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Conservation of a novel protein associated with an antibiotic efflux operon in Burkholderia cenocepacia.
FEMS microbiology letters - 15 Apr 2005
Nair Bindu M, Joachimiak Lukasz A, Chattopadhyay Sujay, Montano Idalia, Burns Jane L
Abstract excerpt
Burkholderia cenocepacia is a significant problem in individuals with cystic fibrosis and is a member of the B. cepacia complex of closely related antibiotic resistant bacteria. A salicylate-regulated antibiotic efflux operon has been identified in B. cenocepacia and one of its four genes, llpE, is without parallel in previously reported efflux operons. PCR amplification and sequencing of llpE from B. cepacia...
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