Metabolic compensation of fitness costs associated with overexpression of the multidrug efflux pump MexEF-OprN in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 58, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 3904-3913

  Olivares, Jorge ^a,b   Álvarez Ortega, Carolina ^a,c   Martinez, José Luis ^a  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE VALPARAÍSO   (Chile)

^c Sgenia   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; MESSENGER RNA; MULTIDRUG EFFLUX PUMP MEXEF OPRN PROTEIN; NITRIC OXIDE; PROTON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; OPRN PROTEIN, PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ACIDIFICATION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BREATHING RATE; CELL PH; CULTURE MEDIUM; DETOXIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FITNESS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESPIRATORY CHAIN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WILD TYPE; ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MUTATION; PH; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS;

ANAEROBIOSIS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GENETIC FITNESS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MUTATION; NITRATES; NITRIC OXIDE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84903147757     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00121-14     Document Type: Article

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