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Involvement of a natural transport system in the process of efflux-mediated drug resistance in Mycobacterium smegmatis.
Molecular & general genetics : MGG - 1 Jan 2000
Banerjee S K, Bhatt K, Misra P, Chakraborti P K
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The phosphate-specific transporter (Pst) in bacteria is a multi-subunit system which belongs to the ABC family of transporters. The gene forms part of an operon and it is involved in phosphate uptake in prokaryotes. Its import function is known to be operative only under conditions of phosphate starvation. However, we found overexpression of this transporter in a Mycobacterium smegmatis strain selected for...
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