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Escherichia coli mar and acrAB mutants display no tolerance to simple alcohols.
International journal of molecular sciences - 31 Mar 2010
Ankarloo Jonas, Wikman Susanne, Nicholls Ian A
Abstract excerpt
The inducible Mar phenotype of Escherichia coli is associated with increased tolerance to multiple hydrophobic antibiotics as well as some highly hydrophobic organic solvents such as cyclohexane, mediated mainly through the AcrAB/TolC efflux system. The influence of water miscible alcohols ethanol and 1-propanol on a Mar constitutive mutant and a mar deletion mutant of E. coli K-12, as well as the corresponding...
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