ABC transporters of antimicrobial peptides in Firmicutes bacteria - phylogeny, function and regulation

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1295-1317

  Gebhard, Susanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; BACITRACIN; BACTERIOCIN; BCEAB TYPE TRANSPORTER; BCRAB TYPE TRANSPORTER; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CATHELICIDIN; CATHELICIDIN ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDE LL 37; CHLORTETRACYCLINE; COLISTIN; CYCLIC AMP; DEFENSIN; EPIDERMIN; GALLIDERMIN; GLYCOPEPTIDE; INDOLICIDIN; LACTOCIN S; LACTOCOCCIN; LANFEG TYPE TRANSPORTER; LANTIBIOTIC; MERSACIDIN; NISIN; NIST TYPE TRANSPORTER; PEDIOCIN; PENICILLIN G; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; SUBTILIN; SUNT TYPE TRANSPORTER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; DRUG TRANSPORT; FIRMICUTES; GENE CONTROL; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE ORDER; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY;

FIRMICUTES; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 84871000484     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12078     Document Type: Review

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