The quorum-sensing molecule farnesol is a modulator of drug efflux mediated by ABC multidrug transporters and synergizes with drugs in Candida albicans

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 55, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 4834-4843

  Sharma, Monika ^a   Prasad, Rajendra ^a  

^a JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; AMPHOTERICIN B; CANDIDA DRUG RESISTANCE PROTEIN 1; CANDIDA DRUG RESISTANCE PROTEIN 2; FARNESOL; FLUCONAZOLE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; KETOCONAZOLE; MICONAZOLE; PROTEIN CAMDR1P; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; RHODAMINE 6G; SCPDR5P PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG TRANSPORT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; QUORUM SENSING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; WILD TYPE;

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; APOPTOSIS; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, FUNGAL; DRUG SYNERGISM; FARNESOL; FLUCONAZOLE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; KETOCONAZOLE; KINETICS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MICONAZOLE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; QUORUM SENSING; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; RHODAMINES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 80052862301     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00344-11     Document Type: Article

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