EsrC, an envelope stress-regulated repressor of the mexCD-oprJ multidrug efflux operon in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 186-198

  Purssell, Andrew ^a   Fruci, Michael ^a   Mikalauskas, Alaya ^a   Gilmour, Christie ^a   Poole, Keith ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; NFXB PROTEIN, PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; OPERON; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; OPERON; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84921749428     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12602     Document Type: Article

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