ^a   Staroń, Anna ^a   Berchtold, Evi ^a   Petri, Tobias ^a   Mascher, Thorsten ^a   Gebhard, Susanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; ACTAGARDIN; BACITRACIN; CATHELICIDIN ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDE LL 37; ENRAMYCIN; GALLIDERMIN; GRAMICIDIN; INDOLICIDIN; LINCOMYCIN; MERSACIDIN; NISIN; PERMEASE; POLYMYXIN B; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; SUBTILIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN; VANCORESMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BINDING SITE; COEVOLUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PHYLOGENY;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; FIRMICUTES;

EID: 79960409025     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.05175-11     Document Type: Article

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