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Toxic waste disposal in Escherichia coli.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Jul 2002
Helling Robert B, Janes Brian K, Kimball Heather, Tran Timothy, Bundesmann Michael, Check Pietra, Phelan Darcy, Miller Charles
Abstract excerpt
About 10% of the nalidixic acid-resistant (Nal(r)) mutants in a transposition-induced library exhibited a growth factor requirement as the result of cysH, icdA, metE, or purB mutation. Resistance in all of these mutants required a functional AcrAB-TolC efflux pump, but the EmrAB-TolC pump played no obvious role. Transcription of acrAB was increased in each type of Nal(r) mutant. In the icdA and purB mutants, each...
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