Mechanism of coupling drug transport reactions located in two different membranes

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue FEB, 2015, Pages

  Zgurskaya, Helen I ^a   Weeks, Jon W ^a   Ntreh, Abigail T ^a   Nickels, Logan M ^a   Wolloscheck, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Drug efflux; Gram negative bacteria; Periplasmic membrane fusion proteins

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; ACRIFLAVINE; AMINOGLYCOSIDE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CARBENICILLIN; DRUG EFFLUX COMPLEX; ETHIDIUM BROMIDE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MEMBRANE FUSION PROTEIN; MULTIDRUG AND TOXIN EXTRUSION PROTEIN 1; MULTIDRUG AND TOXIN EXTRUSION PROTEIN 2; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE PROTEIN; NORFLOXACIN; NOVOBIOCIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RHODAMINE 6G; TOLC PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACINETOBACTER; ALPHA HELIX; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ATPASE ACTIVITY ASSAY; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BIOENERGY; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CUPRIAVIDUS METALLIDURANS; DRUG EFFLUX; DRUG TRANSPORT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MEMBRANE CHANNEL; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTON MOTIVE FORCE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM SENSING; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 84927520688     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00100     Document Type: Review

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