Development of a high-throughput cloning strategy for characterization of acinetobacter baumannii drug transporter proteins

Journal of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 211-219

  Eijkelkamp, Bart A ^a   Hassan, Karl A ^b   Paulsen, Ian T ^b   Brown, Melissa H ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acinetobacter baumannii; Efflux; Gateway cloning; MATE transporter; Multidrug resistance; RND transporter; Transport proteins

Indexed keywords

BENZALKONIUM; CARRIER PROTEIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CHLORHEXIDINE; CIPROFLOXACIN; COLISTIN; DODECYL SULFATE SODIUM; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; MEMBRANE FUSION PROTEIN; NORFLOXACIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE; TETRAPHENYLPHOSPHONIUM; TRICLOSAN; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACTIVE TRANSPORT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLONING VECTOR; DRUG TRANSPORT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HIGH THROUGHPUT GATEWAY CLONING; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; GENETIC VECTORS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING ASSAYS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 79960530358     PISSN: 14641801     EISSN: 16602412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000329836     Document Type: Article

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